BHP’s partners possess enriched legal knowledge and lawyering skills. Lawyers at BHP have received professional legal training both in China and overseas, and some of them have working experiences in foreign law firms. With such a group of professional elite, BHP serves the legal needs of its clients from all circles of Chinese society and other parts of the world, including North America, Europe, Southeast Asia and Hong Kong.

BHP was awarded the title of “The Model Law Office” by Beijing Judicial Administration and Beijing Bar Association in 1997.

BHP’s lawyers are specialized in the areas of international trade, multinational investment, finance, real estate as well as intellectual property. They provide legal services and consultation on international economic and trade arbitration and/or litigation, international and domestic antidumping proceedings, WTO related legal affairs as well as trade and investment projects, in particular projects involving foreign investment.

BHP maintains a close contact and cooperative relationship with lawyers and experts from academic institutes, governmental organizations and other professional setups. BHP has also business partnership with law firms in US, Europe and Hong Kong.

BHP’s lawyers have successfully represented their clients both domestically and internationally in disputes involving foreign interests in different categories. In particular, they have made many achievements in the field of domestic and international anti-dumping proceedings. In 1997, as the representative of the Chinese Newsprint Industry, BHP filed the petition to initiate the antidumping investigation against the U.S.A, Canada and South Korea with respect to their exportation of newsprint to China. It was the first anti-dumping proceeding initiated by a domestic industry in China. Up to date, among the total of 27 antidumping proceedings reported in China, 17 cases have been represented by BHP.

In 2002, as the Attorney Agent of Chinese steel industry, BHP represented in China’s first domestic safeguards case regarding imports of some steel products. In the meantime, BHP has represented Chinese domestic industries to respond to antidumping investigations in many countries such as USA, EU, Canada, Indonesia, Brazil and Argentina.

Since China’s entry to the WTO in 2001, BHP, based on its past experiences in providing legal services in respect of trade remedies law, has purposely recruited elite specializing in WTO legal affairs, which has enabled BHP to become highly sophisticated in providing WTO legal services. In the first DSB case in 2002 after China’s entry to the WTO, that is the United States-Definitive Steel Safeguard Measures, BHP participated in representing the Chinese government, one of the co-complainants. In 2003, BHP represented the Chinese government in the Canadian Wheat Board DSB case in which China acts as a third party.

BHP has built up a library containing a full collection of WTO related books and documents, which ranks among the best of all Chinese law firms.

For the purposes of encouraging a full commitment of its staff to serving their clients and helping to maintain a good social order and the economic growth in China, BHP has always enshrined the motto of "Honesty, Creditability, Excellency and Efficiency" and a team spirit of “Trust, Unity and Joint Development”.

The scope of BHP’s major practices includes:

Trade Remedies Law

BHP's lawyers take a leading position in terms of rendering legal opinions to Chinese industries and representing them in proceedings of domestic antidumping, countervailing and safeguard measures in the following aspects:
- Collecting materials and proof
- Drafting and filing petitions
- Attending hearings and rendering legal opinions
- Participating in the negotiation of price undertaking
- Attending judicial proceedings
- Attending the review of anti-dumping measures

Also, BHP’s lawyers are involved with international antidumping, countervailing and safeguard measure proceedings, which include:
- Assisting Chinese industries in foreign anti-dumping proceedings
- Assisting to collect materials and answering questionnaire issued by foreign investigation authorities
- Assisting to participate in the review of foreign anti-dumping measures against Chinese industries.

International Sales of Goods

BHP’s lawyers provide legal opinions and represent its clients in international arbitration and foreign litigation in the following areas:
- Conclusion and performance of sales contracts, remedies for breach of contracts and the settlement of disputes
- Payment in international transactions, such as L/C, D/P, D/A and other modes of payment
- Products liability
- International transportation, such as carriage by sea, by air and by railway, as well as international multi-modal transportation.
- Insurance
- Agency and exclusive distributorship, consignment, auction and bidding
- Frontier trade, compensation trade, processing with imported materials, processing with foreign samples and assembling with foreign spare parts

Arbitration and Litigation
- Domestic arbitration, including arbitration relating to economic and employment contract disputes
- Domestic civil litigation with an emphasis on economic litigation
- International commercial and marine arbitration, including international arbitration by CIETAC and CMAC as well as arbitration by foreign arbitration institutions such as ICC
- Litigation concerning foreign elements, including representing a client before a Chinese court, providing legal opinions relating to Chinese laws and preparing legal documents for litigation in a foreign jurisdiction.

Legal Issues Relating to the WTO
- Legal consultation and advice in relation to all WTO issues
- Understanding and advising in relation to the legal documentation concerning China’s entry to the WTO
- Assisting Chinese industries to establish a trade monitoring system
- Assisting Chinese industries to investigate trade barriers abroad and to file application to the Government of China for initiating trade barrier investigations.
- Providing legal services to the Government of China in WTO Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) cases.

Corporation and Investment
- Drafting feasibility research report, articles of association, and agreement for the establishment of equity and contractual joint ventures and foreign wholly-owned enterprises
- Participating in business negotiations, supervisions and related legal affairs of joint ventures
-Drafting articles of incorporation, conducting corporate reorganization, bankruptcy and liquidation, auction of assets and investigation of corporation credits
- Transfer of corporate shares, property trade, mergers and acquisitions, BOT project operation
- Establishment of business organizations by corporations, entities or individuals based in China
- Providing legal opinions

International Finance
- The negotiation and drafting of loan agreements
- Syndicated loan and project financing or related legal affairs
- Guarantees including credit guarantee and mortgage
- Letters of guarantees relating to foreign exchange issued by Chinese entities covering financial activities outside China

Real Estate
- Negotiating real estate projects and drafting legal documents
- Handling disputes on real estate, including arbitration and litigation
- Drafting documents and completing legal formalities for financing, promoting, and pre-selling of real estate projects
- Drafting documents and completing formalities for sale, transfer and mortgage of land use right

Intellectual Property & International Technology Transfer
Conducting negotiations, drafting agreements and handling disputes through arbitration or litigation in connection with:
- Equipment and technology import and export
- Licensing agreements
- Trademark, patent, know-how licensing and transfer

Legal Consultation

BHP's lawyers focus on serving the legal needs of their clients in their daily operation and ensuring that the lawful rights and interests of their clients be fully protected by acting as
- Legal consultants for governmental organizations, foreign and domestic corporations and entities, social organizations as well as individuals
- Legal consultants in relation to specific projects for the purposes of negotiating, issuing legal opinions and drafting documents.

Others

BHP also provides services in:
- Expert legal witness, credit investigation and notarization
- Acting as business representatives and/or trade intermediate
- Other services entrusted by clients.