Shanghai Guoling Law Firm (“Guoling”) is a professional law firm with a global mindset and a mission of ‘justice within the law’. We strive to uphold the dignity and rights of all people, regardless of their wealth or status, through legal services. We are not afraid to fight for justice, even if it means sacrificing our own interests. Our vision is to become a best-in-class and high-morality law firm with strong expertise, best services, high moralities, big-picture perspective and correct political values, so as to reward clients’ trust, win peers’ respect and uphold our original aspiration for rule of law.

Guoling has set up Guoling Global Legal Brand Service Center at No. 598 Hengshan Road, Shanghai, and Shanghai Guoling (Xi’an) Law Firm in Yanda District, Xi’an. We are preparing for the setup of Hong Kong Office, Shanghai Hongqiao International CBD office, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Shenzhen Office, Hefei Office, Ningbo Office, Yan’an Office and Yulin Office, to tap into the markets along the Belt and Road route and the new energy industry. By leveraging its advantage in provision of legal services for various industries, Guoling Global Legal Brand Service Center has introduced six themes under the Sunday Lecture, i.e. “Lifelong Notarization Family Office”, “Large Model, Computing Power and Robot”, “Carbon Neutrality and New Energy Industry”, “Data Governance and Data Industry”, “Intellectual Property and Technological Achievements Transformation”, and “Biomedical Engineering Industry”.

Guoling aligns with national strategies and provides legal services in various industries that support the real economy, hard technology and carbon neutrality, which spans law, business, finance, artificial intelligence and other sectors. We are adept at solving legal problems, especially complex and difficult cases, with business, technology and industry mindsets. With adherence to China’s rule of law, we delivered compliance services for various areas, such as company listing, family trust and estate management, venture capital and financial securities, design of shareholding structure and equity incentives for startups, enterprises’ intellectual property, criminal issues, digital assets and data, go-global strategies, and rescue and restructure of bankrupted enterprises. All of these contribute to the establishment of a whole-life-cycle legal service system in corporate entrepreneurship, growth and globalization for us.

Guoling has set up the global legal brand service center and the legal service center for the transformation of technological achievements and entrepreneurship for entrepreneurs at No. 598 Hengshan Road, Shanghai. We have established multi-discipline and multi-dimensional cross-border cooperation with the law and business schools of world-class universities including Shanghai Jiao Tong University in the fields of legal talent training, law and technology, law and finance, law and data, and law and carbon neutrality. This enables us to cultivate a talent pipeline of “seeking, identifying, catching-up, leading and giving way” and a partnership model.

Guoling is a law firm filed with China Securities Regulatory Commission with qualifications in securities legal services and patent and trademark agents. We have been selected as a data compliance assessment service provider of Shanghai Data Exchange, a legal service provider for data transaction compliance assessment of Shenzhen Data Exchange and a legal service provider for compliance assessment of Shaanxi Public Resources Trading Center. We have also been selected into the list of third-party supervision and evaluation mechanism for compliance of relevant enterprises in Jiang’an District, Wuhan, the list of recommended databases of the Lifelong Notarization estate administrator of Shanghai Xuhui Notary Public Office, and the list of recommended databases of estate administrator of Shanghai New Hongqiao Notary Public Office. We are a public welfare lawyer of China Securities Investor Services Center, a public welfare lawyer for the management of Shanghai veterans affairs, member of Shanghai Venture Capital Association, Shanghai Association of Bankruptcy Administrators, Shanghai Data Service Provider Association, Data Security Community, Open Islands Open Source Community, Shanghai Law Society and Shanghai Minhang District Intellectual Property Association, and one of drafters for the effectiveness evaluation of compliance management system for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises.

Guoling has established strategic cooperation with Ko Guan School of Law, Shanghai Jiao Tong University to jointly build a high-end legal talent training base and an “Internship and Social Practice Base”. We are strategic partners of UNIDO Global Innovation Network Project Global Youth Employment and Entrepreneurship Promotion Center and Shanghai Jiao Tong University Artificial Intelligence Institute. We also strategically cooperated with Shanghai Jiao Tong University Faculty and Staff Union to jointly build the “SJTU Faculty and Staff Union Legal Consulting Center”. Besides, we have successively set up “Guoling High-Level Talent Scholarship”, “Guoling Public Interest Scholarship” and “Guoling Intellectual Property Scholarship” at Ko Guan School of Law, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and School of Law, Yan’an University. Through all these efforts, we are actively engaged in legal public welfare undertakings on rural revitalization, ESG and carbon neutrality.

