Liyong Jiang

Education:# Mr. Jiang received LLM degree from Peking University (2001),and Mjur degree from Oxford University (2008).# # Work Experience:# Before joining Gaopeng, Mr. Jiang previously worked as a legal official in Treaty and Law Department of Ministry of Commerce, PRC, a diplomat of China’s Mission to World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva, and a lawyer in King and Wood. # # Mr. Jiang specialized in the corporate law, including M&A, and compliance issues (especially from perspective of Anti-Monopoly Law). He has advised dozens of international and domestic clients in diverse industries including chemical; telecommunications; beverages; food; software and finical service industries. # # Mr. Jiang also possessed strong expertise in the area of international trade. During his post in MOFCOM, as one of the first legal officials who are in charge of the trade disputes after China’s entry into WTO, Mr. Jiang attended almost all trade dispute negotiation and settlement procedure. For example, he has attended dispute settlement of “China-US dispute concerning enterprises income tax subsidies; China-EU dispute concerning importation of automobile assembly; and China-US steel safeguard measure. He is the official who led the legal group in the negotiation of China-Gulf Cooperation Council free trade agreement, and negotiation in the Dispute Settlement Understanding of Doha Round. # # Practice Areas:# Apart from competition law and international trade law, Mr. Jiang is also specialized in foreign investment, labor law, IP law, and dispute settlement, etc.# # Academic Achievements:# Mr. Jiang has published articles in the first class journal such as Renming University Law Review, Wuhan University Law Review, and International Financial Law Review.# # Founded in 1998, Gaopeng & Partners has become an integrated law firm with headquarter in Beijing and branches in major cities. The firm provides legal services in the areas of corporate finance & investment, M&A, WTO and international trade, anti-monopoly law, large-scale infrastructure project, media, entertainment and sport, real property, IPR, arbitrational tribunals and courts. Through decades of effective legal services to Chinese and oversea enterprises, government and celebrities, it gains good reputation worldwide.# # The firm consists of 150 staff, including more than 90 registered lawyers.  Not only been educated in law schools in China or abroad with solid academic background, they also have extensive work experience as law professors, in-house counsels for industry, trade diplomats or government officials. Their in-depth understanding of business and insightful knowledge into government policy-making together with their legal expertise generate high-quality results for clients.