On August 24,2016, the opening ceremony of Tahota Hong Kong office & joint operationwith Hong Kong Yip, TSE & Tang Solicitors was held in the office of LippoCentre. Tahota principal partner Lawyer Shoutai Cheng, senior partnerand director of Tahota international business department Lawyer Chunyan Ma,executive director of Shen Zhen office Lawyer Yuanbing Huang, managing partnerof Hong Kong Yip, TSE & Tang Solicitors Lawyer Lianfeng Xie, and LawyerJianxiong Lin, Lawyer Shangxing Wen attended the opening ceremony.

After theceremony, two sides had a further communication about the cooperation plandetails. In the future, the two firms will seek mutual cooperation anddevelopment in the areas of company business, asset management and investmentand financing domestic and overseas, IPO, capital market, accounting and tax,intellectual property and immigration etc.

Hong Kong Yip, TSE & Tang Solicitorswas established in 1994 which is the most famous and top 30 law firm in HongKong public legal service market over the 20years development. There are morethan 30 full-time lawyers and more than 100 part-time lawyers, and there are 14offices all over Kowloon and New Territories in Hong Kong. Itdedicated itself to provide high-efficiency and professional legal serviceswith cheap price, young, creative, adjustable, science, fast, effective andspecialized spirits.

Up to now, Tahota has more than 130partners and more than 500 practicing lawyers. Besides taking Chinese language(including Mandarin, Shanghai dialect and Cantonese) as the daily workinglanguage, many foreign lawyers are proficient in English, German, Japanese,French, Korean, Indian, Italian and other languages. Tahota also has theprofessional qualifications in several states of America, Korea and Japan. Asthe leading comprehensive law firm in China, Tahota speeded up the developmentstrategy layout of “differentiation” and dedicated itself to build a multi-areaand international legal service network system. Following the establishment ofBeijing, Chengdu, Chongqing, Jinan, Kunming, Shanghai, Lhasa and Guiyang (underplanning) offices, Tahota Washington Office was officially opened in 2015. Theopening of Tahota Hong Kong Branch Office will accelerate the process ofTahota’s internationalization.

Based on the west of China, facing tothe whole nation and servicing to the whole world was the development plan ofTahota over the past decade. The mutual cooperation of Tahota and Yip, TSE& Tang Solicitors to develop and maintain the legal service of Chinamainland and Hong Kong will help, strengthen and expand the internationalbusiness mutually. Tahota will follow the development direction ofinternationalization, specialization and collectivization to keep pace with thetime as always.