Real Estate & Construction

Tahota Law Firm is backed by rich expertise and a pool of talented lawyers in the practice sectorof real estate &construction.The business in thissectoris now jointly carried out by nearly 50 members including managing partners, professional lawyers, paralegals and secretaries of Tahota. Supported by hundreds of clients fromthe real estate sector, Tahota is the law firm that gained the largest market share of real estate in China.Our lawyers and legal team, with rich theoretical and practical experiences in land consolidation, real estate project M&A, project development and construction, project investment and financing, joint project development, investment attraction and operation of urban complex, engineering construction, can provide high-quality professional legal services for various clients.Adhering to the practice concept of "rigorous, professional, efficient", we strive to protect the legal interests of our clients to the maximum extent in every legal case, and safeguard the operation and management of our clients.

Banking, Finance & Trust

Corporate Business, M&A and Bankruptcy Liquidation

Tahota Lawyer Firm is backed by rich expertise and a pool of talented lawyers in the practice sector of corporate business, M&A, bankruptcy liquidation. Our task force, comprised of 5 associates with rich experiences in this sector from offices in Beijing, Chengdu, Chongqing, Guiyang, Jinan, Kunming, Lhasa, Shenzhen, Shanghai, Tianjin and Hong Kong as well as more than 30 senior lawyers with rich practical experiences and profound theoretical background in bankruptcy liquidation, enterprise restructuring, asset restructuring, corporate management, is split into three teams, namely, the General Group, the Resource Management Group and the Financial Settlement Group. They are dedicated to providing efficient and professional legal services for enterprises to maximize profits.

Securities Listing and Capital Markets

The Securities Business Division of Tahota Law Firm has been engaged in securities listing and capital market for a long time, and has provided professional legal services for many listed companies and capital market entities. The main services in this sector are as follows:

Intellectual Property

As one of the law firms approved by the National Intellectual Property Administration, PRC, Tahota Law Firm is one of the first law firms to obtain the qualification for patent agency and trademark agency, and is the only law firm listed in the first batch of "National Intellectual Property Service Brand Institutions" published by the National Intellectual Property Administration, PRC.Tahota is deeply engaged in administrative litigation over intellectual property and the settlement of intellectual property disputes, and has successfully acted in a large number of intellectual property cases that are difficult, complicated and have significant social impact. It enjoys a good reputation in the sectorof intellectual property. We have rich experiences in various intellectual property cases (involving patents, trademarks, copyrights, integrated circuit layout designs, protection of new plant varieties, trade secrets, anti-unfair competition, etc.) and non-litigation businesses (creation, use, management and protection of intellectual property). Our multi-dimensional, systematic and professional intellectual property legal services have been recognized by a number of international rating agencies, including ALB. The intellectual property cases acted by us have also been repeatedly selected as the "50 Typical Intellectual Property Cases" by the Supreme People's Court, and the "Top Ten Cases on Intellectual Property Protection of the Year by the Quality Brand Protection Committee of the China Association of Enterprises with Foreign Investment.

Government & Public Affairs

Government & public affairs is one of the most important business segment of Tahota Law Firm. Tahota has provided high-quality legal services for Party committees, governments and their functional departments, public institutions and social organizations. Our business scope covers permanent legal counsel, government legislation, major administrative decision-making, investment attraction, state-owned assets and financial supervision, bidding and government procurement, public private partnership, public event handling, crisis response, administrative reconsideration, administrative litigation and other administrative dispute cases. We are highly regardedand well-received in the industry and in this practice sector.In the process of advancing rule of law, Tahota will continue to boost law-based administration and governance with its expertise and rich experiences.

