Under the guidance and promotion of the Xuhui District Bureau of Justice, the signing ceremony for the Memorandum of Understanding between Watson & Band and the Xuhui Notary Office was recently held at the Shanghai Xuhui Lawyers’ House. Attendees included Mr. Huaming Dong, Deputy Secretary of the CPC Committee of the Xuhui District Bureau of Justice; Mr. Wenquan Xu and Mr. Zhizhong Zhu, Director General and Deputy Director, respectively, of the Xuhui District Bureau of Justice,; Mr. Sheng Yu and Ms. Beizhen Qiu, Chief and Deputy Chief, respectively, of the Department of Lawyers and Notaries of the Xuhui District Bureau of Justice; Jun Yang and Mr. Fengting Kong, W&B Managing Partners; and representatives from the Xuhui Notary Office. The two parties discussed various matters, including the scope, the content and terms of their cooperation. Mr. Changlin Yang, Director of the Notary Office, and W&B Managing Partner Mr. Fengting Kong, signed the memorandum on behalf of their respective parties.

The strategic cooperation between W&B and the Xuhui Notary Office is designed to synergize the parties’ advantages in their respective specialties, enhance their experience in the field of IP rights protection, and promote the optimization and enhance the efficiency of notarial legal services.

W&B Managing Partner Ms. Jun Yang stated, “Although the legal services we provide and the notarial services you provide can both be classified as part of the judicial services industry, under the bigger context of “new normal” policy, the notarial legal services industry is faced with unique challenges and opportunities. Both of us are willing to carry out in-depth cooperation for innovation and development, in order to further expand the service development cooperation between the two industries and to enhance the quality of notary legal services. This cooperation is of great significance for both of us.”

In addition to establishing a joint cooperation organization for notarial legal services, Watson & Band and the Xuhui Notary Office will jointly provide regular training programs and lectures for their clients in the notarial legal services field, and they will establish information communication channels and mechanisms. The two parties will appoint mutual contact representatives who will be responsible for regular information communications, and will maintain these communications as a window for intersectional services. In the future, the parties will continue their multiform, comprehensive and multilayered communications and cooperation activities in the notarial legal services field, so as to continue providing the public with high-quality services.