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Director of the Civil and Commercial Department of Yingting Law Firm Lawyer Wang Yanfeng

Lawyer Wang Yanfeng, university professor, partner of Yingting Law Firm, and director of the Civil and Commercial Department of Yingting Law Firm.

Lawyer Wang has been deeply involved in the field of civil and commercial legal services for more than 20 years. His main professional areas include dispute resolution, permanent legal counsel, company mergers and acquisitions, and project investment. During his long-term practice, Mr. Wang has experience in both litigation and non-litigation legal services. He has represented more than 600 litigation and arbitration cases of various types and led a team to provide legal advisory services to more than 100 state agencies, state-owned enterprises and large and medium-sized private enterprises. Among them, many units have been in continuous service for as long as 18 years.

Lawyer Wang Yanfeng always adheres to a steady, down-to-earth, professional and credible practice style, focusing on providing clients with legal service solutions that can solve practical problems from the dual perspectives of law and business. At the same time, Attorney Wang also attaches great importance to case quality control, business training and team building.

As the organizer and speaker of this conference, lawyer Wang Yanfeng, director of the Civil and Commercial Legal Affairs Department of Yingting Law Firm, combined his years of experience in civil and commercial litigation and non-litigation legal services to systematically share practical issues in corporate management and management. Lawyer Wang pointed out that the commercial value of an enterprise is not only reflected in the product itself, but also in the corporate governance structure, contract system, project management, financing arrangements, risk control and dispute resolution mechanisms. Lawyers serving enterprises should not just stay at the level of representing a single case or reviewing a single contract, but should start from the entire business process and provide customers with comprehensive solutions covering pre-investment review, transaction design, contract performance management, risk disposal and dispute resolution.

Focusing on corporate investment and contract management, the meeting believed that projects usually involve multiple links such as ownership, land use, purchase and sale, construction projects, equipment procurement, and financing guarantees. When providing services, civil and commercial lawyers should focus on transaction structure design, contract subject qualifications, ownership basis, approval progress, payment nodes, liability for breach of contract, exit mechanism and dispute resolution terms. Especially in transactions, mergers and acquisitions, project cooperative development, equity investment, debt financing, income distribution and other matters, clear contractual arrangements and evidence retention mechanisms should be used to prevent disputes such as "investment or borrowing", "cooperative relationship or contracting relationship", "profit sharing or project settlement" and other disputes.

Director of the Civil and Commercial Department of Yingting Law Firm Lawyer Wang Yanfeng

This meeting also fully reflected the cross-professional collaboration characteristics of Yingting Law Firm’s legal services. A number of administrative litigation lawyers participated in the discussion and expressed their opinions on the intersection of administrative risks and civil and commercial risks in corporate operations based on their experience in natural resource approval, mineral rights continuation, land resumption, administrative penalties, administrative compensation, administrative compensation, suppression of mineral resources, and government-enterprise dispute handling. Lawyers participating in the meeting believed that many corporate disputes are not simply civil and commercial disputes, but often involve administrative approval, administrative supervision, natural resource management and contract performance, and must be analyzed and judged as a whole through the collaborative perspective of "administration + civil and commercial".

In the civil legal service practice sharing session, lawyer Wang Yanfeng and participating lawyers exchanged views on perennial legal advisory services, special legal services and litigation agency strategies. The meeting emphasized that corporate legal advisory services should be closer to the business nodes of the enterprise, focusing on high-risk links such as production operations, product sales, engineering construction, debt restructuring, equity cooperation, financing guarantees, and production safety, and help enterprises improve their operational governance levels through regular legal examinations, contract system sorting, major project reviews, and dispute plan design.

In terms of litigation business, the meeting focused on the standardization of commonly used legal documents such as entrustment contracts, lawyers' letters, and legal opinions, and proposed that formatted texts and review mechanisms should be gradually established to improve the quality of legal documents and reduce practice risks. Regarding corporate disputes, the meeting emphasized that evidence materials such as certificates and licenses, approval documents, cooperation agreements, contracting and operation agreements, project settlement materials, product purchase and sale vouchers, fund transaction records, meeting minutes, etc. should be systematically sorted out to accurately determine the nature of the dispute and choose the appropriate litigation, arbitration, negotiation or administrative relief path.

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The meeting also conducted a special discussion on a case involving a mining construction project contract dispute. Construction project disputes are often closely related to the contracting model, settlement basis, profit distribution, confirmation of project quantities and actual project control. The focus of the dispute in this case was the plaintiff’s claim for profit dividends, but the court of first instance did not support it due to the lack of a clear written agreement. Focusing on the idea of ​​second-instance agency, participating lawyers discussed from the perspectives of identification of contractual relationships, analysis of internal contracting relationships, evidence enhancement, and litigation strategy selection.

Regarding the follow-up handling of the case, the participating lawyers tended to push the court to re-examine the true legal relationship between the two parties by seeking a remand for retrial, and further strengthen the argument around issues such as internal contracting, cooperative operation, and profit distribution basis, in order to strive for a more favorable outcome to the parties. This case study reminds enterprises that in the process of cooperative development, project contracting, labor subcontracting, project management and profit distribution, they should try their best to clarify rights and obligations, income distribution, settlement methods and exit mechanisms through written agreements to avoid subsequent disputes caused by oral agreements or ambiguous legal relationships.

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The meeting also discussed the construction of the Civil and Commercial Legal Services Department. Lawyers attending the meeting believed that the establishment of the Civil and Commercial Legal Services Department will further strengthen the civil and commercial capabilities of Yingting Law Firm in corporate services and form a linkage with the law firm’s existing advantages in administrative litigation, natural resources, mineral resources, and government-enterprise dispute services. In the future, the department will continue to carry out special discussions, case reviews and output of professional results around topics such as corporate governance, investment contracts, corporate financing, property rights transactions, product sales, construction projects, contracting disputes, shareholder cooperation disputes, and debt restructuring.

The convening of the "Research and Analysis Conference on Civil and Commercial Law Practices for Enterprises to Protect Commercial Value" is an important measure taken by Yingting Law Firm to promote the upgrading of comprehensive legal service capabilities for enterprises. In the future, Yingting Law Firm will continue to leverage its expertise in administrative litigation, government-enterprise disputes, natural resources and mineral resources legal services, and at the same time strengthen its business capabilities in civil and commercial dispute resolution, corporate governance, contract risk prevention and control, investment and financing, mergers and acquisitions and restructuring, etc., to provide enterprises, investors, resource companies and related market entities with a full range of legal services covering administrative approval, project investment, corporate governance, contract management, transaction compliance, dispute resolution and risk disposal, and to use professional strength to protect the stable operation of enterprises and the realization of commercial value.