Dacheng Law Offices

Overview:

Founded in 1992, Dacheng Law Offices is one of the first and largest partnership law firms in China. For six consecutive years from 2005 to 2010, Dacheng had been awarded as an “Outstanding National Law Firm” by the All China Lawyers Association, and for three consecutive years from 2009 to 2011, the leading Asia-Pacific magazine Asian Legal Business had ranked Dacheng first both among “ALB China: 20 China’s Largest Law Firms” and among “ALB 50: Asia’s Largest Law Firms”.

Dacheng Law Offices is home to more than 4,000 licensed attorneys worldwide. Headquartered in Beijing, Dacheng has established an extensive global legal services network consisting of over 51 offices, including a Wall Street Office in New York. Its well-designed online network management platform enables Dacheng to offer seamlessly integrated legal services to its clients on a global basis.

Dacheng Culture
Dacheng’s core value is as follows:
﹒Excellence: Dacheng encourages its attorneys to be ambitious and strive for excellence in their work;
﹒Inclusiveness: Dacheng maintains a vibrant, dynamic and compatible working atmosphere where its attorneys can acquire the highest level of expertise;
﹒Perseverance: Dacheng’s attorneys are unflagging in their pursuit of success, with one step at a time; and
﹒Teamwork: Dacheng believes in teamwork and cooperation and attracts a diversified and talented team of legal professionals who are committed to building Dacheng into one of the world’s most sought-after law firms.

Dacheng Attorneys
Since its establishment in 1992, Dacheng has continued to attract numerous legal talents with diverse backgrounds. Most of our attorneys graduated from prestigious Chinese law schools and top universities in the USA, UK, France, Russia, Japan and Korea with ample practicing experience from reputable international law firms. Apart from the diverse legal specialties and expertise, a substantial number of Dacheng attorneys have received education or acquired qualifications in areas such as international trade, finance, architectural engineering, business administration, accounting and taxation. Dacheng attorneys are also capable of providing legal services to clients in various written and spoken languages including English, French, German, Japanese, Russian, Korean and Mongolian.

Practice areas
As a full-service law firm, Dacheng never stops moving forward with the tenet of protecting and maximizing clients’ interests and commits to providing professional and comprehensive legal services with promptness, quality and efficiency for both domestic and overseas clients.

Every attorney of Dacheng engages himself/herself in specific practice areas according to his or her expertise. Usually each of them has two or three specialties. A working team will be formed promptly and tailored to accommodate any clients’ needs for cross-area legal services.

The main practice areas of Dacheng include:
﹒General corporate services
﹒Merger, acquisition and corporate restructuring
﹒Securities and capital markets
﹒Private equity and investment funds
﹒State-owned enterprises restructuring and property disposition transactions involving state-owned enterprises
﹒Real estate and construction
﹒Mining, energy and resources
﹒Banking and finance
﹒Foreign direct investment and M&A
﹒Overseas investment
﹒Antitrust and national security review
﹒Taxation
﹒International trade
﹒International trade remedies & WTO
﹒Admiralty and Maritime Law
﹒Intellectual property
﹒Litigation and arbitration
﹒Criminal defense
﹒Labor law

Awards
﹒Recognized as an “2008-2010 Outstanding National Law Firm” by All China Lawyers Association in December 2011.
﹒Topped Asian Legal Business’s list of “ALB 50 2011: Asia’s Largest Law Firms”.
﹒Named “VC/PE-related Domestic M&A Market Legal Advisor of the Year 2011” at China Venture Capital & Private Equity Annual Awards 2011.
﹒Named “VC/PE RMB Fund Raising Legal Advisor of the Year 2011” at China Venture Capital & Private Equity Annual Awards 2011.
﹒Named “VC/PE Foreign Fund Raising Legal Advisor of the Year 2011” at China Venture Capital & Private Equity Annual Awards 2011.
﹒Topped Asian Legal Business’s list of “ALB China: 20 China’s Largest Law Firms” in November 2011.
﹒Selected as one of the “2011 Top 10 IPO Legal Advisor” by Investor Journal Weekly in October 2011.
﹒Qingdao office of Dacheng recognized as an “Outstanding Law office of Qingdao” by Qingdao Bureau of Justice in October 2011.
﹒Recognized as one of “China’s Fastest Growing Law Firms 2011” by Asian Legal Business.
﹒Named “VC/PE RMB Fund Investment Legal Advisor of the Year 2010” at China Venture Capital & Private Equity Annual Awards 2010.
﹒Named “VC/PE RMB Fund Raising Legal Advisor of the Year 2010” at China Venture Capital & Private Equity Annual Awards 2010.
﹒Topped Asian Legal Business’s lists of “ALB 50 2011: Asia’s Largest Law Firms” and “ALB China: 20 China’s Largest Law Firms” in December 2011.
﹒Recipient of “Profession Pioneer Award” by Beijing Municipal Bureau of Justice and Beijing Lawyers Association in December 2009.
﹒Topped Asian Legal Business’s lists of “ALB 50 2011: Asia’s Largest Law Firms” and “ALB China: 20 China’s Largest Law Firms” in August 2009.
﹒Named as one of the “2005-2007 Outstanding National Law Firms” in December 2008 by All China Lawyers Association.
﹒Recipient of “ALB 2008 Grant Thornton Insolvency & Restructuring Law Firm Of The Year” award by Asian Legal Business in April 2008.
﹒Given an “Advanced Collectives Award” for judiciary and administrative system of Beijing by Beijing Municipal Bureau of Justice and Beijing Municipal Bureau of Personnel.
﹒Recipient of “Advanced Collectives Award for 2007 Dongcheng District Public Welfare Legal Service” by Dongcheng District Judicial Bureau in February 2008.
﹒Topped the Internet Society of China’s 2006 ranking of “Chinese Internet Users’ 10 Favorite Legal Services Brands” in July 2006.
﹒Awarded an “Outstanding Law Firm of Beijing” by Beijing Lawyers Association in January 2005.
﹒Named one of the first “Ministry-level Outstanding Law Firms in China” by Ministry of Justice in April 1998.

Dacheng’s Global Legal Service Network
Dacheng has established a global legal service network integrating organization, information, service and management networks into a high-speed information exchange platform, providing extensive service resources, marketing channels and quality control measures.

Dacheng’s global network of domestic offices: Beijing, Changchun, Changsha, Changzhou, Chengdu, Chongqing, Dalian, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Harbin, Haikou, Hangzhou, Hefei, Hohhot, Huangshi, Jilin, Jinan, Kunming, Lhasa, Nanchang, Nanjing, Nanning, Nantong, Ningbo, Qingdao, Suzhou, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Shenyang, Tianjin, Taiyuan, Wuhan, Wuxi, Urumqi, Wenzhou, Xining, Xiamen, Xi’an, Yinchuan, Zhengzhou, Zhoushan and Zhuhai.

Dacheng’s network of overseas offices: New York, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Paris, Singapore, Los Angeles, Chicago, Moscow and Mongolia.

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