Contents:
Business Sectors:
Primary-level land development (including acquisition and transfer of land use right)
Compensation for expropriation, relocation and resettlement
Settlement of administrative disputes over expropriation
Introduction:
The Real Estate Expropriation Department of Shanghai Yingdong Law Firm is a newly established business unit following in the footsteps of Shanghai Bar Association to realize the professionalization of lawyers. Relying on the senior partners in the Firm and a team of lawyers with abundant practical experience, and the good cooperation relationship with governmental relocation offices and expropriation service firms, the Department is dedicated to providing clients with high-quality legal services for real estate expropriation.
Details:
Department Introduction:
As a professional real estate expropriation department, the Real Estate Expropriation Department of Shanghai Yingdong Law Firm is able to handle all kinds of matters in real estate expropriation and solve all kinds of issues satisfactorily. With in-depth study of industry specialties, the Department can solve the issues faced by clients in land development, land use rights transfer and negotiation over compensation for expropriation, relocation and resettlement to their satisfaction.
The business is divided into two different parts, litigation and non-litigation. The litigation business includes representing expropriated owners, public housing tenants, cohabitants and housing users to institute civil proceedings, administrative reconsideration, litigation, and other relevant legal services; the non-litigation business includes providing expropriation subjects and expropriation authorities with legal advice on expropriation, investigation, drafting and revising expropriation plans, drafting and revising various legal documents, issuing special legal opinions, training expropriation staff, participating in expropriation-related evaluation, hearing of witnesses and negotiation, administrative reconsideration, litigation, and other relevant legal services and social conflict resolution.
Business Sectors:
Primary-level land development
The lawyers of the Department are engaged by the government or its authorized enterprises to handle expropriation, relocation, resettlement and compensation in connection with urban state-owned land and rural collective-owned land within a certain area, and to cooperate with construction of appropriate municipal supporting facilities. The Department is able to assist in handling governmental examination and approval for primary development, including planning, project approval or registration, land expropriation, relocation, and other approval procedures for primary development and expropriation work for collective-owned land.
Compensation for expropriation, relocation and resettlement
In the day-to-day legal counseling, the Department mainly works for the governmental relocation and resettlement office of some town in some district of Shanghai, works with a dozen of village committees and collective enterprises in that area, and has a long-time cooperation relationship with the expropriation office in some area. The Department has abundant practical experience in properly handling routine land expropriation, real estate demolition and relocation, collective land relocation and other relevant matters, and help clients solve legal issues in compensation for expropriation, relocation and resettlement.
Settlement of administrative disputes over expropriation
The Department is focused on innovation and sharing of policy information, and can be regarded as a kind of “legislator”. Most of the legal disputes the Department handles in providing services for relocation and resettlement offices of each regional or town government are administrative disputes. Therefore, the Department provides the clients with advice on their administrative actions of expropriation and resettlement, and issues legal opinions and other relevant documents as necessary.
Typical Cases:
Compensation for expropriation, relocation and resettlement
The lawyers of the Department are members of a pool of part-time legal advisors for the government in some district of Shanghai;
The Department is a permanent legal service provider of the relocation and resettlement office (formerly the Urban and Rural Construction and Management Service Center) of some town in some district of Shanghai;
The lawyers of the Department serve as permanent legal advisors of many village committees of the town and use their specialties to solve different kinds of cases, such as land lease, housing lease, and compensation for housing demolition and resettlement, for all subordinate units and institutions in the town.
Settlement of administrative disputes over expropriation
Representing the greening administration of some district in Shanghai in a dispute with some company over government information disclosure and winning the case;
Working closely with some industrial park in Shanghai to address the legal needs of all large-sized enterprises in the park;
Providing legal services for the construction of the Shanghai Hongqiao Comprehensive Transportation Hub Project with a total investment of 80 billion RMB.