Beijing Arbitration Commission

    On January 11-12, 2014, the 2013 China Corporate Legal Affairs Conference, with Beijing Arbitration Commission (BAC) as a special supporting agency, was held at Hua Bin International Hotel in Beijing.

    Under the guidance of the Legal Daily, the China Corporate Legal Affairs Conference is jointly organized by the Faren Magazine, the KoGuan Law School of Shanghai Jiaotong University, the Corporate Legal Affairs and the CCLA Thirty-person Forum, and wins the special support from various organizations including BAC.

    Carrying forward the high-end and professional features of the previous conferences, the 2013 China Corporate Legal Affairs Conference highlights practical exchanges on legal affairs by incorporating influential speakers and diversified topics. More than 200 participants including legal counsels of central, private and foreign-funded enterprises as well as lawyers gathered together in Beijing to discuss hot issues on legal affairs of the year.

(Secretary-General LIN Zhiwei is making comments)	(Deputy Secretary-General CHEN Fuyong is presiding over the discussions)

    BAC Secretary-General LIN Zhiwei was invited to attend the Conference and to make comments on discussions about “Changes in Demand for Settlement of Commercial Disputes and Service Innovation”. BAC Deputy Secretary-General CHEN Fuyong was invited to attend the private session of the CCLA Thirty-person Forum on “Dreams and Confusions of Chinese Corporate Legal Professionals” and to preside over the discussions on legal affairs of State-owned enterprises.

    In his comments, Secretary-General LIN Zhiwei made analysis from the standpoints of legal professionals and arbitration agencies. He said that on the one hand, what legal counsels of enterprises pursue was a state of “no litigation”; on the other hand, whenever there was any dispute, what they pursue was a proper settlement. As far as the arbitration system is concerned, the biggest characteristic of arbitration that is different with litigation is that arbitration respects the relevant parties’ autonomy of will. As to the arbitration agencies, they should give prominence to the arbitrators’ independent judgment; and the social evaluation shall be considered when choosing an arbitration agency.

    Among the 293 arbitrators of BAC from the Chinese Mainland, dozens of them are legal counsels of large central enterprises; legal counsels have become an important part of BAC arbitrators.

(Scene of Conference)

    It is learned that the CCLA Thirty-person Forum is a research organization established in Beijing in November 2011 by a group of far-sighted personage in the China corporate legal affairs with the initiative of the Faren Magazine under the Legal Daily. The Forum gathers together a batch of senior corporate legal professions of famous domestic enterprises and transnational corporations in China who enjoy certain social reputation and are committed to promote the healthy and rapid development of China’s corporate legal profession.

    The private session of the CCLA Thirty-person Forum is the first parallel session of the Conference, it gathers more than 30 influential speakers in the previous conferences for in-depth exchanges and discussions on the administration of legal affairs from multiple dimensions including legal affairs of state-owned enterprises, legal affairs of private enterprises, intellectual property rights and legal affairs in financial sector.