DOCVIT’S VISITS IN THE UK (II) - Cross-Border Culture Exchange for Celebrating the “Chinese Year” at Cambridge in the UK

Source: Beijing DOCVIT Law Firm  Time: 2019-02-13 10:10:29  Author: Beijing DOCVIT Law Firm

During the Spring Festival of 2019, Mr. Liu Guangchao, the Chief Director of Beijing DOCVIT Law Firm, and Lawyer Zhang Ting, the Director of the International Business Department and the Senior Partner of Beijing DOCVIT Law Firm traveled to London for exchange and visit. The Chief Director, Mr. Liu Guangchao and Lawyer Zhang Ting visited the Bar Council, the British young lawyers association, the London Court of International Arbitration, London Maritime Arbitrators Association, the St. John's College, Cambridge and many international well-known law firms in the UK. In addition, Mr. Liu Guangchao and Lawyer Zhang Ting were invited to attend the "Chinese Year” themed dinner and a series of wine parties, and they also established cooperative partnerships with many international law firms on behalf of Beijing DOCVIT Law Firm. We will publish a series of articles of “DOCVIT’s Visits in the UK" to record DOCVIT’s each steps and start to pile up DOCVIT’s internationalization road for the year of 2019.

On February 5, 2019, also the first day night in the Chinese lunar calendar, Cambridge China Centre invited Mr. Liu Guangchao, the Chief Director of the Beijing DOCVIT Law Firm, and Lawyer Zhang Ting, also the Director of the International Business Department and the Senior Partner of the Beijing DOCVIT Law Firm, to attend the "China Year" dinner party which was organized by the St John’s College, Cambridge. This was a great annual event for Chinese and British industry experts, prominent managers and outstanding investors to better understand and to further communicate culture of the two countries.

The Chief Director Mr. Liu Guangchao and Lawyer Zhang Ting, as members of Chinese legal profession, friendly exchanged views with all the attendants at the dinner party on many topics such as the traditional culture, folk custom and legal and cultural construction in both China and the UK.

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Beijing Docvit Law Firm (Docvit in short), which was established in 2003, is one of the few earliest law firms instituted as a corporation rather than partnership in China. Aimed at building a high quality law firm with professional competence, Docvit fostered innovation under its unique system of operating as a large-scale corporation. Benefited with its core-competitiveness, such as international insights and full IT application management mode, to name some of them, Docvit pursued cross-border development and established an image of high-end brand in a industrialized market. In 2015, Docvit was ushered into a “3.0 era” of moderate-scale development, which witnessed the gradual formation of nation-wide and world-wide layout with the start-up of branch offices in Tianjin, Jinan, Shenzhen, Shanghai, Chengdu, Taiyuan, Hong Kong, London and other places in succession.
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Over the years, business and brand of DOCVIT have matured and won the "Special Contribution Award of All China Lawyers Association", "Excellent Law Firm in Beijing", "Excellent Law Firm in Chaoyang District", ALB2016 Asia Top Ten Elite Law Firm, 2018 Outstanding Law Firm Award by China Business Law Journal, etc.