China Trade & Investment

China presents exciting opportunities to foreign investors and trading companies. Seeking high quality advice from our China Trade and Investment lawyers at the start of a new venture is crucial to future success.

China, as the world’s second largest economy and an increasingly opened one, offers wonderful opportunities for international businesses. The Chinese economy is continuing to open to foreign investors, and foreign investment together with international trade continues to be seen as an important contributor to Mainland China’s ongoing economic development. The Chinese Government is continually refining, streamlining and decentralising the regulations governing inward investment, and promoting opportunities for international companies.

With a dedicated team of Mandarin-speaking practitioners, representative offices in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou and a long history of assisting clients in China, Deacons is well-placed to assist those wanting to enter this vibrant market. We have guided many clients from their first steps in China to later major expansions of their operations.

Our clients come from a wide variety of industries and have different legal and commercial needs.  Our lawyers strive to understand their commercial priorities and advise on the best way to achieve them.

With our four offices in Mainland China we are also very experienced in working closely with Chinese enterprises seeking to invest abroad and with foreign entities in conducting due diligence on their PRC acquirors.

So if you are contemplating expanding your business in this populous and fast-developing market, we would be delighted to help.

Scope of Services

• Advising multinationals, entrepreneurs, importers and trading businesses, professional services firms and investment funds in sectors ranging from manufacturing, infrastructure and insurance to financial services, real estate, construction, technology, and everything in between, on doing business in Mainland China
• Advising clients on the approval/ registration process for investment projects, handling cross-border M&A, arranging joint ventures with Chinese companies, putting in place supply and distribution agreements, to setting up offices and operations in China
• Advising clients through the labyrinth of regulatory tax and employment legislation and help them to protect their interests by drafting commercial agreements, ensuring compliance with regulations, exploiting and protecting your intellectual property, and a host of other matters
• Advising Chinese state-owned enterprises and privately-owned enterprises in their China outbound investment and business activities in or through Hong Kong

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