Guantao Law firm (“Guantao”) is one of the earliest law firms in China to obtain the qualification of practicing securities, and also one of the earliest batches of law firms engaging in securities business. In the field of domestic capital market, Guantao has set up an organizational structure with Beijing, Shanghai, Xi'an and Shenzhen as the core and radiates across the country. In the field of overseas capital market, Guantao has set up Guantao Hong Kong office to mainly undertake overseas capital market business. Meanwhile, Guantao focuses on strengthening the cooperation and connection with other overseas law firms, forming an institutional pattern which is ”omni-directional, inter-jurisdictional and systematic“.
Over the past twenty years, Guantao has fully grasped the opportunity of the rapid development of the capital market, followed the footsteps of the reform and development of the capital market closely, actively sought for theoretical refinement and business innovation, and deeply integrated the market and professional resources to form a 'specialized, diversified, efficient, and innovative' service system. Guantao is able to provides high-quality capital market legal services to a wide range of domestic and international clients in the power, iron and steel, finance, building materials, chemical, machinery, pharmaceutical, biological, real estate, non-ferrous metals, transportation, energy, environmental protection, food, tourism and high-tech industries.
With outstanding performance in the field of capital market, Gutantao has been ranked among the top law firms in China in terms of overall strength and has gained a good reputation in the industry. Therefore, Guantao has been ranked and recommended by Chambers, The Legal 500, IFLR 1000, Asialaw Profiles, ALB and other globally renowned legal rating agencies for many years. Guantao always adheres to the service philosophy of 'integrity and diligence, high efficiency and quality, and the pursuit of excellence', and has won the unanimous praise of people both inside and outside the industry.
Currently, Guantao has more than 200 staff members inside and outside the country engaged in capital market business. The team grasps the latest development of domestic and overseas capital market in real time, focuses on timely interpretation and exchange of policies and regulations, devotes itself to exploring and researching major and complex projects, and is capable of customizing professional service solutions for different types of clients. Meanwhile, Guantao has formed a set of organizational structure, rules and regulations, workflow, practice guidelines, document patterns and practice collections for handling capital market cases, realizing standardization and streamlining of business handling.
Guantao's capital market practice includes domestic and overseas initial public offerings and refinancing, acquisitions and mergers of domestic and overseas listed companies, bond issuance, structured finance and securitization transactions, fund business, and permanent legal services for domestic and overseas listed companies. Guantao has been deeply cultivating in the field of capital market for many years. Guantao has undertaken the domestic and overseas IPO projects of more than a hundred enterprises, has provided legal services on refinancing, acquisition and merger, bond issuance, structured financing and securitization transactions for hundreds of domestic and overseas listed companies, has provided legal services for the fund business of hundreds of fund companies, as well as has provided permanent legal services for thousands of enterprises. Guantao’s clients include but not limited to domestic and overseas listed companies, large-scale central enterprises, state-owned enterprises, domestic and overseas group companies, fund companies, large and medium-sized private enterprises. Guantao have a wealth of experience in capital market.
Over the years of practice, Guantao has established close and good working relationships with securities regulatory authorities, stock exchanges, securities companies, and auditing and valuation organizations. In addition, Guantao has set up a Securities and Capital Markets Specialized Committee to carry out research and exploration of capital market business. Guantao also has obtained theoretical support from top law schools as well as experts and scholars in China through cooperating with these universities, such as Peking University, Tsinghua University, Renmin University of China, and China University of Political Science and Law.