Firm Overview Chongqing Bingzhong Law Firm, established by the professors and outstanding graduates of Southwest Social Science and Law University, registered by Chongqing Bureau of Justice in August 2002, is an integrated legal partnership. While growing with Chongqing, the youngest municipality of China, for more than five years, Bingzhong has already integrated a complete team of professional lawyers with high education background, good quality, and skilled practicing abilities. Almost all of the attorneys of our firm have graduated from prestigious law schools in China and abroad, and more than one third of them have obtained Doctoral Degree ----the high education background staff is definitely unparallel in the whole western China. While many of our attorneys have practiced in leading law firms of the United States, Japan, Britain and France, some of our lawyers once engaged in legal practice for the government, justice institutions and international enterprises before they chose to be full-time attorneys. Bingzhong always keeps close relationship with the jurists and legal experts in celebrated universities of China. Even more, our firm has developed a strategic cooperation relationship with Southwest Social Science and Law University, and has been appointed as the practice base of the prestigious university. Besides, our firm has friendly long term cooperating relationship with commercial institutions of domestic and abroad. Our vast network of friends and allies provides us with local expertise and advice throughout the world. As a law firm has core practice in commercial service, Bingzhong develops its service with the pace of the region’s development. The municipality’s bright years have seen a dramatic acceleration of our practice on the national and international affairs. Today, our firm provides broad and diverse legal services, including: banking, FDI, general corporate, securities and M&A, international trade, intellectual property protection, labor law, bankruptcy, real estate, distressed assets, derivative and hybrid instruments, securitization, LBOs and so on. Our team is capable of representing or assisting our clienteles of carrying out complicated trade and investment activities across different professions, as well as arbitration and litigation. In the legal services market of China, follow our principle of “sincerity goes with diligence & perfect lies in juste-milieu”, our team can provide our clienteles the best combination of Chinese local know-how and international professional legal services, and thus give all the interests of our clientele best protection. In the past five years, the achievement quantity of the young firm has exceeded 30,000,000 yuan. In 2008, we will continue to enhance Bingzhong’s internal resources that help us bring our best game to overcoming clients’ challenges: sophisticated legal technology, greater lawyer diversity, and professional development. We are optimistic about the future—for our clients, and our professional world.