Corporate and Commercial Business
The Department of Corporate and Commercial Business includes 7 professional groups: corporate and M&A group, tax group, labor and human resources group, bankruptcy reorganization and liquidation group, government and public policy and state-owned assets supervision group, cross-border investment and trade group, and life science and medical health group, each of which has senior professional lawyers in the industry, and the leader of each group is a senior partner with rich practice experience.
We believe that lawyers must be problem-solving experts, but not porters of legal provisions. We are well aware that legal services must be based on "the commercial objectives and true value of clients", hence we strive to establish long-term cooperative relations with clients, to meet and exceed their expectations.
We are dedicated to providing professional legal services to our clients leveraging on our accumulation in the above seven areas, including litigation and non-litigation legal services, formatted and non-formatted legal service processes.
Key services
We provide clients with comprehensive legal services on corporate establishment, change, daily operation and management, etc., which is the dominant area of Dentons Guangzhou office. In recent years, Dentons Guangzhou office has identified various legal risks faced by clients, helped them build feasible legal risk management products and embedded them into clients' daily operation and management from different entry points within the framework of clients’ main businesses, operation and management systems.
We provide the M&A service that is in a leading position in the industry, and we have completed many complex and major commercial M&A transactions on behalf of various clients. In this professional field, Dentons Guangzhou office can give full play to the advantages of its legal service network that is rooted in the center of the Pearl River Delta, and gearing toward the Greater Bay Area, and even the country and the world. Leveraging on our superb professional level and excellent legal talents, we can quickly form a cross-regional service team to provide clients with comprehensive international legal services and value-added services.
We have brought together elite lawyers with work experience in taxation agencies and with accountant and tax practitioner qualifications, and have established strategic partnerships with domestic well-known accounting firms, tax expert firms, asset appraisal agencies and other intermediary agencies. In response to different restructuring, M&A and investment models, we have designed and formulated different tax law manuals and service procedures, based on which we can provide clients with professional, feasible, convenient and effective tax planning services. In addition, we have also served as legal advisors to many domestic tax authorities and have extensive practical experience in resolving disputes between taxation authorities and companies.
We provide industry-leading asset disposal and debt restructuring services. We have experienced experts for disposal of non-performing assets to provide comprehensive services such as due diligence, disposal and investment of non-performing assets for financial institutions and companies. We have extensive experience and professional talents in the field of large-scale accounts receivable collection for large enterprises or listed companies. We have 20 years of professional experience in the fields of corporate restructuring, asset revitalization and debt restructuring. We provide professional legal services for the disposal of state-owned assets, the liquidation and closure of state-owned enterprises, or the withdrawal of "zombie enterprises". We also have extensive experience in legal services for corporate restructuring in multinational companies and financial institutions, and acquisition of non-performing assets and debts by domestic and foreign investors.
Our labor and human resources service not only covers traditional labor law, but also focuses on hot issues such as anti-corruption compliance, trade secrets, and large-scale personnel placement projects etc., which are increasingly important under current market and policy environment. .With the collaboration between labor team and professionals in other sectors of Dentons, we provide integrated legal service solutions including labor and employment for major and complex transaction projects of clients.
In the field of bankruptcy liquidation and reorganization, we provide services including but not limited to bankruptcy administrator services, management of distressed companies, judicial reorganization and liquidation, agreement reorganization and special asset investment, etc., covering industries such as foreign trade, real estate, energy, light industry, finance, retail, Internet, etc.
In the field of government and public policy, we provide professional legal advices and in-depth participation in local and industrial legislative planning. In the field of state-owned assets supervision, we provide professional services for investment, operation, management, transaction and withdrawal of state-owned assets, and provide professional advices on difficult legal issues in the process of state-owned assets disposal and transactions.
Cross-border investment and trade service is one of Dentons's core and advantageous businesses. Dentons is one of the world’s largest law firms and the world’s first polycentric global law firm, which is able to integrate best business practices into a global business portfolio to help clients develop business or resolve disputes in various regions. In addition, Dentons has established long-term cooperative relations with many well-known international law firms, and has a very extensive, stable and flexible network and resource system on a global scale. Dentons has rich experience and a broad client base in the field of cross-border legal services. Equipped with rich local experience and a deep understanding of international rules, Dentons has helped state-owned enterprises, domestic private enterprises, wholly foreign-owned enterprises, Sino-foreign joint ventures and other clients to complete a large number of complex cross-border transactions, It has accumulated a large number of outstanding projects and rich practical experience in overseas listing and refinancing, overseas direct investment and foreign investment, cross-border M&A and reorganizations, cross-border equity investment and fund investment, cross-border finance, international trade, foreign-related dispute resolution, etc. It is at the forefront and leading position in the legal services for cross-border business.
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