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2026-09-20
Minton come from behind to reach the semi-finals
On 19 September, Minton's basketball team beat Runyan Law Firm 39 to 34 in the semi-final of the 15th "Riying Cup" Shanghai Lawyers' Basketball Tournament, coming from 30 to 34 down in the closing minutes to reach the final four, the firm's best result in the event. The game was close throughout, with both sides defending hard and the lead changing hands late; nine points in the final minutes decided it. The team now moves on to the final stage of the tournament.
2026-09-14
Minton edge into the quarter-finals after a defensive battle
On 13 September, Minton's basketball team beat Jincheng Tongda 20 to 18 in the round of 16 of the 15th "Riying Cup" Shanghai Lawyers' Basketball Tournament, advancing to the quarter-finals by two points. Both sides defended hard and the margin stayed narrow throughout, with neither team able to score freely and no point coming easily. Minton held its shape, closed the opposition's attacking routes and protected the two-point lead to the final whistle, after winning successive games in the group stage.
2026-09-10
Minton hosts Jing'an District Labor Association seminar on labor law practice
On 10 September 2026, Minton Law Firm hosted a seminar for the Jing'an District Labor Association on how employers should respond after Shanghai's sick-pay rules lapsed on 15 August 2026. Nearly 40 member companies attended. Huang Chunhuan, head of Minton's labor law practice, set out the background to the lapse, the calculation of sick pay and medical treatment periods, and the amendments needed to internal rules, and took questions on sick-pay bases and the procedure for adopting rules, which drew a lively exchange with members.
2026-08-31
Minton win 42 to 26 to reach the round of 16
On 29 August, Minton's basketball team beat its opponent 42 to 26 in the second round of the 15th "Riying Cup" Shanghai Lawyers' Basketball Tournament, following its opening win and securing a place in the round of 16 on 13 September. The team played a controlled game and led at both ends from early on, with substitutes and colleagues on the sidelines supporting throughout. The tournament is organised by the Shanghai Bar Association and sponsored by Shanghai Riying Law Firm.
2026-08-24
Minton opens the 15th "Riying Cup" with a 40 to 12 win
The first round of the 15th "Riying Cup" Shanghai Lawyers' Basketball Tournament was played on 22 and 23 August at the Putuo Workers' Cultural and Sports Centre, organised by the Shanghai Bar Association and sponsored by Shanghai Riying Law Firm. Minton Law Firm fielded a team led by director Shi Ensou, with Zheng Wenhai as captain and Liu Tao as coach, and won its first group game 40 to 12, a strong start to the event. The players trained around their caseloads in the weeks before the tournament.
2026-07-30
Minton marks the PLA's 99th anniversary with legal outreach at an Armed Police unit
On 29 July, ahead of Army Day, Minton Law Firm joined the Changning Legal Aid Centre and the Changning Notary Public Office in taking a team of lawyers to a unit of the Shanghai Armed Police, marking the 99th anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army. The visit combined a tour of the unit's honour room, a talk on rights protection, marriage and family, lending and traffic accident claims, and one-to-one consultations for service members. The firm intends to continue the programme.
2026-06-17
Minton lawyers take a labor dispute case to the ECNU law school moot court
On 15 June 2026, Minton Law Firm and the law school of East China Normal University held the Minton Cup moot court exercise at the university's Minhang campus. Students prepared the application, defence, evidence lists and submissions for a real labor dispute handled by Huang Chunhuan's team, then argued the issues of unlawful termination and overtime pay before a panel. Faculty and Mr Huang commented on their performance afterwards. The exercise forms part of the firm's cooperation with the law school.
2025-06-12
Minton seminar on notarial practice for family matters and outbound business
On 5 June, Minton Law Firm held a seminar on notarial legal services for personal family matters and for businesses expanding overseas, a field in which demand has grown sharply. Jiang Tong'an, a notary at the Changning Notary Public Office in Shanghai and a contributing editor of Shanghai Notarisation, spoke on five core topics, including Hague apostille certification, outbound investment, evidence preservation and cross-border compliance, using real cases and answering questions from the lawyers present. The firm said it would continue to host exchanges of this kind.