Guoling has entered into strategic partnerships with the Data Law Research Center of Ko Guan School of Law, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the Cyberspace Governance Research Center of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. We also co-organized high-end data law academic forums such as China Data Law High-end Forum, China Data Law Lecture and Cyberspace Governance Shanghai Forum.

Guoling has published legal works with practical guidance, including Registration-based IPO Regime and Enterprise Listing Compliance, Registration-based IPO Regime and BSE Listing Compliance, 15 Lectures on Entrepreneurs’ Compliance, Enterprise Crisis Management and Legal Negotiation, Redefine Company: Legal Practice of Equity Incentive Under Business Partnership, Entrepreneur Contract Spirit and Compliance Training, Research on Legal Issues of Cyberspace Security, Enterprise Risk Control - Construction Guidelines and Case Guidelines, Legal Guidelines for the Operation of Cosmetics in China, Asia Pacific Data Compliance Manual, and Mark of Law.

With its advantage as a professional team, our Technological Achievements Transformation and Entrepreneurship Legal Service Center has extended its services to numerous industries and strives to provide life-cycle legal training system for enterprises and entrepreneurs. Our lawyers have served as guest speakers of the Training Plan for Enterprises Proposed to be Listed at Shanghai Stock Exchange, Training Camp of Sci-Tech Innovation Board Enterprise Training Center, Fudan Business Knowledge Lecture - Sci-Tech Innovation Series, Lecture on First Class for Entrepreneurs, Antai College Economics·Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Thematic Lecture of School of Professional Education and Executives Development, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Training for Restructured Listed Enterprises of Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality and Shanghai Association for Science & Tech and Z.H.Island Capital Market Open Class, and the host and coach of Zhengheshu. Our legal practice courses include Registration-Based IPO Regime and Enterprise Listing Compliance Governance, Compliance Countermeasures for Major Legal Issues Faced by Enterprise Listing Under Registration-Based IPO Regime, Registration-Based IPO Regime and HKEX Listing Compliance Governance, Registration-Based IPO Regime and BSE Listing Compliance Governance, How to Understand and Apply the New Company Law for Startups, Shareholding Structure Design and Equity Incentive of Startups, Ecological Compliance of Hard Technology Enterprises and Venture Capital, Family Trust and Family Business Inheritance and Governance, Enterprises’ Digital Compliance - Personal Data Protection, Low-Carbon Compliance and Digital Transformation of Enterprises Under ESG Governance, How Entrepreneurs Make Trade Secrets the Moat of Competition, the Meta-Rule of The Art of War by Sunzi and Corporate Negotiation, Enterprise Crisis Management and Compliance Governance, the Key of Private Board and Entrepreneurship, Enterprise Intellectual Property Strategy and Compliance, State-Owned Enterprises Compliance Governance Under the Supervision of Unified Market, Compliance Governance of Equity Incentives of State-Owned Non-Listed Enterprises, Compliance Governance of Insurance Investment Under Financial Supervision, Legal Compliance and Risk Control of Enterprise Asset Securitization, Compliance and Risk Control of Private Investment Funds, Compliance Governance and Risk Control of New Securities Law, Compliance Boundary of Brand Communication and Information Disclosure of Listed Companies, Response to Legal Risks of Enterprise Merger, Acquisition and Consolidation, How Enterprises Rescue Themselves Through Bankruptcy Reorganization, Legal Compliance Countermeasures for Disposal of Non-Performing Assets, View of An Investment Bank Lawyer, Industrial Lawyer and Entrepreneurial Lawyer on Attracting Investments, Legal Application of the Civil Code: Response to Legal Risk of Commercial Contracts, Legal Application of the Civil Code: Contract Performance Under Force Majeure And Change of Circumstances, Legal Application of the Civil Code: Compliance and Risk Control of Factoring Contracts, etc.  

Guoling has digitalized its legal services through its strategic cooperation with Shanghai Shushi Everything Internet Technology Co., Ltd. and Shanghai Time Extension Internet Information Technology Co., Ltd. We create AI contracts, establish professional contract database for enterprises and provide integrated services of online contract review, contract signing and risk control. We also provide online legal document signing and online due diligence solutions for company listing, investment and financing. In addition, we provide package solutions for digital development, privacy compliance and data compliance of enterprises, and provide citizens with a lifetime service solution for online will administration and estate administration.

