Tian Yuan Law Firm 天元律师事务所

Firm overview

Tian Yuan is a general-service law firm founded in 1992 as one of the earliest partnership law firms in China. It is headquartered in Beijing and has branch offices in Shanghai, Shenzhen, Chengdu and Hong Kong. Tian Yuan has over 100 partners and a team of more than 500 practitioners who have extensive experience in the legal areas of practice enabling them to provide comprehensive, efficient and reliable professional support to our clients. During the past 25 years of steady growth and development, Tian Yuan has become one of the most influential law firms in China, providing valuable legal support to clients in the areas of securities law and capital markets; corporate law and M&A; financial and asset management; antitrust & competition; and, dispute resolution. 

Our professionals

The members of Tian Yuan share the same philosophy of commitment to high-quality legal services for our clients. They place emphasis on strict professionalism, responsiveness, creativeness, and a teamwork approach with our clients, to make our value-added service as efficient and cost-effective as possible. Our commitment to clients’ needs together with our understanding of their business have been the key factors in our growth and development.

 Recent awards

Highly recommended in capital market: debt and equity (domestic issuance), capital market: debt and equity (Hong Kong and overseas issuance) by Chambers in its Asia-Pacific edition, 2017;

Highly recommended in capital market, M&A, antitrust and competition by The Legal 500, 2017;

Highly recommended in capital markets and also recommended in competition & antitrust by Asialaw, 2017;

The firm’s practices in antitrust and competition, M&A, education, insurance, securities and capital markets: inbound and outbound issuance are ranked in tier 1 by LEGALBAND; other recommended practice areas are compliance, dispute resolution: litigation, labour law, healthcare and life sciences, intellectual property: litigation, overseas investment, and private equity investment and venture capital, 2017;

Ranked in the ’Top 5 Law Firms in China’s Venture Capital and Private Equity Industry‘ by ChinaVenture, 2017;

Awarded ’Employer of Choice: Associate/Partner Relations (PRC firm)’ by LEGALBAND, 2016;

Ranked in the ’Top 10 legal counsel for overseas listings, domestic listings and new OTC listings for Chinese enterprises‘ by Zero2IPO, 2016;

Ranked in the ’Top 10 Mergers and Acquisitions of Listed Companies Intermediary Service‘, 2016;

Ranked in the top three in the ’Top 10 M&A Law Firms‘ by IBMAWANG annual rankings, 2016.