2025-05-30
Minton runs a mock criminal trial on a fraud charge
Minton Law Firm staged a mock criminal trial on a fraud charge to sharpen its lawyers' advocacy and their understanding of how a hearing unfolds. The case concerned a defendant accused of helping another person cheat in a competition for a substantial prize, with the dispute turning on whether he had been told the information in advance. Lawyers took the roles of judges, prosecutors and defendants. The exercise was followed by a review of the strategies used and the gaps exposed, and forms part of the firm's programme for developing its lawyers.
2025-05-14
Minton's spring team-building trip to Yixing
On 26 April the firm travelled to Yixing in Jiangsu for a two-day team-building trip, visiting the clay museum, the old street and the Dongpo Academy before an afternoon of games at a lakeside resort — a circle game, a hula-hoop relay and a three-way tug of war — and a hot spring in the evening. The next morning the team walked the Nanshan bamboo forest before returning to Shanghai. The trip was meant to build cooperation and give staff a break from their caseloads.
2025-03-08
Minton marks International Women's Day with a tea party
Ahead of the 114th International Women's Day, Minton Law Firm held a tea party for its women staff on the theme of enjoying yourself and coming together. The meeting room was turned into a spring garden, with mango and strawberry cream cakes and a set of gourd-shaped embroidered sachets carrying wishes for peace, health and prosperity. The event was a thank-you for the staff's work and a mark of the firm's regard for its women lawyers, who set aside their files for an afternoon.
2024-12-27
Changning Legal Aid Centre visits Minton Law Firm
On 23 December 2024, Wang Haohan, director of the Changning District Legal Aid Centre, and three colleagues visited Minton Law Firm. They reviewed the firm's handling of the 12348 legal hotline and the quality of its legal aid case files, praised its contribution to legal aid work in 2023 and 2024, and asked about the firm's public-interest legal services and for its suggestions on how the centre might improve. The two sides agreed to keep working together to develop legal aid in the district.
2024-11-20
Minton establishes a legal aid centre
On 15 November 2024, Minton Law Firm established its own legal aid centre and appointed Chen Jinshen as its director. The firm has taken part in legal aid work in Changning District for years, including telephone advice and duty advice at detention centres, and its Party branch has worked with partner communities to provide legal advice. A group of its lawyers, Mr Chen among them, have long taken part in legal aid on a voluntary basis. The centre is an attempt to develop a new model for that work.
2024-11-14
Minton returns to Wugong Mountain
After crossing Wugong Mountain in the rain in October 2021, a group from Minton Law Firm returned to the range in Jiangxi on 9 and 10 November, this time walking the route in the opposite direction. Setting off from the Shenzi village trailhead before dawn, they reached the Golden Summit at 11.30 after five and a half hours, completing what bad weather had prevented three years earlier, then went on over the ridges and down to Longshan village on the afternoon of the second day.
2024-10-16
Zhu Liliang wins both table tennis titles at the 2024 Shanghai lawyers' tournament
On 13 October, Zhu Liliang of Minton Law Firm won both the men's singles and the men's doubles at the 2024 Shenhao Cup Shanghai Lawyers' Table Tennis Tournament, organised by the Shanghai Bar Association. He came through a hard-fought semi-final and controlled the final to take the singles, then paired with a colleague to win the doubles as well. Colleagues from the firm were there to support him, and he thanked them for the encouragement that let him play at his best.
2024-09-14
Rafting and old towns: a quiet trip through Jiangnan
On 23 and 24 August, Minton Law Firm took a group to Tonglu and Jiande in Zhejiang for two days away from the summer heat. The group split into pairs and rafted the Snow Mountain rapids, with its spiral bends and calmer stretches, stayed at a hotel beside the Xin'an River, and the next day walked the old streets of Meicheng, visiting its grey-tiled houses and trying the local food before setting off home. The trip was meant to ease the pressure of work.
