Business in China runs on Chinese-language contracts, Chinese law and Chinese forums. We give you a licensed PRC law firm for the legal work and manage the engagement: we scope it, fix the fee, translate, keep the timetable and make sure the advice turns into action in your company.
Typical work: contracts with customers, suppliers and distributors; joint-venture and shareholder agreements; compliance programmes, including personal data and cross-border data transfers; employment matters; debt recovery; and documents that must be notarised in China or legalised for use abroad.
Services in this practice area
Contract Drafting and Review
Commercial contracts drafted and reviewed in Chinese and English: sales, supply, distribution, services, leases, and joint-venture and shareholder agreements.
- Sales, supply, distribution and agency agreements
- Service, consulting and outsourcing contracts
- Joint-venture, shareholder and investment agreements
Regulatory Compliance
Compliance reviews and programmes for foreign-invested companies: corporate governance, anti-bribery, advertising and consumer law, personal data and cross-border data transfers.
- Legal compliance health check with a risk-ranked action list
- Corporate governance documents aligned with the current Company Law
- Anti-bribery and gifts policy for Chinese operations
Employment Law
Employment advice for employers in Hainan: handbooks, non-competes, restructuring, terminations and labour disputes.
- Employee handbook and policy review
- Non-compete, confidentiality and IP assignment terms
- Terminations, redundancies and mutual separation agreements
Dispute Resolution and Debt Recovery
Unpaid invoices and commercial disputes pursued in China — demand letters, mediation, arbitration and court proceedings through our partner law firm.
- Case assessment: evidence, forum, limitation period and the counterparty's assets
- Lawyer's demand letters and negotiated settlements
- Mediation and arbitration, including at the Hainan International Arbitration Court
Notarisation and Legalisation
Documents notarised in China for use abroad, and foreign documents apostilled or legalised and translated for use in China.
- Notarisation at Chinese notary offices for use abroad
- Apostilles for countries in the Apostille Convention, which China joined in November 2023
- Consular legalisation for other countries
Why choose HainanInc?
In person in Hainan
Our staff attend the registration hall, the bank, customs and the exit-entry bureau for you, in Haikou, Sanya and Yangpu.
Remote by power of attorney
Most steps run on a notarised power of attorney, so you travel only where an authority or a bank requires you in person.
One accountable manager
One named manager carries your file from incorporation to annual filings and answers for every deadline.
Every deadline on a calendar
Each recurring filing is tracked to a date, with documents requested before it falls due, not after a penalty notice.
Licensed partners, named
Bookkeeping, customs declarations, labour dispatch, trademark and legal work are carried out by licensed partners we manage, and each service page names which.
Fixed scope, written fee
Every engagement starts with a written scope and fee. Diagnostics are fixed-price and credited in full if you proceed.
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