Fangben has abundant experience in assisting foreign investors to conduct FDI in China, and has successfully advised clients on a large number of WFOE, EJV, CJV projects as well as domestic reinvestment projects by FIEs. The services it provides in this area mainly include:

to draft and review the investment agreements, corporate constitutional documents (joint venture contract, articles of association) and other related documents (e.g., agreements regarding IP, Know-how); to help design investment structure and perform legal due diligence; to participate in negotiations; to serve as special counsel on certain PRC legal issues (e.g., foreign exchange, IP, tax and labor law issues);to prepare, assist with the preparation of or review application documents (e.g., feasibility study reports project applications, etc.), and to facilitate communications with the approving authorities and other competent government authorities; to handle compliance matters in the day-to-day operations; to advise on restructuring, merger, spin-off, dissolution and liquidation, etc. of the foreign invested enterprises.

With the comprehensive upgrade of the Chinese industry, traditional FDI has been gradually leaning towards industries having technical additional value in the past decade. Throughout the transformation, Fangben has been providing more valuable legal services on matters such as the design of financing mode, the layout of intellectual property’s portfolio, the arrangement of options and etc.