How we can help
- Establishing and changing companies and business entities, including domestic enterprises, equity and cooperative joint ventures, wholly foreign-owned enterprises, and branches or representative offices of foreign companies;
- Advising foreign companies undertaking construction and installation projects, hotel management, and corporate operations in China;
- Increasing or reducing registered capital;
- Share transfers, restructurings, pledges, and other equity changes;
- Corporate acquisitions, mergers, and divisions;
- Corporate reorganisations, dissolution, liquidation, and bankruptcy;
- Franchising, technology transfer, technology licensing, and technical assistance;
- Import and export trade, agency, and distribution;
- Processing with supplied materials, assembly, compensation trade, and barter trade;
- Drafting, reviewing, and revising contracts and agreements in Chinese and English;
Representative matters
Selected experience from matters handled by the Horizon team.
Corporate and commercial matters
In addition to separately listed equity acquisitions, asset or business acquisitions, foreign investment projects, and other matters, representative corporate and commercial matters include:
Note: For reason of confidentiality, we have not disclosed the parties’ names.
Acting for a Singapore investor in respect of split-off of its joint venture company in Liaoning Province; the total assets of the joint venture company is more than US$170 million; the related legal services include giving legal advice, drafting the related split-off agreements, share transfer agreement and all the other related documents, attending negotiations, arranging the execution of the related documents;
Acting for a Singapore investor in respect of liquidation of its co-operative joint venture company (property development) in Shanghai with a total amount of investment of US$10 million;
Acting for Malaysian, Indonesian and Singapore investors to set up a joint venture restaurant in Shanghai; the related legal services include giving legal advice, preparing feasibility study report, joint venture contract, articles of association and other related documents, carrying out all the relevant procedures, etc.;
Acting for a Singapore investor in respect of its investment to set up a wholly foreign owned trading company in Shanghai Waigaoqiao Free Trade Zone; the related legal services include giving legal advice, preparing articles of association and other related documents, carrying out all the relevant procedures, etc.;
Acting for a Singapore hotel management company in respect of management and operation of a five-star international hotel in Shanghai; the related legal services include giving legal advice, preparing pre-opening services agreement, hotel management agreement, trademark license agreement and all the other related documents, carrying out independent searches on the hotel and the owner, etc.;
Acting for a UK investor in respect of its sale of shares in a joint venture company in Shanghai; the total investment of the joint venture company is more than US$8.43 million; the related legal services include giving legal advice, drafting the related sale and purchase agreement and all the other related documents, etc.;
Acting for a German invested company situated in Yunnan Province in respect of its supply of gas products to a local company and increase of total investment and registered capital for the purpose of such supply; the related legal services include giving relevant legal opinion, drafting and amending the related supply agreement, etc.;
Acting for a Singapore company in respect of license and sub-license of trademarks to licensees in China; the related legal services include giving legal advice and legal comments, making amendments to the relevant trademark license agreements, etc.;
Acting for a Singapore company (cosmetic industry) in respect of its franchising business in China; the related legal services include giving legal advice and legal comments, making amendments to the relevant franchise agreement, etc.;
Acting for a Singapore academy in respect of its operation of cooperative joint venture schools in China; the related legal services include giving legal advice and legal comments, preparing whole set of related documents, attending negotiations, arranging execution of the documents, assisting in carrying out the relevant procedures, etc.