2024-09-03
Mingdaoli win their opening group game at the 13th Dehe Hantong Cup
On the morning of 10 August, the first stage of the 13th Dehe Hantong Cup Shanghai Lawyers' Basketball Tournament was played at the basketball hall of the Putuo Workers' Cultural and Sports Centre. Minton's team, playing in light blue under the name Mingdaoli, met the ABC team in their group match and won 41 to 17, with supporters cheering from the sidelines as the lead changed hands early on. The two sides shook hands and posed for photographs after the final whistle.
2024-06-24
Early summer on Nanbei Lake: a team adventure
Minton Law Firm spent 17 and 18 May at the Nanbei Lake scenic area in Jiaxing, combining a visit to its revolutionary sites with an orienteering race across the surrounding hills. Drawn by lot into four teams, staff crossed the lake in pedal boats, followed clue cards through a series of checkpoints and climbed to the top of Gaoyang Mountain, where the Tiger team was first to arrive at 17.35. The two days were meant to give the team a rest at the start of summer and to test how well they work together.
2024-05-10
Minton lecture: safeguarding the rights of older people
On the ninth anniversary of the entry into force of the Law on the Protection of the Rights and Interests of the Elderly, Shanghai Minton Law Firm was invited to a care centre for older people in Huinan Town, Pudong, to speak to local residents about their legal rights. Lawyer Zhang Zhaoying opened with the "come home often" clause and the cases decided under it, then set out the seven rights the law confers, covering the duty of children to support their parents and the disposal of property. The session was part of the firm's public legal education work.
2024-03-29
A spring badminton afternoon
Minton Law Firm held a badminton afternoon for its lawyers, who split into several teams and played a series of matches that drew applause and laughter from the sidelines throughout. Between games the players talked about work and life away from the court, deepening friendships between colleagues and strengthening the team's cohesion. The event was one of a series of staff activities meant to keep the team healthy and used to working together, which the firm treats as a foundation for its practice.
2024-03-15
Minton lecture: protecting consumer rights
Ahead of 15 March, Consumer Rights Day, Shanghai Minton Law Firm was invited by the North Bund subdistrict of Hongkou District to the neighbourhood service station to give a lecture on consumer protection. Lawyer Xu Muwei spoke to an audience of older consumers, starting from the situations residents meet in everyday shopping and setting out the categories of consumer right, the bodies to which a complaint can be taken and the evidence worth keeping. The lecture is part of the firm's public-interest legal work.
2023-11-22
Minton lecture: employment rules for smaller enterprises
On 2 November 2023, at the invitation of Shanghai Ganwan Business Incubator and under the guidance of the Minhang science and technology innovation service centre and the Minhang employment promotion centre, Minton lawyers Shi Ensou, Luo Tong and Zhou Jiali gave a lecture on the employment problems that small and medium-sized enterprises most often meet. Working through cases and practical steps, they explained the Labor Contract Law and related rules and offered advice on handling disputes during employment. Representatives of many local firms attended.
2023-11-22
Halloween at the office: a werewolf night
Minton Law Firm marked Halloween with a werewolf game night at its office in Lujiazui. Staff hung balloons, a printed backdrop and pumpkin decorations around the reception, then spent the evening on the deduction game, the lawyers taking the role of the seer and working through the confusion to pick out the werewolves among the villagers. The account is written in the gothic register of the season, in short lines rather than paragraphs, and closes with a profile of the firm, whose office is on the 10th floor of the Jin Mao Tower.
2023-11-22
Two days across the Seven Peaks
In October, when the weather was clear, a group from Minton Law Firm set out to walk the Seven Peaks traverse, a roughly 50-kilometre ridge route between the two Tianmu mountains in Lin'an, Zhejiang, that passes over seven summits. The firm arranged the trip as a two-day lightweight hike, and by the end the group had covered 47.65 kilometres with 4,720 metres of accumulated ascent, reaching all seven tops including Longwang Mountain at 1,582.4 metres. The route is known among hikers as the second hardest in eastern China.
