More investors are willing to see the image of the government and enterprises in strict accordance with the law, stressing rules and integrity in attracting investment. Knowledgeable investors value not the relatively superior physical environment such as geography and resources, but the investment environment. That is, the government's preferential policies and legal environment. Only the soft environment can give investors a sense of investment security, and the security of capital can make their expected investment income be implemented. In the soft environment, the rule of law environment is the most important. Government officials should strive to improve the legal environment and efficient administrative services, while highlighting the rule of law and administrative efficiency. The extensive participation of lawyers is indispensable for the construction of the rule of law and the improvement of administrative efficiency.
2. Lawyers' participation in investment promotion can effectively prevent investment promotion risks and promote local economic development.
Many leaders of individual departments and enterprises still think that lawyers are looking for trouble and finding fault in attracting investment, and they can't listen to the correct opinions of lawyers, or blindly think that lawyers have little effect in project negotiation and signing. Anyway, the contracts signed are all templates provided by relevant government departments. In fact, these views have great misunderstandings. Because of misunderstanding, our government and enterprises have paid a lot of tuition fees to buy experience and lessons. The specific things that lawyers can do in attracting investment include: feasibility legal argumentation, issuing legal opinions, investigating credit standing, drafting and reviewing legal documents, handling relevant legal procedures, and being entrusted with handling disputes. Provide daily legal consulting services for investment-attracting enterprises, prevent risks from various aspects and angles, and promote the healthy and orderly development of investment-attracting work in accordance with the law.
3. Lawyers' participation in attracting investment is helpful to properly solve the preferential policies and legal problems in attracting investment.
Although many regions are scrambling to introduce preferential policies, when it comes to district and county leaders, the explanation of the policies is very casual, which makes it difficult for investors to rest assured. Enterprises invest according to these policies, and once they encounter problems, they often have nowhere to complain, which makes foreign companies timid and naturally unable to feel at ease. A similar situation is more prominent in taxation. In order to attract investment, some localities have formulated various preferential tax policies and implemented tax relief that is contrary to the tax law, so it is difficult to really implement tax collection and management according to law. What's more, many places have implemented the so-called tax collection project for local interests, putting the tax law and tax collection and management law in a very embarrassing position, making the collection and management according to law become the collection and management according to local policies, resulting in the short-term collection of local interests as a whole and eroding the national tax base. Competition for investment promotion is fierce in various places, and preferential policies change at any time. But what enterprises really need is an open, transparent, fair and just competitive environment, efficient government office and comfortable humanistic environment.
4. Lawyers' participation in investment promotion has certain publicity and promotion functions.
Lawyers not only know the law, but also know the national policies and some local economic development policies. When providing legal services to foreign investors, we should not only publicize the legal norms that should be observed, but also explain to them a series of preferential investment policies issued by the local government, introduce some local economic and natural advantages and investment projects announced by the government as much as possible, increase the transparency of local normative documents and development policies, and let investors choose projects suitable for their own development, eliminate doubts and make bold investments. Because of their investment practice abroad, some foreign investors sometimes believe in the role of lawyers and consultants more than government officials. For example, large foreign companies in some places not only hire lawyers to demonstrate the legal feasibility, but also hire lawyers as company consultants and directors.
5. Lawyers joining the investment promotion work can provide more perfect enterprise legal consulting services for investment promotion enterprises.
Lawyers participate in investment promotion, from project demonstration to contract signing to project infrastructure construction. After all enterprises are put into production and operation, lawyers are familiar with the situation of enterprises through early service and communication, so that lawyers can comprehensively and professionally improve their legal consulting services for the production and operation of enterprises. After the enterprise is put into production, it will involve more legal issues, such as labor management. After the entry into force of the special labor contract law and the labor dispute arbitration adjustment law, higher requirements have been put forward for the employment of enterprises, involving intellectual property rights, daily distribution contracts and accounts receivable management, foreign investment and development of enterprises, import and export trade and so on. And lawyers are needed to provide professional legal services.