Automotive is one of the important practice areas of AnJie Broad, with a team consisting of partners and senior lawyers who are experienced in the automotive industry and related laws and have extensive social resources. A number of lawyers in the team with many years of experience in the automotive industry would go deep into enterprises to help top international and domestic automobile companies succeed in China and the global market.

AnJie Broad lawyers provided legal services to well-known auto makers at home and abroad, including Tesla, Daimler, BMW, Volvo, Rolls-Royce, Volkswagen, Toyota and Great Wall Motor, covering product liability/ consumer claims cases, cross-border M&A, designing automobile dealer structure, drafting various cooperation agreements, agreements with suppliers, investment matters, international trade, data compliance, intellectual property rights and so on.

The scope of legal services AnJie Broad can provide to clients in automotive covers, among others:

Import and Customs

• Foreign trade regulations

• Customs registration

• Customs regulation

Regulation

• Type approval

• Relationship between connected vehicle features and other regulatory aspects (data protection, privacy protection, etc.)

• Telecommunications demand arising from the use of embedded SIM cards

• Analysis of recall risks

• OTA, EDR (Event Data Recorder), etc.

• Requirements related to batteries

• Vehicle to home

Tax and Subsidy

• Import duty

• Corporate tax

• Sales tax

• Filling out tax returns

• Filing tax returns

• Eligibility for subsidy on electric vehicle

• Customer’s subsidy/tax exemption

• Self-subsidy/tax exemption

Insurance

• General insurance

• Product liability

• D&O liability insurance

• Environmental issues

• Network

Intellectual Property Rights

• Protection of proprietary intellectual property rights

• Third-party intellectual property rights

• Service invention

Brand

• Promotion

• Marketing

• Public relations

• External exchange

Direct sales/ distribution

• Establishment of company, if required

• Self-distribution network (standard lease contract/ purchase agreement, license, standard consumer sales agreement/ commercial sales)

• Third-party distribution (distribution, after-sales)

• E-commerce/ online sales (standard consumer sales agreement, standard commercial sales agreement, website terms and conditions, data protection/ Cookie policy/ facilitation of test drive/ presentation/ information technology infrastructure)

• Type of distribution offered (sale, lease, financing)

• Car sharing

Maintenance and Repair

• Maintenance and repair network

• Purchasing/ spare parts inventory reserves

• Battery-related support organizations and infrastructure

Logistics

• Transport

• Warehousing

• Spare parts logistics

• Method for second-life batteries

• Charging infrastructure