Military and aviation

Military and aviation legal service is one of the important area of Landing team. After years of practice in related fields，we has accumulated rich experience and our scope of work covers the integration of military and civilian, military security, public services and facilities etc.

Practicing area

Military

• Legal services for the preparatory work of "civilian to military"
• Consultation for classified and military related matter
• Legal support for material procurement
• Establish information system security mechanism
• Dispute resolution services for military enterprises
• Legal counsel service for military enterprises

Aviation

• Legal consultation, dispute resolution and other legal services for individual, navigating companies, airports, aviation sport club etc.
• Sale, lease and finance for purchasing, transferring or leasing aircraft
• Apply for registration of aircraft nationality, ownership of aircraft, mortgage registration; risks of fuselage, war, third party liability insurance, crew life insurance etc.
• Apply for flight plans for company and individual;
• Apply for non-profit aviation registration certificate, general aviation operation license, small aircraft commercial transport qualification certificate and operation; regulation
• Apply for airworthiness certificate for aircraft manufacturer;
• Drafting, reviewing, modifying and negotiating code sharing protocols

Finance and Taxation

From its very inception, Finance & Taxation has been one of Landing’s core and strongest practice areas. It provides legal guidance and services for numerous international financial institutions and multinational corporations in the dynamic and complex PRC legal system. We are committed to provide clients with outstanding professional legal services. In combination with the full understanding of clients’ commercial concerns, as well as the strong belief to render pragmatic and constructive legal solutions, Finance and Taxation Department strives to help clients achieve their business goals.

Landing provides comprehensive legal services to many banking and non-banking financial institutions, both in China and overseas, and has extensive experience and a solid clientele base in the area of finance. Landing has deep understanding and knowledge of applicable Chinese laws and regulations in the field of finance, as well as transactional rules and standard practice. With its rich local experience and deep understanding of international rules, Landing has assisted a wide range of commercial banks, investment banks, insurance companies, trust companies, financial companies, funds management companies, and other financial institutions, as well as government agencies, in completing many complex financial transactions. Landing has developed a series of standardized documentations in respect of banking regulations, insurance products, trusts, mutual funds and all types of loans, placing itself at the cutting edge of the legal services industry in the financial sector.

Some of our clients include Chinese-invested joint venture banks, subsidiaries and international banks within China, insurance companies, trust companies, funds management companies, finance companies, future companies, auto financing companies and lease finance companies, and more. Landing’s key services in this area include: financing bank, private bank, public bank, investment bank, commercial loans, investment, trusts, bonds, financing, financial futures, mortgage, bill, insurance, factoring, financial derivatives, asset securitization and financial leasing, and much more.

As a trusted law firm in tax and private client services, Landing’s tax practice is one of the most highly regarded tax groups in China. Renowned for its solid international expertise, Landing’s tax group is particularly adept at dealing with complex cross-border tax issues, including providing high-quality tax advice in transnational transactions and investments, tax planning and dispute resolution services. All of Landing’s tax lawyers graduated from top law schools in China and overseas, and have practiced in international law firms. Their in-depth knowledge, expertise and practical experience cover PRC tax law and international tax law. In addition to tax law, they also have an extensive understanding of other legal areas, such as company law, financial law, foreign investment law, securities law, real estate and funds related laws.

Our clients come from many industries, including manufacturing, technology, finance, pharmaceuticals, investment funds, real estate, telecommunications, energy resources, logistics, infrastructure, trade, construction as well as modern services, and most of which are global multinational companies, funds and the most influential enterprises in China.

Practicing area

Finance

• Insurance and reinsurance
• Trust
• Interbank bond
• Financial dispute resolution
• Financial institutions services
• Trading services
• General banking and compliance legal services

Taxation

• Tax strategies for investment entry and exit
• Investment structuring
• Restructuring and M&A, including pre-IPO restructuring
• Financing structuring
• Tax planning for high net worth individuals and company executives
• Tax efficient supply chain management planning
• Tax advisory services on day to day company operations
• Tax planning for import and export
• Transfer pricing
• Tax dispute resolution