2023-05-15
Around Lake Tai and up Qionglong Mountain
In April, when the weather was clear, Minton Law Firm took its staff to the shore of Lake Tai near Suzhou for a two-day outing. The first day was a walking race round the lake in five teams, each completing a set of checkpoints before finishing at the Daixin Bay bridge. On the second day the group climbed Qionglong Mountain, the highest point in Suzhou at 341.7 metres, walking up stone steps and through bamboo to the summit. The trip was a break from the office and a chance to be outdoors.
2023-01-16
Brush and ink to greet the new year
Ahead of the Spring Festival the firm's party branch held an afternoon of calligraphy. Director Luo Deqing began by explaining how to hold a brush, the grip differing for beginners and for those with some practice, and then set out what makes a good piece: form, meaning the strokes, the structure of each character and the layout of the sheet, and spirit, meaning the force, momentum and expression of every stroke. Participants practised from copybooks and by the end of the afternoon had written works of their own.
2023-01-10
Minton admitted to two notary offices' estate administrator panels
Shanghai Minton Law Firm has been admitted to the estate administrator referral lists of two notary offices in Shanghai, the Changning notary office and the Zhangjiang notary office. Each of the two assessed the firm separately and found that it satisfied the conditions for entry into its referral pool for estate administrators, and the firm's name now appears on both lists. The certificates issued by the two offices record the admission and the terms for which it runs, and are reproduced with this notice.
2022-08-12
Marking Minton's tenth anniversary
Minton Law Firm reached its tenth anniversary on 8 August 2022. Over the decade it has kept working intensively in outbound investment, securities and finance, civil and commercial litigation and criminal defence, recruited steadily and grown quickly, and its work has drawn high praise from clients and from other quarters. To mark the day, staff decorated the head office in the Jinmao Tower and the firm held an anniversary afternoon tea with fruit, desserts and drinks, together with commemorative gifts and thank-you letters for everyone at the firm.
2021-10-21
Climbing higher, aiming for the next summit
On 16 October the Minton outdoor team set off for Wugong Mountain in Jiangxi for a two-day climb. Leaving Fenglin Villa in Longshan village at 9.45, the group reached the boundary stone at Fayunjie after six hours and spent the night at an inn on the summit of Qianzhang Rock. They set off again at 6.50 the next morning through thick mist, passed Haohan Slope and Despair Slope, and reached Diaomazhuang inn by 12.30, a kilometre short of the Golden Summit, before beginning the descent at 12.40.
2021-08-20
Financial services within reach of small businesses: Zheng Wenhai on signing commercial contracts
On the afternoon of 18 August 2021 Zheng Wenhai of Shanghai Minton Law Firm spoke at a financial training session in Qingpu district, organised by the Qingpu District Development and Reform Commission with the Shanghai Equity Exchange and run by the exchange's Qingpu service centre. Under the theme of finance within reach of small and medium-sized enterprises, he set out the legal rules and the real cases bearing on what to watch for when signing a commercial contract and how to guard against the risks. Officials from the district and from Zhaoxiang Town attended, together with representatives of local enterprises.
2021-07-02
Backing the return to work: a Minton lawyer on financing for small and medium-sized enterprises
On the afternoon of 29 June 2021 Ma Jinbao of Shanghai Minton Law Firm spoke at a financial training session in Qingpu district, held at the invitation of the Shanghai Equity Exchange and organised by the Qingpu District Development and Reform Commission with the exchange's Qingpu service centre. He spoke on the practical process and risk control of corporate investment and mergers and acquisitions. He took the investor's perspective through the diligence issues that matter most, from the target's legal status and group structure to related-party dealings, assets, staffing and litigation, and set out the legal services a firm can provide in such transactions.
