Civil‑commercial dispute resolution forms one of DONGYOU’s core practice segments. The firm has a team of lawyers with years of in-depth experience in civil and commercial law. Most of them are graduates of leading law schools in China and abroad, with solid legal foundation and extensive case-handling experience. They have collectively handled over 10,000 cases covering civil litigation, commercial litigation and arbitration.

Criminal Practice is one of DONGYOU LAW FIRM’s traditional strengths. With over two decades of development, it has grown into one of the firm’s most influential practice areas.

As a designated legal service provider for Beijing municipal administrative authorities and special legal counsel for Beijing City Sub-center Group Co., Ltd. on the land development project for the relocation of the Beijing municipal government, DONGYOU LAW FIRM boasts solid theoretical foundation and rich practical experience in administrative law and government legal affairs. We provide clients with a full range of government-related legal services covering administrative litigation, administrative reconsideration, administrative punishment, petition work, government information disclosure, housing expropriation, land requisition, government investment promotion, and perennial government legal counsel.

DONGYOU LAW FIRM’s Real Estate & Construction team enjoys an excellent reputation in the industry. Composed of professional lawyers including multiple partners with rich practical experience in real estate law, the team provides professional and efficient legal services for national ministries and commissions, and renowned real estate development enterprises. Its service scope covers the entire lifecycle of real estate projects, including land acquisition, development, construction, sales, tax planning, investment attraction and operation, as well as representation in real estate-related litigation.
With years of experience in providing professional legal services and solutions for project owners, contractors, design institutes, surveying institutions and supervision entities in large-scale real estate projects, infrastructure and landmark construction projects, as well as extensive dispute resolution experience gained from representing clients in major and difficult construction contract disputes, DONGYOU LAW FIRM holds a leading position in the field of real estate and construction legal services.

Since its inception, DONGYOU LAW FIRM has regarded corporate legal practice as its foundational business area and development direction, committed to providing clients with comprehensive legal solutions. We serve a broad client base ranging from Fortune Global 500 and China Top 500 companies to well-performing small and medium-sized enterprises, covering traditional industries such as energy, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals and real estate, as well as emerging industries such as information technology, internet, e-commerce and media.
Our lawyers provide comprehensive legal support for the daily operation and governance of corporations, addressing common issues in business activities as well as customized, dynamic issues encountered by clients in light of different industry characteristics, development stages and business scales. We ensure corporate compliance, provide support and advice for corporate development, and mitigate legal risks.
In the field of investment and M&A, our lawyers are well equipped to assist clients with high-value, complex investment and financing, M&A and restructuring projects. We conduct due diligence, design acquisition plans and transaction structures, draft transaction clauses and agreements, ensure the legality and compliance of the entire transaction process, and maximize the protection of clients’ interests.

DONGYOU LAW FIRM brings together professional lawyers with rich practical legal experience in creditor protection areas such as non-performing assets, debt collection and debt restructuring. By integrating internal and external resources of the firm, we provide comprehensive and efficient legal services for various types of clients, including financial institutions, financial asset management companies, local asset management companies, creditors, debtors, debtor shareholders and strategic investors.
Preservation and enforcement are the key to realizing the winning parties’ rights and interests and ensuring the implementation of effective legal instruments. With solid professional competence, rigorous work attitude and efficient enforcement capabilities, and based on in-depth understanding of enforcement procedures and applicable laws as well as years of practical experience, our lawyers have established a specialized and highly effective service model.

DONGYOU LAW FIRM boasts extensive experience in providing dedicated and comprehensive legal services to a wide range of financial institutions. It serves a broad client base spanning banking, insurance, trusts, securities, asset management, commercial factoring, financial leasing, guarantees, micro-lending and fund management. Each of these practice areas is led by key partners, and the firm’s legal services have earned consistent praise and recognition from clients, with a strong market reputation.
The team at DONGYOU LAW FIRM always upholds the service philosophy of risk control and crisis prevention, and adheres to professional, refined and international service standards to deliver robust, full-cycle financial legal services to clients.

DONGYOU LAW FIRM is committed to building an outstanding capital markets team composed of lawyers who graduated from leading law and finance schools at home and abroad, with first-class professional competence, management capabilities and rich practical experience. Some of the lawyers have working experience at leading securities firms, banks, other financial institutions and well-known listed companies. The team is capable of providing high-quality legal services to domestic and overseas clients across all areas of the capital markets.
Capital markets practice covers stock issuance and listing, mergers and restructuring of listed companies, NEEQ business, bond issuance and listing, asset securitization, futures-related business, funds, and private equity investment and financing related to the capital markets.

The continuous improvement of labor legislation has posed new topics and challenges for enterprises in strengthening employment management, adjusting employment structure and ensuring labor contract compliance. Labor-related legal affairs have gradually become an important field of legal services, and the number of labor dispute cases has been increasing year by year.
Labor lawyers at DONGYOU LAW FIRM have a strong sense of social responsibility. They are familiar with labor insurance, labor laws and employment-related policies, and are able to provide labor-related legal services to enterprises, public institutions and individuals, including drafting of labor contracts and internal rules, negotiation and handling of labor disputes, labor arbitration and litigation, labor compliance consulting, and emergency and crisis handling. Their pursuit of professional excellence has been widely recognized by clients.

