Chinese notarization and international notarization

Cross-border notarization and international notarization services are one of the strategic supporting segments of Hong An Xin Chen's basic legal services. The firm's notarization legal team is committed to providing efficient and authoritative notarization and authentication solutions for domestic and foreign enterprises, institutions, and individuals, breaking through the compliance barriers for cross-border circulation of legal documents.

In the field of Chinese notarization and international notarization, Hong An Xin Chen aims to build a service system driven by the dual engines of "digital notarization + global authentication". Focusing on scenarios such as cross-border corporate investment, personal foreign-related affairs, and global intellectual property protection, the team provides full-process services from document drafting, notarization and authentication to cross-border validity confirmation for clients. The team deeply collaborates with the National Notary Association, the Consular Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH), and overseas embassies and consulates, covering core fields such as notarization of articles of association, authentication of foreign-related marriage registration documents, notarization of the validity of cross-border electronic signatures, judicial confirmation of blockchain evidence storage, proof of priority for international trademark registration, certification of overseas academic degrees, and notarization of cross-border inheritance documents. It has maintained an industry-leading position especially in addressing emerging issues such as the upgrading of the Convention Abolishing the Requirement of Legalization for Foreign Public Documents (Hague Authentication), formulation of technical standards for remote video notarization, and notarization of ownership of metaverse virtual assets.

The notarization team of Hong An Xin Chen is composed of experts with both judicial system backgrounds and international authentication experience, including former directors of notary offices, designated issuers of Hague authentication, and cross-border electronic evidence experts, with a service network covering 31 provincial administrative regions in China and 92 member states of the Hague Convention worldwide. With deep mastery of international notarization rules and digital technology application capabilities, the team has obtained the qualification of "Foreign-Related Notarization Demonstration Institution" from the Ministry of Justice, has consecutively won ALB's China Best Notarization Service Team for five years, and has led the completion of the first notarization case of a transnational intellectual property infringement evidence chain based on blockchain technology. Hong An Xin Chen will continue to explore cutting-edge fields such as AI-assisted notarization review and cross-border digital identity notarization mutual recognition, providing infrastructure support for the credible legal ecosystem in the Web3.0 era.

Business Types/Service Scope

- Notarization of a full set of documents for enterprises' overseas investment (business licenses, board resolutions, etc.)

- Foreign-related civil notarization (Hague authentication of birth/marriage/criminal record certificates)

- Notarization and mutual recognition of the legal validity of cross-border electronic signatures (eSignature)

- Notarization of priority certificates and use evidence for international intellectual property rights (patents/trademarks)

- Overseas academic degree certification and connection services with the Overseas Study Service Center of the Ministry of Education

- Judicial appraisal of blockchain electronic evidence storage and linked notarization services

- Notarization of cross-border will executor powers of attorney and certification of estate administrator qualifications

- Consular authentication of cross-border engineering tender documents (three-level authentication by embassies/consulates)

- Notarization of foreign-related adoption documents (special procedures under the Hague Adoption Convention)

- Notarization and authentication of Chinese legal opinions for overseas listed companies

- Notarization of ownership statements for cross-border virtual assets (NFTs/cryptocurrencies)

- Cross-border notarization of international arbitration evidence and connection with the Hague Evidence Convention

- Remote video notarization (matters entrusted/declared by Chinese citizens abroad)

- Notarization of cross-border labor contracts and work permit documents for foreign employees

- Authentication and cross-border mutual recognition of international medical documents (vaccination certificates/medical records)

- Notarization of the main body qualifications of cross-border e-commerce platform merchants (such as Amazon KYC)

- Notarization of international event authorization documents and proof of broadcasting rights

- Notarization of the correlation between metaverse digital identities and real-world identities

- Notarization and authentication of DNA test reports on foreign-related parent-child relationships

- International notarization of carbon footprint statements in the field of climate change