The investments and the commercial penetration into the Asian continent constitute an important occasion of international growth and expansion for the companies. But at the same time this kind of operation also presents complex problems for the foreign investor, due to not only the particularity of the legal system but also due to the particularity of the language and commercial, administrative and local administrative practices, which are often far away from those the European entrepreneur faces in daily life.

The Dugnani law firm focuses on the assistance to Italian and European companies who wish to work out forms of investment or who wish to undertake commercial relationships with China and the Asian market in general.

The firm assists the client in China and in the complete Asian market during the complete legal procedure related to:

• investments
• editing of commercial contracts
• commercial expansion
• building up of companies and representative offices
• realisation and negotiation of licence contracts for trade marks, patents and know how for agencies, production sites, distribution and selling companies
• technologies' transfer
• protection of intellectual properties
• general structure of entrepreneurial activities

The firm applies its total qualified assistance to a variety of entrepreneurial reality, starting from SME to trans-national societies operating on the sector of information technology, intellectual property, telecommunication and media. The direct and deep knowledge of the legislation in China, Hong Kong and Singapore, of the administrative regulations, of the commercial practices and of the local Asian bureaucracy helps the firm to meet in a quick and operative way with any commercial and entrepreneurial demand.

The updated knowledge of the law firm regarding the sources of the EU and national laws related to customs, trading and industrial matters allows the client to implement corporate plans without any risk or delays for the company's activities and allows a conclusion of all commercial transactions with respect to the international regulations and with the certainty of legality.

The law firm has acquired a deep experience in the procedures of alternative solutions to international disputes with Chinese and Asian counterparts; and thanks to the efficient collaboration with local, renowned professionals it provides it's clients with a professional and qualified support to the trial protection of their own rights.

The law firm interacts in Italian, English, French, German, Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese Chinese and is working in a direct way, without expensive intermediates, on the international procedures which are necessary for the realisation of the interests of the company.