- Practice Overview
Founded in 1996 in Downtown Chicago by Dr. John Z. Huang, Huang & Associates is committed to providing clients with ethical, high-quality, and cost-effective legal services. The firm's service areas include company formation and amendment, corporate mergers and acquisition, OTC Bulletin Board, overboard investment, international business, commercial litigation, intellectual property, real property, and immigration.
The firm is in-house counsel for over 100 companies in China and the United States. For more specialized areas of law, the firm's extensive network within the legal community enables it to quickly locate outside counsel on an as-needed basis, thus relieving clients of such burden and saving clients time and money in the process.
- Rep. Cases/Clients
Defended a group of Chinese companies in trademark infringement litigation and reached settlement with the plaintiff companies, 2018
Represented a Chicago company in matters involving Employment and Labor Law - Employee handbook and employment contracts, 2018
Successfully represented a significant number of clients in: (1) immigrant applications including EB-1, EB-2, EB-5, I-130; (2) non-immigrant visa applications including H-1B, L-1A, P-1, N-400, F-1 reinstatement; (3) N-400; (4) asylum, 2017
Represented a large company winding up its business, 2017
Represented a large company listed on the Chinese stock exchange in areas of corporate, IP, real estate, winding up of business, trademark assignment, and real property lease agreement, 2017
Represented a large company in products liability lawsuit, 2017
Represented a large Chinese company performing due diligence on property purchase for factory, as well as incorporation and governance, 2017
- Awards & Honors
Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America, 2019
Super Lawyers, 2017, 2019
Lawyers of Distinction, 2017
- Publications
Editor in Chief, Overseas Investment Immigration, published by the Law Publication House, 2019
Editor in Chief, Cross-Border Merger & Acquisition, Wuhan University Publishing House, 2015
Editor in Chief, Overseas Investment, Wuhan University Publishing House, 2013
Author, Program Electronic Review Management Based Employment Immigration System, Monthly Law Journal, 2007
Author, An Introduction to Foreign Investment Laws in the People's Republic of China, The John Marshall Law Review, 1995
Culture and Value, Qing Hua University Publication House, 1987
- Presentations
Speaker at Chicago forum entitled, "The New Reality Facing Chinese Americans During the U.S.-China Conflict." Other speakers at forum included law enforcement officers and prominent attorneys, 2019
Speaker at seminar organized by CBA International & Foreign Law Committee. Discussed issues involving real estate, estate planning and probate, and small business creation, comparing similarities and differences of USA and China, 2018
Attended Las Vegas EB-5 Investment Immigration Convention, 2017
Keynote Speaker, "Hot Issues of Disputes on U.S. Constitutional Law," 2016
- Community
President and Legal Counsel, Hubei Folks Association in Chicago, 2018
Legal Counsel, Chinese American Association of Greater Chicago, 2018
Represented the Association of Chinese American Scientists, Engineers and Professionals, 2017
- Education
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago-Kent College of Law
J.D., 1991
Yale University
J.S.D., 1989
Yale University
LL.M., 1986
Wuhan University
Master of Law, 1985
Central China Normal University
B.A., 1975