Beijing Jingwei Law Firm (“Jingwei”) was established in July 1988, which is the first private partnership law firm after the reform of legal profession system in China.

 

Over the last thirty years, Jingwei has always endeavored to provide legal services to the clients with best quality, and has gradually developed into and become a law firm with comprehensive practice areas. Jingwei’s main practice areas include criminal defense, civil litigation, administrative litigation, arbitration, and non-contentious legal areas, including legal services for property development, construction, banking and finance, securities and capital market, acquisition, merger and reorganization, foreign investment, intellectual property, etc.

 

Jingwei has many groundbreaking achievements in legal profession in China: Jingwei was the first law firm to participate in the publicity and promulgation of policies for reforms of shareholding structure in the enterprises based in Zhongguancun, and provide legal services for the first group of enterprises based in Zhongguancun to assist them in carrying out such shareholding structure reform. In 1994, among the first four listed joint-stock companies in Beijing, Jingwei provided legal services to two of them for issuance and listing of A-share stock.

 

Jingwei is also one of the first law firms to plan and establish in overseas markets. In 1995, Jingwei’s Chicago branch was officially established and Jingwei’s Toronto branch was opened in the following year. Thereafter, Jingwei has also established cooperation institutions and connection in Italy, France and Hong Kong.

 

In 1996, against the social background of reforming the national housing welfare policy, Jingwei acted as a pioneer in working with Banks, Beijing housing and land bureau, Beijing Housing Policy Reform Office, Beijing High Court, insurance companies and other relevant departments and rendered legal services and advice to formulate and complete the operation plan for domestic housing mortgage loan. The plan was adopted by the People's Bank of China as supplementary operational measures for their implementation of domestic housing mortgage loans policy. The legal documents for domestic housing mortgage loan drafted by Jingwei set up and become the standards for similar legal documents in China. Jingwei also became the only law firm to be recognized by the first eight financial institutions in Beijing to provide legal services for home loans. Later, Jingwei successively launched "auto mortgage loan program", "housing decoration loan program", "implementation program of large consumer durables loan" and "consumer loan program under credit card" and other banking legal services.

 

In 2003, in accordance with the notice of the State Council and the Law of Promoting Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, Jingwei took initiative to conduct researches and innovated the bank's business model of "intellectual property pledge loan for small and medium-sized enterprises" for bank clients, which was launched in Qingdao, Dalian and other cities as pilot service. This business model has effectively helped high-tech SMEs solve their difficulty in obtaining bank loans, and Mr. Deping Hu, President of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce, called it "ice-breaking". Thereafter, it has been adopted by Bank of Communications Limited, Beijing Branch, Bank of Beijing Co., Ltd. and many other Banks.

 

In addition, Jingwei has represented a number of influential and high-profile cases and cases with substantial claim values, such as disputes over the right of authorship of the editor-in-chief for Encyclopedia of China, the holding against Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation, Limited in respect of China Construction Bank Corporation acceptance letter of credit, the preservation of letter of credit accepted by Bank of China against The East Asia preserved Bank of China, Limited, domain name right dispute between Beijing Tiandi Electronics Group and Procter& Gamble, and etc.

 

The outstanding achievements of Jingwei have been highly appraised by the Ministry of Justice, the Lawyers' Association and their peers. Jingwei has been awarded "National Excellent Law Firm", "Beijing Excellent Law Firm", "People's Satisfaction Law Firm" and other honorary titles.

 

Jingwei has always been pursuing business development and keeping forging ahead. The rich experience in and dedication in the legal service has convinced the lawyer of Jingwei that the legal solution in any case is not unique, and we deeply know that every client has their own personalized needs.

 

Jingwei is the consultant and the problem solution designer for clients. Jingwei never provides a simple answer to a problem, but gives comprehensive and overall solutions and performs coordinated execution in team during the whole process of dealing with the client's problems.

 

With over thirty years of diligent work, Jingwei has won the excellent reputation of industry colleagues and clients. Jingwei is willing to go forward together with you, and meets every challenge in the future.