Work Performed

• Taiping Life Insurance Co.,Ltd.，annual retainership
• TAIPING E-COMMERCE CO.,LTD.，annual retainership
• Taiping Life Insurance Co.,Ltd. ，restructuring case
• Huatai Asset Management Corporation，legal adviser to the Insurance funds domestic and international investment plan
• Shanghai Automotive Group Co., Ltd. ，equity acquisition case
• Shanghai Automotive Group Co., Ltd. ，set up a joint venture insurance sales company
• Tian’an Property & Casualty Insurance Co., Ltd.，legal opinion
• Huangpu River ship collision major maritime accidents and insurance claims, Litigation

Merger and acquisition

M&A is one of the main legal service of Shanghai Landing. Our lawyers have rich experiences in M&A. We have acted as legal advisor in many complicated and significant M&A projects for our domestic and foreign client. Landing has established its cross-boarder legal team and gathered legal experts through it's global platform. Landing is committed to provide professional, efficient and high-quality comprehensive legal services to clients with full understanding of the legal environment and the dynamic capital structure. Landing strive to become one of the top Chinese law firm in the field of M&A.

Practicing area

• Legal due diligence
• Transaction structuring, tax planning and consultation of transaction related matters
• Transaction documents review, drafting and negotiation
• Execution
• Government approval assistance

Labor law

The labor law department of Landing has a batch of professional lawyers who are proficient in labor law and focus on providing special legal service of labor law.. We have rich experience in the labor law service field.

Practicing area

Examine and draw up various labor and personnel rules and regulations of a company

1.Rules and regulations published by a company before include (but not limited to) that the administrative system, training, attendance management, remuneration of labor, welfare, dormitory management provisions, rewards and punishment, safety and health education, staff complaint handling method are collected, classified, arranged and investigated to make sure whether a legal risk exists; files with confirmed legal risk are modified and supplemented appropriately by means of profession knowledge and practice experience with the company’s consent, or other solution suggestions are given to guarantee the safety and validity of the rules and regulations of the company and avoid labor dispute risk as much as possible, so that an all-around systematic risk prevention and control system is built.

2.Design and establish a series of labor standards and systems for a company

(1) Formulate a legal, rigorous and practical Employee Handbook

(2) Design and make labor employment risk prevention scheme, employee on-boarding management process, employee turnover management process, overtime pay and benefits-related management methods, business secret protection scheme, non-competition related system and intellectual property system.

(3) Draw up or alter labor contract context (including fixed-term employment contract, unfixed-term labor contract, labor contract with a period to complete the prescribed work, collective contract, part-time labor contract and labor contract supplemental agreement) according to the actual situation of the company in accordance with provisions of relevant laws.

(4) Prepare or amend relative materials (such as modification of labor contract, labor contract renewal, contract opinion with required fixed term, notice of job adjustment, notice of termination of labor contract, non-competition agreement, certificate of dissolution or termination of labor contract etc.) related to the fulfillment of labor contract according to the actual situation of the company in accordance with provisions of relevant laws.

(5) Amend rules and regulations (such as employee handbook, recruitment management system, employment condition, job responsibility, performance evaluation method, position salary system, confidentiality system, attendance management system, labor discipline and heavy loss standard etc.) of employment units according to the actual situation of the company in accordance with provisions of relevant laws.

3.Help client to investigate and clear up relations among departments in the company, define rights and responsibilities of all departments and specify mutual collaboration

4.Provide professional legal advice for labor disputes involved in the company, preserve and collect evidence and examine and draft legal documents about them

(I)Provide labor professional legal service specifically

Problems of labor contract signing: We assist the company to review and draw up a labor contact or supplemental agreement of the labor contract, do the work of labor contract signing well, specify probation period, clarify job contents and responsibilities, confirm rationally remuneration of labor and term of a labor contract, appoint duties of both parties, arrange clear and feasible period of service and non-competition responsibility for breach of contract and penalty provisions, prevent economic compensation or damage compensation disputes when the labor contract is terminated or cancelled and avoid illegal cancellation or termination of a labor contract.

