On 20 September, Guangdong Qianhai Law Firm (“Qianhai Law Firm”) and the Spanish Chinese Legal Association formally signed a strategic cooperation agreement. Lan Caiming, Director of the Firm’s Management Committee, and Qu Xia, President of the Association, signed on behalf of the two parties. Pan Cuiwen, Deputy Director of the Bao’an District Commerce Bureau; Luis de Arcos, a Spanish senior judge; and Eunice Yan, Director of the Firm’s Cross-Border E-Commerce Centre, attended and witnessed the signing. Drawing on the locational advantages of the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area and the Iberian Peninsula, the two sides will pool high-quality foreign-related legal, overseas Chinese community and commercial resources, establish a long-term cross-border legal service mechanism, and focus on compliance for enterprises going global, protection of the rights and interests of overseas Chinese, ascertainment of foreign law and exchanges of foreign-related talent, supporting high-quality China–Spain trade and economic development.

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The Spanish Chinese Legal Association has deep roots in local legal practice and has long provided localised legal services — residence, tax, commercial contracts and dispute resolution — to Chinese nationals in Spain, Chinese-invested institutions and Chinese-owned businesses, with well-developed resources for serving overseas Chinese communities. Qianhai Law Firm, a foreign-related legal service institution in the Qianhai Shenzhen–Hong Kong International Legal Services Zone, works at the forefront of foreign-related rule of law and focuses on cross-border commercial matters, foreign-related compliance and international arbitration.

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This cooperation is a two-way empowerment and strengths-based partnership between overseas Chinese legal expertise and Qianhai’s foreign-related rule of law platform, and an important step in the firm’s effort to build a diversified and comprehensive foreign-related legal service system and to establish a Spanish legal services offering. The two sides focus on long-term ecosystem cooperation, opening channels that connect Spanish local practice, the rule-of-law needs of overseas Chinese and Qianhai’s institutional opening-up advantages, effectively breaking down information barriers and service gaps in cross-border legal services and providing precise and efficient rule of law protection for China–Spain cross-border business.

Qianhai Law Firm upholds the philosophy of “legal protection, resource bridging, professionalism first, cooperation as the key”. Grounded in rigorous and practical legal services, it integrates domestic and overseas legal, commercial and overseas-Chinese resources to build a cross-border legal service system that is “based in Qianhai, connected to the Greater Bay Area, reaching across the country and linked to the world”. Meeting the two-way needs of Chinese enterprises investing in Spain and Spanish entities developing in China, the firm draws on overseas regional partners with deep Spanish practice to provide both implementation compliance reviews and risk control services for outbound enterprises, and two-way channels for matching resources, empowering industrial cooperation through legal services and resolving practical difficulties in cross-border compliance, resources and risk.

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Qianhai Law Firm will continue to leverage the strategic positioning of the Qianhai Shenzhen–Hong Kong International Legal Services Zone, deepen all-round collaboration with the Spanish Chinese Legal Association, and continue to upgrade its China–Europe cross-border legal service system, serving Greater Bay Area enterprises going global and European Chinese businesses developing in China, and providing solid professional support for China–Spain trade and economic exchanges and for the protection of the rights and interests of overseas Chinese.

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Going forward, the two sides will take this signing as an opportunity to bring each area of cooperation to fruition, continue to deepen China–Spain foreign-related legal exchange and collaboration, enrich the content of Qianhai’s foreign-related rule of law services, support the high-quality development of the Qianhai Shenzhen–Hong Kong International Legal Services Zone, and contribute professional legal strength to improving the quality and efficiency of China–Europe economic and trade cooperation.