Tiance Law Firm ("Tiance") was founded in 1986. It is a well-known large-scale comprehensive law firm in China and a leading law firm in the Yangtze River Delta region. It is also recognized by the market as an elite law firm with excellent professional service capabilities. . Tiance has 5 offices across the country, located in Hangzhou, Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Ningbo, forming an integrated service network.
Tiance's outstanding performance in the fields of commercial, financial and dispute resolution has earned it a high reputation and brand both within and outside the industry. Tiance has also won the two highest honors for Chinese law firms - the title of "Ministerial Civilized Law Firm" awarded by the Ministry of Justice of China and the title of "National Outstanding Law Firm" awarded by the All-China Lawyers Association. It has been awarded by international authorities for several years. Legal media named it the Best Law Firm of the Year in Central and Eastern China.
Tiance has more than 500 professionals, forming a professional, comprehensive and elite legal service team. In order to ensure service quality and meet professional requirements, Tiance's lawyers usually focus on and specialize in one or two business areas. Most of Tiance’s lawyers graduated from famous universities at home and abroad. They have passed strict selection and have excellent academic backgrounds and rich practical experience. Many of them have received professional education other than law or have patent/trademark agency, certified public accountant, Certified tax accountants and other professional qualifications/qualifications, and many professional lawyers have worked in financial institutions, government agencies, judicial agencies or large enterprises, and have complex work backgrounds. Tiance currently has more than 30 lawyers employed as arbitrators in arbitration institutions such as China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC), Shanghai International Arbitration Center (SHIAC), Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration (SCIA), and Hangzhou Arbitration Commission, and many of them are Lawyers serve as legislative consulting experts for provincial, municipal and municipal governments or people's congresses or hold important positions in bar associations at all levels.
Tiance specializes in securities and capital markets, construction and real estate, litigation and arbitration, mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property rights, private equity investment, asset management, banking and insurance, trusts and funds, international trade, maritime affairs, cross-border transactions, corporate affairs, We provide professional and efficient legal services to clients in various industries in the fields of compliance affairs, bankruptcy and restructuring, non-performing asset disposal, Internet and information technology.
Tiance's legal services are based on broad and deep legal knowledge. Tiance adheres to the team-based and professional service concept and provides customers with professional and efficient legal services through team model and internal collaboration. When clients make demands for comprehensive legal services, lawyers in various business areas of Tiance can quickly form a comprehensive professional team to collaborate closely and provide cross-domain technical support and professional services.
Tiance lawyers are able to fully understand their clients’ business goals and demands, and are innovative and enterprising. We have always insisted on providing clients with legal services that are consistent with commercial reality and have real value.
After long-term accumulation and running-in, Tiance has formed a unique and profound culture. "Harmony, professionalism, grandeur, and enterprising" have become Tiance's cultural core and values. Tiance will also consistently serve customers with our professionalism and integrity, and look forward to growing together with customers in this era of change, helping and witnessing their success.
Tiance has in-depth and comprehensive experience and skills, excellent practices and significant advantages in the field of mergers and acquisitions, and is in a leading position in the country.
Based on Tiance’s professional experience in various business fields, Tiance can deeply understand the business purposes and motivations of all parties to mergers and acquisitions, and can provide valuable opinions or suggestions from comprehensive perspectives such as law, business, finance, taxation, financing and corporate strategy. , while combining Tiance’s knowledge and expertise in various fields to provide comprehensive and in-depth professional services to help customers solve various legal issues and government regulatory issues involved in mergers and acquisitions.
The industry areas covered by Tiance's M&A projects include TMT, manufacturing, real estate, petrochemicals, education, medicine, finance, new energy, consumption, etc. The specific M&A types include the following combinations:
Acquisitions of state-owned enterprises and private enterprises
Acquisitions of listed and unlisted companies
Equity Acquisition and Asset Acquisition
Acquisitions through public procedures such as auctions
Foreign M&A
management buyout
Financial investment and strategic investment
Tiance has extensive experience in legal services in the insurance field and has provided legal services to many insurance companies for a long time.
Specific services include:
Insurance product design or insurance-related financing product design
Compliance audit
insurance litigation
insurance fund investment
Insurance company mergers and acquisitions
Establishment of insurance companies and representative offices
Dispute resolution is one of Tiance's core business areas. As a large comprehensive law firm, Tiance has extraordinary performance and rich experience in litigation and arbitration, and has a strong team of professional lawyers in the fields of litigation and arbitration. Many lawyers in the Tiance Dispute Resolution Team have extensive work experience in judicial agencies. Many lawyers have been hired as arbitrators by the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission, Shanghai International Arbitration Center, Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration, Hangzhou Arbitration Commission and Ningbo Arbitration Commission. , familiar with litigation and arbitration systems and procedures. Tiance’s dispute resolution team also works closely with other professional departments of the firm to provide clients with comprehensive and professional legal services. Tiance is experienced in representing clients before courts across the country, local arbitration institutions, as well as the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission, Shanghai International Arbitration Center and Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration.
Tiance has obvious advantages in handling the following types of cases:
Dispute resolution among shareholders of companies (including foreign-invested enterprises)
Large-scale trade financing disputes between enterprises
Foreign-related commercial and maritime cases
Construction and real estate dispute cases
Various financial dispute cases
State compensation and administrative litigation
Criminal cases in the economic field
Tiance's labor and human resources team is good at handling complex labor, personnel and human resources matters. Tiance has long provided comprehensive labor and human resources legal services to various large and medium-sized corporate clients and start-up enterprises.
