Every law firm licensed in China appears on a public register run by the Ministry of Justice. Here is our record, what each field means, and how to look it up yourself in about two minutes.
If you are reading this after a Chinese counterparty has already let you down, a reasonable question is whether the law firm you found online is real. It is a fair question — fake "China law firms" that target foreign creditors are a documented problem. The answer should never be a promise. It should be a record you can check without us.
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Our live entry on the National Lawyer Credit Information Publicity System (credit.acla.org.cn), operated by the All China Lawyers Association under the Ministry of Justice. The register is published in Chinese only — that is simply how official Chinese records are kept. The numbered notes explain each field.
You do not need to trust the screenshot. The quickest check is the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Justice, the authority that issued our licences: open Aaron Lv's entry. It loads directly, with no login and no puzzle check, and shows his Chinese name, practising licence no. 11101200410425302, 专职律师 for full-time practising lawyer, 执业状态 执业 for currently practising, the firm, the firm's unified social credit code 31110000MD0194375T, the firm's registered address and the latest annual assessment. To search the national register instead, allow about two minutes:
Open the official register.
credit.acla.org.cn — the National Lawyer Credit Information Publicity System.
Expect a sliding-puzzle check.
Drag the slider until the piece fits. This is a routine bot check on Chinese government sites — not a sign-up, a payment, or a form.
Switch the search subject to "law firm" — you must do this.
Just above the search box, 查询主体 ("search subject") shows two buttons. Whichever is selected appears as a white box with blue text; the other sits plain on the blue banner. The page opens with the first — 律师 (individual lawyer) — in the white box, so click 律师事务所 (law firm) and watch the white box move to it. Skip this and you will be searching the register of individual lawyers rather than firms — the two registers are kept separately, so make sure 律师事务所 (law firm) is the one selected.
Paste our name into the search box.
The grey placeholder text tells you whether the switch worked: it should now read 请输入律师事务所中文名/统一社会信用代码 ("law firm's Chinese name or unified social credit code"). If it still reads 请输入律师中文名/执业证号, you are on the individual-lawyer search — go back to the previous step. You will not be able to type Chinese, so click to select, copy, and press the blue 搜索 (Search) button:
Or search by our Unified Social Credit Code:
Open the result and compare.
It should match the record shown here. While you are there, click the 行政处罚信息 (administrative penalties) and 行业处分信息 (disciplinary records) tabs — both of ours are empty.
The numbered notes on the screenshot, field by field.
If you would rather not navigate a Chinese-language site, this is exactly what the official register says about us.
| Field | Our record |
|---|---|
| Registered name | 北京高金律师事务所 (Beijing Gaojin Law Firm) |
| Unified Social Credit Code | 31110000MD0194375T |
| Approved to practise | 3 August 2018 |
| Issuing authority | Beijing Municipal Bureau of Justice |
| Supervising authority | Dongcheng District Bureau of Justice, Beijing |
| Registered address | Room 1226-1, 12/F, Tower 2, Guanghua Chang'an Building, 7 Jianguomennei Avenue, Dongcheng District, Beijing 100005 |
| Administrative penalties | None on record |
| Disciplinary records | None on record |
This is the certificate behind the register entry — the Law Firm Practice Licence issued by the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Justice under the PRC Lawyers Law, showing the same Unified Social Credit Code you can check yourself.
The address on the register is not a mailbox. This is where we work — 12th floor of the Guanghua Chang'an Building, on Jianguomennei Avenue, with Beijing's CBD skyline out of the window. You are welcome to visit.
Aaron Lv (吕喆), Partner — China-qualified and in practice since 2004, admitted by the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Justice and listed on both official registers as a full-time practising lawyer (专职律师). He works in English and Chinese. He was Legal Counsel at CEMEX from 2011 to 2014 and practised at Grandall Law Firm from 2006 to 2011; his full career history and education are on his LinkedIn profile. He appears on both official systems, and they show different fields. The Beijing Municipal Bureau of Justice, the authority that issued his licence, lists his name, his practising licence number 11101200410425302 in full, 专职律师 for full-time practising lawyer, 执业状态 执业 for currently practising, Beijing Gaojin Law Firm as his firm and the firm's latest annual assessment: open his entry. The national register run by the All China Lawyers Association shows a different set: his photograph, his education, his qualification certificate, the issuing authority and his first approval to practise in April 2004, with part of the licence number masked.
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