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Intelligence Technology & Application

Our intelligence technology and application services have long been highly regarded by internationally renowned legal rating agencies

We have been committed to intelligence technology and application services, amassing considerable industry expertise under our belt. Drawing on top-notch legal service capabilities and keen business acumen, we have managed and taken part in a multitude of game-changing mandates. Our all-around, one-stop legal services cater to numerous domestic and foreign intelligence technology and application innovators, with a focus on combating complex and emerging challenges for our clients. Through our stellar work in this field, we maintain an industry-leading position.

Our services have been for many consecutive years highly regarded by the worldwide-known legal rating agency Chambers and constantly featured on its Band 1 rankings. We have also garnered strong recommendations and awards from The Legal 500, China Business Law Journal, asialaw, and other acclaimed industry watchers for many a time, and the mandates that we have led or handled have been frequently recognized as the bests of the year.

Our practice in this sector covers, among others, big data, large models and AIGC, artificial intelligence, computing chips, cloud computing, semi-conductor, personal information and data protection, cross-border data transfer, smart IoT, industry SaaS, autonomous driving, humanoid robots, and space technology.

Scope of Services

Providing one-stop comprehensive services to intelligence technology and application clients for their investment, financing, restructuring, M&A, foreign direct investment, and domestic and overseas listings, among other issues pertaining to capital operation, services including due diligence, compliance counseling, plan development, commercial negotiation, document drafting, and transaction closing
Delivering to intelligence technology and application businesses end-to-end services covering overseas listing and post-listing capital operation
Advising intelligence technology and application businesses on merger filings, especially formulating filing strategies for intelligent computing, large model training, and data corpus aggregation, among others, assisting in filing for merger review, formulating antitrust compliance plans, assisting with response to antitrust investigations, and representing clients in antitrust cases
Providing compliance assessment, cross-border data security evaluation, algorithm filing, privacy computing architecture design, and related dispute resolution legal services for the acquisition, labeling, training, inference, and entire lifecycle deployment of public data, training data, model parameters and embedded personal information
Full-chain legal services for intellectual property protection as well as anti-unfair competition compliance and risk prevention related to open source license management, patents, trademarks, copyright (algorithm copyright registration, data property registration), and trade secrets, among others, of intelligence technology and application clients
Dispute resolution services for litigation, arbitration, and administrative enforcement cases involving financing, intellectual property, core algorithm personnel incentives, data competition, trade secret infringement, and model output liability for intelligence technology and application clients
Assisting Chinese startups in building business models that meet regulatory requirements for financing and domestic and overseas listing