• 汇业律师事务所近日开设了连云港自贸区和海口办公室，这是汇业在全球范围内的第25及26家分支机构。
  
  连云港自贸区办公室是汇业在江苏省开设的第5家分支机构，进一步完善了汇业在长三角地区的网络布局。未来新办公室将借助连云港自贸区建设区域性国际枢纽港及发展医药健康产业的机遇，提供公司法、金融与保险、房地产与建设工程、刑事合规等诸多领域服务。
  
  海口办公室的设立则使汇业基本完成了从北到南的沿海布局，新办公室将聚焦包括医疗健康、现代金融服务、旅游、互联网、现代物流、低碳制造、房地产、医药等十二个海南重点产业。汇业也是近期第四家布局海南的全国综合性律所。

• 华商律师事务所近日开设了武汉分所，这也是华商在全国范围内的第26家分支机构。
  
  武汉分所未来将辐射并服务于整个中部地区，进一步完善了华商在全国的战略布局。武汉分所目前规模约为50人，核心合伙人包括戴强律师、丁中堂律师、张斌律师。
  
  华商今年上半年接连开设了多家新分所，包括广州、西安、义乌分所。

Chinese law firms: A roundup of recent office openings (July 24)

• Shanghai Hui Ye Law Firm has opened two offices in the Lianyungang Free Trade Zone and Haikou, which are the firm’s twenty-five and twenty-six branches, respectively.
  
  The Lianyungang FTZ office is Hui Ye’s fifth office in Jiangsu province and the launching of which has further completed the firm’s strategic layout in the Yangtze River Delta region. It eyes for the development of an international port and the medicine and health industry inside the FTZ, and will provide services in the areas of corporate law, finance and insurance, real estate and construction, as well as criminal compliance.
  
  Meanwhile, the launching of the Haikou office has completed Hui Ye’s network along China’s coastline. It will focus on twelfth main industries in Hainan, including healthcare, finance, tourism, logistics, real estate and medicine. Hui Ye is the fourth law firm venturing into the Hainan market recently.
   
• Shenzhen-headquartered China Commercial Law Firm has opened a new office in Wuhan, which is the firm’s twenty-six branch in China. The new office will provide services to the whole central China region.
  
  It now has a headcount of about fifty people, including core partners Dai Qiang, Ding Zhongtang and Zhang Bin.
  
  China Commercial speeds up on expansion this year with the opening of three offices, Guangzhou, Xi’an and Yiwu, in the past few months.

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