Education
Our Team
JunHe has a team of partners experienced in providing specialist legal services in the education sector, including several partners who have many years’ experience in each segment of the industry. JunHe’s education law team is an interdisciplinary cooperative group closely following up industry trends and respecting the regularities in industrial development, and all members of the team are legal professionals. They have vast experience in various sectors such as compliance, corporate and M&A, listing and bond issuance, both at home and abroad. They have experience in real estate, private equity/venture investment, intellectual property rights, taxes, and labor and dispute resolution.
Core Areas of Practice
Perennial legal advice for education businesses, including but not limited to: collecting and interpretating the latest educational legislation and regulations; drafting and revising legal documents for daycare, preschool, vocational, higher education, academic education, lifelong education and educational service entities, providing legal advice for routine operation and management, strategic planning, new business cooperation models; advice on industry information and other advisory services;
Consulting on compliance with the classification management of private schools, including legal risk assessment of a school before the selection of classification management, preparing legal plans on the selection of classification management and assisting in the implementation thereof, assisting schools in the establishment of modern school systems, alteration of organizers, legal settlements, deregistration and alteration of registration;
International education, including applications for the establishment and the setting up of Sino-foreign cooperative educational institutions and Sino-foreign cooperative education programmes; demonstrating and designing models for international schools’ access to China’s education market, conducting policy analysis, and the contractual negotiation and drafting of material legal documents; expansion of business in China by foreign educational institutions and foreign exchange controls involved in the process;
Intellectual property protection for educational content and products, including the formulation and implementation of protection plans for copyright, software copyright, patents, trademarks, and trade secrets;
Merger and acquisitions of educational institutions, including the demonstration and design of transaction structures, due diligence, contractual negotiation, transfer of equity interests, tax planning and post-investment management;
Dispute settlement for disputes over administrative penalties, the right to organize, joint school management, educational services and labor disputes.
One-Stop service in the education industry
Due to JunHe’s in-depth understanding of the education industry and the specific needs of its customers, we can fully understand the intentions of our clients and make accurate legal judgments regarding their business plans. We are aware of the highly sensitive nature of the business needs of the different entities in the industry and can provide advice in many areas such as running a school at different age levels, current trends in the education industry, as well as all related legal issues.
There has been massive reform in the education sector recently, as well as the rapid development of the non-government funded education sector, and we are able to provide up to date investment and financing legal services. We have experience in areas such as establishing modern school systems, routine legal risk management assessment, M&A and restructuring, capital increase and share expansion, and share transfer and listing, both at home and abroad. We can provide legal services for non-profit public educational institutions, particularly in their restructuring to become profit-making private educational institutions and assist them in the handling of various disputes arising from the preparation and operation of private educational institutions. We can also participate in litigation and arbitration where necessary.
JunHe’s legal services include the prevention of economic and civil risks arising from industrial construction and management in education and public welfare undertakings and dispute settlement. We can assist administrative departments in legal risk prevention and dispute resolution with respect to the administrative powers and the performance of administrative service functions.
JunHe has assisted public schools in formulating internal management systems regarding relationships between schools and teachers, between teachers and students, as well as between schools and the administrative departments in charge of education. JunHe also provides legal feasibility studies in respect to cooperation between schools and other entities, including cooperative education with enterprises, and interschool communications, as well as controlling the legal risks involved; we also assists schools in handling personal and property safety accidents.
