MARITIME

* Bills of lading, sea waybills and through bills;

* Bareboat charters, time charters and voyage charters;

* Coastal transport;

* Arrest of ship, lien on cargo and maritime security;

* Agency agreements, shipping agency and cargo forwarding;

* Logistics and multi-modal transport;

* Salvage contracts and towage;

* Marine engineering contracts;

* Repair, Sale & Purchase of Ships...

 

ADMIRALTY

* Ships collision, contact and grounding;

* Oil pollution and environmental damage;

* Personal injury, professional negligence;

* General and particular average;

* Manning, crew manning;

* Port operations。

 

Real property and construction project

*Due-diligence investigation on investment on realty projects.

*The governmental selling lands or commercial assignment of the land-use right.

*Legal affairs of items of exploitation of real estate.

*Mortage, loan, financing, guarantee of real estate.

*Sale & Purchase, lease of new or second-hand real property.

*Supevision, contract and construction of architecture project.

 

INSURANCE      

* Cargo insurance;  

* Hull insurance;

* P&I insurance;

* Property insurance;

* Life insurance;

* Liability insurance;

* Credit insurance;

* War risk insurance;

* Reinsurance;

* Insurance recovery claims.

 

Corporation and Finance

* The mergence, restruction, acquisition of assets and debt.

* Loan and relevant insurance of banks and banking syndicates.

*Project finance and transaction financing.

* Legal practiciablity study on creative finance business.

 

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

* Legal feasibility studies;

* Letters of credit, guarantees and debt recovery;

* International payment and settlement;

* Foreign exchange control;

* Customs, commodity and sanitary inspections;

* Foreign trade control measures 

(anti-dumping / anti-subsidy / protective measures);

* Dispute resolution (mediation / arbitration / litigation);

* Recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitration awards and court judgments;

* Matters relating to e-commerce...

Senior Partner, Xie Ming                                       

    

Position

Senior partner and vice director of Guangdong Geenen Law Office

Member of Marine Law Committee of Guangdong Lawyer’s Association

Member of Maritime Law Committee of China Maritime Law Association (CMLA)

Member of Construction and Bidding and Tendering Activities Law Committee of Guangzhou Lawyer’s Association

Vice-Chairman of Wuhan University of Technology Alumni Association

a specially invited consultant of the legal column of Private Economy News & China Shipping Gazette (administrated by National Development and Reform Commission and executed by China Communications & Transportation Association)

 

Academic qualifications:

1998 Wuhan University of Technology (LL.B.)

2002 Dalian Maritime University (LL.M.)

Professional qualifications:

1999  Licensed lawyer

 

Languages:            

English and Chinese (Mandarin, Cantonese)

 

Experience:

Lawyer Xie graduated from Dalian Maritime University (Maritime Law) and got his master degree in 2002. His tutor is Professor Fu Yanzhong who is the associate dean and PH.D. candidate tutor of the law school of Tsinghua University. Lawyer Xie got his Lawyer's Qualification of China in 1998 and started his lawyer career, and joined two famous law firm succesively. Lawyer Xie has strong passion in acdemic research and is skilled at literary presentation. He is a rare scholarly lawyer whose many professional papers and English translations concerning maritime, admiralty and international trade were published successively in Chinese core legal publications(see China Maritime Law Review(vol.3,5&9), Annual of China Maritime Trial(vol.2002&2004), China Shipping Law Letter(vol.2002) and China Foreign-related Commercial and Maritime Trial(2003)).In 2001, his academic thesis was awarded Annual Excellent Paper of CMLA and his English paper was presented & selected at the 5TH International Conference of CLMA in 2002.

Lawyer Xie is arted at communicating with customers. He can build genuine trust relationship with his customers nonlocally or abroad merely by teleprone and email. No matter the amount of the case is big or small, Lawyer Xie always handle them seriously and responsibly. His specialized, rigor and effective working style wins his customers’ appraise and trust, and this is why Mr. Xie excels in solving various complicated and difficult cases and win the cases which is in the second instance or review process.

Lawyer Xie has dealed with hundreds of cases involving maritime, admiralty, international trade and insurance, etc, representing owners of cargo, the insurances, ship builders or repairers for many times. From these practices Mr. Xie aquired substantial experience about arresting ship and obtaining warranty. His cases mainly relates to ship crash accident, goods carriage contract, maritime insurance, cargo damage, maritime salvation, oil contamination, ship lease, ship sale& purchase transactions, ship building & repairing, maritime casualty, etc. In respect of international legal affairs. Lawyer Xie has a good knowledge of trade settlement  mode such as L/C, D/P, D/A, OA, etc., basing on which Mr. Xie can handle disputes refering to Chinese import or export or entreport trade skillfully, especially has abundant practice experience about default of payment for goods and decline from taking the delivery of goods by buyers. Lawyer Xie has received Thanks letters from his customers for his brilliant service about international trade cases. Some typical cases represented by Mr. Xie Ming were elected and published by the supreme people's court’s bulletin. Moreover,  Guangzhou Lawyer Association confered Business Achievement Award on Mr. Xie Ming for many times.

