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Retail & Consumer Products

Zhong Lun is a leading provider of legal services in the retail and consumer products industry

Under China’s new dual circulation strategy to create comprehensive domestic supply chains alongside international supply chains, the domestic consumer market is experiencing a new wave of unprecedented changes. New forms of business, such as e-commerce platform, live streaming, private traffic, and duty-free shopping, are burgeoning as they build upon traditional retail foundations. The new business models, driven by innovative new market players, are transforming consumers’ shopping behaviors, preferences, and even their lifestyles.

Confronting such an increasingly complex consumer market, as the frontrunner in this sector, we have put to great use our full-service platform, professional specialization, and extensive experience in both conventional and new-form retail to provide all-round, multi-dimensional services to retailers and consumers around the world. Our services cover land lease and purchase, intellectual property protection, M&A, financing, unfair competition, human resources compliance, and consumer complaint handling involved in traditional retail, as well as document drafting for trade on platforms, data security, logistics base construction, courier delivery, and payment safety associated with new retail.

Scope of Services

  • Property lease

  • E-commerce operation

  • Endorsement by and live shopping featuring celebrities

  • Review of advertising and marketing materials

  • Management of distribution channels

  • Development of intellectual property portfolios (including trademark application) and brand management

  • IP licensing

  • IP protection

  • Unfair competition

  • Response to competent authorities’ investigations

  • Anti-corruption investigations

  • Privacy and data protection

  • IPO and listing

  • Financing with new financial products

  • M&A and assignment

  • Merger filing

  • Establishment of and exit from joint ventures

  • Labor and human resources

  • Debt restructuring

  • Advertising compliance

  • Response to consumer complaints and investigations by market supervision authorities

  • Warehousing, logistics, and courier delivery

  • Litigation and arbitration

  • Retainer-based counseling services