The legal services provided by Tiance in the field of labor and human resources include:
Daily labor and personnel management
Various labor and personnel legal documents (including confidentiality agreements and non-compete agreements)
Labor dispute resolution
Corporate Labor Compliance Investigation
Equity incentives and other incentives
Handling of employee labor relations under special circumstances
Cross-border labor legal services
As one of the first legal service institutions with provincial bankruptcy administrator qualifications, Tiance has a leading edge in the field of corporate crisis rescue and reorganization and liquidation, and has undertaken a number of large-scale and very complex bankruptcy, reorganization and liquidation projects.
Tiance’s corporate bankruptcy, reorganization and liquidation services include:
Appointed by the court to serve as the administrator of the company's bankruptcy
Assist bankrupt enterprises to maintain their operations and operational value, merge bankruptcies, and formulate reorganization and liquidation plans
Served as legal counsel for bankrupt companies
Represent the debtor in filing bankruptcy application, formulating plans for reorganization, reconciliation, self-operation, etc., and providing high-quality legal services for the protection of the debtor's rights and interests during the reorganization process.
Accept creditors’ entrustment to participate in bankruptcy proceedings
Accept the entrustment of strategic investors to provide legal services for their acquisition and reorganization of bankrupt enterprises.
Design and implement crisis resolution plans for enterprises in crisis to restructure themselves
Real estate and construction is one of Tiance's core business areas and takes a leading position in the country.
Tiance is good at providing services including government compliance, land transfer, real estate investment, real estate cooperation, real estate finance, real estate, etc. to various types of customers including government departments, developers, builders, financial institutions, investors, buyers or lessees. Various types of legal services including development, various M&A transactions, property operation and management, government construction, entrusted management of real estate projects, listing of real estate and property companies, non-performing asset management, infrastructure and PPP, real estate-related dispute resolution, etc.
Tiance has provided year-round legal services to people's governments at all levels and relevant functional departments; Tiance has provided professional and full-process legal services to hundreds of large-scale real estate projects; Tiance has provided comprehensive legal services to hundreds of real estate project mergers and acquisitions. Special legal services for the process; Tiance has handled numerous PPP projects such as rail transit, highways, tunnels, sewage treatment, sports venues, development and construction of new urban areas, etc.
The property types Tiance serves include residential, commercial, office buildings, hotels, tourism, education, senior care, industry and various supporting properties.
Tiance’s main service scope in the real estate and construction fields includes:
Government Compliance
Providing year-round legal services to government functional departments such as land, planning, and housing construction
Provide special legal services for difficult and complex matters involving land, planning, housing and other government functional departments
Representing administrative litigation cases involving land, planning, housing and other government functional departments
real estate development
Land primary (cooperative) development
Land sale and transfer
Legal risk analysis and assessment of real estate projects
Assist in building a legal document system for real estate development and operation
Project operation planning
Project bidding and contracting management
Commercial housing sales and delivery
Investment promotion and entrusted operation of businesses, hotels, etc.
Property management and life services
Project tax planning
Real estate M&A transactions
Design transaction structure
Integrate and graft various resources such as land, projects, investors, and funds
Legal due diligence
Drafting legal documents for M&A transactions
Assist customers in business negotiations
Assist clients in handling transfer of management rights, delivery of equity and debt, government approval and registration, etc.
Conduct project briefings
Real estate finance
General financing for real estate companies
Private investment and financing of real estate projects
Trust financing
Real estate companies issue corporate bonds for financing (domestic or overseas)
construction project
Internal management and risk control of construction enterprises
Compliance review of legal documents related to survey, design, construction and supervision
Tendering and contracting management
Project quality, construction period, cost, claims, settlement and dispute resolution
Comprehensive regional development
Industrial new city
city renovation
Compound town
Pastoral complex and beautiful countryside project
Asian Games Village, National Games Village and other urban complex projects and event operation services
Infrastructure Public-Private Partnership (PPP Project)
Suggestions and arguments for investment plans
Drafting, review and modification of concession or PPP contracts
Participate in business and legal negotiations
Provide advice on professional legal issues
Assist in project approval, registration and filing
Dispute Resolution
Representing real estate and construction arbitration cases
Acting in real estate and construction litigation cases
Intellectual property is one of Tiance’s core businesses. Tiance is committed to intellectual property protection, transactions, licensing and dispute resolution, and provides clients with comprehensive, high-quality and efficient legal services. Relying on Tiance's in-depth understanding of Chinese law and rich litigation practice experience, Tiance insists on providing creative and constructive solutions to clients. For legal matters related to patents, trade secrets, trademarks, copyrights, antitrust and anti-unfair competition, Tiance has become the preferred legal service provider for many clients in this field.
Tiance’s intellectual property lawyers have sufficient litigation experience in most courts in China and are good at representing patents, trademark administrative authorization and confirmation cases, etc.
Tiance has successfully represented many complex and difficult intellectual property cases with significant industry impact, and has gained high prestige and recognition in the field of intellectual property.
Tiance’s legal services in the field of intellectual property include:
Application for rights of various intellectual property rights
Transfer of intellectual property rights and various types of licensing arrangements
Copyright Protection
Infringement investigation
Corporate trade secret protection
Dispute resolution of infringement, licensing and ownership disputes
