Hui Ye Law Firm

Chairman: Gordon YANG
Managing Partners: Gordon YANG, Shudong ZHAO, Dong WU, Mingtao LIAO, Kaichang ZHOU, Ramon HUANG
Number of partners: 367
Number of lawyers: 1084
Languages: Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean

Firm Overview:
Widely recognised as a leading PRC law firm, Hui Ye provides comprehensive legal services, with a particular focus on commercial law, to both domestic and international clients. The firm is one of the largest firms in China, with more than 30 offices in China including: Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chongqing, Chengdu, etc; and overseas offices in Atlanta and Los Angeles in the United States of America. With more than a thousand licensed lawyers and professionals, the firm is capable of and committed to providing its clients with customised and innovative solutions to legal issues. The firm has established widespread representative offices through strategic cooperation located in the city of Berlin, Cologne, Frankfurt and Freiburg in Germany; Paris, Lyon and Bordeaux in France; Berne, Geneva and Lausanne in Switzerland, and also Rotterdam in Netherlands. The firm has also built strategic cooperation partnership in Canada, Belgium, Portugal, Italy, Sweden, Australia, Greece, Cyprus, Spain and some other countries.

Main Areas of Practice:

Corporate & M&A:
25 partners; 45 fee earners based in China
■ Hui Ye’s Cross Border M&A and Transaction Committee (‘M&A team’) enables Hui Ye to provide high-quality and efficient legal services to the clients in China and investment target countries under its international service network
■ Most of the lawyers in the M&A team have overseas study, exchange, and overseas lawyer practice experience, and have mastered foreign languages, including English, French, German, and Japanese, etc., which are able to communicate directly with foreign clients in written and oral languages using the above foreign languages. In addition, the M&A team has established close cooperation relationships with Kellerga Law Firm of Switzerland, Adams Law Firm of France, Stavros Christo Law Firm of Cyprus, which provide professional and comprehensive support for Hui Ye in overseas M&A legal services
■ Scope of services: making analysis on market access policies, conducting due diligence, designing deal structure and restructuring plan, transaction of government licensing items, delimitation of property rights, trade negotiation and file drafting, antitrust scrutiny in merger and acquisition, etc
■ In recent years, the M&A team of Huiye has accumulated a wealth of legal service experience in energy chemical, pharmaceutical, real estate, high-tech industries, aviation logistics, manufacturing, hotel management and other industries. The clients the M&A team served include both overseas clients conducting investment transactions in mainland China and Chinese clients actively expanding their overseas business
Contact: Dong WU
Email: [email protected]

Cybersecurity & Data Protection:
28 partners; 52 fee earners based in China
■ Hui Ye is one of the leaders in the Cybersecurity and Data Protection. Its partners have kept highly active and focused close attention to the latest trend of this industry in order to provide innovative legal solutions for clients
■ The Internet Team is made up of experienced and innovative lawyers and technical experts who satisfy clients’ diverse and personalised demands for legal services, and are especially specialised in the design and execution of complicated deal structure
■ The scope of services: consultation on the Chinese software and internet industry admission policies, design of software licensing, technical transfer, entrusted development and so on and document drafting, deal structure design for foreign investment on specific internet industry (E-commerce, online game, video, financial science and technology, etc.), merger & acquisition and investment and financing in the internet industry, design of software, design and execution of the stock option incentive program for software and internet enterprises, etc.
Contact: Ramon HUANG
Email: [email protected]

Construction & Infrastructure:
28 partners; 71 fee earners based in China
■ The Real Estate and Construction Committee (‘Committee’) of Hui Ye is led by prominent partners along with numerous senior lawyers. Some of the firm's lawyers have worked in real estate enterprises, construction enterprises, government administration departments and judicial authorities in the past decades, thus accumulating rich practice experience and a deep understanding of the real estate industry
■ The Committee has conducted a long-term and systematic study and arrangement of laws and regulations, judicial interpretations, typical cases, and guidance on the trial of relevant cases in High Courts. The members of the Committee have written professional research articles, and issued legal service plans to meet the needs of the clients in different regions of the country and provided clients with more effective and practical solutions
Contact: Sivyer HE
Email: [email protected]

Intellectual Property:
32 partners; 48 fee earners based in China
■ Intellectual Property is one of the core areas of Hui Ye. The Intellectual Property Team at Hui Ye has been ranked among the best service providers by a great many third-party rating agencies in China
■ Hui Ye’s Intellectual Property Team has an insight into technology, and expertise in making use of new technologies to provide all-round and personalised services for clients. The comprehensive management system of intellectual property and the national/whole network infringement monitoring system and evaluation system of compensation for infringement have been highly praised. In addition, the firm's lawyers conduct the planning and evaluation of the entire intellectual property structure from the perspective of development and strategy, and counsel on the commercialisation and protection of intellectual property to maximise the realisation of clients’ knowledge assets
Contact: Karen WANG
Email: [email protected]