(1) Admiralty Affairs  
 
Yang & Lin Co. Law Firm is an elite maritime lawyer team with abundant legal experience and practices in handling admiralty affairs, the team’s lawyers come from Maritime Safety Administration, Maritime College and Shipping Company, most of them have the qualifications of captain and deck officer, and Yang & Lin is equipped with experts in handling admiralty affairs and senior master mariners as consultants; professionally handles admiralty affairs such as ship's collision, contact and stranding of the vessel；Oil pollution and environmental damage; Salvage at sea; Salvage and removal of the wreckage; Personal injury and death; General and particular average; Port operations.
 
(2) Maritime Affairs
 
Yang & Lin Co. Law Firm provides comprehensive services related to shipping documents and dispute solutions to shipowners, charterers, operators, insurance companies, P&I clubs, logistics companies, trade companies, freight forwarder etc. Areas of practice include: Bills of lading, sea waybills and multimodal transport document; Bareboat charters, time charters and voyage charters; Arrest of ship, lien on cargo; Maritime security; Agency agreements, shipping agency and cargo forwarding; Logistics and multi-modal transport; Salvage contracts and towage; Maritime fraud, smuggling at sea; Pirate.
 
(3) Insurance
 
Yang & Lin Co. Law Firm possesses solid theoretical expertise and rich practical experience in the field of handling insurance. Areas of practice include: Hull insurance; Cargo insurance; P&I insurance; Property insurance; Liability insurance; Credit insurance; Reinsurance; Insurance recovery claims.
 
(4) Ship Construction and Financing
 
Yang & Lin Co. Law Firm expands financing businesses such as shipbuilding and mortgaging, and has relatively rich experience in finance-related insurance; capable of organizing multi-party cooperation across the shipping, banking and other financial industries and complete ship construction and purchasing deals and cooperation on behalf of charterers, operators and financial institutions. Areas of practice include: Ship building; Ship purchase, sale; Ship mortgaging; Ship repair, conversion and scrapping; Financing loan in ship construction and ship purchase, sale; Trade financing (documentary letters of credit, commercial instruments); Foreign exchange, futures transaction; Legal affairs relating to daily financial operations.
 
(5) Real Estate
 
Yang & Lin Co. Law Firm offers professional legal services including real estate development, construction, supervision, the acquisition of land-use rights, construction project, purchase and sale of real estate, leasing, mortgaging, loan, financing and securities of real estate.
 
(6) Overseas Arbitration
 
Yang & Lin Co. Law Firm has ever dealt with several maritime arbitration cases in London, Hong Kong and Singapore on behalf of parties in China. Yang & Lin Co. Law Firm can also provide oversea arbitration services for parties in China, especially those involving charter parties, salvaging, contracts of carriage by sea, international trade and insurance.
 
(7) Corporate/Investment
 
Yang & Lin Co. Law Firm assists companies in guarding against various legal risks and in settling disputes with a professional lawyer team，covering a full range of legal services related to corporate affairs and any other affairs concerned with investment, including drawing up contract and articles of association, setting up documents. Areas of practice include: General legal counsel; Resolution of corporate disputes(mediation/ litigation/arbitration); Resolution of investment disputes(mediation/ litigation/arbitration); Approval and registration of establishment of the corporate; Mergers, acquisitions, separations, branch establishment; Completing all formalities for setting up wholly foreign-owned enterprises, Sino-foreign joint venture/cooperative enterprise; Articles of association, joint venture contracts, shareholders' agreements; Change of shareholders of corporate, loan and financing; Increase/decrease of the registered capital of corporate; Transfer of corporate shares; Notices, minutes and resolutions of shareholder/director meetings; Corporate governance, bylaws and business secret protection; Corporate reorganization and capital restructuring; Corporate winding-up, termination, bankruptcy and liquidation; Tax registration.
 
(8) Commercial/International Trade
 
Yang & Lin Co. Law Firm provides a comprehensive range of legal support relating to domestic and international trade in goods and services, and is frequently involved in drafting, examining, modifying and interpreting contracts and other legal documents as well as mediation, arbitration or litigation. Areas of practice include: Legal feasibility studies; Commercial contracts; Letters of credit and guarantees; Foreign exchange control and trade-related taxation; Customs, commodity and quality inspections; Debt recovery; Dispute resolution (mediation/arbitration/litigation); Recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitration awards and court judgments; Matters relating to e-commerce.
 
(9) Intellectual Property Rights
 
Yang & Lin Co. Law Firm is staffed with a group of lawyers with rich intellectual property legal service experience. They have established close cooperation relationship with patent/trademark agency institutions and authorities and can render legal service about intellectual property rights. Areas of practice include:Application and registration of trademarks and patents; Protection of copyrights including software and integrated circuits layout design; Objection application, administrative review and litigation of trademarks and patents; Technological development, cooperation and service contract; Transfer, licensing, and trade of technology, investment through technology; Protection of trade names and indications of origin; Applications for injunctions to cease infringements, Litigation and arbitration; Administrative and customs protection of intellectual property rights; Trade-related protection of intellectual property rights; Protection of domain names and internet-related intellectual property rights; Anti-unfair Competition.
 
(10) Economic, Civil, Administrative Affairs
 
Review, draft, and amend contracts, regulations and other legal documents; Contract negotiation; Disputes of credit and debit; Tort; Draft, amend labor contracts and human resource management regulations; Labor arbitration and litigation; Disputes of personal injuries compensation; Hearing of administrative punishments, administrative reconsideration, administrative litigation.
 
(11) Criminal
 
Provide legal advice, act for defendants, appeal, private prosecution; Accept authorization, meet with suspects, apply for the bail pending trail with restricted liberty of moving, serve as defenders.