Xu Lixin

Practice areas

Review of legal compliance for import and export trade; Commodity classification; Customs inspection & administrative penalties; Defence of economic crimes

Introduction

Xu Lixin is a senior partner and chief executive partner of China Commercial Law Firm Guangdong. Xu graduated from East China University of Political Science and Law in 1988, and obtained an on-the-job Master’s degree of world economics at Peking University in 1996. From 1988 to 1991, he served as an instructor in the training centre of Guangdong Industrial and Commercial Bureau, and simultaneously served as an arbitrator in the bureau.

From 1991 to 1998, he successively served as supervisor of case reconsideration for Shenzhen Huanggang Customs, chief assistant and deputy chief of the sections of investigation and handling of smuggling cases, inspection, and supervision. From 1998 to 2004, he successively served as the principal of the examination department of smuggling cases in the Anti-Smuggling Bureau of Shenzhen Customs, and chief of the pre-trial investigation section and assistant director of the legal affairs department.

Xu has practised law as a professional lawyer in China Commercial Law Firm in Guangdong since June 2004, and is now a senior partner and chief executive partner at the firm. At the same time, he has been the director of the customs legal affairs department at the firm for years.

Xu is a member of the economic crime defence committee of the Guangdong Lawyers Association, a member of the international and Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan work committee of the Shenzhen Lawyers Association and the Shenzhen Lawyers’ Union committee, as well as director of its finance department.

Xu has profound theoretical knowledge and experience, and his legal services cover a wide range of litigation and non-litigation fields including customs legal affairs, criminal defence of economic crimes, foreign investment, cross-border e-commerce, the supply chain, and so on. He has remarkable insight into customs legal affairs, economic crimes and the business environment.

Besides his experience in arbitration and defence, Xu has provided huge amount of clients with professional, accurate and feasible legal solutions over the years. His high standard and professional services have been widely recognised by clients and professionals in various fields.

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