Hysome Cases | A sales contract dispute between a company in Shanghai and a company in Beijing

Case description:

The plaintiff, a company in Shanghai, sued the defendant, a company in Beijing to pay more than RMB 6 million yuan in contract payments and overdue interest. In June 2022, a company in Beijing entrusted the lawyers Sun Binyan and Zhang Mengyu of our firm to answer the lawsuit on its behalf.

In the course of the lawsuit, the lawyers filed a counterclaim against the two orders involved in this lawsuit on the grounds that a company in Shanghai violated the letter of commercial integrity and integrity, sued a Shanghai company to pay compensation for liquidated damages and lawyers' fees, and filed a separate lawsuit over the other orders.

In February 2023, the Haidian District People's Court in Beijing held a trial and determined that the integrity letter was valid in the counterclaim. A Shanghai company had committed commercial bribery and should pay a certain proportion of liquidated damages. Therefore, a company in Shanghai was judged to pay 400,000 yuan in liquidated damages and all legal fees.

In this case, the attorney collected and collated evidence of commercial bribery carried out by a company in Shanghai, and searched multiple cases to predict the discretionary proportion of liquidated damages in advance to help clients reduce losses, obtain compensation for liquidated damages, and reduce litigation costs. This case helps the company establish and maintain a clean image and crack down on commercial bribery in the market.