From August to September 2015, the election campaigns for various business research committees of the Shanghai Bar Association were successively conducted. After an open competitive selection and intense competition, Mr. Jin Bingyi, the Managing Partner of our firm, was successfully elected as the Deputy Director of the Corporate and Commercial Business Research Committee.

Runyi Law Firm is positioned as a modern law firm primarily providing commercial legal services, and has been recognized by Chambers as a "Leading Domestic Law Firm in Corporate/Listed Companies in Shanghai, Eastern Coastal China" for two consecutive years. Mr. Jin Bingyi has extensive experience in foreign direct investment and indirect investment, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, intellectual property/trade secret protection, commercial contract disputes, labor law, foreign-related arbitration and litigation.

Mr. Jin, as the Managing Partner, stated that in the research of corporate and commercial business, he will seize the two major opportunities—"national strategies" and "the latest amendments to the Company Law and other laws, negative lists, mixed ownership, etc."—which provide a broad platform for lawyers. Based on the new context, he aims to promote new development and realize new dividends. On the basis of inheritance, he will focus on three major innovative measures—"cross-creation, visualization, and comprehensive risk prevention"—to drive the development of corporate litigation, non-litigation, and legal advisory services in the legal profession.