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Billing Rates

1. Flat Rates


(1) Cases not involving property relations

Case Category

Fee (RMBYuan/case)

Civil Case

1500
Administrative Case 2000
Criminal Case 3000
Arbitration Case 1500
 Cases concerning foreign element or elements are permitted to charge 4 times fees as much as the above amount.


(2) Cases involving property relations (progressive calculation system):

Amount of Claim (RMB Yuan) Rates
≦ 10,000

as per the rates of cases not involving property relations

10,001 ≦ 100,000 4%
100,001 ≦ 500,000 3%
500,001 ≦ 1,000, 000 2.5%
1, 000,001 ≦ 5,000, 000 2%
5,000, 001 ≦ 10,000,000 1.5%
10 million above 0.7%

(3) Legal affairs:
    a. Service item on the establishment or reorganization a joint-stock company will charge no less than 1 cent/share and no less than 100,000 Yuan for total charge.
    b. Service item on the capital issue of listing joint-stock company: no less than 0.5 cent/share of total collective capital of capital issue, and no less than 200,000 Yuan of total charge;
    c. Service item on status inquiry, and presenting legal opinion or lawyer's letter: no less than 5,000Yuan/case ;
    d. Service item on the establishment of a company or an enterprise, Mergers and Acquisitions: no less than 2% of registered capital amount of the object company, and the total charge volume of no less than 10,000 Yuan ;
    e. Service item on the liquidation of a company or an enterprise: no less than 20% of distributable total assets of the company or enterprise, and the total charging volume of no less than 30,000 Yuan ;The liquidation entrusted by stockholders, no less than 10% of acquirable total assets of the stockholders, and the total charging volume of no less than 20,000 Yuan;
   f. Service item on construction business: according to the following charging standards (progressive calculation system)

Amount of Investment Rates
<=100,000,000 >=2‰
100,000,001<=1,000,000,000 >=1‰
Above 1,000,000,000 >=0.5 ‰


    g. Service item on other non-litigation legal service: no less than 2,000 Yuan.

2. Hourly rates : 100—2,500 RMB Yuan/hour ;

3. Retainers : 10,000 ---- 50,000 RMB Yuan/Year

4. Contingency fees By negotiation between law -firm and the client, a contingency fee may apply to the above cases involving property relations. A contingency fee is an arrangement where a lawyer is paid a portion of any recovery on a legal matter that he or she realizes for the benefit of the client. Contingency fees are usually, but not always, calculated as a percentage of the recovery. .

Abridged from:
Standard of Attorney Fees, ruled by Jiangsu Judiciary Administration Bureau and Price Administration Bureau (2002)
Model Standard of Attorney fees, ruled by Jiangsu Bar Association (2004)