## Law Firm Overview
Shanghai Lingyun&Yongran Law Firm ("Lingyun&Yongran") was established in 1995 and is a comprehensive partnership law firm approved by the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Justice. Lingyun&Yongran consistently adheres to the service tenet of "quality service as the foundation, client interests above all," offering precise, efficient and highly operable professional legal solutions to both domestic and foreign clients through its exceptional professional practice abilities and extensive team cooperation experience.
Leveraging its solid professional knowledge, rich case handling experience, significant industry influence, continuous compliance training, and expertise in foreign intellectual property explanation, Lingyun&Yongran has taken the lead in forming a professional legal service team. The firm, focused on accumulating extensive case experiences over the past 20 years, specializes internally by civil, commercial, intellectual property, criminal, administrative, and advisory services (including drafting and modifying various contracts, providing legal opinions, and offering various legal consultations). This structure allows the team to operate externally as a cohesive unit while maintaining specialized, vertical service offerings.
The professional legal service team at Lingyun&Yongran has extensive litigation and non-litigation experience. Through years of continuous accumulation and integration of professional experiences, the team has developed various response methods tailored to different businesses, forming a unique and friendly team atmosphere. This includes: (1) cultivating team culture: fostering cooperation and harmony among colleagues, respecting each colleague, dedicating professionally to clients, and serving each client well; (2) recognizing team cooperation and internal specialization and collaboration; (3) promoting tiered team development and nurturing junior lawyers; (4) synergistic development of legal services: focusing on core products, building brand value, and expanding other services.
Lingyun&Yongran's service lawyers are graduates of well-known domestic and foreign law schools, most holding master's degrees in law or other specialized fields. Additionally, several lawyers hold titles such as economist and engineer. Many of the lawyers have previous experience in government departments, the judiciary, or major domestic and international commercial institutions, providing them with solid theoretical legal resources and rich practical case handling experience. Their extensive professional work has fostered broad connections and good relationships with peers and the industry domestically and internationally, providing comprehensive conditions for serving various clients.
The reserve lawyers at Lingyun&Yongran also include experts from professional law schools, offering solid theoretical support, complemented by the targeted legal work of the firm's lawyers. In handling financial loan contract litigation involved in asset management company business, the firm arranges experienced lawyers for targeted handling and ensures timely communication and discussion of solutions and potential risks with assigned lawyers, ensuring the completion of asset management company business efficiently, effectively, reasonably, and promptly to meet the efficiency requirements of the asset management company business.
Additionally, based on the specific needs of the asset management company's business, Lingyun&Yongran can assign other lawyers with rich experience in relevant specialized work to assist in handling asset management company business. The firm can also integrate its social resources and human resources to provide comprehensive legal services for the asset management company business, meeting the further requirements for professional capabilities in the asset management company business.
Introduction to Main Practice Areas
——Intellectual Property Legal Services
Recognizing the strategic importance and increasing market competitiveness of intellectual property in enterprise development, the development of the knowledge economy and high-tech industries has set higher demands for legal services in the field of intellectual property. Lingyun&Yongran has accumulated extensive experience in copyright, trademark, patent, and anti-counterfeiting, particularly in software intellectual property protection (anti-piracy).
Lingyun&Yongran provides anti-piracy legal services to numerous globally renowned software companies. Through serving many software companies, the firm has gradually formed a specialized anti-piracy legal service team. Currently, this team who have gained extensive experience and established an effective anti-piracy model, achieving remarkable results. Lingyun&Yongran’s clients include Microsoft, Adobe, Autodesk, Dassault Systèmes, Siemens, SolidWorks, ANSYS, ALTIUM, ALTAIR, TRIMBLE, FOUNDRY, Mentor Graphics, COREL, CST, Minitab, MSC, NetSarang, and other world-renowned software companies. Additionally, Lingyun&Yongran provides anti-piracy legal services for the Business Software Alliance (BSA).
Moreover, Lingyun&Yongran has accumulated rich experience in copyright, trademark, patent, and anti-counterfeiting areas and has established a new model of legal services for the technology industry. Services include:
1. Issuing lawyer's letters and legal opinions;
2. Drafting or reviewing various technical project applications and transfer contracts;
3. Handling disputes over trademark rights, patent rights, and copyrights;
4. Participating in intellectual property-related negotiations;
5. Dealing with software anti-piracy matters.
—— Civil and Commercial Legal Services
In response to the increasing trend of technology, market, and internationalization in the operation and development of asset management businesses, Lingyun&Yongran will provide the following civil and commercial legal services to advisory units or enterprises:
1. Legal Services for Non-Performing Asset Operations: We focus on the field of non-performing asset operations, including but not limited to the acquisition and various disposal strategies of non-performing assets, debt-to-equity swaps, and custodial liquidation.