2021-05-20
The 2021 Minton Cup Shanghai Lawyers' Table Tennis Team Tournament
The 2021 Minton Cup Shanghai Lawyers' Table Tennis Team Tournament was held on 15 and 16 May 2021 at the Xianglian Table Tennis Hall in Shanghai, organised by the Shanghai Bar Association and sponsored and hosted by Shanghai Minton Law Firm. Twenty-four law firm teams and more than 100 lawyers entered. Minton's team, led by director Shen Mo with Zhu Liliang as coach and player, won its group unbeaten to reach the last eight, beat Shanghai Zhengce 2-1 in the quarter-final, and lost narrowly in the semi-final, finishing fourth behind Shanghai Rongli Tianwen, Beijing Yingke (Shanghai) and Beijing Deheheng (Shanghai).
2021-04-19
"Pulling together, building Minton": the firm's 2021 team-building weekend
On 16 and 17 April 2021 Shanghai Minton Law Firm held a two-day team-building event in Xiaoshan, Hangzhou. The lawyers were split into five groups for a treasure hunt and a tug-of-war, which tested both wits and stamina and brought out the ease with which each team worked together. The following day the group walked up Dayan Mountain through bamboo and streams, and visited Dayan Temple, a surviving late Ming and early Qing foundation, where they talked with the abbot and ate a vegetarian lunch. The weekend strengthened friendships and team spirit.
2021-03-22
Minton's spring table tennis friendly: the High Court, Huangpu government, Huawei and Minton teams
On 20 March the Xianglian table tennis hall hosted a joint training session and spring friendship tournament between four teams: Minton, the Shanghai High People's Court's Pujiang Tianping team, the Huangpu district government's team and the Huawei table tennis club's team. Played as a single round robin, each tie was best of three over five matches, four singles and one doubles, with a woman required in every line-up. Minton beat Huangpu and Huawei but lost the deciding tie to the High Court team, which took the trophy. Director Shen Mo presented the prizes.
2019-03-15
Perseverance wears through stone: a letter of thanks from a client
A letter of thanks from a client, reproduced here as two scanned images, in which a family records its gratitude to the firm's lawyers for their diligence and patience in a road traffic accident claim. The letter is handwritten and dated 7 March 2019.
2018-08-02
Congratulating Shanghai Minton Law Firm on its sixth anniversary
Shanghai Minton Law Firm marks its sixth anniversary with a celebratory piece in verse and short lines that traces its growth from a small practice to offices in Lujiazui, its work in outbound investment, securities and finance, civil and commercial litigation and criminal defence, and its pro bono and overseas engagements along the Belt and Road. It thanks staff and clients for six years of trust, and restates the firm's aim of being a Chinese boutique practice with the capacity to serve clients across the world.
2018-04-27
Minton lawyers attend the opening of Greenland's GKER global maker platform
On 27 April 2017 Shen Mo, director of Minton Law Firm, and Lü Jiabin attended the opening ceremony of Greenland's GKER global maker platform, together with Mr Rick Klink and Ms Claire Li of the Australian securities firm OpenMarkets. There they talked with domestic and foreign investors and companies about corporate finance, outbound investment, industrial cooperation, and how good legal services may be provided to enterprises. During the session Shen Mo introduced Australia's capital market and its exchanges, and set out in detail the listing process and conditions there, the points to watch in corporate finance, and other practical aspects of investment and listing law.
2018-04-08
Minton hosts a salon on property investment and migration to Australia
On 7 April 2018 Minton Law Firm held a salon on property investment and migration to Australia at its Shanghai office, attended by officials of the Queensland government, Australian land and property developers, and partners of the Australian firm AMVS, which has long worked with Minton in strategic partnership. Speakers took the standpoints of government, developer and migration lawyer, covering Queensland's investment advantages, its welfare entitlements, the surge in Chinese applications for permanent residence, and the fact that permanent residents face no extra restrictions on buying property. AMVS set out each step of the application, and the legal services the two firms provide.
