NEO-ARK Law Firm is a comprehensive law firm located in the CBD of Zhujiang New Town, Tianhe District, Guangzhou. Its service areas include real estate and construction engineering, criminal defense, marriage and family, family wealth inheritance, intellectual property, infrastructure investment and financing, legal counsel, enterprise compliance and mergers and acquisitions, Internet and new media, banking and finance, medical health and pharmaceuticals, equity incentives, smart travel legal services, foreign commercial arbitration and litigation, labor and social security, bankruptcy reorganization and liquidation, etc.
The law firm has established a complete organizational structure and management system, and has been rated as a standardized law firm in Guangzhou and an A-level tax credit unit in Guangzhou. Due to its outstanding performance and good reputation, the firm was shortlisted for the ALB Most Promising Law Firm Award in 2021. In 2023 and 2024, it was shortlisted for the ALB Real Estate and Construction Law Firm of the Year Award in South China and Central China for two consecutive years. Luoya is enthusiastic about public welfare and actively fulfills its social responsibilities. It was awarded the Advanced Public Welfare Unit Award by the Guangzhou Lawyers Association in 2022 and 2023, and was rated as an advanced public welfare unit by the Tianhe District Justice Bureau. The firm is a practical teaching base for many universities such as Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Police College, South China Normal University, South China Agricultural University, Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University, and Guangzhou University of Science and Technology. Due to its efficient and professional service level, the firm has been successively rated as an "Outstanding Supplier of PPP Legal Services for Huajian Group", "Advanced Collective of the Foshan Metro Line 2 Project Team in 2019", and "Advanced Collective of the Foshan Metro Line 2 Project Team in 2020".
Our firm is one of the few in the Guangzhou area with "dual qualifications", holding both a law firm practice license and a patent agency practice license. We are a council member of the Guangdong Intellectual Property Protection Association, a council member of the Tianhe District Intellectual Property Federation in Guangzhou, and a member of the Tianhe District Intellectual Property Federation in Guangzhou. NEO-ARK is a specially invited mediation institution of the Guangzhou Internet Court. Many of our lawyers serve as mediators in the Guangzhou Internet Court, Huangpu District Court, Yuexiu District Court and other institutions, making outstanding contributions to mediation work and dispute resolution. Many of our lawyers hold important social positions such as graduate student mentors at universities, arbitrators at arbitration committees, and experts in the expert database of the Development and Reform Commission. Several of our lawyers have worked in large state-owned enterprises as senior executives, in government departments as responsible persons, in corporate legal departments as legal affairs managers, and in public security, procuratorial and judicial organs.
Our firm attaches great importance to talent cultivation. Among our practicing lawyers and legal assistants, approximately 12% are professors or hold doctoral degrees; over 50% of our practicing staff have postgraduate degrees or higher. About 10% of our lawyers have studied or worked abroad. More than 10% of our practicing personnel have the ability to communicate and work in English, Japanese or French, fully meeting the needs of different professional fields. For some major and difficult cases, our firm also invites experts and professors from both within and outside the province to conduct discussions and arguments, making comprehensive judgments on the cases to ensure the best solutions for our clients' rights and interests.
To promote professional division of labor and development, Luoya established four research centers, namely the Engineering Construction and Infrastructure Investment Research Center, the Family and Matrimonial Affairs Research Center, the Criminal Law Research Center, and the New Media and Intellectual Property Research Center. These research centers were led by university professors and retired senior executives from state-owned enterprises. They aim to integrate the firm's past experience and existing resources, and promote the in-depth development of legal research, strengthen the practical summary of legal practice, and effectively enhance the professional service level of Luoya lawyers through regular salon activities, publication of legal compilations, and presentation of research project results.
The law firm attaches great importance to the cultivation of young lawyers and has established a Youth Lawyers Working Committee for this purpose. The committee aims to study the problems and difficulties encountered by young lawyers in their growth, formulate measures and plans to support their development, organize activities that are in line with the characteristics of young lawyers to enhance their comprehensive quality and professional skills, and organize various forms of exchanges between young lawyers of the firm and those from other law firms.