Hemin Zhou

Hemin Zhou is a partner based in our Shanghai office. His practices cover International Trade & Customs, Corporate, Intellectual Property, Capital Market as well as Litigation and Arbitration. Engagement in teaching and research on Customs laws for more than a decade enriches Hemin Zhou with intensive expertise and experience in Customs laws. Hemin Zhou has provided many multinational companies, listed companies and local enterprises with legal services regarding customs declaration, import & export tariff and VAT (customs classification, valuation and Rule of Origin), business model, processing trade, plant relocation and customs IP protection. Hemin Zhou has also provided helpful legal opinions to several clients when facing customs inspection or investigation and acted as a defender in criminal cases suspected of smuggling. Hemin Zhou works with several large-scale foreign invested enterprises and local companies as an in-house counsel, providing them with general corporate including employment and IP. As to the capital market, Hemin Zhou has represented a renowned Taiwan-funded enterprise leading its project financing. He also has a good legal command of the inter-bank bond market. · Global Law Office

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Partner at Global Law Office based in the Shanghai office, with practices covering International Trade & Customs, Corporate, Intellectual Property, Capital Markets and Litigation & Arbitration. He has more than a decade of teaching and research experience in customs law and advises multinational, listed and local companies on customs declaration, tariffs and VAT, customs classification/valuation/Rules of Origin, processing trade and plant relocation, customs IP protection, and represents clients in customs inspections, investigations and smuggling-related criminal defense; he also acts as in‑house counsel for several large foreign-invested and local enterprises and has handled project financing and inter-bank bond matters.

Practice areas

International Trade & CustomsCorporateIntellectual PropertyCapital MarketsLitigation & Arbitration

Office

China

Global Law Office · Hemin Zhou is a partner based in our Shanghai office. His practices cover International Trade & Customs, Corporate, Intellectual Property, Capital Market as well as Litigation and Arbitration. Engagement in teaching and research on Customs laws for more than a decade enriches Hemin Zhou with intensive expertise and experience in Customs laws. Hemin Zhou has provided many multinational companies, listed companies and local enterprises with legal services regarding customs declaration, import & export tariff and VAT (customs classification, valuation and Rule of Origin), business model, processing trade, plant relocation and customs IP protection. Hemin Zhou has also provided helpful legal opinions to several clients when facing customs inspection or investigation and acted as a defender in criminal cases suspected of smuggling. Hemin Zhou works with several large-scale foreign invested enterprises and local companies as an in-house counsel, providing them with general corporate including employment and IP. As to the capital market, Hemin Zhou has represented a renowned Taiwan-funded enterprise leading its project financing. He also has a good legal command of the inter-bank bond market.

China

Expertise

Customs LawCustoms Classification, Valuation & Rules of OriginCustoms Declaration, Tariff & VATCustoms Inspections & InvestigationsSmuggling Criminal DefenseProcessing Trade & Plant RelocationCustoms IP ProtectionProject Financing & Inter-bank Bond MarketIn-house Corporate Counsel

Education

LL.M., Xiamen University Law School

Languages

ChineseEnglish