1.Problems of salary component: We assist the company to examine and formulate the salary component of company staff and reasonably set the proportion of basic salary, overtime pay, welfare and bonus and help the company to formulate or amend Performance Evaluation Method, confirm the performance bonus payment basis, reduce wage cost and avoid or reduce economic loss under the condition that the economic compensation or damage compensation must be paid

2.Social insurance problems: We guide the company to handle social insurance for employees and help the company to settle labor disputes not caused by employment disease, work injury and death of employee

3.Work injury or occupational disease problems: We help the company to set up a system of on-the-job training and safety production education for employee to avoid work injury or occupational disease, or even if it happens, we can use a negotiation or lawsuit method to settle it actively to avoid or reduce economic loss of the company

4.Problems of settlement of discipline-violation employee: We effectively use fault punishment terms to enable plot of discipline violation of employee to be matched with punishment intensity

Problems of labor contract termination: We preserve and collect related evidence, effectively use fault dismissal terms to reduce disputes and prevent and solve economic compensation disputes caused by dismissal

5.Problems of relationship coordination of government departments: Including relations with labor department, social security department and court

Join company’s external labor dispute lawsuit and internal labor dispute resolution

1.When a sign of a labor dispute appears, we will quell and mediate the dispute timely to prevent the labor dispute from entering legal arbitration and lawsuit stages to the greatest extent

2.For the labor dispute which has entered the arbitration and legal proceedings, we will actively preserve and collect evidence entrusted by the company and we will appear in court to respond to lawsuit to safeguard lawful rights and interests of enterprise in the legal proceedings. For incurred labor dispute, we will analyze and summarize its causes and generalize preventive methods and legal countermeasures to reduce the occurrence of similar disputes to utmost extent.

Daily legal advice

1.Respond to the consultation of relevant laws in company’s daily life in an oral or written form

2.Make plans together according to the requirements of the company, and we will go to the company to conduct induction service from time to time.

Provide legal business training for business staff in the company

Conduct intensive legal training for business staff in the company, and the company can designate or arrange related staff to attend the training. We will train them in a mode of lecture or organization discussion according to the specific requirements of the company, and the training content is specifically arranged according to the company’s requirements.

Communicate with the company for relevant legal information from time to time and provide relevant law, regulation and case information according to the requirements of the company.

Intellectual property right

Intellectual property team provides enterprises and individuals IP legal service in all fields and our team members are graduates from famous law schools and consisted of a former IP judge with rich trial experience as well as expert lawyers with over 10 years of IP practice and long-term collaboration with trademark and patent agencies, senior lawyer concentrating on legal service against counterfeiting and privacy for some famous multinational enterprises. Our clients cover many multinational enterprises and civil listed companies. Our works have been well received and awarded outstanding contribution team prize in IP protection in 2014 by a world top 500 company.

Practicing area

• Trademark applications, review, objections, invalidity applications, daily monitoring

• Patent applications, changes in description, patent evaluation reports, invalidity application
• Copyright (including software copyright) registration 

• Copyright, trademark, patent litigation 

• Trade secret and unfair competition litigation 

• Enterprise intellectual property protection solution design 

• Enterprise intellectual property rights protection 


Foreign investment

Shanghai Landing has advantages in the field of foreign investment, our team members have graduated from well-known law schools. We are committed to provide various kind of legal services for foreign investors in China.

As one of the oldest domestic law firms engaged in foreign investment legal service, Landing helps a number of foreign companies to proceed the investment in China, which includes restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, in order to suggest the most suitable investment strategy to client.

Practicing area

• Merger& Acquisition
• Company incorporation
• Company liquidation
• Commercial negotiation
• Financing and capital structure
• Tax planning
• Legal compliance
• Employment contract

Oversea investment

The legal service of international department is dedicated to domestic and foreign enterprises to provide high-end cross-border M&A investment, trade exchanges and other areas. The International Department has accumulated wealth of experience in formulating cross-border investment strategies, M&A programs and overseas distribution, including legal services for clients to set up company / liaison office, tax arrangement for specific project. We are committed to provide a full range of legal advisory services to international investors.

Practicing area

• Consultation and promotion of investment and financing M & A
• International tax legal advice
• Legal support for international trade negotiations
• Investment and financing transaction structure design, document drafting and review
• Domestic and foreign investment merger and acquisition, listing legal environment and legal risk assessment
• Domestic and foreign investment M & A, listing legal due diligence
• Government department approval, filling, registration procedures
• Post - acquisition support
• Dispute / Dispute Resolution (WTO Litigation or Alternative Dispute Resolution)
• Target market access, trade barriers, technical standards, market exit
• Maritime transport and international insurance consulting
• Foreign trade regulations and trade policy investigation
• Customs compliance, import and export controls (embargo and trade sanctions)
• Trade remedy (anti-dumping, countervailing and safeguard measures)
• Legal advice on major issues

