As one of the earlier established departments in Yunnan Zhongji Law Firm (hereafter referred to as the Firm), the Government and Public Law Department has higher requirements for lawyers' professional ability and comprehensive service capabilities in this field. In addition to profound theoretical expertise in administrative law, our lawyers should be proficient in legal knowledge such as civil and commercial matters, company law, investment, and financing.

Brief Introduction

As one of the earlier established departments in Yunnan Zhongji Law Firm (hereafter referred to as the Firm), the Government and Public Law Department has higher requirements for lawyers' professional ability and comprehensive service capabilities in this field. In addition to profound theoretical expertise in administrative law, our lawyers should be proficient in legal knowledge such as civil and commercial matters, company law, investment, and financing. Since its establishment, the Firm has long been committed to well-developed talents cultivation and practical exploration in the administrative law business and has been appointed as a permanent legal advisor for Party and government organs, such as the People's Government of Yunnan Province, Yunnan Provincial Department of Finance, State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of Yunnan Provincial People's Government, Yunnan Provincial Tax Service, State Taxation Administration, Kunming Dianchi National Tourist Resort, Shangri-La Municipal People's Government, People's Government of Xishan District, Kunming City, Kunming Municipal Bureau of Natural Resources and Planning, Lincang Municipal People's Government, Anning Municipal People's Government, Yunnan Institute for Food and Drug Control, Traffic Police Detachment of Kunming Municipal Public Security Bureau. Our relevant work covers regular legal advice, government legislation, major decision-making demonstrations, review of normative documents, social risk assessment, public events handling and crisis response, land acquisition and demolition, primary land development and consolidation, issuance of government bonds, public-private partnership (PPP), difficult and complicated petition case handling, consulting and demonstration of review case. The Firm provides all-round services in relation to government agencies and carries out hundreds of lectures on law-based administration.

 

Over the years, the Firm has accumulated extensive theoretical and practical experience in providing “team-based” services for government agencies and has set up a professional lawyer team of administrative law with solid theoretical knowledge, rich experience, careful thinking, strong political ideology, and competent service abilities. In the field of administrative litigation, we've handled more than 1,000 lawsuits and earned wide acclaim in the industry. In terms of PPP, the Firm provided legal services for the environmental sanitation integrated PPP project of Kunming Dianchi National Tourist Resort, 13 PPP projects of Yunnan Infrastructure Investment Co., Ltd., river governance PPP project of the People's Government of Xishan District, and other PPP projects and won high praise from clients for our professional attitude and services.

 

Meanwhile, as a law firm paying closer attention to and fulfilling our social responsibilities, we are taking an active part in commonweal legal undertakings by participating in legal aid, petition reception, civil mediation, poverty alleviation by law, legal services in the urban-rural community, legal publicity and education, in order to fully promote public law service through multiple ways and contribute to building a comprehensive, diverse and professional modern public law service system.

 

Scope of Service

1.Permanent legal advice for Party and government organs, public institutions, social organizations and industry associations

(1) Daily legal advice;

(2) Contract drafting, revision and review;

(3) Participation in formulation of policy documents;

(4) Participation in the formulation of relevant regulatory documents;

(5) Participation in administrative mediation and provision of legal advice;

(6) Government investment management and prevention against corruption risks;

(7) Prevention of malfeasance and crimes;

(8) Disclosure of government information;

(9) Training on the improvement of law-based way of thinking and governance ability, etc.

2.Legal service for non-government and non-operating organizations

(1) Legal service related to the establishment of organizations;

(2) Design and improvement of governance structure;

(3) Regulation of governance behaviors;

(4) Daily legal advice;

(5) Legal services related to organizational supervision, etc.

3.Government legislation

(1) Legislation investigation;

(2) Document drafting and revision;

(3) Review and demonstration;

(4) Pre-legislation and post-legislation assessment;

(5) Drafting of normative documents;

(6) Sorting regulations and normative documents, etc.

4.Risk assessment of major administrative decisions

(1) Review and demonstration of the legality of major administrative decisions;

(2) Design and improvement of major administrative decision-making procedures;

(3) Organizing experts for demonstration;

(4) Assistance in index grading for risk assessment;

(5) Carrying out risk assessments to clarify risk points and propose risk prevention measures and response plans, etc.

5.Assessment of administrative licensing, supervision, and law enforcement

(1) Formulating, sorting, and regulating power lists;

(2) Formulating, sorting, and regulating responsibility lists;

(3) Sorting-out and improvement of performance process;

(4) Establishment and improvement of collaboration mechanism and system;

(5) Analysis and suggestions on responsibility dispute;

(6) Review of administrative licensing, administrative coercion, administrative penalty, etc.

(7) Aftermath handling of major financial violation of laws and regulations;

(8) Dispute resolution in relation to state-owned assets, financial supervision, etc.

6.Government investment promotion

(1) Consultation of investment laws and policies;

(2) Providing advice for negotiation between governments and investors;

(3) Drafting and legality review of framework agreements, investment agreements, and relevant government documents;

(4) Project approval, enterprise establishment, land acquisition, and other legal affairs related to government investment promotion;

(5) Relevant dispute settlement and other legal services.

7.Government procurement, bidding and tendering

(1) Demand demonstration;

(2) Doubts (objections) and complaints handling;

(3) Administrative penalty and remedy;

(4) Procurement scheme demonstration;

(5) Administrative reconsideration and administrative dispute handling in relation to government procurement, bidding and tendering, etc.

8.Public-private partnership

(1) Project identification and legal due diligence before project implementation;

(2) Preparation and review of PPP project documents;

(3) Preparation and review of procurement documents;

(4) Legality review;

(5) Legal affairs related to bidding and purchasing procedures and contract negotiation between social investors and project constructors;

(6) Participation in the establishment of projects and companies;

(7) Participation in the design of financing plans, organization contacts, contract signing, and financing delivery;

(8) Participation in governments' performance monitoring and mid-term evaluation of the projects;

(9) Project disputes handling, etc.

9.Administrative dispute settlement

(1) Administrative hearings;

(2) Administrative reconsideration;

(3) Administrative litigation;

(4) National compensation litigation;

(5) Handling of citizen's appeals, accusations, and prosecution according to laws;

(6) Handling of petitions according to laws, etc.

10.Public events and public crisis response

(1) Establishment and improvement of emergency systems, early warning mechanisms, coordination mechanisms, and emergency support mechanisms;

(2) Formulation of emergency plans;

(3) Formulation of emergency response plans;

(4) Legal publicity and education.