Commercial Litigation

DaHui possesses a first-class track record in providing constructive, creative, and practical counsel to help our clients swiftly resolve their commercial disputes inside and outside court. We have represented leading corporations and institutions in many notable cases before all levels of courts across China, involving disputes concerning IP, competition, labor, commercial bribery, construction, product liability, contracts, securities and M&A, and representing domestic and international business leaders.

DaHui continues to be a preferred firm for the most complex, especially cross-border disputes, on account of the consummate analyses and advocacy our litigators bring from and to practicing in multiple forums and before judges as well as at the negotiating table. We also serve as co-counsel and even lead counsel in cases that involve coordinating among attorneys across myriad jurisdictions in high-stakes global disputes. With our own international experience and presence, and lawyers positioned in the United States and United Kingdom as well as China, we regularly deploy a range of procedural approaches, governmental resources, public security and criminal measures, and even intra-industry and PR strategies to efficiently achieve optimal resolutions for our clients’ disputes.

Our services in this area include:

• Pre-litigation services, including:
  • conducting comprehensive analyses of case materials and evidence, identifying key dispute points of the case, and drafting legal analyses to assist in business decisions
  • analyzing defense and response strategies that the counterparty may adopt, and formulating corresponding countermeasures
  • assisting in preliminary investigations of counterparties’ property, analyzing property preservation risks, and formulating preservation plans
• Litigation services, including:
  • drafting legal documents, e.g., complaints and rebuttals, objections to jurisdiction, evidence catalogues, property preservation applications, procedural filings, and applications for appellate review or retrial
  • assessing and hiring external and expert witnesses, and assisting them to draft witness and expert testimony
  • attending pre-trial talks, pre-trial meetings, and formal hearings, raising cross-examination opinions, conducting cross-examination of opposing witnesses, etc.
  • planning and assisting in settlement negotiations
• Post-litigation services, including:
  • assisting to further investigate the assets of counterparties, analyzing possibilities and risks of execution of judgments, and developing countermeasures
  • applying for execution of judgments and participating in execution procedures
  • liaising with judges on the feasibility of enforcing counterparties’ property, whether it has been preserved or not, and assisting in advancing execution processes