The intellectual property service team of DONGYOU LAW FIRM is composed of outstanding legal professionals with solid academic background and IP practice experience. Some members have overseas study experience and science and engineering background. Based on a thorough understanding of client needs, they can provide creative solutions for clients. The service scope covers IP-related litigation and non-litigation matters, including trademarks, patents, copyrights, anti-unfair competition and trade secrets.
Intellectual property is one of the most strategically significant assets for enterprises. With an efficient and proactive service philosophy, the IP service team of DONGYOU LAW FIRM works closely with colleagues in other professional fields to give full play to their professional advantages. Committed to comprehensive, professional, full-process and high-quality IP legal service solutions, the team assists clients in effectively addressing major business challenges brought by technological innovation and competition, helps clients use IP tools to enhance competitive advantages, remove competitive barriers, protect legitimate rights and interests, improve awareness and capabilities of legal risk prevention and compliance management, and provides efficient support and strong backing for clients to maximize the value of intellectual property.

With the acceleration of digitalization and the speeding up of national legislative process, cybersecurity and data protection have become important issues that enterprises cannot ignore. Effective compliance management has also become the key to sustainable development and brand building for enterprises.
Cybersecurity and data protection lawyers at DONGYOU LAW FIRM are committed to helping domestic and overseas clients gain an in-depth understanding of domestic and overseas data compliance systems, promptly help clients quickly find practical solutions, minimize and avoid legal risks, and escort the development of enterprises.

Customs and import-export legal practice is an emerging type of specialized legal service, with continuously expanding business scale and rapid development. Its main business scope includes criminal defense for smuggling crimes, handling of customs administrative penalty cases, resolution of import and export tax disputes, response to customs audits and import-export compliance services.
In terms of criminal defense, DONGYOU LAW FIRM has handled a series of high-impact cases involving customs audits, anti-smuggling, violation of customs supervision and smuggling crimes, many of which have achieved positive results such as non-prosecution, acquittal, mitigated sentence or suspended sentence.
DONGYOU LAW FIRM aims to build a legal service team composed of professionals with rich working experience in customs, foreign trade and other fields. Starting from the common customs risks faced by import and export enterprises, we identify and control risks for enterprises to prevent problems before they occur. Meanwhile, for enterprises subject to customs audits, administrative penalties for violations, or suspected smuggling crimes arising from import and export issues, we provide special compliance services, assist enterprises in self-inspection and self-correction, formulate compliance guidelines and improve compliance systems.

Since China’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO), China has continued to expand opening-up and deepen reform. Especially against the background of the Belt and Road Initiative, a new pattern of opening-up, the modes and channels of economic and trade between countries and enterprises have become increasingly diversified and integrated. Compared with domestic trade, international trade is on the one hand susceptible to international politics, economic situation and national policies, and on the other hand bears higher risks for both parties due to larger trade volume and longer international transportation time.
Most members of DONGYOU LAW FIRM’s international trade service team graduated from well-known domestic law schools, and a considerable number of lawyers have overseas study experience. They have solid legal foundation, are familiar with international trade rules, and can provide professional services for clients by combining law with practice. Meanwhile, DONGYOU LAW FIRM is committed to establishing long-term cooperative relations with outstanding law firms and legal service institutions in various countries, so as to provide international-standard legal services for clients to complete their global business layout.

Relying on profound accumulation in the field of marriage and family dispute resolution, DONGYOU LAW FIRM focuses on resolving difficult family disputes, preventing and controlling family asset risks, and providing private wealth management services.
The wealth management team of DONGYOU LAW FIRM is committed to providing cross-professional, cross-regional one-stop legal and tax services for entrepreneurs and high-net-worth families. It provides professional legal and tax empowerment for private banks, wealth management institutions and family offices, helps clients plan corporate governance and family wealth management, build a firewall between personal wealth and enterprises, isolate risks, customize succession plans, and prevent and address disputes over marriage, family and wealth succession.

Tax legal services require lawyers to have in-depth understanding and precise grasp of laws and regulations, policy documents and various types of tax cases, and be able to comprehensively apply legal thinking and fiscal thinking to solve complex tax problems. DONGYOU LAW FIRM’s tax legal services fully cover corporate and individual clients, providing a full range of tax services including tax consultation, tax planning and tax filing, aiming to help clients legally avoid tax risks, optimize tax structure, ensure tax compliance and reasonably control tax burden.
DONGYOU LAW FIRM focuses on integrating and developing professional lawyer teams in this practice area, especially lawyers with compound knowledge and rich practical experience in finance, taxation, accounting and other fields. We strive to provide clients with one-stop integrated legal and tax solutions from the three dimensions of law, taxation and finance.

Insurance legal practice is one of the key focused and in-depth legal service areas of DONGYOU LAW FIRM. With rich experience in providing special legal services and litigation representation services for large insurance companies for a long time, DONGYOU LAW FIRM’s lawyers have not only accumulated a large number of typical cases, but also formed a practical and efficient legal compliance and risk management service system for insurance enterprises.
With the vigorous development of the insurance industry, the market demand for professional and refined professional legal services is increasing day by day. DONGYOU LAW FIRM has a deep insight into the latest trends in the insurance market. Through precise market analysis and positioning, adhering to the service tenet of efficiency, rigor and professionalism, and closely following the latest developments in insurance laws and regulations, the firm is committed to providing clients with comprehensive and high-level legal solutions and services in multiple core areas such as insurance dispute resolution, insurance business compliance consultation, insurance fund utilization planning and investment and mergers of insurance enterprises.