Team synergy
One teamHorizon serves clients through collective team strength rather than isolated practitioners. Partners and associates collaborate across disciplines to deliver integrated legal support across the entire matter lifecycle.
About the firm
Established in 1997, Shanghai Horizon Law Firm focuses on insurance, maritime and shipping, internet and e-commerce, marriage and family affairs, employment, and foreign investment, providing comprehensive legal services to clients in China and around the world.
Horizon brings together legal professionals with domestic and international experience. Working as one integrated team, we deliver efficient, full-service legal support with a rigorous, precise and forward-looking approach across banking and finance, foreign investment, insurance, maritime and shipping, employment, family matters and dispute resolution.
Our principal office is in Shanghai. The firm has 11 experienced partners and more than 30 lawyers, assistants and specialist advisers. Team members have studied at leading institutions in China and overseas, and several have worked or qualified in jurisdictions including Hong Kong, Singapore, the United States, Canada and Japan.
Horizon maintains close working relationships with law firms and lawyers in other jurisdictions. Our clients include banks, companies, institutions and individuals from mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, as well as the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Finland, Switzerland, Australia, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia.
1997FoundedShanghai
11Partners
30+Professionals
Commercial acumen
Law informed by businessSound legal advice rests on a genuine understanding of the client’s commercial logic and industry context. Our lawyers engage with business objectives, sector conventions and decision-making pressures — not just the legal problem.
Cross-border collaboration
Connected across bordersHorizon maintains long-standing working relationships with law firms and lawyers in other jurisdictions, coordinating domestic and international resources through one unified service interface.
Enduring partnership
Here for the long termMany clients have worked with Horizon for years. That continuity helps our team understand evolving businesses, risk appetites and decision-making cultures, and offer advice with greater precision.
Sunny Deng, Head of the Family Legal Services Centre at Horizon Law Firm, was invited to attend and speak at the 2021 Pudong New Area Social Assistance Innovation and Development Conference.
On 17 June 2021, to put the people-centred city philosophy into practice, further improve Pudong New Area's modern social assistance system and advance the 'Practical Services for the People' initiative, the New Area Civil Affairs Bureau held the 2021 Social Assistance Innovation Conference under the theme 'A Century of Pursuing Dreams, Great Love in Pudong'. Pudong Deputy District Mayor Zuo Yimei and Shanghai Civil Affairs Bureau Deputy Director Li Yong attended and spoke. Sunny Deng, Head of Horizon's Family Legal Services Centre, was invited to attend and address the conference.
Since Horizon Law Firm was registered in Shanghai's Pudong New Area in 1997, it has witnessed and actively participated in Pudong's development. Horizon has always supported public-interest causes and established a dedicated Family Legal Services Centre. Working with several nonprofit psychological counselling organisations in Shanghai, it is developing a legal-service system covering marriage, family affairs, inheritance, and the protection of women and children.
Horizon organises teams of specialist lawyers to provide year-round public-interest legal services, focusing on groups with special needs and vulnerable people, including those facing financial hardship, persons with disabilities, minors, older people and migrant workers. We also work with subdistricts and communities to understand the legal issues encountered by neighbourhood offices and residents' committees in social assistance, regularly train community staff, answer practical questions, support law-based administration and protect the lawful rights and interests of assistance recipients.
Horizon works with nonprofit psychological counselling organisations in Shanghai to use professional skills to help people who encounter difficulties in daily life and need legal services. Family disputes are often especially difficult, and litigation can cause greater harm to everyone involved. Building on psychological counselling provided by nonprofit organisations, our lawyers analyse the advantages and disadvantages from a legal perspective, seek to resolve disputes wherever possible, and promote family and social harmony.
Public-interest legal service is an important part of Horizon's work: one we upheld in the past, practise today and will continue in the future. We will remain true to this commitment, continue raising the professional standard of our public-interest work, integrate it with social-assistance mechanisms, protect the lawful rights and interests of vulnerable groups, and make our contribution to fairness and justice.
A century of pursuing dreams. Committed to the public interest, Horizon stands with you.
Responsibilities
- Handle clients' day-to-day legal matters, primarily for insurers and shipping companies, including drafting legal documents and opinions, preliminary contract review, negotiation support, litigation-risk assessment for major cases and other legal work.
- Participate in maritime matters, including vessel collision, oil-pollution damage, marine insurance, carriage by sea, shipbuilding and general average; major property-insurance matters, including claims advice and consultation; and reinsurance matters, including contribution negotiations. Work includes evidence collection and organisation, drafting, hearings and legal research.
- Participate in foreign and cross-border arbitration matters.
- Maintain ongoing communication with clients, courts and arbitral tribunals, report progress, monitor regulatory developments and continue developing professional expertise.
- Exercise a high degree of patience and care when handling complex documents and client requirements.
Requirements
- Hold a PRC lawyer's practising certificate and have one to three years of practice experience.
- Graduate of a recognised law school in China or overseas, with a master's degree or above.
- Strong spoken and written English; overseas study experience is preferred.
- Sound legal theory and professional judgment; strong legal drafting, logical analysis, communication and teamwork skills; responsible and able to work under pressure.
- Committed to practising in maritime, insurance and cross-border matters.
How to apply
How to apply: If you meet the above requirements, please send your CV to sandyguo@hzlawyers.com with the subject line 'Full-time Lawyer (Maritime Law) + Name'.
Subject：Full-time Lawyer (Maritime Law) + NameHorizon is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome candidates of all backgrounds. All applications are treated in strict confidence.