The Grandall Legal Group (Chinese

Chinese language

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: 国浩律师集团事务所), the only Chinese law firm

Law firm

A law firm is a business entity formed by one or more lawyers to engage in the practice of law. The primary service rendered by a law firm is to advise clients about their legal rights and responsibilities, and to represent clients in civil or criminal cases, business transactions, and other...

 accorded with the status of 'legal group' as a pilot project by the Chinese Ministry of Justice

Ministry of Justice of the People's Republic of China

Ministry of Justice of the People's Republic of China is a ministry of the Chinese central government which is responsible for legal affairs...

, is a leading full-service Chinese corporate and commercial law firm in China. Grandall's headquarters are located in Beijing

Beijing

Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...

, having 9 other offices located in the major investment centers of Shanghai

Shanghai

Shanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010...

, Shenzhen

Shenzhen

Shenzhen is a major city in the south of Southern China's Guangdong Province, situated immediately north of Hong Kong. The area became China's first—and one of the most successful—Special Economic Zones...

, Hangzhou

Hangzhou

Hangzhou , formerly transliterated as Hangchow, is the capital and largest city of Zhejiang Province in Eastern China. Governed as a sub-provincial city, and as of 2010, its entire administrative division or prefecture had a registered population of 8.7 million people...

, Guangzhou

Guangzhou

Guangzhou , known historically as Canton or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of the Guangdong province in the People's Republic of China. Located in southern China on the Pearl River, about north-northwest of Hong Kong, Guangzhou is a key national transportation hub and trading port...

, Kunming

Kunming

' is the capital and largest city of Yunnan Province in Southwest China. It was known as Yunnan-Fou until the 1920s. A prefecture-level city, it is the political, economic, communications and cultural centre of Yunnan, and is the seat of the provincial government...

, Tianjin

Tianjin

' is a metropolis in northern China and one of the five national central cities of the People's Republic of China. It is governed as a direct-controlled municipality, one of four such designations, and is, thus, under direct administration of the central government...

, Chengdu

Chengdu

Chengdu , formerly transliterated Chengtu, is the capital of Sichuan province in Southwest China. It holds sub-provincial administrative status...

 and Ningbo

Ningbo

Ningbo is a seaport city of northeastern Zhejiang province, Eastern China. Holding sub-provincial administrative status, the municipality has a population of 7,605,700 inhabitants at the 2010 census whom 3,089,180 in the built up area made of 6 urban districts. It lies south of the Hangzhou Bay,...

, as well as a branch office in Hong Kong

Hong Kong

Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...

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History

Established in 1998 through a ground-breaking merger between the then leading Chinese firms Michael Zhang & Associates in Beijing - 北京张涌涛律师事务所 (1994), WanGuo Law Firm in Shanghai - 上海万国律师事务所(1993) and TangRen Law Firm in Shenzhen - 深圳唐人律师事务所 (established 1993), Grandall Legal Group has grown from a 15 attorneys

Lawyer

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 firm to now being a premier law firm in the rapidly-developing Chinese market. Its founding partners include Michael Zhang , Lv Hongbing and Li Chun.

Profile

At present, Grandall has more than 120 partners and approximately 630 PRC-licensed attorneys (inclusive of partners) throughout China, many of whom are recognized as top practitioners in their respective fields of specialization, and a number of foreign counsel

Counsel

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 who 'bridge the gap' between East and West.

All Grandall lawyers are nationally-qualified, with many graduating from top Chinese universities with Masters or Doctorate degrees in their area of specialization. Additionally, the Group employs a number of foreign-educated and licensed attorneys from the United States

United States

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, Spain

Spain

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, Italy

Italy

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, Canada

Canada

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 and Malaysia who focus their efforts on foreign direct investment

Foreign direct investment

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 (both inbound and outbound) in the International Practice Group.

The firm services businesses throughout China and internationally, including China’s largest SOEs, Fortune Global 500

Fortune Global 500

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, Multinational Corporation

Multinational corporation

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, startup companies, a wide range of privately held companies, Small and medium enterprises and governmental agencies.

Practice Areas

Grandall Legal Group provides expert legal services in the areas of Banking and Finance, Capital Markets and Securities; Corporate and Commercial; Intellectual Property

Intellectual property

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 and E-Commerce; Construction

Construction

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 and Real Estate

Real estate

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; Power, Energy and Infrastructure; Labor and Human Resources; Dispute Resolution

Dispute resolution

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, Arbitration

Arbitration

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 and Litigation; Aviation

Aviation

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, Shipping

Shipping

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 and Maritime

Admiralty law

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; Private Equity

Private equity

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 and Venture Capital

Venture capital

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, Tax

Tax

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 and Trusts.