从事涉外法律业务，要从张民元律师承接第一家法律顾问单位说起，孚宝仓储是由荷兰皇家在中国大陆与宁波港务局合资的中外合资企业，企业当时的管理者是来自新加坡的李世民总经理，外资股东进入中国大陆投资，迫切需要了解中国的法律环境，并且需要一名中国律师帮助协调与政府及周边企业的关系，在担任孚宝仓储二十年法律顾问的期间里，张民元律师帮助这家外资企业开展员工法律培训、建立健全公司规章制度、协助调解企业与政府和周边企业之间发生的纠纷及企业内部管理的纠纷、为企业内部绩效考核提供专业的法律意见，并为企业的日常诉讼纠纷管理和应急事件处理提供法律帮助。

在为外资企业提供法律顾问服务的期间里，张民元律师根据自身多年的执业经验，总结了一套为外商投资企业提供法律顾问服务的理论和操作实务，将经验撰写为《企业品牌法律顾问服务指南》作为浙江素豪律师事务所的企业标准在国家标准委“企业标准公共信息服务平台”上自我公开并发布实施，指导专业从事法律顾问的团队“中观法律顾问”付诸实施。

在二十年专业从事法律顾问的执业生涯里，张民元律师分别担任了东光五金（宁波）有限公司（台商独资）、海利化工（宁波）有限公司（港资）、龙星物流有限公司（丹麦MAERSK中国合资企业）、德贝里克电器有限公司（中美合资）、枫叶科技园有限公司（港资）等数十家外商投资企业的法律顾问，为外国投资者在中国大陆的投资和发展提供专业的法律帮助和法律咨询。

To provide professional legal consultancy services for foreign investors to invest and develop in mainland China

Engaged in foreign-related legal services, it should talk about from the first company of legal counsel that Lawyer Zhang undertook. Vopak Warehouse is a Sino-foreign joint venture invested by Royal Vopak and Ningbo Port Authority in mainland China. The manager of the enterprise at that time was general manager Li Shimin from Singapore. Foreign shareholders were urgent to know about Chinese legal environment when they made investments in mainland China, and a Chinese lawyer was needed to help coordinate the relationships with governments and businesses around. During the twenty years as the legal counsel of Vopak Warehouse, Lawyer Zhang helped this foreign-capital enterprise to conduct legal trainings for its employees, establish and improve its rules and regulations, assist to mediate disputes between companies and governments or businesses around as well as the internal management disputes of the enterprise. Moreover, Lawyer Zhang provided professional legal advice for internal performance evaluation and legal help for the daily litigation dispute management and emergency event handling of the enterprise.

During the period of providing legal consultancy services to foreign-capital enterprises, Lawyer Zhang has summed up a set of theory and practical operation for providing legal consultancy services to foreign-invested enterprises according to his own perennial practical experiences. Furthermore, these experiences have been written into “Corporate Brand Legal Adviser Service Guide”, which is as the enterprise criteria of Zhejiang Su Hao Law Firm, publishing by itself and implementing on the "Corporate Standard Public Information Service Platform" of National Standards Committee, and guiding the professional legal adviser team "Deep Research Legal Adviser" into practice.

In the twenty years of professional legal adviser career, Lawyer Zhang has served dozens of foreign-funded enterprises respectively such as Tong Kwang Valve Industrial Co., Ltd. (Taiwan funded), Ningbo Haili Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. (Hong Kong funded), Blue Dragon Logistics Co., Ltd. (Denmark MAERSK Chinese joint venture), Dayrelax Electrical Appliance Co., Ltd. (Sino-American joint venture), Maple Technology Park Co., Ltd. (Hong Kong funded), providing professional legal services and legal advice for the investment and development of foreign investors in mainland China.