Our lawyers have won many honors and awards, such as the Memorial Award for Siyuan Contribution of Outstanding Alumnus of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the President’s Award of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the Zhengyi Contribution Award of Ko Guan School of Law, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Outstanding Lawyer of Minhang District, Shanghai, as well as the Spring Rain Award and the Bole Award for Professional Tutor of Antai College Economics·Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Our lawyers are qualified for military industry confidentiality and independent director of listed companies. They have served successively as members of expert pool of Shanghai Technology Exchange, company listing tutoring experts of Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality and Shanghai Technology Innovation Center (Shanghai High-tech Achievement Transformation Service Center and Shanghai Torch High-tech Industry Development Center), legal experts of Sina Investor Education Base, Sina Shareholder Rights Protection Platform and Weibo Investor Education Base, supervisors of Shanghai Jiao Tong University Alumni Association, rotating president and secretary general of the first Council of Alumni Association and honorary director of the second Alumni Association of Ko Guan School of Law, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, director of Shaanxi Alumni Association of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, part-time master supervisor and off-campus supervisor of Outstanding Legal Person Summer Camp of Ko Guan School of Law, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and supervisor of Zhuren Project of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. They also served successively as secretary general and director of Shanghai Alumni Association of Harbin Engineering University, vice president and secretary general of Shanghai Alumni Association of Yan’an University, part-time professor and part-time supervisor of master students of School of Politics and Law, Yan’an University, rotating president of Shanghai Shaanxi Yulin Chamber of Commerce, public welfare mediators of China Securities Investor Services Center, arbitrators of Taizhou City and Yulin City, etc.

Guoling has provided special legal services for CPI Ronghe (Shanghai) Financial Leasing Co., Ltd., China Power Investment Ronghe Asset Management Co., Ltd., China Nuclear Commercial Factoring Co., Ltd. and SPIC Xianrong (Shanghai) Asset Management Co., Ltd., all being subsidiaries of State Power Investment Corporation Limited. We have also acted as special or perennial legal counsel of numerous enterprises, such as Minsheng Securities Co., Ltd., Century Securities Co., Ltd., Hong Kong Satellite Television, Amap, Tsinghua University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai Pudong Agricultural Development (Group) Co., Ltd., Shanghai Ruiyin Shengjia Asset Management Co., Ltd. (AMC), Ningxia Shunyi Asset Management Co., Ltd. (AMC), KANS, Yinxi, Florasis, Shanghai Pehchaolin Daily Chemical Co., Ltd., Hengrui Yuanzheng (Shanghai) Biotechnology Co., Ltd., Anhui MINGZE Investment Management Co., Ltd., Korea KIP, Jiuyou Capital, Yuanwanghechu, Shanghai i-Search Software Co., Ltd., SHANGHAI HUAN-SUN Power Energy Technology Co., Ltd., Shanghai Zhizhen New Energy Co., Ltd., Legend New Energy Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., G-Power, Shanghai Research Institute of Building Sciences Group Co., Ltd., Renton Archives Management And Service Co., Ltd., Shanghai Tonney Industrial Co., Ltd., Jiangsu Wurun United Shipping Internet Co., Ltd., Z-ONE Technology Co., Ltd., iM Motors, Zhongnan High Tech Life and Health Technology Co., Ltd., Kaiser Permanente, Tianhong Futures, Zhejiang Mintai Commercial Bank Co., Ltd., and Tianhong Asset Management Co., Ltd.

Guoling has also been special or perennial legal counsel of listed companies, including Ningbo Xusheng Group Co., Ltd. (603305), Shanghai Chicmax Cosmetic Co., Ltd. (HK02145), Jiangsu Apon Medical Technology Co., Ltd. (300753), Ningbo Hengshuai Co., Ltd. (300969), Guangdong Ganhua Science & Industry Co., Ltd. (000576), Changzhou Xiangming Intelligent Drive System Corporation (301226), Kailong High Technology Co., Ltd. (300912), Tianjin Pengling Group Co., Ltd. (300375), Bloomage Biotechnology Corp., Ltd. (688363), Tencent Holdings Limited (HK00700), Pinduoduo (PDD.US), Bank of Ningbo Co., Ltd. (002142), and China CITIC Bank (601998).