2018-04-04
A lecture on the hot issues in Sino-American trade in 2018
At a lecture on the trade tensions of 2018, officials of the Pudong New Area Commission of Commerce in Shanghai reported on the measures the United States has taken against China and on the course of trade between the two countries in recent years. Yu Shengxing of Haihua Yongtai then explained the run of American investigations into Chinese products, numbered 731, 701, 337, 232, 201 and 301, together with export controls and reviews of foreign investment, and China's responses. Discussion turned on the trade deficit, the tariffs imposed unilaterally, and the damage they do to both sides.
2018-03-21
Minton lawyers invited to an exchange held by the Australian Chamber of Commerce
On 16 March Shen Mo, director of Shanghai Minton Law Firm, and senior partner Yao Yuwei took part in an exchange held in Shanghai by the Australian Chamber of Commerce, at the offices of Rio Tinto, whose senior management described the company's operations and strategy. The Minton lawyers spoke on protecting trade secrets, setting out their scope and sharing sensible experience of corporate risk control, and answered legal questions from the executives present. Most of those attending ran manufacturing and supply businesses. The firm also offered templates for trade secret documents and free legal consultation.
2018-03-21
Minton lawyers help Yulan Optoelectronics list on the NEEQ
Henan Yulan Optoelectronics Co., Ltd (stock name Yulan Optoelectronics, code 872745) was admitted to the National Equities Exchange and Quotations system on 15 March 2018. Shen Mo and Fang Fang of Shanghai Minton Law Firm acted throughout, advising the company on the rectifications and standards required, carrying out due diligence, and issuing the legal opinion on the listing. The company, incorporated in August 2013, develops, makes and sells protective and functional films for plastic film products, and its sponsoring broker for the listing was Pacific Securities. Minton's securities and finance department handles NEEQ work.
2017-12-12
Minton lawyer invited to a carbon trading forum held by the Australian Chamber of Commerce
On the afternoon of 12 December 2017 Mr Yao Yuwei of Shanghai Minton Law Firm attended, at the invitation of the Australian Chamber of Commerce, a forum on the future of carbon emissions trading in China, whose guests came from the senior management and ownership of manufacturing enterprises and from the chamber. Mr Hu Wa of the China Carbon Forum presented 2017 prices and forecast the future market, observing that prices will go on rising, that they will affect investment decisions, and that Chinese carbon trading will peak by 2030. Minton will follow the further legislation expected.
2017-09-20
Ms Gauthier of the Canada China Business Council visits Minton
On the afternoon of 20 September 2017 Ms Valerie Gauthier, membership manager of the Canada China Business Council, and Ms Joyce Wang, business development manager, visited Minton Law Firm as invited guests. Mr Yao Yuwei, senior partner, described in detail how the firm's overseas business department has developed in recent years, and thanked the council for the support and help it has always given. The two sides then discussed investment in China by Canadian companies and investment in Canada by Chinese companies, and Minton said it would be glad to provide good bilingual legal services to more member companies of the council.
2017-08-30
Mr James Dunn of the British Chamber of Commerce Shanghai visits Minton
On the afternoon of 30 August 2017 Mr James Dunn, business development director of the British Chamber of Commerce Shanghai, visited Minton Law Firm as an invited guest. Shen Mo, director of the firm, described in detail how its overseas business has developed in recent years, and Mr Dunn explained how the chamber operates in Shanghai, set out the resources it can draw on in the United Kingdom, and described the platform through which it brings those resources together for projects connected with Britain. The two sides reached a common understanding on strengthening their work for British companies in China.
2017-04-27
Minton lawyers attend the opening ceremony of Greenland's GKER global maker platform
On 27 April 2017 Shen Mo, director of Minton Law Firm, and Lü Jiabin attended the opening ceremony of Greenland's GKER global maker platform together with Mr Rick Klink and Ms Claire Li of the Australian securities firm OpenMarkets. There they exchanged views with domestic and foreign investors and enterprises on corporate finance, outbound investment, industrial cooperation, and how good legal services may be provided to enterprises. During the session Shen Mo introduced Australia's capital market and its local stock exchanges, and explained in detail the listing process and conditions there and the points to watch in corporate finance.
