Shanghai · China
Expertise · Integrity · Efficiency
Based in Shanghai, our integrated team helps clients in China and around the world navigate complex transactions, compliance matters and disputes.
About Horizon
Established in Shanghai in October 1997, Horizon Law Firm provides comprehensive legal services to clients in China and around the world.
We combine rigorous legal analysis, commercial understanding and cross-practice collaboration to deliver practical, forward-looking solutions.
Learn more about HorizonOur Practices
We begin with the client's industry and commercial objectives, then assemble the right cross-practice team to deliver an implementable solution.
Industry Services
Horizon is well recognised by clients for its solid professional capacity in dealing with insurance and reinsurance disputes concerning property, liability, vehicle, vessel, P&I, marine cargo, credit and others in China. The services mainly include:
Industry Services
We provide comprehensive legal services to domestic and international shipowners, P&I clubs, ship operators, brokers, charterers, insurance companies, cargo owners, freight forwarders, port operators, logistics companies, and others.
Finance & Capital Markets
Horizon offers the following legal services for projects in relation to commercial bank loans, international syndicate loans, project financing, financial lease and others:
Cross-border Services
Horizon Lawyers have actively provided legal services in setting up various types of joint ventures, WFOE, acquisition of local enterprises and assets, investment restructuring, technology transfer, project financing, liquidation, etc., covering a wide range of fields including real property, industrial estate, tourism, medicine, environment protection, entertainment, electronic components, and so on. The services include without limitation:
Digital Economy
We provide comprehensive internet e-commerce legal services to domestic and international e-commerce platforms, merchants, suppliers, service providers, sellers, and consumers, covering business registration, financing, intellectual property protection, system platform construction, as well as corporate legal affairs and litigation services.
Dispute Resolution
Lawyers in Horizon Law Firm have represented clients, including English speaking clients, in many litigation and arbitration cases. Our lawyers can promptly provide legal advice and progress reports in English, so that our English speaking clients may be well protected and informed of their legal proceedings in China. So far, all of the litigation and arbitration cases we have handled have achieved successful or predicted satisfactory results.
Our People
Experience built through focus. Better judgment through collaboration.
Meet the team
Founding Partner
Mr. Zhuang is very experienced in the areas of corporate and commercial, merger and acquisition, banking and finance, foreign investment, property development, international trade, litigation and arbitration, etc. Mr. Zhuang's working languages include Mandarin, English and Japanese.
Managing Partner & Senior Partner
Insurance Disputes, Maritime & Shipping Law, Cross-Border
Senior Partner
maritime and admiralty law, insurance (reinsurance), banking and finance, corporate mergers and acquisitions, freight logistics, and real estate.
Senior Partner
Mr. Zheng's practice focuses on litigation, insurance recovery and giving legal advice on insurance claims, etc.
Horizon Insights
Tracking legal and industry change, with practical judgment from transactions and disputes.
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