by Miao Ting Legal Team | Grandall Nanjing
Legal Bridge China is an English-first front door for foreign companies, founders, and cross-border teams. Miao Ting is an equity partner of Grandall Law Firm (Nanjing), and this site is built around the real business steps that usually need PRC counsel.
Most files do not begin as a neat practice label. They begin with a business step: set up, register a mark, appoint a distributor, sign a contract, hire a team, secure a license, or fix a problem. The site is organised around those steps.
Choose the right local presence, prepare formation documents, set governance rules, and line up the first operating approvals.
Open this pageClear the brand, plan filings, protect Chinese-language marks, and stop local counterparties from taking registration leverage too early.
Open this pageDraft and review distribution, supply, service, NNN, confidentiality, and payment-risk terms that have to work under PRC facts.
Open this pagePrepare onboarding documents, work rules, signatory controls, management reporting lines, and termination planning before problems harden.
Open this pageMap recurring PRC requirements that affect the launch timetable, product movement, local operations, and documentation discipline.
Open this pagePrepare evidence, pressure a non-performing counterparty, and protect leverage when payment, delivery, or cooperation starts slipping.
Open this pageThese pages are built for the questions that often arrive before a full instruction has been framed.
For foreign companies that already know a local entity is likely and now need the registration path organised cleanly.
Open pageFor businesses that need the English mark, Chinese brand version, and filing timing aligned before launch.
Open pageFor companies that need stronger channel terms on territory, exclusivity, pricing, brand use, and exit.
Open pageFor businesses that need the first local employment pack, work rules, and authority controls lined up before hiring.
Open pageThese pages are for teams that already know the exact pressure point and want to land on it immediately.
For businesses that need the approval path, recurring filings, and operating permissions mapped clearly before launch or expansion.
Open pageFor teams that need to organise contracts, invoices, evidence, notices, and pressure strategy before the payment record weakens.
Open pageFor businesses sending drawings, samples, tooling, or pricing into China before the broader manufacturing contract is ready.
Open pageFor companies that need stronger supply terms on specifications, quality control, tooling, delivery, payment, and warranty risk.
Open pageIt starts earlier: which entity to use, which mark to file, which local partner to trust, which clauses to insist on, and which controls to build before the team is on the ground.
Clarify the commercial objective, choose the local structure, and identify the PRC steps that affect timing, control, and cost.
Line up trademarks, contracts, approvals, authority paths, and first-wave employment documents before the market move becomes hard to reverse.
As operations begin, maintain compliance, preserve documentary discipline, and act early if a counterparty, employee, or distributor becomes a risk point.
The hard part is often not the first form or the first draft. It is understanding how a PRC legal issue changes the real business step under discussion. This site is designed to shorten that gap.
The guides are for foreign companies that know China counsel is likely needed but still want a cleaner first question before they send documents.
A short guide to choosing a market-entry path, sequencing formation steps, and planning control before launch.
Read guideA practical checklist for brands and trading companies before they hand over territory, pricing, tooling, or confidential information.
Read guideA quick guide to the first HR and compliance documents that should exist before employees are onboarded locally.
Read guideUse these articles to get oriented before the company commits to a structure, a filing path, a brand launch, a hiring plan, or a China-facing contract.
The first operating quarter in China is usually when document discipline, approval controls, and recurring compliance steps either become stable or start drifting quickly.
A China distribution agreement should do more than open territory. It should keep pricing, customer access, payment control, and exit leverage in the right place before launch.
The best early hiring plans in China start with reporting lines, work rules, approval paths, and evidence discipline before the first local employee is onboarded.
Trademark timing in China is usually a leverage issue before it becomes a dispute issue, especially when a distributor or local channel partner is about to use the brand first.
