Real Estate and Construction

Real Estate and Construction has been a core practice area deeply cultivated by Everbright Law Firm since its inception. In the 1990s, during the formative stages of the legal framework for China's urban real estate market, Everbright began providing comprehensive legal services to real estate developers, making us one of the pioneer Chinese law firms to serve international investors and foreign-invested real estate enterprises. Today, our clientele includes domestic and international investors, real estate development and asset operation companies, state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and municipal investment platforms, construction employers, general and specialized contractors, as well as design and engineering service providers. Our projects span residential properties, commercial complexes, office buildings, industrial parks, hotels, serviced apartments, and municipal infrastructure.

Restructuring and Insolvency

Overview
Restructuring and Insolvency is one of Everbright Law Firm’s signature practices. Since 2015, the team has handled hundreds of insolvency, restructuring and related complex matters. Its work spans out-of-court workouts and restructurings, court-supervised reorganisations, compositions and liquidations, non-performing asset disposals, cross-border insolvency co-operation, domestic and cross-border asset recovery, and related disputes.

We advise distressed companies, creditors, investors, financial institutions, shareholders, administrators and overseas liquidators. We balance stakeholder interests within the legal framework, assess and preserve going-concern value, and develop solutions that combine procedural compliance, commercial viability and effective implementation.

Dispute Resolution

Dispute Resolution has been a core practice area deeply cultivated by Everbright for over three decades. Our team has long represented domestic and international enterprises, financial institutions, and investors in handling major, complex civil and commercial litigation, commercial arbitration, and enforcement matters. We have accumulated profound experience across corporate and equity disputes, financial claims, real estate and construction, bankruptcy-derivative litigation, and cross-border controversies.

Guided by our clients' commercial objectives and the realization of their assets, our team adopts a holistic approach that coordinates negotiation, mediation, preservation, litigation, arbitration, and enforcement. Depending on the needs of each case, we integrate the professional expertise of our corporate and commercial, finance, real estate and construction, intellectual property, and liquidation and restructuring practices to tackle complex disputes intertwined with multiple parties, procedures, and jurisdictions. We focus not only on the outcome of individual cases but also attach great importance to the impact of a dispute on transaction arrangements, asset security, business continuity, and commercial relationships.

Corporate and Commercial

Corporate and Commercial has long been a core practice area deeply cultivated by Everbright. Our team provides general corporate counsel and specialized legal services to state-owned enterprises (SOEs), listed companies, privately-owned enterprises, multinational corporations, and foreign-invested enterprises. Our services cover critical stages of the corporate lifecycle, including enterprise establishment, day-to-day operations, commercial cooperation, investment and mergers & acquisitions (M&A), business restructuring, and exit strategies.

Possessing dual expertise in both transactions and dispute resolution, our team is fundamentally guided by our clients' commercial objectives. We comprehensively manage legal risks across transaction structures, decision-making procedures, regulatory requirements, contract performance, and exit arrangements. For complex projects, we synergize our professional capabilities across finance, tax, labor and employment, intellectual property, competition/antitrust, real estate and construction, and liquidation and restructuring to drive transactions to successful closing and support the robust operation of your business.

Corporate Governance and Compliance

Corporate Governance and Compliance is a key practice area shaped by Everbright's long-standing dedication to serving our corporate clients. Our team seamlessly integrates governance design, compliance management, and risk resolution. We provide comprehensive legal support to state-owned enterprises (SOEs), listed companies, privately-owned enterprises, foreign-invested enterprises, and other organizations, assisting them in translating complex legal and regulatory requirements into internal mechanisms characterized by clear rights and responsibilities, effective operation, and continuous improvement.

Starting from the fundamentals of equity and control relationships, organizational structures, business processes, and industry regulations, our team refines mechanisms for decision-making, authorization, review, reporting, supervision, and remediation. In the face of major strategic decisions, new business ventures, or shifting regulatory landscapes, we proactively identify risks and propose actionable solutions. Should a compliance incident or regulatory inspection occur, we can rapidly mobilize multidisciplinary expertise across administrative regulation, labor and employment, data and intellectual property, dispute resolution, and anti-fraud investigations. By coordinating fact-finding, regulatory responses, and remediation efforts, we help clients effectively mitigate legal, operational, and reputational risks.

Criminal Defense and Anti-Fraud Investigations

Criminal Defense and Anti-Fraud Investigations is a key practice area defined by Everbright's long-standing dedication and distinctive professional expertise. Our team members bring together a wealth of prior experience in criminal adjudication and economic crime investigations, coupled with extensive years of private legal practice. Having handled a multitude of high-stakes, complex, and high-profile criminal cases and corporate anti-fraud matters, our team has accumulated profound experience in economic crimes, corporate operations-related criminal offenses, and complex matters intersecting criminal, civil, and administrative law.

Matrimonial, Family and Wealth Succession

Everbright has extensive experience advising individuals, families, entrepreneurs and family-owned businesses on matrimonial and family matters, inheritance, estate administration and wealth succession. The team handles complex family disputes, estate matters and the succession of diverse asset classes. Beyond legal outcomes, we are attentive to client confidentiality, family relationships, asset protection and the long-term workability of each arrangement, approaching highly personal matters with discretion and pragmatism.

