CHINA - DYNAMIC LAW FIRM OF THE YEAR
WATSON & BAND LAW OFFICES MR. GEORGE FU - MANAGING PARTNER T: +86 21 52921111 / +86 21 63500777 mail@watson-band.com.cn www.watson-band.com.cn
Based in Shanghai, with branches and associated firms in most of the main cities of China, Watson & Band is one of the largest and one of the first partnership law firms in China. Since its founding in 1995, Watson & Band has flourished into a top-tier full-service law firm with more than 200 professionals around China. The firm provides the high quality services for clients and enjoy a nationwide reputation as one of the prominent law firms in China. The firm specialises in matters related to China, a country whose complexities require a high level of sophistication, extensive experience, and an excellent reputation of our professionals. Watson & Band is devoted to providing the most excellent and comprehensive legal services in China. In addition to well-known expertise in the field of intellectual property rights, the firm also holds Corporate Law as one of the firm’s core practices and the firm’s services encompass the areas of corporate governance and compliance, finance and securities, foreign direct investment, M&A, taxation, labour, information networks & hi-tech, company liquidation & market exit, etc. With extensive expertise and experience in commercial transactions for corporate entities,
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as well as long-term cooperative relationships with Chinese government authorities and professional institutes, Watson & Band is capable of offering professional and innovative corporate-related legal advice thereby meeting the particular needs of clients, reducing the potential risk of adversely affecting commercial deals, and ensuring business is conducted legally and ethically. The firm has assisted many leading multinational enterprises around the world in the industries of computer software, automobile, steel, chemical, pharmaceutical, machinery, electronic, real estate, retails, shipping, hotel and restaurant, food and beverage, and banking and finance. The firm promotes team spirit and believes that team work is an essential way to do work better. The Watson & Band team is composed of experienced former judges, former government officers, attorneys at law, professors, patent attorneys, technical professionals and translators. Many of whom have international education and work experience, which enables the firm to offer client-oriented services in multiple languages both home and aboard.
“THE FIRM PROMOTES TEAM SPIRIT AND BELIEVES THAT TEAM WORK IS AN ESSENTIAL WAY TO DO WORK BETTER.”
The firm’s goal is to be the firm of choice for clients for their most sensitive and challenging legal disputes and their most critical and significant business transactions. Their profound collaborative culture ensures that every transaction undertaken by the firm is afforded the direct personal attention of partners with the proper expertise and a refined knowledge of the issues.
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