On March 6, 2008, lawyer Robert Levis, the partner of LOVELLS visited Tahota from Beijing. Chief partner lawyer Taishou Cheng, senior partner Hong Ni, lawyer Bin Liu, lawyer Zhengping Xiu, lawyer Qianhong Tang, lawyer Jianhong Yang, lawyer Chunyan Ma, lawyer Fei Xiang, lawyer Bin Cai and administrative manager Xingtong Chen of Tahota warmly welcomed and received Mr. Robert Levis. Communication and exchange were made pleasantly and extensively with regard to SGLA affairs.  

LOVELLS is a famous international law firm and one of foreign funded law firms marching into China the earliest. Early in March 2007, senior PM ZAHN of LOVELLS visited Tahota. Robert Levis is currently a director partner of LOVELLS Beijing Branch and is a typical China hand. He is quite familiar with China’s national situation, laws and the lawyer industry. He expressed his admiration on the development of Tahota and his optimistic view on Tahota’s future vision. He explained his idea on the formation of SGLA, the current progress and its future development in China in details and expressed great confidence on providing legal services for enterprises in China. He believed that the lawyer industry would have broader development space and infinite development potential. He expected and welcomed strong local Chinese law firms to join SGLA to jointly build a stronger legal service platform for common development.  

Through further communication, partners of Tahota had better understanding on SGLA and felt highly confidential on SGLA’s development idea, development thinking and development prospect. Partners of Tahota further expressed wishes for more communication and realizing cooperation as soon as possible based on equality, mutual intelligibility and sharing of resources. Tahota has always been seeking for the new management idea and development mode for the law firm. We are always adhering to innovation in the source of development. The lawyer industry in China is still in the development stage. We believe that through the cooperation with SGLA, we can absorb advanced development ideas to quickly enhance our market competitiveness and to promote our substantial development.