Mr. Ran is an Attorney at law in Beijing Yingke Law Firm, has over 15 years solid legal practice experiences with the judicial authority, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), foreign and domestic law firms, large-scale state-owned group company. He is specializing in FDI, corporate, contract, M&A, employment, dispute resolution, etc., has strong team work spirit, extensive objective-oriented ability. He also can profoundly understand mechanism of central and local government in China, and prepare, translate and review legal documents both in English and Chinese effectively.

Main Areas of Practice:

Legal affairs in corporate, investment, M&A, trade, IT industry (including but limited in E-commerce, telecommunications, the Internet, software industry, new media, information technology, distance education, areas such as digital entertainment industry).

Working Experience:

Worked in PEOPLE'S PROCURATORATE, YUCHENG, SHANDONG as Prosecutor; ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY INFORMATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE, MINISTRY OF INDUSTRY AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (MIIT) as Legal Director;  WANG & WANG LLP BEIJING OFFICE (US) , BEIJING as a lawyer; Chang Tsi & Partners Law Firms as lawyer; Legal Affairs Department of A Large-scale State-owned Group Company as Legal Director. Now Mr. Ran is a lawyer of Beijing Yingke Law Firm.

Working Language: Chinese and English.

Education:

Juris Master  (full time) of China University of Political Science and Law;

Main Publications:

1. Expediting the Lawmaking on Chinese e-Government by Referring to Germany Data Protection Law, Law journal of Shanghai Administrative Cadre Institute of Politics & Law, No.3, P7, 2003);

http://www.cnki.com.cn/Article/CJFDTotal-ZFKL200303001.htm

2. Participated in the Study on E-government in Developed Countries, and Study on Policy and Practice of Information Resources Development and Utilization in developed countries instructed by the MIIT and State Council.  The study team was granted award of the First National Informatization Research Achievements Contest;

http://www.soopx.com/news/dnwl/109.html

3. Drafted, reviewed and translated various legal documents over 1 million words (including English to Chinese and vice versa, if needed, a list may be provided), such as:

Rules of Procedures for the Board of Supervisors of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited

http://www.icbc-ltd.com/icbc/html/download/gonggao/2007nian/Rules%20of%20Procedure%20for%20the%20Board%20of%20Supervisors%20of%20Industrial%20and%20Commercial%20Bank%20of%20China%20Limited.pdf

Standard of Behavior, Citigroup

www.citigroup.com/citi/corporategovernance/data/codeconduct_chs.pdf

Representative Cases handled by Mr. Ran:

l         Acted as legal advisor for several large-scale state-owned enterprises and foreign-invested enterprises

l         Advised foreign clients on establishment of several foreign-invested companies

l         Advised several foreign-invested companies on assignment, licensing of trademarks or technology

l         Advised an international investment company on its acquisition of a hydropower station in Sichuan province

l         Drafted, translated and reviewed various legal documents in both English and Chinese

l         Handled the transfer of state-owned stock rights for a large-scale state-owned company

l         Advised a large-scale state-owned public airline company on extension and promotion of brand (trademark) value and handled study thereof

l         Acted as legal advisor for several large-scale state-owned enterprises

l         Handled establishment of franchise system in China for an apparel company with well-known brand in US  

l         Advised a company in France on its importation matters of cosmetics product

l         Represented an enterprise in equity dispute litigation

l         Provided various project legal services, including but not limited to, FDI, M&A, corporate, contract, franchising operation, employment etc.