China

Firm Overview

Beshining is a well-known brand for intellectual property and legal services, headquartered in Shanghai, with offices in Wuhan, Changsha, Qingdao, Xi’an and Houston. Our team has been formed for 21 years, with both patent and trademark qualifications. We currently house nearly 200 personnel including 14 trademark attorneys, 30 lawyers and paralegals, over 90 patent attorneys & patent engineers, and other support staff. The quantity of patent and trademark applications, and litigation cases ranks among the top in China. Our team won two awards in "Intellectual Property (Patent)" and "Industrial & Manufacturing" at China Business Law Awards 2020 and was awarded the title of Outstanding Intellectual Property Service Team in China for five consecutive years (2015-2019) by China Intellectual Property Magazine.

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Wintell & Co, founded in 2005, is headquartered in Shanghai and currently has offices in Guangzhou, Tianjin, Ningbo, Zhoushan as well. It has set up an associated office with Holman Fenwick Willan LLP, a UK firm, in Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone in year 2016, and became a full member of the first transnational legal alliance in China-The Sino-Global Legal Alliance (SGLA) in year 2017. 

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Established in the early 1990s, Tiantai is one of the earliest established large scale law firms in China. Tiantai is an influential firm in the sector and has built a good reputation in business. It has been named “Excellent National Law Firm" by the All China Lawyers Association and "Excellent Beijing Law Firm" by the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Justice and Beijing Lawyers Association for several years in succession.

Tiantai has a highly skilled team of lawyers with more than 800 practicing lawyers. All of them are from the law schools at prestigious universities at home and abroad. Many of them have a doctor’s or master's degree of law, some of them have the title of professor or associate professor, and some have studied in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada or Australia. Moreover, we have also invited the leading scholars in the legal profession and the senior experts in the judiciary to serve as our senior advisers to help our practicing lawyers deal with difficult legal issues.

Since most of our lawyers have ever worked the legislature, judiciary and government departments, they have the experience and ability to deal with complex and difficult legal issues. More importantly, most of them can provide the customers both at home and abroad with comprehensive professional services in such languages as Chinese, English, Japanese and etc.

Tiantai’s lawyers are ranked at the frontier of the industry with their outstanding forward-looking and professional standards in both the traditional legal service field and the emerging professional sectors, especially in the areas of intellectual property, finance and capital markets, building and real estate, taxation and etc.

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Vivien Chan & Co is a full-service law practice with established law offices in Hong Kong (1985), and Beijing (1993). It is consistently recognised as a premier law firm for and in Greater China. With over 30 years’ experience of doing business in China, the team have an in-depth understanding and knowledge of China’s legal culture and marketing dynamics.

Professionals
The firm has five partners and a team of around 100 people, with language capabilities including Chinese, English, French and Japanese.

Practice areas
As one of the leading full-service law firms in Hong Kong and China, the firm has developed wide range of clients and scope of services since its establishment. The firm has represented numerous Fortune 500 companies including Alticor, American Airlines, Ford Motor, Yves Saint Laurent, etc. and Chinese clients engaged in a broad range of commercial transactions and regulatory issues since the 1980s.

Vivien Chan & Co. is highly recognised by our peers and has advised on the most significant acquisitions, arbitrations, real estate projects and intellectual property prosecution, enforcement to date. This is particularly evident from its leading position in areas such as intellectual property, tax, employment, mergers and acquisitions and dispute resolution. The firm’s ability to collaborate across practices and borders with ease allows it to bring the right team to every transaction, regardless of location.

Awards and accolades (2020)
Vivien Chan & Co. has been awarded and well-recognised as a leading Greater China law firm by various major legal evaluators and publications.

Asialaw Leading Lawyers
Distinguished Practitioner in Intellectual Property - Ms Vivien Chan
Notable Practitioner in Dispute Resolution - Mr Owen Tse

Asian Legal Business (ALB) IP Rankings
Tier 1 Trademarks and Copyright Law Firm in Hong Kong
Tier 2 Patent Law Firm in Hong Kong

China Business Law Awards 
Trademark and Copyright Law Firm of the Year

Chambers and Partners
Leading Intellectual Property (International Firm) in China in Chambers Global and Asia-Pacific

International Who’s Who Legal
Trademark and Patent Lawyers of the Year -Ms Vivien Chan
Management Labour and Employment Lawyers of the Year - Ms Vivien Chan

World Intellectual Property Review (WIPR)
Trademark and Patent Leaders in Hong Kong - Ms Vivien Chan
Influential Women in IP - Ms Vivien Chan

Firm Overview

DaHui Lawyers is redefining the standards of the Chinese legal market, with a strength in new economy industries and complex cross-border transactions. Combining in-depth knowledge of China’s legal and business landscape with extensive international experience. DaHui provides efficient, solution driven services tailored to clients’ needs in China’s emerging but challenging market.

Firm Overview

AllBright Law Offices was founded in 1999 as a full-service law firm committed to providing the highest levels of quality advice to clients.

Based in Shanghai, AllBright has grown, innovated and provided unmatched service throughout a period of continuous economic and political change across China. Our focus on providing excellent advice and support to our clients has led to rapid expansion and we have established branch offices in 21 cities on the Chinese mainland (Hangzhou, Beijing, Shenzhen, Suzhou, Nanjing, Chengdu, Chongqing, Taiyuan, Qingdao, Tianjin, Xiamen, Jinan, Hefei, Zhengzhou, Fuzhou, Nanchang, Xi’an, Guangzhou, Changchun, Wuhan and Urumqi) as well as in Hong Kong, London (UK) and Seattle (USA). In addition, as a result of our increased international presence we have also established an association with the Hong Kong law firm Stevenson, Wong & Co. and a strategic partnership with the Bird & Bird LLP.

AllBright carries on the proud cosmopolitan culture of Shanghai and constantly seeks to bring together established legal professionals and outstanding young talent. In 2018, our team included nearly 2,300 lawyers, which grew to more than 2,800 in 2019, and now stands at over 3,100. This growth is a reflection of the importance we place on driving innovation, creating value for our clients and providing a global service for our clients.

At AllBright, we never stop upgrading and improving our professional legal services, while continuing to optimize our practice area layout. Currently, AllBright has ten major professional committees: Securities and Capital Markets, Banking and Finance, Corporate and M&A, International Trade, Cross-Border Investment, Real Estate and Construction, Intellectual Property, Maritime Affairs，Bankruptcy Liquidation and reorganization, Litigation and Arbitration, Criminal and Tax Law. Each committee continually arranges speakers to address their members, informs members of key global conferences and encourages members to interact with partner firms and companies around the world. In doing so, we aim to achieve the highest levels of professional development within the firm.