Chang Tsi & Partners ("CTW") is a large partnership law firm with its headquarters located in China's capital city of Beijing. The firm is a member of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI), International Trademark Association (INTA), the International Association of Restructuring and Insolvency & Bankruptcy Professionals (INSOL International). Here at CTW, we take pride in providing comprehensive and high quality legal services to our clients. Since 2005, CTW has continuously been awarded the titles of "Excellent Law Firm" of Beijing (2005), "Excellent Law Firm"of Haidian District (2006) and "Top Ten Law Firm" of Xicheng District (2007) . In 2006, CTW was also recommended by Asialaw Profiles as one of the best law firms in China for legal matters relating to Dispute Resolution, Intellectual Property Rights and Merger & Acquisition. CTW has also been awarded the title of one of China's  top 10 firms for Intellectual Property work in the Third Annual Asialaw IP Awards held in 2006. CTW was also nominated "Intellectual Property Law Firm of the year" by Asian Legal Business (ALB) in 2008. Since its foundation, CTW has been ranked among the top law firms for Intellectual Property work in China by Legal 500.

CTW has its headquarters in Beijing, as well as offices in Guangzhou and America. The headquarters are located near the famous royal dock, which has a more than seven-hundred years old history and it's adjacent to the Changhe River, one of the capital's historic and cultural water systems. The firm's offices cover 2300 sq. meters in a quiet ambience.

CTW has an excellent team of lawyers. Currently, we have more than 120 attorneys and other professionals. Most of them hold a Master degree or above from prestigious law schools both within China and the world. Furthermore, many of CTW's staff members have practiced in leading international law firms. With this  spirit of teamwork and professional cooperation, we provide top quality service to our clients.

Our service scope includes Intellectual Property, Merger and Acquisition, Litigation and Arbitration, Foreign Investment, Construction and Real Estate, Financing and Banking, Securities and Capital Market, Labour, Anti-dumping, Maritime Commerce and Commercial Investigation.

In compliance with internationally accepted standards and rules for the legal profession and in light of our service principle to maximize the client's benefits, CTW is able to provide top quality service to clients both in China and abroad.

Legal Team and Social Resources 

Our high-quality legal team and our extensive social resources are the basis on which our law firm provides sophisticated services to its clients.

The partners of CTW have many years of experience and they are among the pioneers of the legal profession in China.  Before becoming attorneys, most of the partners have worked in the Chinese government, in judicial organizations or within influential enterprises. Their familiarity with the working mechanisms of such organizations and their social contacts are of invaluable support to our legal services. CTW has recruited lawyers who have gained Master  degrees or above from prestigious law schools in China and the world Many of them  have practiced in leading international law firms or served as visiting scholars in academic organizations in the USA, the UK, Holland and other countries.  Through many years of practice and professional communication with famous foreign law firms, all the attorneys at CTW have accumulated much professional experience and developed outstanding abilities in dealing with complicated and challenging legal matters.  

CTW not only employs the expertise of specialists with rich experiences in various areas, but we also develop and maintain close cooperation with relevant judicial and governmental organizations as well as with reputable legal experts and scholars. The integration of these long-established social resources has resulted in CTW's  solid social support system,  which aids the firm in meeting all of its clients' diverse needs.

CTW has maintained long-term and close cooperative relationships with hundreds of renowned law firms from the USA, the UK, Germany, Italy, Holland, Japan, HK and Southeast Asia and can provide prompt legal services to clients around the world.

Our Values and Social Responsibility

The primary goal of CTW is to be dedicated to achieving the best interests of our clients. We also comply with professional practice standards and are 100% responsible for the matters delegated to us.

Based on this concept, CTW attorneys will consider matters from the clients' perspective as to better understand their needs t and to provide their clients with feasible, creative, and cost-effective solutions. By focusing on the needs of our clients, we do not only use our legal expertise, but we also use our wide range of social contacts, in order to protect our clients' interests in the best manner possible. Due to this, CTW has won appreciation and reliance from clients all over the world and the law firm has developed a clientele ranging from domestically and globally known businesses to international organizations and financial institutes.

Throughout its development, CTW has insisted on meeting and acting according to the social responsibility of an enterprise citizen. CTW has provided free legal service to suburban towns of Beijing and has established mutual assistance arrangements with Haidian Middle School. Furthermore they have donated substantial amounts of money to primary schools in several under funded areas as to improve their teaching conditions. CTW also actively participates in many public research projects held by the ministries of the State.
 

Service Quality and Risk Control

In order to minimize the risks for the client's interests and to ensure that we reach our service goals, CTW has set its own legal service criteria and quality control standards by combining international quality control systems for legal services with the realities in China.

CTW insists that our service quality is the long life of the firm. CTW sets systematic standards and rules for service quality control in accordance with the highest quality levels in international practice. At CTW, providing the best in legal matter is our constant and prime goal.

CTW has established a strict quality supervision and risk control system, including conflict of interest research, risk prevention and control, teamwork responsibility and computerized business-processing systems. At CTW, we do research to determine whether we would have a conflict of interest before we accept any new project. For any complicated case, we develop a project-specific work group composed of partners, attorneys and assistants with a strict quality control and liability system. To better serve our clients and to prevent over-billing, we have computerized our time-limit notification and business-processing systems. This strictly internal controlling system helps CTW to operate in a more scientific and organized manner, which enables CTW to provide better service for its clients.

Service Method

CTW provides the legal service by means of:

 Consulting services on relevant projects and legal issues and issuing legal opinions;
 Providing legal support in negotiation, reasoning, or bidding on various projects including engineering;
 Financing, investment and other business activities;
 Drafting, modifying and reviewing contracts, articles of associations and other legal documents;
 Conducting professional investigation on entrusted issues as to provide evidence and legal assistance;
 Support to investment, cooperation, litigation, arbitration and execution proceedings;
 Conducting searches and registrations of trademarks and patents, assignments of trademark rights and patent rights, investigation and evidence collection of IP infringements, and conducting administrative actions against infringers;
 Acting as professional witnesses and providing depositions of witnesses;
 Acting as the chief, permanent or special legal advisor to provide professional legal services;
 Representing domestic or overseas clients in litigation or arbitration and  participating in litigation, arbitration or mediation.

 Our Advantage

 The primary goal of pursuing the best interests of our clients;
 A Legal team with enviable experience, a high-level of sophistication, professional loyalty and close-cooperation philosophy;
 Extensive social resources and substantive support;
 Service and quality control systems comparable to international standards and criteria;
 Leading work facilities and modern computerized network support;
 Closely cooperating partners within China and abroad.