Automobile & Manufacturing

Automobile & Manufacturing

Hylands’ automotive and manufacturing legal service team is led by senior experts - including former general counsel and chief compliance officers of Fortune 500 automotive groups - with team members boasting both solid legal expertise and extensive industry practical experience. The team has long focused on the entire industrial chain of the automotive and manufacturing sectors, accurately grasping the industry’s legal policy trends and business directions. It covers core links such as R&D, production, sales, service trade, investment and financing, M&A and restructuring, intellectual property, and compliance management, delivering forward-looking and customized legal solutions for global clients to help enterprises effectively control risks, optimize operations, and achieve high-quality development.

Hylands’ team has long served Fortune 500 automotive groups, large manufacturing enterprises, listed companies, and innovative enterprises, and has achieved outstanding results in areas like dispute resolution, cross-border M&A, intellectual property layout, and compliance system construction.


Services

  • M&A and Restructuring: Full-Process Precision Oversight to Empower Industrial Upgrading
    Transaction structure design: Develop transaction models for domestic and foreign M&A, joint ventures, and cooperative projects, aligned with industry policies and business objectives.
    End-to-end support: Provide full-lifecycle services, spanning due diligence, contract drafting, anti-monopoly filing, transaction closing, and post-closing integration.
    Risk management & control: Identify regulatory red lines and transaction barriers, and assist clients in navigating complex challenges like national security reviews and anti-monopoly investigations.
  • Compliance and risk management: A four-in-one system to solidify the foundation for development
    System establishment: Build a “four-in-one” management system integrating legal affairs, compliance, internal control, and risk management - covering key areas such as anti-monopoly, data security, and product quality.
    Industry adaptation: Formulate forward-looking compliance strategies in response to trends like intelligent connectivity and new energy transition.
    Specialized services: Support clients in addressing government investigations, criminal compliance crises, and labor disputes; provide compliance training and effectiveness assessments.
  • Full-Lifecycle Intellectual Property (IP) Services: Safeguard Innovation and Drive Value
    Strategic layout: Support IP pool development, core technology protection, global trademark registration, and IP enforcement.
    Risk prevention & control: Conduct patent early-warning analysis, assist with trade secret protection, and perform compliance reviews for cross-border technology licensing.
    Dispute resolution: Represent clients in high-stakes cases, including patent infringement litigation, trademark opposition and reexamination, and criminal prosecution for trade secret infringement.
  • Dispute resolution: Deploy diversified strategies to resolve complex disputes
    Industry expertise: Address in-depth legal challenges in emerging fields, including automobile recalls, new energy battery liability, and autonomous driving accidents.
    Diversified solutions: Deliver comprehensive solutions (including negotiation, mediation, litigation and arbitration) for contract disputes across the industrial chain’s upstream and downstream - such as those related to technology development, supply chains, and distribution agreements - and for product quality disputes.
    Cross-border enforcement: Assist in the recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitration awards, and support clients in addressing international trade frictions and overseas compliance investigations.
  • Comprehensive Industrial Chain Services: Full-Chain Empowerment Driven by Innovation
    Investment & financing support: Offer services for new energy project financing, supply chain finance compliance, and cross-border capital operations. Digital transformation: Provide legal support for smart factory construction, industrial data compliance, and legal framework design for the Internet of Vehicles ecosystem. ESG & carbon neutrality: Assist with carbon footprint compliance, green supply chain management, and the implementation of ESG investment and financing projects.
  • Cross-Border Trade and International Operations:Facilitate Enterprises’ Global Market Expansion
    Import & export legal affairs: Handle legal matters related to the import and export of auto parts and whole vehicles - including (but not limited to) drafting and reviewing import-export contracts, ensuring customs declaration compliance, and addressing trade barriers - to guarantee enterprises’ legal and compliant operations in international trade.
    Cross-border investment & establishment: Provide full-process legal support for automotive and manufacturing enterprises seeking to invest in overseas factories, establish R&D centers, or build sales networks. This includes researching the legal environment of target markets, designing investment structures, interpreting local policies and regulations, and ensuring compliance - to mitigate legal risks during enterprises’ internationalization.
    International regulation & compliance: Assist enterprises in meeting automotive industry regulatory requirements across different countries and regions (e.g., EU automotive safety standards, U.S. environmental regulations). This ensures enterprises’ product compliance and legal operations in global markets, and helps avoid risks such as heavy fines or market bans due to non-compliance.

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