Work Performed

• Represented Ajisen (China) Co., Ltd. listed on the Hong Kong Main Board 

• Represented Japan's large universe Co., Ltd. listed on the Main Board of the Tokyo Stock Exchange 

• West Lake Electronics Group acquired a joint venture company in Japan Mitsubishi Electric Co., Ltd. in China
• Japan Marubeni Corporation acquired Nantong a Taiwanese rubber company

• Takimoto Osaka Co., Ltd. acquired the famous apparel company Olives des Olives
• Entrusted by the Xiongben county government of Japan, sole agent "Xiongben bear" intellectual property protection

• Annual retainership for Consulate General of Japan in Shanghai
• Annual retainership for Japan Mingda Branch Co., Ltd. and its investment company in China
• Annual retainership for Japan Sakata Seed Co., Ltd. in China subsidiary 

• Annual retainership for Japan Development Bank 

• Annual retainership for Yamaha Musical Instruments (China) Investment Co., Ltd 

• Annual retainership for OPPO (India) Limited 

• Represented (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Shanghai Information Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.

• Shanghai Changsheng Industrial Development Co., Ltd.

• Shanghai Science and Technology Co., Ltd.
• Jiangsu and Le Culture and Creative Co., Ltd.
• Advised for China Railway Group Bureau Limited
• Due diligence for China Datang Group Science and Technology Engineering (India) Limited
• Annual retainership for China Inspection and Certification Group India subsidiary
• Annual retainership for Meizu Technology (India) Limited
• Taiyuan Heavy Industry Co., Ltd. contract dispute cases
• Provide legal services for investment projects in China Kunlun India Company
• Annual retainership for Great Wall Motor India Subsidiary
• Build a joint venture for the Tsing Group Limited
• Represented Dongguan City Huali Industrial Co., Ltd. and other companies in the Shanghai Stock Exchange initial public offering
• Represented China Fortis Co., Ltd. and other companies in the Shenzhen Stock Exchange initial public offering
• Represented China First Chemical Holdings Limited and other companies in the Shenzhen Stock Exchange initial public offering
• Represented China's first glass company and other companies in the German Stock Exchange initial public offering
• Represented NOVARISE and other companies in the Australian Stock Exchange initial public offering
• 20-billion-yuan ultra-short term financing bonds of China Shipping (Group) Company

Professional Publications

《Investment in India》Investment in India was sponsored by Landing (India) Law Firm. There are more than twenty writers portraying their stories, experiences and insights in India. It is an easy read and guidance book for those who want to invest in India.

Shanghai landing law  offices is the leader of "human cooperation". With the principle and concept of "specialization, relative scale and management standardization", we strive to develop into a comprehensive large scale of 100 people. In line with the commitment to professional skills, to advocate a complementary principle, the main two lawyers, according to the professional clear division of labor between team members, attention and deep understanding of customer needs, to ensure that every customer requirements by the related areas of professional lawyers. From the existing proposed merger lawyer personnel professional, a capital market can be civil and commercial litigation, intellectual property, foreign investment, finance, real estate, criminal litigation, Internet, and many other professional legal services team, led by experienced partners, equipped with professional lawyers and assistant to provide professional services to our customers. At the same time, the teams support each other and share resources to ensure the best professional services. From the experience of the partner, the quality of the partner and the higher degree of education, having overseas study or having held a certain position in the judiciary and government functions, have the foundation of "human being".

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On August 21, 2017, the law office of Shanghai landing (fuzhou) was formally established by the judicial office of fujian province. The establishment of lanting fuzhou office will further serve the customers of fujian and neighboring provinces, and enhance the influence of LAN ting in the local legal market in fujian.

Sports

Oct. 2017 --2nd three individual awards and champion in Jingan lawyers' games.

May 2015 --2nd best organization award in Jingan lawyers' games.

Apr. 2014 --1st runner up in Jingan lawyers' games on individual event.

Standard organized firm

2015 ~2016 -- annual Jingan District standard organized firm.

2014 ~2015 -- annual Jingan District standard organized firm.

2013 ~2014 -- annual Jingan District standard organized firm.

2012 ~2013 -- annual Jingan District standard organized firm.

2011 ~2012 -- annual Jingan District standard organized firm.

2010 ~2011 -- annual Jingan District standard organized firm.