Shanghai Office Set Up A Business Liaison Office in Ethiopia
2019-07-02 Views:4366On July 2, 2019 local time, Many important figures participated in the opening ceremony of managerial staff training course of Ethiopia national industrial park, including Zhou Xudong, Mayor of Kunshan Government, Jiangsu Province, China and the government leadership group, Kedir, Mayor of Dire Dawa City, Ethiopia and the government leadership group, Lelise, President of Ethiopian national park operating company, leaders form China Civil Engineering Group Corporation and China Civil Engineering Group Corporation(Ethiopia), Gu Xiaojin, Chairman of Jiangsu Kunshan Hongxin Road &Bridge Construction Group Company, President of Dire Dawa university in Ethiopia, Professor of law school, Shanghai university. They witnessed it together that Taihe (Shanghai) Law firm reached a strategic cooperation and held a signing ceremony with Dawit&Associates Law office, a well-known Ethiopian Law team.
Ethiopia is known as the "roof of Africa" and the capital is Addis Ababa. In recent years, with the implementation of China's "the Belt and Road Initiative" policy and a good diplomatic relations between China and Egypt, more and more China-invested enterprises have continued to go out. While investing in Ethiopia to support the economic development of the country, these companies going out are also facing some new issues on laws and policies due to the large differences in systems, laws, policies, environment, and markets of different countries and regions.
On the basis of providing legal support for Chinese-invested enterprises which have invested in Ethiopia to contribute industrial park for past few years, Tahota Law Firm Shanghai International Business Department has established good communication and cooperation with the local government and the school of law, legal team, so as to better serve enterprises of two countries. Tahota Law Firm Shanghai office, after communication with the cooperation of Ethiopia related institutions, determined to set up a business liaison. Subsequently, Tahota Law Firm will first establish Tahota “China-Africa Legal Business Center” in Ethiopia, and practice the “the Belt and Road Initiative” for local Chinese-funded enterprises and the trade cooperation and economic and trade exchanges between the local enterprises with China, together with the Ethiopian lawyer team. The purpose is to provide high-quality legal and business consulting services for Chinese enterprises "going out".
The director of the Ethiopian National Investment Agency said that "this is the first Chinese law firm to come to Ethiopia."