Introduction and background

Adhering to internationally recognized rules and standards in providing legal services, we are uncompromising in providing quality services to our clients. We back up our commitment by maintaining a highly qualified team of attorneys all graduated from the prestigious law schools in China, most of our partners have been practicing law since 1983. In lately 2002, Shanghai FUDAN and DAHWA Law Firm announced the merger of their respective firms, giving rise to the today's highly competitive DAHWA Law Firm. As a full-service law firm, DAHWA Law Firm provides a wide array of legal services domestically and internationally for a broad spectrum of clients. The Firm's comprehensive practice covers a broad range of legal matters, from local litigation to complex international transactions. DAHWA Law Firm is able to meet the legal needs of virtually every potential client.

Banking and Finance

Banking and Finance group is one of the earliest founded groups in our firm, taking part in analysis and prevention transaction adventure in Finance innovation related issues. Led by experienced attorney ever since 1992.

• Loan guarantee and mortgage agreement and services.
• Negotiation of loan agreement with international financial institutions and government organizations and syndicated financial organizations.
• Assisting investigate Securities of Loan guarantee transaction for banking.
• Participating Finance innovation transaction.

Real Estate

As real estate became the hottest trade in Shanghai, Our Firm is highly competitive in this field since it established. Members of this group have played a critical role in advising and drafting legislative bills, including Equity and Contractual Joint Venture Law, Basically, our services comprise the following ones:

• Act for the victim to file a private prosecution or an incidental civil action.
• Exchange of real estate properties.
• Drafting legal documents regarding design, bidding construction of public projects and private work.
• Mortgage and financing for purchase of real estate property.
• Litigation or arbitration.
• Drafting legal documents for leasing of commercial, residential and office building

Corporate Law

Corporate law group is another influential group, which provides international, national and local Invest Companies, Trading Companies, govern the following services:

• Corporate entity formations and dissolutions 
• Reform corporation
• Corporate financing and leasing agreements 
• Entrepreneur advice and counsel
• Partnership and joint venture agreements
• Shareholder agreements
• Start-up and venture capital agreements
• Strategic alliance agreements
• trade secret and unfair competition
• Corporate routine legal affairs
• Labor issues

Intellectual Property

Intellectual property group is headed by knowledgeable professor of FU DAN University and several young professional attorneys, they had been successfully dealing with several disputes concerned with patent, trademark.

• Drawing up various agreements of assignment and permission.
• To settle disputes concerned with trademark, patent right, copyright and trade secret;
• Investigating infringement, application to beat the fake and acting for litigation;

Criminal

Criminal Group provides the following service to the domestic clients:

• Asking the trial postponed,
• Seeking evidences that can prove the accused to be innocent or lighten his crime,
• Defending, appealing or applying to be adjudicated again.
• Act for the victim to file a private prosecution or an incidental civil action.

Mission

Whenever confronting complex legal issues, linguistic and cultural barriers, DAHWA' lawyers produce results with consistently high quality and economy of resources. These attributes, combined with the Firm's vast network of professional contacts, the accessibility of our senior partners and depth of our expertise, have made DAHWA Law Firm an invaluable resource and legal advisor to both multinational and domestic companies doing business in China.
Our goal is to provide the highest quality legal services by putting our clients' needs always first. We believe that all of our clients will attest to the dedication with which DAHWA Law Firm attorneys pursue this goal.