2. Financial Leasing Legal Services: We offer targeted special legal services for asset management company operations, including direct leasing, sale-leaseback, vendor leasing, and joint leasing in the financial leasing field.
3. Investment Banking Legal Services: We provide legal consulting and related services for all aspects of asset management company operations, including equity financing, debt financing, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, venture capital, securities issuance, and trading.
4. Trust Business Legal Services: We offer specialized legal services in the trust business field, including trust establishment and contract review, trust dispute resolution, trust management risk prevention, and trust regulation consultation.
5. Direct Business Legal Services: We provide special legal services for asset management companies as financial intermediaries, including private equity and venture capital, asset management brokerage and trading, regulatory compliance, and dispute resolution.
In other business areas, based on the long-term accumulation of professional knowledge and experience, Lingyun&Yongran will provide internationally and domestically recognized professional legal advisory services covering all aspects of corporate commercial transactions. This includes company establishment, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, debt disposal, company division, private financing, joint ventures, and management buyouts.We provide our clients with assistance in the following areas:
1. Commercial disputes, creditor-debtor disputes, and property disputes;
2. Intellectual property disputes, financial contract and bill disputes;
3. Labor and personnel disputes, enforcement of judgments;
4. Representing clients in domestic and international arbitration, mediation, and other commercial dispute resolution procedures.
We have an in-depth understanding of Chinese labor law and extensive experience in handling labor disputes. We provide the following assistance to client companies:
1. Drafting and revising labor contracts, confidentiality agreements, and training agreements;
2. Formulating and reviewing internal labor rules, employee handbooks, and regulations;
3. Handling corporate downsizing plans and schemes;
4. Conducting due diligence on personnel matters during corporate mergers, acquisitions, and restructuring, designing personnel placement and cost schemes, and handling personnel placement and economic compensation in corporate bankruptcy;
5. Participating in collective bargaining and drafting collective contracts between enterprises and unions;
6. Representing enterprises in labor dispute arbitration and litigation activities.
As part of our extended and value-added services, Lingyun&Yongran will provide international and domestic clients with legal consulting and representation services in Chinese courts or arbitration proceedings at the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission and other arbitration institutions. Service areas include joint venture disputes, corporate governance, international trade, and real estate. We use our expertise and experience to help clients secure their legal rights, minimize losses, and navigate crises. We offer assistance in:
1. Commercial disputes, creditor-debtor disputes, and property disputes;
2. Intellectual property disputes, financial contract and bill disputes;
3. Labor and personnel disputes, enforcement of judgments;
4. Representing clients in domestic and international arbitration, mediation, and other commercial dispute resolution procedures.
——Criminal Legal Services
Lingyun&Yongran will provide the following criminal legal services to advisory units or enterprises:
1. Criminal Compliance Review: We help companies review their legal qualifications during establishment, formulate necessary rules and regulations, provide general compliance business consulting, and promptly identify potential risks in business operations or transactions.
2. Trade Secret Protection: We assist companies in establishing trade secret management systems, dynamically adjusting management methods based on system performance, providing non-litigation legal consulting services for trade secret protection, and handling trade secret disputes arising from employee departures, including infringement litigation and criminal complaints.
3. Criminal Risk Response and Compliance Strategies: We provide response strategies for company directors, supervisors, and senior executives involved in criminal offenses according to relevant laws and regulations, which may range from disclosure or job explanation to directly affecting qualifications and candidacies.
4. Innovative Criminal Legal Services: We extend traditional criminal defense to include special criminal legal services, criminal compliance for involved enterprises, legal consulting for medical parole applications, and criminal appeal representation.
Relying on our professional litigation experience, Lingyun&Yongran provides the following criminal legal services:
1. Investigation Stage: Assigning experienced defense lawyers to provide legal consulting for family members and suspects, meeting with suspects, communicating with public security organs, understanding the charges and detention period, submitting legal opinions to public security organs, applying for bail, and submitting non-arrest legal opinions to the procuratorate during the review and approval stage.
2. Review and Prosecution Stage: Assigning experienced defense lawyers to meet with suspects, review case files at the procuratorate, examine and analyze case materials, formulate defense strategies, communicate with the procuratorate, and submit legal opinions or non-prosecution legal opinions.
3. Criminal Risk Response and Compliance Countermeasures: We will provide countermeasures for the Company's directors, supervisors and senior executives involved in criminal compliance risks in accordance with the laws, regulations and management measures related to the Company and securities transactions.
Additionally, Lingyun&Yongran accepts assignments from the Shanghai Legal Aid Center, appointing senior lawyers with over ten years of experience to handle significant legal aid cases that could result in life sentences or higher penalties, thereby maximizing the protection of citizens' legal rights, promoting social fairness and justice, and demonstrating the socialist legal system's protection and maintenance of human rights.
