Shanghai DeBund Law Offices (“DeBund”), set up under the laws of the Peoples Republic of China with the headquarters located in Shanghai, is a partnership law firm capable of providing the highest standard of foreign legal services. Our law firm has a team of professionals with years of invaluable experience, consisting of Chinese practicing lawyers, patent agents, trademark agents and lawyers overseas working as our business consultants.

Most of the partners of DeBund have studied overseas and have extensive educational backgrounds. Some have doctorate degrees or masters degrees from America, Germany and Japan, whilst others are graduates of elite Chinese law schools like Fu Dan University, East China University of Political Science & Law and Southeast University of Political Science & Law. Many of our partners have incredible reputations, including the Executive Chairman of the Intellectual Property Division of the All China Bar Association, a member of the Foreign Law Committee, a member of Finance and Tax Law Committee, a member of Intellectual Property Law Committee, and a member of E-Commerce Law Committee under the Shanghai Bar Association. They all have a profound understanding of Chinese legal theory, practicing in China, meanwhile are also familiar with complex overseas legal service. Our lawyers provide a successful professional legal service and commercial advice to Chinese domestic enterprises in addition to well-known multinational corporations. Additionally, DeBund boasts having professors and doctoral supervisors from Tong Ji University and East China University of Political Science & Law as senior advisors which are also part of our high quality, established law firm.

DeBund operates through the medium of many languages, including Chinese, English, Japanese and German. Our lawyers are qualified in providing specifically tailored professional legal services to satisfy every client’s legal demand, in particular with foreign intellectual property right litigation and are able to advise foreign or Chinese clients who are partaking in business abroad. Our clients are often commercial enterprises, and usually from all over the world and cover variety of businesses- from machinery, electronics, pharmaceutical, and biological industry, to automobile, real estate, entertainment and the food industry.

DeBund is also rapidly establishing strong ties with other law firms at home and abroad. DeBund Law Firm has built up a team model to provide the best legal service possible to our clients. The model is made up of a partner and senior practicing attorneys. The senior partner manages the team alongside a designated project leader. Furthermore, the lawyers on the given team are dedicated to the assignment which means that the team is always readily available under and request of the client.

At DeBund due to an advanced office communication system, a quick, accurate, efficient and confidential contact is guaranteed between our lawyers and clients. DeBund has developed extensive and personal contacts with other intermediary social service organizations, government agents and judicial organs. In the legal field, DeBund’s professional team has become famous for its diligence, innovation and integrity.

Our aim is to establish a long term strategic relationship with our clients. Our promise is always to devote ourselves to our clients with first class service. We strive to understand our client’s business goals and provide them with the legal tools and knowhow required for those goals to be easily achieved. As a result, we develop creative, effective and economic efficient legal solutions. In many cases, the DeBund lawyers are capable of predicting the counterparty’s next step, as well as being fully able to develop and utilize resources available to assist our clients, and in many instances can adjust their business plan to incorporate risk prevention and improved management.

Finally, DeBund Law Firm provides legal services to clients with professionalism, quality, efficiency, diligence and responsibility in mind. DeBund adheres to the ideals of justice and fairness at all times. As a service agent with strong sense of social responsibility, DeBund invests part of its resources into social and community services as we feel it is important to give back to society, for example by offering scholarships at elite law schools, giving free lectures at law schools and we strive to create practice opportunities for many law students.