Human Resources & Employment

Since its inception, Tahota Law Firm has been committed to providing clients with professional and high-quality legal services.In the practice sector of human resources& employment, we have provided more than 4,000 clients with legal services, including many of the Fortune 500 enterprises, listed companies, state-owned enterprises, government agencies as well as institutions. In 2018, we established the TahotaLabor and Human Resources Law Center, which is comprised of a professional legal service team across Tahota regions with more than 50 persons including professors at universities, part-time arbitrators from labor and human resources dispute arbitration institutions, senior human resources managers, senior executives of enterprises, and senior lawyers of labor law. Focused on labor and human resources legal theory and practice research, the Center has helped clients correctly handle labor relations, establish a good human resources management system, properly resolve the current labor law environment of various human resources& employment disputes to reduce conflict, improve enterprise management efficiency and production efficiency by talented lawyers. the Chambers Asia-Pacific 2019 published by Chambers & Partners, an international and authoritative legal rating agency, Tahota Law Firm was highly recommended for the sector of "Labor Law".In 2014, Tahota Law Firm was nominated for the title of "Best Labor Law Firm" by Asian Legal Business. The main services in this sector are as follows:

Cross-Border Business

As one of the first business sectors established by Tahota Law Firm, the international business sector is specialized in cross-border business and consists of more than 70 senior lawyers who graduated from renowned law schools at home and abroad and have with abundant experience in foreign-related legal service, including licensed lawyers from USA, Australia and Hong Kong. 80% of them hold Master’s Degree of Law and over 20% hold Doctor’s Degree of Law; 60% of them have studied abroad or worked for companies overseas. They can provide legal services in English, German, Japanese, French and Hindi. Tahota has established branch offices in Washington D.C., Sidney, Katmandu ，Bangkok and Hong Kong, and can offer professional legal services compliant with local rules and regulations of the target areas for high-end clients involved in the Belt and Road initiative and Going-Out strategy.

Dispute Resolution

Lawyers fromthe Litigation and Arbitration Divisionhave received professional education at prestigious universities and colleges in China. Some lawyers have worked for judicial institutions, such as public securitydepartments, prosecution bodies and judicial courts. Some lawyers have served as arbitrators of various local and professional arbitration institutions. They are experienced at handling litigation and arbitration affairs and have acted ina number of major complicated cases with great influence. Through long-term practice, the Divisionhas formed an effective litigation working mechanism for lawyers, accumulated a wealth of professional experience, and has the comprehensive ability to integrate various social resources, able to provide high-quality litigation services for clients at home and abroad.We keep abreast of the latest changes in law and practice, and maintain good contact with domestic and foreign counterparts, business circles, government sectors, the judicial circles and the legal education sector. We are committed to providing clients with the top-quality legal service. The main services in this sector are as follows:

Health Care

The Health and Medical Division of Tahota has been a pacesetter in the practice sector of health care. As one of the best law firms in this sector, we provide all-round and high-quality legal services to many medical institutions, pharmaceutical enterprises, medical care and old-age care enterprises for a long time with our goodunderstanding of health and medical laws and policies. The Divisionhas a number of versatile practicing lawyers, of whom many have education background or work experience in both medicine and law with major in Health care or Law and have long been involved in the sector of medical and health legal services. At the same time, the Division also has a number of senior expert counsels. Some of them have rich experience in health administration and hospital management, and some are medical authorities, providing in-depth professional support for the development of our health care legal services. For many years in a row, Wu Di, the director of the Division, has been awarded "Leading Lawyer", and the health care law team hasbeen rated amongthe second and third class law team of "Medical Law" issued by Chambers &Partners, a world-famous law rating agency.

Maritime & Marine Affairs

Tahota boasts a team of maritime business lawyers with a long-term professional practice background. They are specialized in handling legal affairs such as maritime transport, maritime accidents, insurance, shipbuilding and financing, and international trade.We provide legal services to meet the individual needs of each client, so as to ensure that our clients can receive timely and effective legal assistance.The main services in this sectorare as follows:

Environmental Protection

Tahota Lawyer Firm is backed by rich expertise and a pool of talented lawyers in the practice sectorof environmental protection.The business in this sectoris now jointly carried out by nearly 40 members including managing partners, professional lawyers, paralegals and secretaries of Tahota, and we have nearly 100 clients in this sector. Our lawyers and legal team, with rich theoretical and practical experience in environmental protection, environmental inspection, environmental compliance as well as environmental litigation, can provide clients with high-quality professional legal services.Adhering to the practice concept of "rigorous, professional, efficient", we strive to protect the legal interests of our clients to the maximum extent in every legal case, and safeguard the operation and management of our clients.

