ACLA and Lovells International Law Firm (" Lovells ") are pleased to present the first volume of ACLA-Lovells Template Contracts and Legal Memoranda Series (" Templates "), prepared as part of the ACLA - Lovells Legal Skills Training Series (" Training Series "). Since its inception in early 2003, through live seminars, video and audio presentations, as well as written materials, the Training Series have covered skills ranging from contract/memo drafting, commercial negotiation, law firm management and corporate law department management.

These Templates are based on the course materials for a four-day Advanced Seminar on Contract and Legal Memo Drafting in March of 2004, given by Robert Lewis of Lovells (Foreign Expert on the ACLA Education Committee) and John Jiang of EastBright (Director of the Training Series). They recently finalized these Templates after incorporating comments and suggestions from many experienced Chinese and international lawyers. These Templates consist of a basic contract framework and four commonly used contracts (bilingual) for cross-border transactions, related drafting notes, and sample legal memoranda for doing business in China.

China has accelerated its integration into the world economy in the post-WTO era, and become the largest recipient of foreign direct investment in the year 2003. The increasing volume of cross-border transactions in China has brought an increased need for corresponding transactional legal service, which plays a vital role in the successful completion of a cross-border transaction. We hope these Templates can provide a useful starting point for document drafting in cross-border transactions in which you are involved.

Over the years, Lovells has provided generous support to the training of Chinese legal professionals, including the establishment of an ACLA-Lovells Legal Training Fund. In particular, Robert Lewis and John Jiang have taken time from their busy practice to prepare over a thousand pages of bilingual training materials, and have delivered lectures to over 2000 legal professionals from all over China in 250 hours of live sessions. Through their unrelenting effort, now the first volume of ACLA-Lovells Template Contracts and Legal Memoranda Series is made available to legal practitioners and business people all over the world. On behalf of the All China Lawyers Association, I would like to extend our sincere thanks to Lovells, Robert and John.

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中华全国律师协会副会长全国律协教育委员会主任  于宁

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