Legal & compliance 法律合规
Legal and compliance in China. Contracts enforceable where it matters.
Chinese courts read Chinese contracts. We draft bilingual agreements built for that room, register your trademarks before a squatter does, and put your chops under a written policy with your name on it, the quiet work that decides disputes before they exist.
China is first-to-file · Trademarks belong before market entry
What it is 概述
In China, the paperwork is the protection.
Three habits sink foreign companies here. English-only contracts that a Chinese court will read through a translator, if it accepts them at all. Company chops parked with an agent "for convenience", which means someone else can sign as your company. And trademarks left unregistered in a first-to-file country, where squatting on foreign brands is an established business model.
The fixes are neither exotic nor expensive. Contracts drafted in Chinese with a matched English text. Chops governed by written policy. Marks filed before entry, in both scripts. We do this work at formation or after it. Cheaper before the dispute, every time.
The problem it solves
痛点English-only contracts that don't say what you think once a Chinese court reads them.
Chops held by a third party. Meaning someone else can sign as your company.
Your own brand registered by someone else before you arrive, then offered back at a price.
Deliverables 交付清单
The documents, and the discipline around them.
Bilingual contracts
Sales, supply, employment and NDA/NNN agreements drafted in Chinese with a matched English text, and a clause naming which version controls.
Chop governance policy
Who holds each seal, who may use it for what, and what happens when someone leaves. We hand your chops over at formation; this keeps them governed afterwards.
Trademark registration
Your marks filed in English and Chinese, including the Chinese name your market will invent for you if you don't choose it first.
Licence applications
The sector permits and operating licences your scope requires, identified in the audit and filed with the right bureau.
Annual compliance calendar
Annual reports, licence renewals and filing deadlines for your entity. Tracked, owned and triggered early.
Regulatory watch
Rule changes in your sector, flagged with what they mean for you. Ahead of the deadline instead of after it.
6 deliverables · one fixed quote, nothing invoiced mid-process
Get an itemised, fixed quote for this service.
Book a free consultationProcess 流程
Audit first, trademarks fast, then quiet.
Trademarks jump the queue. In a first-to-file system, every week between deciding on China and filing is a week someone else can file first.
Legal audit
Contracts, chops, licences and marks reviewed; gaps ranked by what can actually hurt you.
Week 1Priority filings
Trademarks first, in both scripts; urgent licence applications go in alongside.
Weeks 1 to 4Document suite
Bilingual contracts and policies drafted, negotiated and put into daily use.
Weeks 2 to 6Ongoing compliance
The calendar runs: renewals, annual reports and regulatory watch for your sector.
OngoingYour side of the desk 您需准备
What we'll ask you for.
The audit works from whatever exists today, even if that's a folder of English PDFs and a chop in someone else's drawer. Finding that out is what it's for.
Whatever you trade on now, in any language and any state of repair.
Everything worth protecting, including names you plan to use later.
What you sell, to whom, through whom. It drives the licence list and the contract set.
Anything already issued, so the audit maps real gaps instead of guessing.
Pricing 费用
Scoped by the audit, priced line by line.
Legal work is quoted per document and per filing once the audit has fixed the list, a written quote with a price against each line, not an hourly meter. Trademark and licence filings carry government fees, shown separately at cost.
- Written quote with a fixed price per document and filing
- Government filing fees listed separately at cost
- Urgent trademark filings start before the rest of the suite
Why HCSG for this 凭什么
Prevention is cheap. Litigation isn't. We sell the first.
Your chops, your control. Handed over at formation under a written policy. Never parked with an agent "for convenience".
Drafted for Chinese courts. Every contract written to be argued where it will actually be argued, in the language the judge reads.
10+ years beside Haikou's regulators. Licence practice and FTP rules as they're applied, not just as they're published.
What comes next 相关服务
The legal file runs through everything.
Company Formation
Start clean: entity, chops and governance drafted together from day one.
Next stepTax & Accounting
The other compliance calendar. Books, filings and the 15% rate, kept.
Next stepHR & Payroll
Employment contracts meet payroll: hiring, social insurance and exits done properly.
Next step
Legal questions 法律问答
What clients ask before the audit.
01Why do you keep saying NNN instead of NDA?
A Western NDA only covers disclosure. An NNN adds non-use and non-circumvention: your counterparty agrees not to leak your idea, not to make your product for themselves, and not to walk around you to your customers. Drafted in Chinese and governed by Chinese law, it's enforceable in the court your supplier actually answers to. Which is the entire point.
02Who should hold the company chops?
You, or an officer you appoint under a written chop policy, never an agent keeping them "for convenience". A chop binds the company in ways a signature doesn't; whoever holds it can commit you. If we formed your company, you already have yours. We hand them over at formation, policy attached.
03My trademark is registered at home. Is it protected in China?
No. China is first-to-file: rights go to whoever files here first, not to whoever used the mark first elsewhere. Squatters register foreign brands precisely because owners assume home protection travels. File the English mark and a Chinese-language version before market entry. Weeks of work that forecloses the whole problem.
04Can you litigate for us?
We draft, register and prevent, the work that settles most disputes before they're filed. When one turns contentious anyway, we brief and coordinate licensed PRC litigators, who start from a file built to be argued rather than reconstructed.
05What licences does my business actually need?
It depends entirely on scope. Trading, food, education, logistics and a dozen other sectors each carry their own permits. Some national, some Hainan-specific. The legal audit answers this definitively for your model; guessing from a forum thread is how companies end up operating outside their licence.
Client words 客户之声
From clients who’ve done this.
What I respect: they told me first what would NOT work for my case, then gave me a structure the tax bureau wouldn’t question. That honesty saved me real money.
Ononiwu Ifeanyi Kingsley海南帝金进出口贸易有限公司 · licence on fileStraight people. The quote they gave me at the start is exactly what I paid at the end. In this business, that alone tells you everything.
Nafees Sufyan海南阿尔巴达进出口贸易有限公司 · licence on fileLicence in hand within the first week; the rest took about a month. Every step was explained before it happened. The office was exactly what they’d shown me on video.
Kelly Latoya Felicia Anikah海南凯卡威国际贸易有限责任公司 · licence on fileReal clients, real registrations, every review is paired with that client’s watermarked business licence. See the licence wall.
Next step 下一步
Start with the legal audit.
Send what you have. Contracts, brand names, licences, or nothing yet. You'll get a ranked gap list, a filing plan with trademarks first and a written price per line.