Capital Legal Services is happy to announce a new practice area in providing legal support for business in Eastern Asia. 

Associates of Capital Legal Services specialize in issues related to settlement of commercial disputes, legal support of day-to-day operations, registration and ongoing support of legal entities in Eastern Asia. They have extensive experience of working in the region and are ready to offer comprehensive solutions both for companies planning to enter the markets of Eastern Asia, including China and Hong Kong, and for companies already cooperating with partners in these jurisdictions.   

We are ready to provide highly professional legal support at all stages of your project.

Our legal support includes the following services:

Commercial Dispute Resolution:

• Pretrial settlement of disputes: drafting and sending claim-related documents, including attorney’s letters, and negotiations with the Chinese party.
• Commercial mediation.
• Representation of clients before arbitration commissions (CIETAC, SHIAC) and People’s Courts of China.
• Representation of clients before arbitration commissions and courts of Hong Kong.
• Recognition and enforcement of court and arbitration rulings in China and Hong Kong (ICAC and others, commercial arbitration courts).
• Support in the course of enforcement proceedings.

Legal support for business in China:

• Check on counterparties (basic review of documents, on-site inspection, financial and credit report, due diligence, audit).
• Drafting multilingual foreign trade contracts with Chinese partners, including negotiations, supervision over their performance at all stages: inspections, loading control, etc.
• Oral and written advice on practical application of Chinese commercial, corporate and tax laws.

Registration of companies in China and Hong Kong:

• Drafting constituent and local corporate documents.
• Provision of a registered office in China and Hong Kong.
• Obtaining an export license, certificates and other permits.
• Obtaining a corporate seal, an authorized representative’s seal, an accountant’s seal and other special seals.
• Opening a bank account (account for payments of share capital, corporate RMB account, foreign currency account).
• Accounting services, audit.
• HR services.
• Real estate issues.  
• For Hong Kong companies: corporate secretarial services.
• Legal support with issues related to registration of industrial property in China.
• Legal support with other issues, assistance with administrative issues.

Additional services:

• Consular legalization of documents for China, obtaining and legalizing Chinese documents.
• Obtaining a SINOSURЕ credit rating, dealing with debts, settlement of outstanding debts.
• Russian-Chinese and Chinese-Russian legal translation of documents.
• Obtaining extracts from the Chinese state register of legal entities.
• Obtaining force majeure certificates.
• Providing legal memoranda.
• Business visas to China.