Jingtian & Gongcheng Launches Guangzhou Office With 6-Partner Team Hire
A team of 11 lawyers join from prominent shipping firm Wang Jing & Co. as well as Stephenson Harwood's China affiliate firm.
February 19, 2020 at 11:27 AM
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Chinese firm Jingtian & Gongcheng has hired a six-partner shipping and maritime law team as it launches a new office in Guangzhou.
Led by partners Zhao Shuzhou and Shen Xiangman, the new team also includes partners Hu Jian, Zhang Kehua, Yang Bo and Zhou Kaiguo and five additional lawyers. The entire team has close to 20 members, according to a statement by Jingtian & Gongcheng.
Most of the team joined directly from Guangzhou-based Wang Jing & Co., one of the top shipping and maritime law firms in China. Partners on the team cover a range of aspects of cross-border shipping-related matters, including insurance, trade, finance, international arbitration, intellectual property and infrastructure projects.
Zhao Shuzhou had been managing partner at Wang Jing & Co. until September 2019. He also led the firm's international arbitration practice, having first joined the firm in 1996.
Shen joins from Stephenson Harwood's affiliate Wei Tu Law Firm, where he joined in 2017. Before that, he spent 18 years with Wang Jing & Co. and led the firm's intellectual property practice.
Among the remaining partners, Zhang Kehua also joined from Wei Tu, where he had moved alongside Shen in 2017; he specializes in corporate transactions and disputes and first joined Wang Jing & Co. in 2007. Hu Jian and Yang Bo both moved directly from Wang Jing & Co.'s Guangzhou office, whereas Zhou, who will be based in Beijing, previously practiced with Wang Jing & Co.'s Beijing office before leaving in 2019.
Guangzhou is Jingtian & Gongcheng's third office in the Pearl River Delta region, dubbed the Greater Bay Area, where the Chinese government wants to commercially integrate Hong Kong and Macau with the neighboring mainland areas. Beijing-based Jingtian opened its first office in the region in Shenzhen in 2007. A Hong Kong office was opened in 2018. Guangzhou is the provincial capital of Guangdong province, and a key commercial and business center in southern China.
Jingtian & Gongcheng has been in expansion mode over the past few years. Traditionally a securities and corporate specialist firm, it has been trying to build up other practice areas by recruiting key partners. Last year, the firm hired away former Han Kun Law Offices private funds partner James Wang; in Hong Kong it also hired former RPC disputes partner Gary Yin. In addition to Guangzhou, the firm last year also set up new offices in Hangzhou and Sanya. It now has 10 offices.
Wang Jing & Co. has appointed Guangzhou-based Chen Xiangyong as managing partner and John Wang as executive partner. Firm founder and senior partner Wang Jing retired on Jan. 31 and is joining local disputes boutique Grand & Holders as a consultant. A representative said the firm's operations remain stable and are not affected by the departures.
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