Labor and Employment

Employment decisions have a direct and profound impact on organizational stability, business transformation, and corporate reputation. Everbright’s Labor and Human Resources team has long served state-owned enterprises (SOEs), multinational corporations, private enterprises, public institutions, and public sector entities. Our comprehensive services cover the entire employment lifecycle, from recruitment and onboarding to in-service management, organizational restructuring, and offboarding.

Our team possesses robust capabilities spanning day-to-day advisory, major special projects, and dispute resolution. We have extensive experience in handling labor and personnel arbitration and litigation, mass labor disputes, and significant workforce restructuring, as well as administrative matters and controversies relating to labor inspections, work-related injury recognition, and social insurance. Leveraging our synergistic capabilities across corporate governance and compliance, data compliance and privacy protection, intellectual property, and liquidation and restructuring, we deliver tailored solutions that carefully balance regulatory compliance, implementation costs, business continuity, and positive employee relations.

Intellectual Property

Everbright’s Intellectual Property team excels in internet platform disputes, online IP governance, and large-scale case management. We have long provided comprehensive legal services involving trademarks, copyrights, patents, trade secrets, and related unfair competition matters to internet platforms, brand enterprises, technology companies, and cultural content institutions. The team consistently handles large-scale, serial disputes related to e-commerce platforms, digital content, and brand protection. We are intimately familiar with Internet Service Provider (ISP) liabilities, "notice and necessary measures" rules, and digital business scenarios such as live-stream e-commerce, short-form videos, and Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC). We are highly adept at coordinating rights ownership reviews, evidence organization, individual case strategies, and portfolio case management.

Technology, Media and Telecommunications

Everbright has a long-standing history of serving internet platforms, technology companies, and institutions across the film, television, cultural, and media sectors. We have developed distinctive expertise in internet platform legal services and large-scale dispute resolution, with our practice comprehensively covering corporate operations, commercial transactions, intellectual property protection, and content compliance.

In the realm of internet platforms and e-commerce, our team consistently handles complex and serial cases involving platform IP governance and liability boundaries, online transactions and services, product liability, consumer rights protection, and platform competition. We also provide specialized legal support for platform operations and product compliance.

In the technology and digitalization sector, our team serves software, information technology, robotics, and other high-tech enterprises, handling day-to-day operations, investment and financing, corporate affairs, commercial contracts, and dispute resolution. Everbright also boasts deep, long-term experience in film and television, advertising, performing arts, and digital content. We provide rigorous analysis and risk management support for novel legal issues brought about by artificial intelligence (AI), data utilization, and emerging digital business

Shipping & Logistics

Everbright established its specialized maritime and admiralty practice in the early 2000s and has long provided comprehensive legal services to shipowners, carriers, cargo owners, freight forwarders, logistics and supply chain enterprises, insurance institutions, and P&I (Protection and Indemnity) clubs. Our team members possess a unique blend of academic expertise in maritime law, hands-on experience in the shipping and logistics industry, and robust capabilities in litigation and arbitration. Grounded in industry operations and commercial realities, we are highly adept at resolving complex legal issues involving multimodal transportation, multiple parties, and cross-border jurisdictions.

Capital Markets, Banking and Finance

Everbright has long provided comprehensive capital markets, banking, and finance legal services to domestic and international banks, other financial institutions, enterprises, investors, and creditors. As a registered member of the National Association of Financial Market Institutional Investors (NAFMII) in the law firm category, our practice encompasses securities issuance, investment and financing transactions, operational compliance for financial institutions, as well as default resolution and dispute management.

By combining our transactional capabilities with the firm's deep accumulation of experience in Dispute Resolution, Real Estate and Construction, and Liquidation and Restructuring, our team has forged robust synergistic advantages. We excel in complex financing and security arrangements, the disposition of non-performing assets (NPAs), cross-border debt recovery, bond defaults, and debt restructuring. For matters where transaction arrangements and risk resolution are deeply intertwined, our team seamlessly coordinates due diligence, transaction structure design, document negotiation, regulatory compliance, litigation and arbitration, enforcement, and restructuring procedures to drive the successful implementation of effective solutions.

Education

Everbright has long provided comprehensive legal services to education administrative authorities and their affiliated public institutions, higher education institutions, vocational schools, primary and secondary schools, special education schools, schools for children of foreign personnel (international schools), and education enterprises. We have developed systematic expertise in education administration, law-based school governance, and education dispute resolution. Our team is deeply familiar with the institutional logic underlying education regulation, school governance, and teaching activities. We consistently handle complex and sensitive matters, including student management and disciplinary actions, labor and personnel issues, academic integrity and research achievements, and campus safety.

Leveraging the firm’s synergistic capabilities across Government and Public Affairs, Dispute Resolution, Labor and Human Resources, Intellectual Property, Technology and Data, Real Estate and Construction, and Liquidation and Restructuring, Everbright provides end-to-end support for complex, sensitive, or socially impactful matters in the education sector. Our services cover institutional framework development, day-to-day operations, major incident response, and dispute resolution, translating complex regulatory requirements into clear, actionable institutional arrangements and solutions.

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