林允华董事长是个非常有商业经营头脑和善于经营管理的人，林董从挖煤工人开始打拼，一路从煤炭行业拓展至酒店和房地产，从一贫如洗奋斗至身价十多个亿，足以显现林允华董事长的胆识和过人商机判决能力。

   当林允华董事长在煤炭行业打拼了近二十年之后，他深切感受到中国国内的矿产资源紧张所带来的能源危机，毅然决定在国外去找矿，在经过一番轮回地排摸之后，林允华董事长选择了非洲加蓬共和国。

   非洲加蓬是个森林大国，矿产资源非常丰富，但作为一名中国商人要远去非洲投资，其艰难程度可想而知。而对于张民元律师来说，非洲加蓬是个非常陌生的国家，该国的法律制度和人文环境都是完全陌生的，但作为林允华董事长的法律顾问，董事长的指挥棒指向哪里，法律顾问的智慧就必须触及到那里。

   查找资料，了解非洲加蓬的公司法、矿产资源法、劳动法、合同法以及安全法成为必须的功课，好在林允华先生投资非洲加蓬的计划得到了温州商会和国家商务部的大力支持，通过商会组织和国家商务部，张民元律师团队获取了非洲加蓬投资的第一手法律资料，华州矿业工贸有限公司在非洲加蓬正式注册成立，从公司注册到矿藏前期勘探，直到在加蓬总理比约盖.姆巴的主持下，华州矿业工贸有限公司总经理农德连与加蓬矿业部长贝加雷、经贸部长恩冈比亚在总理府共同签署蒙贝利锰矿开采矿权协议，非洲加蓬投资项目才前期宣告成功落定。

   华州矿业工贸公司从非洲加蓬政府手中获得2000平方公里锰矿详细勘探权，后又获得了2000平方公里铅锌矿详细勘探权，其矿石储量约3000万吨，平均品位40%，市场价值达300亿人民币。非洲加蓬项目获得预想不到的成功，这期间，林允华董事长经常熬夜，脾气也变得有些火爆，作为公司的法律顾问，张民元律师团队唯一可做的就是耐心解答，细心解释，尽心尽力调查。对于非洲加蓬投资项目来说，张民元律师的总结便是：“法律顾问最重要的职责就是在老板遇到重大事件时能够平息老板内心的恐惧、担忧、焦虑与狂躁，运用法律技能帮助老板控制内心的平和与稳重，可能才是法律顾问的真正价值所在”。

 To guide Chinese enterprises to go out, and invest overseas into the world business circle

The chairman of the board, Lin Yunhua, is the very person who has strong business mind and is good at management. He begins to struggle from a coal worker, and then expands the coal industry to the business of hotel and real estate. Striving from as poor as a church to worth more than ten million of social status, it is enough to show Mr. Lin’s boldness and outstanding business judgment ability.

Having engaged in the coal industry for nearly 20 years, Mr. Lin deeply felt the energy crisis brought by the tension of domestic mineral resources, and he decided to go abroad to find mineral resolutely. After investigation, in the end, Mr. Lin chose The Gabonese Republic.

The Gabonese Republic is a big forest country, and its mineral resources are abundant. However, as a Chinese business man, it is hard to invest in Africa. As for Lawyer Zhang, The Gabonese Republic is a very strange country, the legal system and cultural environment are also totally strange. Nonetheless, as the legal adviser of Mr. Lin, the wisdom should reach the direction where the chairman of the board has pointed.

Finding information and understanding the Gabonese company law, mineral resources law, labor law, contract law and security law was the prerequisite assignment. Fortunately, the plan was supported strongly by the Wenzhou Chamber of Commerce and the Ministry of Commerce. Through these two organizations, the Lawyer Zhang’s team obtained the first-hand legal information about Gabonese investment, Hua Zhou Mineral Industry and Trade Co., Ltd. was officially registered in Gabon. From the registration to the mineral exploration at the early stage, until the general manager Nong Delian of Hua Zhou Mineral Industry and Trade Co., Ltd. cosigned Mombelli Manganese Mining Agreement with the Gabonese Minister of Mining and Minister of Commerce, presided over by Gabonese Prime Minister, the investment project settled at the early stage to declare success.

Hua Zhou Mineral Industry and Trade Co., Ltd. acquired manganese ore exploration rights in detail of 2000 square kilometers from Gabon government, and then obtained lead zinc ore exploration rights in detail of 2000 square kilometers, where the ore reserves were about 30 million tons, the average grade was 40%, the market value could reach 30 billion yuan. Gabon project achieved unexpected success. During that time, Mr. Lin often stayed up late, causing hot temper sometimes. As the legal adviser of the company, the only thing that Lawyer Zhang’s team can do was to answer questions patiently and explain carefully, as well as to do some in-depth investigations. For the Gabon investment projects, the conclusion of Lawyer Zhang is that: "the most important duty for a legal counsel is to make the boss calm down when he or she meets a major event and use legal skills to help him or her to maintain peace and steady from the heart, which may be the real value of a legal adviser".