On April 8, 2020, China Business Law Journal, the famous legal magazine, announced the list of China Business Law Awards 2020. East & Concord Partners Wins China Business Law Journal’s Eight Awards including Best Overall Law Firms (Beijing).

A nine-storied tower rises from a heap of earth. For a long time, East & Concord Partners has been deeply engaged in multiple industries and fields, and has been the recipient of China Business Law Journal’s China Business Law Awards for many years. The honor of Best Overall Law Firms (Beijing)fully reflects the high recognition of the market for the comprehensive strength of our law firm.

China Business Law Awards
Best Overall Law Firms (Beijing)

Reasons for getting on the list: last year, while continuing the "integration" system construction, East & Concord Partners established its Chengdu branch in Sichuan province, which improved its service strength in the western region of China. In the field of international trade, the European Commission made a final anti-dumping and countervailing decision on electric bicycles originating in China in January 2019, Vivian Wang, partner of East & Concord, and her team represented a Chinese electric bicycle company and got the result of the minimum combined dumping and countervailing duties. This investigation, involving €400 million, was one of the comparatively large trade remedy cases in relation to its amount initiated by the European Union.

Legal field
●International trade
●Corporate compliance
●Data protection privacy

Industry field
●Retail & consumer
●Energy & natural resources
●Industrials & manufacturing
●Shipping

China Business Law Journal, published by Vantage Asia Publishing Limited, a Hong Kong publisher of international professional journals, is dedicated to providing a high-end business and legal information platform for the enterprise managers around the globe, and is much recognized by international business, legal and financial professionals. China Business Law Awards are for the most outstanding law firms in the legal service field worldwide. The selection of candidates for China Business Law Awards is extremely strict. China Business Law Journal holds questionnaire surveys each year of hundreds of corporate legal counsels and legal professionals around the globe who mainly deal with the Chinese market. After systematic nomination and recommendation and with multiple factors taken into consideration, the final list of China Business Law Awards winners is determined. Evaluating factors to be taken into consideration include major transactions that are participated in and undertaken by law firms, representative cases and other excellent services. The awards truly and objectively reflect the opinions of the industry as a whole.