The CELG Regional & International Legal Affairs Specialized Committee consists of legal departments on Cross-border Trade and Compliance, Cross-border Investment, Cross-border Dispute Resolution, and Maritime and Admiralty. The Committee has a team of highly qualified foreign legal professionals, who hold law degrees from prestigious universities in the United States, Japan and European countries and have overseas law firm practice experience or multi-country lawyer licenses. Several lawyers have participated in lawyer expatriate exchange programs organized by the Chinese government and can provide legal services in Chinese, English, Japanese, French, German, Spanish and other languages. Besides branches in Vancouver, Canada, Hamburg, Germany, and Bangkok, Thailand. CELG has offices in Geneva, Switzerland, Madrid, Spain, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Panama, Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan. It also has established friendly cooperative relationships with renowned law firms in the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Australia, Italy, ASEAN countries, Hong Kong, Taiwan and other regions. CELG provides constructive and practical legal advice or solutions to clients both domestically and internationally.

The Committee primarily provides services in international trade, cross-border investment and mergers and acquisitions, finance and capital markets, energy, pharmaceuticals and infrastructure, maritime and admiralty law, intellectual property and information security, citizens’ foreign-related property, marriage, inheritance, commercial arbitration, foreign-related litigation, international crime and fugitive pursuit and booty recovery.

CELG has been recognized annually by international authoritative legal evaluation institutions such as Chambers and Partners, Chinese Business Law Journal, Asian Legal Business (ALB), IFLR1000, Benchmark Litigation, and Legal Vision as an Outstanding Law Firm in Greater China, a First-Tier Law Firm in East China, a Law Firm with Excellent Comprehensive Strength. It has also been recommended multiple times in the list for various fields, including corporate and commercial affairs, bankruptcy and restructuring, anti-bribery and anti-corruption, banking and finance, data compliance, mergers and acquisitions, and capital markets, construction and real estate, and family wealth.

　　Legal services provided by CELG in this field:

　　• Litigation, arbitration, negotiation and cross-border execution in international trade dispute resolution

　　• International compliance audits and related investigations

　　• International intellectual property search, application, commercial operation and litigation

　　• Overseas immigration and global asset management (trusts, funds), etc.

　　• Customs, commodity inspection and bonded area policy consultation

　　• International investment and financing, international mergers and acquisitions, and tax planning

　　• International maritime and admiralty dispute resolution

　　• Defense in commercial crime criminal proceedings