Resource and Energy

Tahota Law Firm is backed by rich expertise and a pool of talented lawyers in the practice sector of resource and energy. The business in this sector is now jointly carried out by nearly 40 members including managing partners, professional lawyers, paralegals and secretaries of Tahota. Supported by a hundred of clients from the mineral resources and energy sector, Tahota boasts lawyers and legal teams with rich theoretical and practical experiences in fields such as mineral products acquisition, reorganization and restructuring as well as resource and energy project financing and can provide high-quality professional legal services for clients. Adhering to the practice concept of “rigorous, professional, efficient”, we strive to protect the legal interests of our clients to the maximum extent in every legal case, and safeguard the operation and management of our clients.

Marriage andFamily-related Wealth Management

Tahota Law Firm, with years of legal services, draws togethertop overseas investment and financing lawyers, family lawyers, commercial lawyers, tax lawyers, financial lawyers and criminal lawyers. We offer legal services including but not limited to law, finance, taxation, manpower and foreign-related services,which are provided by professional service personnel according to different service objects and the set business scope.We have completed numerous typical cases.The service objects include family enterprises (actual controllers, shareholders, and equity holders) and their family members (the shareholders of the company coincide with the family members, and the family members who work in the company but are not shareholders); non-family high-net-worth individuals; third-party family management service agencies, including but not limited to trust companies, insurance companies, banks, overseas study service agencies, immigration service agencies, overseas wealth management institutions; people who need to clarify the ownership of property rights; and people who are in debt or have a family relationship crisis.

Legal Services Relating to Culture & Sports and TMT

With respect to the legal services relating to culture & sports and TMT, it is a featured business area derived from intellectual property business. Tahota Law Firm has a long-term professional accumulation and talent platform advantages. Over the years, we have cooperated with well-known international auction houses, national cultural relics exchange centers, domestic well-known sports events, and domestic well-known entertainment brokers, providing timely and efficient legal services in such sectors as art collection investment, national cultural relics entry-exit exhibitions, and intellectual property protection of various cultural and artistic works for customers. In every legal service, we strive to prevent risks, resolve disputes, protect the interests of customers to the greatest extent, and contribute to our customers' management.

The main services in this sector are as follows:

Criminal Defense & Criminal Compliance

Criminal defense and criminal compliance is the core and advantageous business of Tahota Law Firm. The criminal defense and criminal compliance team, which forms a professional department including former senior procurators, former senior criminal judges, expert consultants with profound legal background, senior partners with rich practical experience, and professional lawyers, is committed to becoming the industry benchmark with its working mechanism combining fine division of labor with teamwork. The business department has accumulated rich and successful experiences in criminal defense cases and criminal compliance projects, involving economic crimes, job-related crimes, environmental and resource crimes, which make the department a team with excellent professional skills and ingenious service consciousness. Tahota Law Firm is one of the earliest large-scale law firms with a criminal compliance center in China. The department consists of over 200 experienced lawyers in overlapped field of criminal laws and civil laws from 20 offices of Tahota in Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, Shenzhen, Guiyang, Nanjing, Washington and Sydney. It has developed Criminal Compliance Products and Services Process as well as Criminal Compliance Risk Control and Effectiveness Evaluation Matrix for Positions in Enterprises, and published the Practical Guidelines for Corporate Criminal Compliance Practice during Public Health Emergencies and the monthly magazine Criminal Compliance Brief, which has obtained wide praise in the industry. The business department will continue to achieve the optimized legitimate rights and interests of each customer through efforts in tracking social criminal hot issues, hiring excellent professionals, and upholding the brand and elite development ideas.

Tax

Tahota's lawyer team on tax has concentrated on legal services in tax for years and has accumulated a wealth of experience in such field. We can provide such legal services with respect to tax dispute resolution as tax audit response, tax administrative reconsideration, tax administrative litigation, and tax-related criminal defense. We play a synergistic effect with other business teams of Tahota to provide customers with one-stop services in major investment M&As, reform and restructuring, equity structure, disposal of special assets, tax advising for private customers, equity transfer and stock ownership incentive etc. Meanwhile, we can provide special tax consulting and general tax advising services in respect to tax issues in the daily operation of enterprises, and provide tax-related criminal compliance services to help enterprises maximize their benefits in case of criminal risks due to tax issues.