Chongqing Solton & Partners (hereinafter called Solton), was established by legal professionals who have returned from overseas training and was registered by Chongqing Bureau of Justice in January 1995. Solton & Partners is the first legal practicing partnership established mainly by professionals who have received training in the west and returned from overseas to practice law in west China.

    The high-speed development of economic and legal systems in China in the 90's has brought opportunities for Solton to expand rapidly. Solton was formed to be a special law firm providing the commercial services relating to foreign affairs, has grown to be one of the largest law firms in Chongqing City, the youngest municipality witch is directly under the Central Government. Solton & Partners provides all encompassing service in commercial affairs and legal services for the domestic and foreign clientele and plays an important role in the regional economic development.

    Facing the emerging and competition of the western legal services market, Solton is confident it connects with international practice and method and has positioned itself to provide professionalized commercial affairs legal consultation and representation. Solton has trained and perfected a professional high quality attorney team according to its strict standards of excellence and managerial system.

    Solton usually keeps 20 full-time attorneys in its Chongqing main office, while some other attorneys are working in Hong Kong or coastal areas for our clients. All of the attorneys in Solton hold at least a Bachelor's Degree. Many of our attorneys have obtained Doctoral, Master's, double majors, and other degrees in famous universities in the United States, Japan, and China. Even more important is that many of our number have more than 10-year experiences in practice and some of them had engaged in legal practice for the government, justice institutions and domestic and foreign enterprises before they chose to be full-time attorneys. We have a very solid professional foundation. From Solton's point of the view, receiving specialized education and training and obtaining the rich experiences are the keys to ensure that the attorneys will consistently serve our clients in the best way possible and help to be a unique problem-solving ardency. Solton has devoted every effort to advancing the ability of our attorneys to serve your needs.

    According to its specialty, Solton echeloned different professional teams to provide services to our clients. Among those professional teams, some have become very influential, such as the team for the laws related to foreign business, team for corporate law (including organizational reform and assets reorganization), the team for real estate law, the team for finance & security, and the team for intellectual property law. In addition, Solton, has been very successful in representing our clients in the areas of economic litigation, administrative litigation, business arbitration, and dispute negotiation.

    In 1998, the executive partner Han De Yun, as the representative figure of Solton, was honored with the title of the first Chongqing City "Top Ten Attorneys". <<Chongqing Legality>> interviewed for this event and reported with a long article titled "A person who created a model for excellence". Before and after this event, Solton won other honors, such as the title "Advanced Collective" granted by Chongqing City Bureau of Justice in 1997, the title "Objective Advanced Management Collective" granted by Chongqing City Bureau of Justice in 1998, the title "Law Firm with Civility, Municipal Level" granted by Chongqing City Bureau of Justice in 1999, Zou Xiao Li, the attorney, was granted the honorable title of "People's Satisfied Attorney". In addition, Solton was invited to participate in local legislative consultations and arbitrations by The Standing Committee of Chongqing City People's Congress, Chongqing City People's Government, Chongqing City Arbitration Committee.