Professionals

Tian Yuan has gathered elite lawyers in various fields, has more than 200 partners, more than 800 professionals, and provides customers with all-round, cross-regional, comprehensive and one-stop legal services with profound practice experience and project experience. and best business solutions.

Practices

With 30 years of experience in legal practice and continuous innovation in practice, Tian Yuan's business covers the main practice fields and emerging fields of Chinese lawyers, and maintains the level of China's top lawyers and cross-team comprehensive service capabilities in many fields. Transactions and projects and cases with great industry influence.

Insights & News

Tian Yuan lawyers keep up with the trend of the industry, focus on legal hot topics, and rely on unique perspectives and market insights to help clients understand the latest changes in the law, and use professional observation, analysis and insights to help clients make more informed business choices and decisions.

About Us

As a leading law firm with a long history and profound culture in China, Tian Yuan has always been based on legal services, constantly exploring and innovating, and has moved forward with the Chinese economy for 30 years. We have offices in 14 economically active cities in China and enjoys a high reputation in the industry.

Dispute Resolution

We have focused on dispute resolution for 30 years, and have been mainly engaged in high-end domestic and international commercial litigation and arbitration, covering equity investment, securities transactions, distressed asset claims, assets management planning, intellectual property rights, real estate, insolvency & restructuring, labor law and other fields. We have successfully handled numerous high-end, complex and new-type litigation cases, met new challenges and achieved new breakthroughs all the time.

Work Highlights

We have acted in many important, challenging and complicated litigation and arbitration cases, handling disputes in the fields of finance, securities, investment, real estate, energy, bankruptcy and disposition of non-performing assets, intel ectual property, bankruptcy reorganization, labor, private affairs, international arbitration, etc., and have achieved litigation and arbitration results or phased achievements satisfactory to our clients.

 

  • Acted as the attorney for the representative of the "WUYANG Bond" securities dispute under the representative litigation system, and participated in the trials of the case, which is the first civil compensation case of fraudulent issuance of public offering bonds in China (with the amount in dispute of nearly RMB 1.5 billion), and also the first case of securities disputes in China under the representative litigation system. After the trial by the Intermediate People's Court of Hangzhou Municipality, the High People's Court of Zhejiang Province and the Supreme People's Court, the investors totally won the case and was fully paid off upon the enforcement procedure. We, on behalf of the representative, acted in the first trial, second trial, retrial and enforcement procedure of the case;
  • Acted for Cinda Capital Management Co., Ltd. to resolve disputes over financial loan contracts with China Oceanwide and Wuhan CBD Co., Ltd., with an amount in dispute of RMB 6.6 billion;

  • Acted for Chengdu Rural Commercial Bank Co., Ltd. to resolve disputes over asset management plan claims with its associates including Jinan ALTEN and Qingdao Shencheng and their actual controllers, with an amount in dispute of RMB 9.4 billion, involving multiple financial institutions and intricate government-business relationships;

  • Acted for Otis Elevator (China) Co., Ltd. to resolve disputes over construction contracts with a central construction enterprise, involving the China 117 Tower, the highest building in Tianjin, exerting a certain social influence and with a large amount of money in dispute (more than RMB 200 million); the case was first tried by the High People's Court of Tianjin Municipality and was eventually settled by both parties through reconciliation;

  • More than 20 lawyers from our offices in Beijing, Guangzhou, Xi'an and Kunming acted for Otis Elevator (China) Co., Ltd., the world's largest elevator company, in a series of disputes over negotiable instruments with Evergrande Real Estate Group Limited and its project companies, involving more than RMB 500 million and hundreds of cases, which related to the construction disputes over Evergrande's hundreds of real estate projects in China, and was a typical case among the Evergrande debt crisis cases;

  • Acted for Bohai Ferry Group Co., Ltd, a listed domestic company, to resolve disputes over preemptive right with other parties arising from the acquisition of control of a passenger transport company through indirect takeover (other shareholders of the target company sued for preemptive right to block the client's takeover of the target company, similar to the Bund Prime Lot Case), with the equity value in dispute of RMB 320 million, and we totally won the case upon trials by the Intermediate People's Court of Weihai Municipality and the High People's Court of Shandong Province;

  • Acted for Shaanxi Coal Hancheng Mining Co., Ltd. to resolve disputes over settlement price confirmation of projects involved with a construction company, with the amount in dispute of RMB 99.26 million, and to help the client get away from other lawsuits. We won the case in all respects, and the employer initiated the confirmation of project settlement amount to prevent the loss of state-owned assets by excess payment and to guarantee the rights of the actual constructor;

  • Acted in disputes over a sales contract between Suzhou Eavision Technologies Co., Ltd., the defendant, and an agricultural technology company limited, the plaintiff, with an amount in dispute of RMB 18 million. The Court finally did not recognize the agreement on deposit between the two parties and thought the defendant did not breach the contract, and rejected the plaintiff's request for the defendant to double the deposit;

  • Provided legal services for the mediation between Kunshan Jinliwan Hotel Co., Ltd., the appellant, and an enterprise management company limited, the appellee, in the second instance. Since the other law firm failed to help the appellant win the first instance, the appellant came to us to act in the second instance. In the case of no similar cases for reference, we fought for the best results of reconciliation between the two parties for the client, and helped it to get most of the refund (nearly RMB 1 million), which is of great significance and have a profound influence;

  • Acted for Chengdu Rainbow Appliance (Group) Shares Co., Ltd. to resolve disputes over negotiable instruments with Suning.com Group Co., Ltd.;

  • Acted for the Chengdu Organic Chemistry Co., Ltd., Chinese Academy of Sciences in the first instances, second instances and retrials of the disputes over trade secrets and labor with a number of natural persons;

  • Acted for Sichuan Yishin New Materials Co., Ltd. to resolve disputes over construction project with a central enterprise.

 

 

We have handled multiple international arbitration cases with an amount in dispute exceeding hundreds of millions of yuan and extremely complicated details or procedures on behalf of clients both at home and abroad. The institutions accepting the cases include many well-known international arbitration institutions such as HKIAC, SIAC, CIETAC, BIAC, etc., and we have achieved arbitration results or phased achievements satisfactory to the clients.

 

  • Acted in an international arbitration case in Hong Kong for a well-known real estate client to resolve a dispute over hotel management with a company under a foreign listed hotel group;
  • Acted in an international arbitration case in Hong Kong for an international fund client to resolve a dispute over repurchase with an offshore group and its founding shareholders;

  • Acted in a case on recognition and enforcement of an arbitral award in Hong Kong for a domestic financial enterprise against a foreign group;

  • Acted in an international arbitration case in Singapore for a subsidiary under a central enterprise to resolve a dispute over cooperation agreement with a multinational company;

  • Acted in an international arbitration case in Hong Kong for an international fund client to resolve a dispute over gambling with a domestic company and its founding shareholders;

  • Acted in an international arbitration case for a Portuguese investment fund client to resolve a dispute over transfer of equity in a Chinese joint venture;

  • Acted in an international arbitration case for a well-known real estate developer in Singapore to resolve a dispute over joint development with a domestic real estate developer.

     

     

     

     

     

 

Honors
  • Chambers Greater China Region
    2023
  • Chambers Global
    2023
  • LEGALBAND Top Ranked Law Firms
    2023
  • Benchmark Litigation China
    2022
  • Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific
    2023
  • The Legal 500 China
    2023
  • CBLJ Firms of the Year
    2022
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