China and Far East Desks
We rely on a group of professors and lawyers with in depth experience at major law firms in China and abroad to assist our Clients in all kinds of business operations in China, as well as – if necessary – in the critical phases of business before the competent courts, arbitration and administrative bodies. The Firm works through its office in Shanghai and its two Asian Desks in Bologna and Milan, thus ensuring we are fully operational in China thanks to our direct presence there, and also easily accessible for Italian Clients.
We represent both SMEs and corporations which are already established in Asian markets, trade associations and public bodies, as well as individual entrepreneurs who intend to start business in the Eastern markets.
Recent representative matters include:
- we have acted for an Italian service company in the incorporation of a Wholly Owned Foreign Enterprise in the People’s Republic of China to trade in the local market;
- we have assisted an Italian company in the formation of a joint venture with a Chinese company, aimed at establishing a business unit for the distribution of the Italian Client’s products in China;
- we have provided advice to an Italian company on the fulfillments to obtain the funding offered by SIMEST S.p.a. and the subsequent purchase of the controlling interest in the share capital of a Chinese company;
- we have assisted a Chinese company in the establishment of a research and development center in Italy, in collaboration with an Italian business producing machine tools, in order to create new software to be installed in its products;
- we have assisted several non Chinese businesses in disputes concerning the management, financing and functioning of mixed Sino-foreign joint ventures;
- we have acted for several non Chinese businesses in pre-Court and Court debt recovery against Chinese companies;
- we have assisted several foreign companies in the protection and registration of intellectual property rights (trademark, patent and copyright) with the People’s Republic of China Trademark Office and with other local authorities;
- we have assisted several non Chinese businesses in administrative and Court actions aimed at ending different kinds of trademark infringements by local operators on the territory of the People’s Republic of China.