Broad & Bright 世泽律师事务所

Firm profile:
Broad & Bright is a full-service Chinese law firm providing a broad range of specialised legal services in multiple practice areas for domestic and international clients, with particular expertise and outstanding achievements in cross-border business transactions.

Founded in May 2004, the firm has 26 partners, 4 counsels and 70 lawyers: 80% of partners and counsels have overseas education or work experience and eight of our partners are qualified in the state of New York.

The firm is a member of Meritas, a global alliance of independent business law firms. It has offices in Beijing (headquarters), Shanghai, and Guangzhou, and associated offices with CFN Lawyers and Toranomon Chuo Law Firm in Hong Kong and Tokyo respectively.

Recent cases:

• represented the existing shareholders of Dr. Panda in connection with sale of the entire shares to TAL. The transaction amount reaches 30 million USD. This project includes multiple group companies of Dr. Panda, including offshore companies and PRC operation companies. All these companies are transferred to the investor in different phases.
• represented Apollo Trading Corporation to sell 75% of its equity interest of Apollo Environmental Equipment Co., Ltd. in Shunde District of Foshan City to Freudenberg & Co. KG. The transaction amount exceeds 1.2 billion. After this transaction, Freudenberg & Co. KG intends to transfer part of its domestic filter business in China to the Shunde Company. As Chinese legal counsel of Apollo Trading Corporation, Broad & Bright, in collaboration with the Japanese legal counsel, provided PRC-related legal services and advice on the above-mentioned transactions, including cooperation in due diligence, review and negotiation of transaction documents, cooperation in anti-monopoly declarations and etc.
• represented Stratacache Limited, an American digital technology company, in its acquisition of all the assets of Ningbo Plus and Popscreens Electronic Technology Co., Ltd., including production lines, intellectual property rights and employees, through a new entity. The transaction amount exceeds US$4 million.
• represented Chervon Group and provided full-spectrum legal service for its acquisition of the global brands and business of SKIL, an affiliated company of Bosch.
• provided legal services on the first foreign currency-denominated ABS and the first aircraft leasing ABS. This special plan fills the vacuum of foreign currency-denominated ABS products and diversifies the financial products in domestic capital markets. It is a major financial innovation and a milestone in the development of asset-backed securitization.
• taken full participation in the listing of Nissin Foods ( Stock Code: 01475.HK ,HKD3.54 per share, total amount of 900 million HKD. Broad & Bright has). CFS Lawyers, the associate firm of Broad & Bright in Hong Kong, provides legal services for the listing of Nissin Foods as a Hong Kong legal counsel of the issuer. Toranomon Chuo Law Firm, the joint venture partner of Broad & Bright in Japan, also provides part of the services for the listing of Nissin Foods in relation to Japanese law.
• provided legal services for PPP Project of the “Automobile+” Industry and City Fusion Demonstration Zone of Wuhan Development District. This Project is a comprehensive urban development PPP project of "integration and merger of production and city", which has a planned total area of 51.25 square kilometers, a total 8.004 billion investment amount, and a cooperative term of 20 years.
• provided Legal Services for PPP Project of Dongguan Rail Transit Line 1. The line length of the Project is 58 km, starting from Wanghong Station and ending at Huangjiang Central Station. There are 21 stations on the whole line, with a total investment of 32.939 billion RMB.