Practice areas

Legal compliance for import/export; Commodity tariff classification dispute; Customs inspection & administrative penalties; Criminal defence of economic crimes

Introduction

Xu Lixin is 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 the on-the-job master’s degree of world economics of Peking University in 1996.

From 1988 to 1991, he served as an instructor in the training center of the 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 of Shenzhen Huanggang Customs, chief assistant and deputy chief of the section of investigation and handling of smuggling cases, inspection section, supervision section, inspection section. 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, chief of the pre-trial investigation section and assistant director of the legal affairs department.

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

Xu is a member of economic crime defence committee of the Guangdong Lawyers Association, member of International & Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan work committee of the Shenzhen Lawyers Association and Shenzhen Lawyers’ Union Committee as well as a director of the Finance Department.

Xu has profound theoretical knowledge and expertise, 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 others. Xu has deep insight into customs legal affairs, economic crimes and the business environment. Because of his experience in arbitration and defence, Xu has provided a large number of clients with professional, accurate and feasible legal solutions over the years. Xu is especially good at handling smuggling crimes. He has accumulated rich practical experience in criminal defence of smuggling and economic crimes.

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