Tiantai Law Firm — China

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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. First-class lawyer team: Tiantai has a highly skilled team with more than 2000 practicing lawyers. All of them are from law schools at prestigious universities at home and abroad. Many of them have a doctor’s or master’s degree in 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 worked within 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 clients, both at home and abroad, with comprehensive professional services in languages such 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. First-class legal services: Publicizing the law and advocating morality, Helping Others and Achieving oneself. Tiantai, a national excellent law firm, has always been committed to providing professional, comprehensive and practical legal services to clients both at home and abroad. Tiantai has 16 business departments, including the capital market, banking and finance, company acquisition and merger, real estate project development and operation, intellectual property rights, dispute resolution, criminal defense, credit management, tax and wealth planning, civil aviation, medical health, government legal system and environmental resources, international trade and investment, private equity and investment funds, bankruptcy reorganization and infrastructure, information technology, telecommunications, media and entertainment. It has built branches in Shanghai, Tianjin, Zhengzhou, Chengdu, Shenzhen, Nanjing, Fuzhou, Changchun, Guangzhou, Zhuhai and Wuhan. Loyal to the facts, loyal to the law and defending the interests of clients are the unswerving practice philosophy of Tiantai. Its clients include many well-known enterprises, large companies, banks and non-bank financial institutions that are very active at home and abroad, and their service fields cover such industries as finance, real estate, public utilities, entertainment, sports, aviation, oil, trade and high technology. First-class office environment and office facilities: Tiantai Law Firm, based in Beijing, is located on the 6th, 7th, 17th and 20th floors of Huibin Building in the “Asian Olympic Business Circle” with an office area of over 5,000 square meters and a panoramic view of the Bird’s Nest. It is called “the nearest law firm to the Bird’s Nest”. The firm has advanced office hardware facilities, network communication system, information and data system and complete file management system. With the help of the automatic and intelligent office system, Tiantai has established a set of complete internal fine control system to achieve reasonable organization, detailed division of labor and inspection at various levels so as to integrate internal resources and ensure effective and good operation and cooperation among professional departments. ### Languages - All main business languages ### Memberships - 500 legal professionals across the world

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Chunfei Guo

Mrs. Guo has practiced in leading law firms in China for more than 20 years, and had also served as legal counsel of the international federation of phonographic industry (IFPI) for 6 years before practicing law. Guo specializes in entertainment laws. Benefit from the accumulation of long-term industry work experience, she is one of the top entertainment lawyers in China, especially in music industry. She is familiar with the music industry practice at home and abroad. Her clients are involved in the whole industry of music creation, recording production, copyright operation, collective management, publishing and distribution, new media transmission, artist agency, advertising and endorsement, commercial performance and so on. Mrs. Guo has rich experiences in intellectual property litigation and is especially good at handling complicated internet related copyright disputes, antitrust and competition disputes. She has represented thousands of IP cases in courts around the country. Some of them were selected as the top 10 most influential IP cases in China by courts every year. For example, one of her latest cases regarding unfair competition was simultaneously selected by the Supreme People’s Court as 2019 China’s 50 Typical IP Cases, the 2019 Beijing Court’s Top Ten IP Judicial Protection Cases, the 2019 China Top Ten Entertainment Law Cases and the Top Ten influence cases in the field of Chinese culture and media in 2019. She also represented China’s first anti-monopoly case involving copyright collective management organization between a KTV operator and the China Audio-visual Copyright Association (CAVCA) in 2017 to 2018. Mrs. Guo also provides counsel service to clients on intellectual property issues, such as providing legal opinions, drafting and reviewing legal documents, etc. The clients which Mrs. Guo represents come from a wide range of industry sectors such as music, education,literature, film, animation, photography, art, computer software, etc. Mrs. Guo has been ranked as the Most Outstanding IP Lawyers 2021 by APAC Legal Awards；“the A-List 2020” China’s Elite 100 Lawyers 2020 & 2021 by China Business Law Journal, Asia IP Experts 2020 & 2021 China by the Apex Asia Media Group, 2019 ALB China Top 15 Intellectual Property Lawyers, and 2019 “China Top 50 Intellectual Property Lawyers” by Zhichanli/IP Daily. Mrs. Guo is a part-time tutor of the Law School of Civil and Economic Law of China University of Politics and Law，as well as a senior trainer in Dianjing Internet Lawyer Institute. She is also the Director of Music Industry Legal Committee, Beijing Culture and Entertainment Law Society. · Intellectual Property

Frank Liu

Head of Shanghai Pacific Legal, Partner · Intellectual Property

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Xue Meng

Senior Partner · Banking & Finance