2016-09-27
Minton lawyers address a Jintan listing promotion meeting on Australia's capital market
On the afternoon of 13 May, Shen Qunfeng, vice mayor of Jintan in Jiangsu Province, chaired a meeting to promote the listing of local enterprises and to introduce them to Australia's capital market. Shen Mo, director of Shanghai Minton Law Firm, attended as an invited guest and spoke on four subjects: an overview of the Australian capital market; the advantages for small and medium-sized enterprises in listing there; the question of business succession facing Chinese private entrepreneurs; and how shareholding reform, better systems, performance assessment and employee options help a company make a leap forward. Jintan ranks 76th among the hundred strongest county economies in the country.
2016-09-27
Press conference on the signing ceremony between the Shanghai Equity Exchange and NSX
On 10 February 2015 the Shanghai Equity Exchange signed a strategic cooperation agreement, in the form of a memorandum of understanding, with the National Stock Exchange of Australia, with Shanghai Minton Law Firm acting as the party recommending and assisting the arrangement. Shen Mo, director of the firm, said the day was historic for both exchanges, and the chief executive of NSX, Emlyn Scott, took the same view. The next day technical officers of the two exchanges began detailed discussion of their operations, working through each part of the cooperation; as the free trade zone opens its financial policy further, that cooperation is expected to deepen.
2016-09-25
Minton's first legal opinions pass the AMAC review
In July 2016 two legal opinions issued by Minton Law Firm for two large private funds, on the registration and filing of their managers, passed the review of the Asset Management Association of China in succession — one after a single round of feedback, the other without any. The opinions rested on full due diligence and on the Association's rules, and led the managers to standardise their operations and adopt risk management and internal control systems. The result recognises both the substance of the opinions and the care taken in preparing them; Han Yu and Liu Yanmei each acted throughout for one of the two managers.
2016-09-20
Minton lawyers bring about the strategic cooperation agreement between the Shanghai Equity Exchange and NSX
On 10 February 2015 the Shanghai Equity Exchange and the National Stock Exchange of Australia signed a strategic cooperation agreement at the Exchange's premises, Zhang Yunfeng, its general manager, Wei Shuming, assistant to the general manager, and Emlyn Scott, chief executive of NSX, signing together. Shanghai Minton Law Firm, which promoted the arrangement, took part throughout. The two sides reached intentions on exchanging information on securities, cooperating on projects, sharing supervisory experience and financial cooperation in the free trade zone. Wei Shuming said the agreement showed a global vision, and Scott called it a great moment for both financial markets.
2016-06-25
Shanghai hosts a China-Australia capital markets meeting
On 25 June 2015 Emlyn Scott, chief executive of the National Stock Exchange of Australia, the country's second largest exchange, led a delegation to a professional-level meeting on capital markets in Shanghai, attended by nearly thirty investment and fund companies from Shanghai, Jiangsu and elsewhere. The Australian side set out the state of its market and welcomed Chinese companies to list there. Mr Scott said NSX, with low listing costs, fast approval and transparent procedures, is an ideal platform for small and medium-sized enterprises, and that his visit was also to research setting up its Greater China headquarters, most probably in Shanghai. Minton Law Firm hosted the meeting.
2016-05-30
Minton lawyer addresses a listing promotion meeting for entrepreneurs from Wuxi and Jiangyin
On the afternoon of 29 May Shen Mo, director of Shanghai Minton Law Firm, attended a promotion meeting on listing in Australia as an invited guest and spoke to entrepreneurs from Wuxi, Jiangyin and the surrounding region. His talk covered four subjects: an overview of the Australian capital market; the advantages for small and medium-sized enterprises in listing there; the question of business succession facing Chinese private entrepreneurs; and how shareholding reform, better systems, performance assessment and employee options help a company make a leap forward. The meeting, held on the 29th floor of the Shanghai World Financial Center, drew more than sixty successful private entrepreneurs from southern Jiangsu.

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