 

Mr. Xie Ming behaves excellently in real estate and construction project cases. He handled a corp of cases with important infuence such as the owners of Guangzhou Roman Home v. Guangdong Zhujiang Investment Company Limited for mass disputes over contracts on purchase and sale of commodity premises, Zhuhai Singyes curtain wall engineering Co., Ltd v. Guangzhou Urban Construction Engineering General Contractor Co., Ltd. for dispute over contract on construction project,  dispute  over contract on construction project of some section of Guangzhou Bus Rapid Transit System( BRT for short)

 

Classical Cases

Classical Cases on maritime and admiralty

1. PICC Guangdong Branch v. B International Transport Co., Ltd for Subrogation on disputes over contract on international marine sale of goods

2. Chongqing Z International Trade Co., Ltd. v. North Litong Logistics Co., Ltd. for dispute over releasing cargo without a sight of the lading bill

3. Guangzhou G International Freight Co., Ltd. v. Hanjin Shipping Co. Ltd. for dispute over false release

4. Guangdong electric power development Limited by Share Ltd in Shajiao A power plant v. Hongkong A Shipping Co., Ltd. for dispute over Ship A collision with the dock

5. Chaozhou C Shipping Co., Ltd. v. Hongkong A Shipping Co., Ltd. for dispute over Ship A collision with the Ship “Wuzhou No.1”

6. Zhanjiang A Trade Co., Ltd v. Guangzhou B Logistics Co., Ltd. and Qinzhou C Shipping Co., Ltd. for dispute over contract on Coastal freight of goods and the establishment of the limitation fund for maritime claims caused by the sinking of Fangzhou 6

7. Mr. Chen v.Mr. Xian for dispute over the ownership of the ship stemed by their contract on partnership and manangement of ship

 

Classical cases on international trade

Facts of case:

1. Hungary CKL Co.Ltd declined to pay the balance of the goods for the poor quality of the air conditioner producted by Guangdong S Household electrical appliance Co., Ltd. Lawyer Xie Ming was trusted by S and took non-litigation measures, pushing CKL to pay the balance of $190,000 in two weeks. CKL admired Mr. Xie’s professional service and trust him to undertake their legal affairs in China. ( This piece of news was reportedby Private Economy News on Mar. 19, 2007)

2. Mexico T Company defaulted Foshan D Furniture export company $350,000 for half a year. Upon being trusted, Mr. Xie took non-litigation measures immediately  and drove T pay all the sum in 4 times in one and a half months.
 

Classical case on property insurance

Guangdong D Group Company v. AIG Insurance Company China Limited for

dispute over contract on property insurance (Export product liability insurance)

 

 

 

 

 

Qualified Lawyer  Tu Hongwang 

 

Position

Full-time lawyer of Geenen Law Office

Academic qualifications

East China University of Political Science and Law ( international economic law ), Bachelor

South China University of Technology ( MBA )

Professional qualifications:

1996  Licensed lawyer

Languages:

Chinese (Mandarin, Cantonese) and English

Experience:

Mr. Tu served in the court as the judge, then entered international trade company dealing with international transaction and worked as law teacher in the university one after another. From 1996, Mr Tu got his lawyer license and practised law affairs. Mr Tu aquired abundant experience of more than ten years. He is skilled at maritime, admiralty, intrnational trade, foreign merchant investment, domestic economy, real property, finance and legal counsel, etc.

Lawyer Mr. Tu has served for various international and domestic enterprises and multinational corporations for legal affairs in China. He has sunstantial law thoery and practice experience. He is familiar with the management and operation of the enterprise. He is both good at litigation and company’s legal counsel service and bring the most benefit to his customers.

 

 

 

Overseas Consultant  Wang Qianlin                                                

          
Education

12/2004- 2008          Queen Mary University of London， CCLS
                                     Degree: PhD

08/2001—11/2002   The University of Manchester 
                                     LLM: Master's Degree

06/2007—12/2007    Master CIW Designer, Certified Internet Web Professional 
                 
09/1997—06/2001    China University of Politic Science and Law
                                      LLB: Bachelor's Degree in La

Work Experience

New World Law Associates Ltd (London) (04/2007-now)
Business Partner

Hoffman & Bokaei Solicitors (London) (04/2006-03/2007)
Associate and immigration adviser

Shellbene International LLC (Beijing, London)　(01/2004- 03/2006)
Development Manager

Other Position and Membership
·      Assistant tutor during studying and researching in Manchester University and QMUL.
·      Dominame International Ltd.  Position: Import & Export Consultant Manager
·      Consultant to Overseas Chinese Scholars' Fund Management Center
·      Chinese Steel Net Work   http://www.ttssteel.com/  
          Position: website and network development Consultant
·      Consultant to Greek ASSET Credit Management S.A.
·      Consultant to Greek Latsoudis Law Office
·      Investment Consultant to AEGEK SA in Greece (07/2004-08/2006)
·      Membership of the 4th International Youth Leadership Conference in Prague, Czech Republic
·      Member of Young-OGEMID
·      Member of Oxford University Comparative Law Forum 
·      Associate of the Institute of International Commercial Law of the Pace University School of Law.

Personal Information

Tel: +44(0) 7969063172;    +86 13501035261
E-mail:  ying.wang@qmul.ac.uk

 

 

Tel:  (+86 20) 37181333-7656

 

Fax: (+86 20) 37181888

 

Mobile:(+86) 13825198596

 

MSN:hemingxie@hotmail.com

 

Email: hemingxie@etrlawfirm.com

 

Address:

29&10&11（1101-04）F,Chow Tai Fook Finance Centre NO.6 Zhujiang Dong Road, Tianhe District Guangzhou, China 510623