In October 2024, the Spain Office of Beijing Guozun Law Firm officially completed establishment registration and commenced operations. This office is the core layout of Guozun Law Firm’s global legal service system in the Southern European region, marking the further improvement of its EU cross-border legal service network, and it will provide professional and localized full-chain legal support for two-way economic, trade, and investment activities between China and Spain and the European Union.
I. Background of Establishment and Institutional Authoritative Qualifications
Guozun Law Firm has long focused on the field of foreign-related legal services and is the only Chinese law firm that signed at the 10th Anniversary Entrepreneurs Conference of the Belt and Road Initiative. At present, it has built a legal service network in 106 countries and regions around the world, established 113 overseas offices, and has more than 2,000 professional lawyers at home and abroad, forming a standardized cross-border legal service system with global one-hour rapid response and 24-hour round-the-clock service.
As a core economy of the European Union, Spain is a key gateway for Chinese enterprises to enter Southern Europe and the EU market, and is also an important node in China-Europe economic and trade exchanges. The establishment of the Spain Office is the core move of Guozun Law Firm’s globalization strategy in the Southern European region. It fills the gap in its legal service layout on the Iberian Peninsula and realizes the deep integration of Chinese legal service capability with Spanish local judicial practice.
II. Core Overview of the Guozun Spain Office
Location and service coverage
The office is established in Madrid and Barcelona, the two core economic and commercial hubs of Spain. Its service scope covers the whole territory of Spain and radiates to the entire EU region. It is another core hub for cross-border legal services created by Guozun Law Firm in the European market following its offices in Hungary, the United Kingdom, and other places.
Team and practice capability
The office has formed a professional lawyer team with multiple practice qualifications in Chinese law, Spanish law, and EU law. The core practitioners all have more than 20 years of local legal practice experience in Spain. The team brings together more than 270 professional legal talents in subdivided fields, is proficient in Chinese and Spanish, and is deeply familiar with the commercial rules, regulatory policies, and judicial practice of both China and Spain, enabling localized response and full-process implementation across all business fields.
Service system standards
The office fully undertakes Guozun Law Firm’s service principles of “professionalization, internationalization, and standardization,” and relies on the headquarters’ global legal service network to realize cross-regional resource coordination. It provides full-life-cycle and full-scenario compliant legal services for corporate and individual clients, ensuring that service standards are unified with the global system and that service implementation is adapted to local regulatory requirements.
III. Core Scope of Legal Services
This section clearly lists the office’s all-dimensional legal service categories. All businesses are handled and implemented by the local team throughout the whole process:
Cross-border investment and corporate commercial legal services
Full-process services for market access consultation, investment structure design, market entity establishment, and compliant operation for Chinese enterprises investing in Spain and the EU;
Special legal services for joint ventures and cooperation, commercial negotiations, mergers, acquisitions and restructurings, equity transactions, asset acquisitions, business spin-offs, and reorganizations, including legal due diligence, drafting and review of transaction documents, closing execution, and post-investment compliance management;
Daily corporate commercial legal services, including commercial contract management, optimization of corporate governance structure, protection of shareholder rights and interests, and construction of commercial compliance systems.
Taxation and private wealth management legal services
Cross-border tax planning for enterprises, international tax compliance, tax optimization of investment transactions, daily tax compliance management, response to tax inspections, and tax dispute resolution;
Private wealth management and succession services for high-net-worth individuals, covering family wealth structure design, compliance in cross-border asset allocation, establishment and management of family trusts, estate planning, and dispute resolution in cross-border wealth succession.
Intellectual property and technology innovation legal services
Full-process services for the application, registration, maintenance, and protection of patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, and geographical indications;
Cross-border transactions, licensing, and transfer of intellectual property, intellectual property infringement litigation, administrative protection, and dispute resolution;
Full-cycle compliance services for high technology, biomedicine and life sciences, and digital economy enterprises, covering commercialization of scientific and technological achievements, data compliance and cybersecurity, e-commerce and internet compliance, and special investment and financing services for technology enterprises.
Real estate and infrastructure engineering legal services
Full-process legal services for real estate development, covering land acquisition, project investment and financing, development and construction compliance, engineering bidding and tendering, and engineering contract management;
Special services for operation and management, asset disposal, and mergers, acquisitions, and restructuring of commercial real estate, industrial real estate, and residential real estate;
Special legal support for engineering settlement and dispute resolution, cross-border infrastructure investment, new energy project construction, and urban renewal projects.
Labor and employment compliance legal services
Construction of enterprise employment compliance systems, drafting and management of labor contracts, and compliance review of employee handbooks and internal rules and regulations;
Design of senior management compensation and equity incentive schemes, compliance of cross-border personnel dispatch and work permits, and coordination of collective bargaining and union affairs;
Full-process agency services for labor dispute arbitration and litigation.
Banking, finance, and investment and financing legal services
Compliance of commercial bank credit business, project financing, trade financing, and special legal services for cross-border investment and financing;
Private equity and venture capital, compliance in fund establishment and filing, and securities issuance and listing compliance services;
Financial regulatory compliance and risk handling, legal services for all kinds of financial transaction structure design, document review, and dispute resolution.
Cross-border compliance and regulatory response legal services
Antitrust and trade regulation, EU and Spanish import and export control compliance, anti-commercial bribery, and anti-unfair competition compliance;
Data compliance and personal information protection, construction of administrative compliance systems, and compliance of government contracts and public affairs;
Compliance risk investigation, compliance system construction, compliance training and emergency handling, and agency services for administrative reconsideration and administrative litigation.
Cross-border dispute resolution legal services
Full-process agency for China-Spain cross-border commercial litigation, international commercial arbitration, mediation, and settlement;
Special services for recognition and enforcement of cross-border judgments and arbitral awards;
Special legal services for enterprise bankruptcy reorganization and liquidation, and dispute resolution in all types of commercial contracts, equity, intellectual property, real estate and engineering, finance, and other fields.
Comprehensive personal legal services
Legal services related to investment immigration, residence permit applications, family reunion visas, and identity planning;
Legal services related to marriage and family matters, inheritance, and the sports and entertainment fields.
IV. Establishment Value and Future Development Planning
The establishment of the Guozun Spain Office has further improved Guozun Law Firm’s legal service network in Europe and can respond more precisely to the two-way legal needs of Chinese-funded enterprises going to the EU and Spanish and EU enterprises investing in China, providing solid legal support for economic and trade cooperation and cultural exchange between China and Spain and the European Union.
In the future, the Guozun Spain Office will continue to deeply cultivate the legal service market in Spain and the EU, focus on the core legal needs in cross-border economic and trade exchanges, continuously refine its professional service capability in specialized fields, and, relying on Guozun Law Firm’s global resource coordination and localized practice advantages, provide compliant, professional, and efficient full-chain legal services for all types of market entities, and continuously help the high-quality development of the Belt and Road Initiative in the European region.
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