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Collaboration Among Professionals: Lawyers and Notaries “Join Hands” to Launch a New Model of Legal Services
On December 30, 2020, Yunnan Zhongji Law Firm (formerly Yunnan Liu Hule Law Firm) and Kunming Mingxin Notary Office held a signing ceremony at the new office building of Yunnan Zhongji Law Firm, during which they signed a “Strategic Cooperation Agreement.” The two parties have thus established a strategic partnership aimed at promoting the integration and innovation of legal and notarial services through resource sharing and win-win cooperation, and jointly advancing cross-border integrated legal service projects.
On December 30, 2020, Yunnan Zhongji Law Firm (formerly Yunnan Liu Hule Law Firm) and Kunming Mingxin Notary Office held a signing ceremony at the new office building of Yunnan Zhongji Law Firm, during which they signed a “Strategic Cooperation Agreement.” The two parties have thus established themselves as strategic partners, aiming to promote the integration and innovation of legal and notarial services through resource sharing and win-win cooperation, and jointly advance cross-border integrated legal service projects.
Wan Li, Director of Yunnan Zhongji Law Firm; Wang Jinfan, Secretary of the Party Branch; Lei Zhixin, Lei Zhixin, Zhang Qian, and Wang Lin, Managing Partners; and Duan Wei, Director of Kunming Mingxin Notary Office; as well as Li Pengming, Ding Xiaoye, and Zhang Zhiping, members of the Executive Committee, attended the signing ceremony as representatives.
Yunnan Zhongji Law Firm, as the first law firm in Yunnan Province’s legal services industry to establish a legal service presence in North America, boasts extensive experience in cross-border legal services. Kunming Mingxin Notary Office, a well-known notary service institution within Yunnan Province, has unique expertise in foreign-related notarization services. The establishment of a strategic partnership between the two entities will foster a collaborative engagement model, promoting enhanced cooperation in Party organization building, establishing cooperative engagement mechanisms, facilitating business exchange and collaboration, pursuing brand strategic partnerships, and fostering cultural exchanges—thereby achieving positive interaction and exploring a new model of legal services featuring “lawyers + notaries.”
The partnership between Yunnan Zhongji Law Firm and the Mingxin Notary Office of Kunming City is an important step in implementing the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s speech on “strengthening rule-of-law work involving foreign affairs and raising the rule-of-law level of foreign-related work.” It also represents a pioneering initiative in taking legal services beyond China’s borders. Guided by the principle that “wherever Chinese enterprises and Chinese citizens go, legal services will follow,” the two parties will extend their legal services overseas to provide support and protection for the Belt and Road Initiative.
Against the backdrop of ongoing efforts to mitigate risks in the current real estate market and the deepening implementation of policies aimed at "ensuring timely delivery of housing, safeguarding people's livelihoods, and maintaining social stability," the enforcement procedures involving assets from real estate development projects often face the challenging task of balancing the protection of people's livelihoods with the realization of creditors' rights. Recently, while handling a specific enforcement case, the author represented a real estate development company that filed an objection to the court’s seizure of ancillary assets associated with the project, thereby drawing the author’s attention to the boundaries of enforcement in projects designed to ensure timely housing delivery. This article, taking the core dispute in that case as its starting point, explores the legal logic and practical considerations underlying the enforcement of key assets in projects intended to ensure timely housing delivery.
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