Founded in July 2001, Beijing Dongyuan Law Firm has been set up as a result of reorganization of one of those major law firms which were directly under leadership by the Ministry of Justice of the People’s Republic of China.

At the beginning of its business operation, Dongyuan Law Firm employed 10 partners and more than 30 full/part-time lawyers. Among others, many have hailed from the Supreme People’s Court, the Supreme People’s Procuratorate, the Higher People’s Court of Beijing, and the Higher People’s Procuratorate of Beijing, and been well seasoned in handling legal cases and affairs. To be more precise, these staff members have not only possessed rich experience, but also maintained extensive social relations and connections. Thanks to its powerful background and solid service of higher efficiency, Dongyuan Law Firm has received favorable comments from all walks of life over the past years. However, Dongyuan’s staff members are not complacent, but realize clearly that legal practitioners in China are faced with unprecedented opportunities, after China has already become a member of WTO and been progressively involved in the global economic scene. In addition to embracing an unprecedented amount of opportunities, legal practitioners in China also have to stand up to unprecedentedly fierce competitions lodged by their counterpart players from abroad. They are aware that they are bound to lose the game, if they feel complacent in handling normal criminal and civilian litigation (or non-litigation) cases. Therefore, in order to keep up with the times, they must update their ideas, fortify their personal qualifications holistically, and explore a whole gamut of business operations, as well as improve their service quality in a comprehensive way.

Lawyers in the firm are making hard efforts to catch up with their counterpart players in those large sized law firms at home and abroad, and endeavoring to expand the scope of their service items and explore new target markets. Within as short as one year’s time after its establishment, the firm has turned out a leading provider of legal service for real estate operators, and made its debut into the financial service sector, as well as played a dominating role in the intellectual property rights realm. In other sectors such as enterprise restructuring, corporate bankruptcy and liquidation, merger and amalgamation, underwriting and issuance of securities, foreign trade, etc., the firm has also emerged as a strongly potential player, and been in a position to embrace fast developments.

In March 2002, the firm had its Xi’an branch set up. In September 2002, its Xiamen branch was established; in February 2004, its Guangzhou branch was founded. Step by step as such, Dongyuan Law Firm has honored its business motto, and carried the world before one.

In fact, Dongyuan Law Firm has carried forward the honorable tradition of its predecessor (i.e. the former Hualian Law Firm) featuring “team together, everyone wins”. Nowadays, each lawyer with the firm has been exerting himself or herself to achieve a “high working efficiency” and work out some “impressive creativity”.

An advanced business motto is the momentum driving the business expansion of an enterprise. In reality, Dongyuan Law Firm advocates a “human oriented” business motto, and tries its best to bring into full play the capabilities and potentialities of each of its engaged lawyers. In the minds of partners with the firm, “human being is the most valuable resource of an enterprise”. Accordingly, Dongyuan Law Firm has gathered up a large galaxy of lawyers who have cherished some common belief and faith to form a powerful team, and endeavored to polish its brand name “Dongyuan” in the market. Thanks to the concerted efforts by the partners and lawyers, Dongyuan Law Firm has grown up quickly not only in terms of its staff size, but also in terms of business operation scale. For instance, in addition to getting headquartered in Beijing, the firm has also had its branches set up in Xi’an, Xiamen, and Guangzhou. For the time being, it is still preparing to set up some more branches in Shanghai, Chongqing, Zhuhai, Changchun, and Heilongjiang. By that time, Dongyuan Law Firm will whip into shape a national legal service network that is centered in Beijing.

On the basis of intensively referring to the proven experience and sophisticated management modes adopted by those large-sized law firms at home and abroad, staff members in Dongyuan Law Firm have exerted their own wisdom and professional lores, clung to their own corporate motto and their individualities, and licked into shape a management mode with their own characteristics. As a matter of fact, advanced and highly efficient management practices have laid down a firm foundation for the firm’s lawyers to provide their clients with superior-quality legal service.

As an old saying goes, “doing the right thing in the right place at the right time”, Dongyuan Law Firm of the day has gained its competitive edges in terms of handling legal cases concerning real estate, finance, intellectual property rights, international trade, and criminal defense affairs, owing to the joint efforts made by its engaged lawyers. As far as its business scope is concerned, the firm has struck up an all-round and multi-faceted legal service system that almost covers each and every legal service sector, inclusive of corporate affairs, securities, undertaking of construction projects, maritime affairs and commerce, and civil procuration matters, etc. So far, certain lawyers with the firm have been engaged as legal counsels for committees of city development specialists and committees of legal advisors in some cities in China, and handled legal affairs for some branches of Bank of China, China Construction Bank, and Bank of Communications of China. In addition, some lawyer in the firm has served as chief legal counsel for a certain branch of Citic Industrial Bank. All these facts have spoken volumes for the unparalleled competitive edges that Dongyuan Law Firm has possessed in the “fierce-competition” featured legal service sector.

Dongyuan Law Firm of the day has pooled a galaxy of high caliber talents, including 11 partners and over 100 lawyers. Among others, 10% of them have obtained a doctor’s degree, while 40% have a master’s degree. What’s more, an overwhelming majorities of our lawyers have either studied abroad or ever been exposed to overseas trainings. On top of that, Dongyuan Law Firm has also furnished itself with a powerful Legal Experts Advisory Committee, consisting of many renowned law experts and personages, inclusive of Zou Yu, Minister for the former Ministry of Justice and Member with the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress; Sun Wanzhong, Director for the former Bureau of Legislative Affairs under the State Council; Jiang Ping, Lifetime Professor with China University of Politics and Law, Vice Chairman for China Law Society; Gao Mingxuan, Professor with Renmin University of China and Delegate to the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference; Wu Changzhen, Professor with China University of Politics and Law; and Gao Lulin, Director for the former China Administration of Intellectual Property Rights, etc. These law experts and personages have served as advisors for Dongyuan Law Firm, and been invited to conduct technical and commercial assessments, and render authoritative legal opinions for the firm’s lawyers who are liable for handling important, complicated and tricky cases and affairs.

Dongyuan Law Firm is ready for a long march heading for continued success.
Dongyuan has set its sail, and been in a position to plow the waves.