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Dacheng Provides Permanent Legal Counseling Service for Shanghai SIPG FC and Other Football Companies

Recently, Dacheng Shanghai Office signed the contract of permanent legal counsel with Shanghai SIPG Football Club Co., Ltd and other football companies. Mr. Ma Zhongchen and his sports law team provided the club with such legal services as player transfer and contract signing, coach contract signing, signing of the training agreement for teenager players, regulation of club management system, and sports dispute resolution. Dacheng adequately showed the professional advantages in knowing well about international and domestic football rules and other sports laws to provide efficient professional legal services according to the needs of the club and help the professional football clubs in regularizing and internationalizing the management. The capacity is highly recognized by SIPG FC.

Shanghai SIPG FC is fully held by SIPG, with British well-known coach Eriksson as the chief coach and with some domestic and overseas powerful players as Conca, Gyan, Sun Xiang, Wu Lei and Cai Huikang. At present, the club is ranking the first in Chinese Football Association Super League.

As the standing legal counsel of Shanghai Yitao Teenagers Football Club, Mr. Ma Zhongchen has also participated in the matter for Shanghai Yitao Teenagers Football Club and Italian Football Club Internazionale Milano to establish jointly Yitao Shanghai Football Club Inter Academy and provided, at the stage of negotiation on cooperation, the special legal consulting service in sports. By making risk reminder timely and putting forward legal opinions on revision of the contract terms, Mr. Ma Zhongchen assisted the parties in obtaining adequate legal assurance in cooperation for international football teenagers training project.
 
In addition, as the standing legal counsel of Shanghai Naidong Sports Goods Co., Ltd, Mr. Ma Zhongchen provides the company with such legal services as corporate law risk control, revision of governance rules, financing, etc. Through the professional legal services, Ma helps the internet sale enterprise to regular the management and effectively lower its operation risk.
 
Shanghai Naidong Sports Goods Co., Ltd was established in 2012, with the main business of e-commerce platform, engaged in sales of special sports equipment for football and agency of leading sports brands. Currently, its major sale channels include Taobao, Tmall and offline shops. It has such online brands as “Xiaolizi Football Equipment” and “Naidong Sports” and the newly created offline brand “Final Contest”. It has more than 500,000 members nationwide and ranks the first at Taobao by sales of football products, with the annual sale amount for 2015 of over RMB 100 million.