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 that closely follows industry trends and respects the regulations involved in industrial development. All members of our team are legal professionals with vast experience in sectors such as compliance, corporate and M&A, and 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. This includes but is not limited to: collecting and interpreting the latest educational legislation and regulations; drafting and revising legal documents for education administrative authorities, educational institutions, and educational service providers with respect to daycare, preschool, vocational, higher education, international education, academic education, lifelong education and other education phases; providing legal advice for routine operation and management, strategic planning, new business cooperation models and advice on industry information and other advisory services.
Education compliance. This includes compliance services for both public and private education institutions, (such as campus safety incident risk prevention and the legal risk assessment of private schools before the selection of classification management), preparing legal plans regarding the selection of classification management and assisting in the implementation thereof, assisting schools in the establishment of modern school systems, alterations of organizers, legal settlements, deregistration and alterations of registration.
International education. This includes applications for the establishment and 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.
Technology transfers for educational institutions. This includes designing, analyzing, and validating technology transfer plans and equity structures; drafting major legal documents such as institutional charters, intellectual property protection regulations, technology transfer management policies, and technology transfer agreements.
Intellectual property protection for educational content and products. This includes the formulation and implementation of protection plans for copyright, software copyright, patents, trademarks, and trade secrets.
Mergers and acquisitions of educational institutions. This includes the demonstration and design of transaction structures, due diligence, contractual negotiation, the 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 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 areas such as running a school at different age levels, current trends in the education industry, and all related legal issues.
There has been a massive amount of reform in the education sector recently and the non-government funded education sector has developed rapidly. We can provide up to date investment and financing legal services. We have experience in establishing modern school systems, routine legal risk management assessments, M&A and restructuring, capital increase and share expansion, as well as share transfers and listings, 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 in the handling of disputes arising from the preparation and operation of private educational institutions. We 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 administrative powers and the performance of administrative service functions.
JunHe has assisted public schools in formulating internal management systems for the relationships between schools and teachers, teachers and students, and schools and the administrative departments in charge of education. JunHe also provides legal feasibility studies for cooperations 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.
