On April 10, 2025, the Shanghai Financial Consumer Dispute Mediation Center held a grand 2025 mediator training and 2024 "Golden Adjustment Star" award ceremony. Xie Xiangyang, Managing Partner of Gaopeng (Shanghai) Law Firm, and Li Min, Partner, have been awarded the honorary titles of "Gold Medal Evaluation Expert" and "Gold Medal Mediator" respectively for their outstanding professional performance!
With the implementation of the new Company Law's provisions on paid in registered capital, the capital operation pattern of enterprises has undergone profound changes. Some enterprises have incorporated capital reduction into their strategic considerations to adapt to the new regulations and optimize resource allocation. However, the process of reducing capital is complex, and private enterprises and state-owned enterprises face different levels of legal issues and practical difficulties in operation. Once not handled properly, they may fall into the dilemma of legal risks.
On April 12, 2025, the 2024 annual partner year-end meeting of Gaopeng Law Firm was successfully held at the CITIC Jinling Hotel in Beijing. The meeting was convened and chaired by Lawyer Wang Lei, the director of Gaopeng Law Firm and chairman of the partner meeting. The partners of the general office gathered together to embark on a new journey full of expectations and conducted in-depth discussions on Gaopeng's future strategic development ideas under the current situation.
In March 2025, lawyers Sun Meiyan and Wu Ailing from Gaopeng Law Firm published a professional article titled "Real Estate Entrustment - Analyzing the Legal Shield of Real Estate Family Trusts" in the third issue of the "Wealth Management Special Issue" hosted by the Wealth Management Professional Committee of the Beijing Bar Association.
Driven by the global digital wave, the cross-border e-commerce industry is flourishing. At the same time, complex and ever-changing compliance requirements have become a severe challenge for enterprises in the process of "going global". To assist Chinese cross-border e-commerce enterprises in breaking through compliance difficulties, Gaopeng (Shanghai) Law Firm (hereinafter referred to as "Gaopeng") has joined forces with East China University of Political Science and Law (hereinafter referred to as "Huazheng") and Shenzhen Ruiguan Information Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Ruiguan") to carry out in-depth industry university research cooperation under the platform framework of Shanghai's foreign-related legal collaborative innovation. Together, they have launched the "Huazheng+Ruiguan Intellectual Property Compliance Model", bringing innovative intelligent compliance solutions to the cross-border e-commerce industry.
Recently, the team of Lawyer Fan Chao from Gaopeng Law Firm won a lawsuit in Chaoyang District People's Court in Beijing on behalf of the plaintiff, a headhunting company, and the defendant, a tourism company, over a service contract dispute.
Recently, China Energy Conservation and Solar Energy Co., Ltd. has made significant progress in issuing convertible corporate bonds to unspecified entities. The project was approved by the Listing Review Committee of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange on December 6, 2024, and officially launched for issuance on March 26, 2025. As of April 2, the original shareholders' priority allocation, online investors' subscription, and payment work have been successfully completed, raising a total of 2.95 billion yuan.
Recently, the Chaoyang District People's Court in Beijing made a judgment on the asset management contract dispute case of a public fund represented by Gaopeng Law Firm. The client represented by Gao Peng, as the defendant in the case, obtained a comprehensive victory result by rejecting all of the plaintiff's claims. The leading partners in this case are Li Jun and Jiang Liyong, and the lead lawyer is Xiao Chao. Lawyer Qin Yi also participated in some of the work in this case.
Recently, through the strict supplier admission review process of Sunshine Insurance Group Co., Ltd., Gaopeng Law Firm has been successfully selected into its legal service institution library with outstanding professional capabilities and rich industry experience. The legal service team was led by Li Xiaojuan, Senior Partner of Gaopeng Law Firm.
Recently, in a bribery case represented by senior partners Dong Xiaohua and Zhu Ting at Gaopeng Law Firm, the parties involved faced extremely high actual criminal risks. After effective defense, they were finally granted a suspended sentence.
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International trade team of Gaopeng & Partners is composed by senior partners and legal and accounting professionals.
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Gaopeng is the counsel for the PRC State Tobacco Administration since 2001,and we have a professional industry team.
Gaopeng & Partners were listed in the first 100 bankruptcy administrators approved by Beijing Senior People’s Court in 2007 and again listed in the second 50 bankruptcy administrators in 2018.
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Corporation law system in our country has become well established day by day, the market identities face more and more supervision in their daily operation.
Under this background, it has been more important to enhance the build of corporation compliance and corporation governance.
Big data era enlarged the racetrack of market competition, and confer big commercial value on the data enterprises owned.
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Our lawyers in tax law team graduated from famous universities with major of tax law.
The team holds the principle of “capable to prevent and solve tax risks and solve”, focuses on tax dispute resolution for ten years, and has provided tax law service to dozens of national and local tax authorities, and taxpayers.
It’s hard to start business and maintain the wealth.
When Chinese people ahead on the road of common rich, it’s important for the rich individuals and families to create, manage, and inherit their wealth.
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Gaopeng & Partners’ Labor and Human Resources (HR) Practice Group was established for the purpose of providing professional legal services for our clients in this area of law.
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and represent client in insurance compliance and other non-litigation legal affairs.
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Gaopeng has acted as legal counsel for many large state owned enterprises, private enterprises, and publicly listed companies. Gaopeng also works with funds and financial institutions on overseas investment, financing, and cooperation projects such as FDIs, mergers and acquisitions, and engineering contracting. We also assist clients in the acquisition of overseas resources, technologies, brands, and markets as well as in the implementation of their global strategies.
Under the background of "Double Carbon", the ecological and environmental legal system and environmental judicial system have been preliminarily established, the concept of ESG (Environment, Social and Governance) has become the frontier issues of enterprise development, which brings great opportunities to the resource and environmental legal business.
With the rapid development of the network economy and e-commerce, as well as the rapid progress of digital information and communication technology, the proportion of cross-border e-commerce (i.e. digital trade) in international trade of goods and services is growing faster and faster.
“The construction of a government based on the rule of law is a key task and the main project”, and to realize the first breakthrough in the construction of a government based on the rule of law, the role of legal advisers should be brought into play.