Moreover, both sides thoroughly discussed respective practice areas and expressed the hope to further exchange and cooperation in domestic and cross-border legal services.
With offices in London, XXIV Old Buildings is a barristers chambers providing specialist legal advice and advocacy services in the UK and worldwide on a range of contentious, advisory and transactional matters to the financial, commercial and professional community and to private individuals. The barristers at XXIV Old Buildings regularly appear in courts and tribunals in England and Wales, foreign courts and international arbitral tribunals. XXIV Old Buildings is recommended as a leading commercial/commercial chancery chambers by Chambers & Partners with 85 individual recommendations for barristers operating within XXIV Old Buildings' areas of practice.
During the meeting, besides introducing each law firm’s history, employee and areas of work, barristers made speeches on the following topics:
Robert Levy QC: The effect of Freezing Orders made abroad on PRC companies Steven Thompson QC: Giving evidence in common law proceedings
Tom Montagu-Smith: Interim Relief in arbitrations
Matthew Watson: Keeping Information Safe: The client, the lawyer, the opponent and the Court
Sue Medder: Working with English barristers – how to instruct them
On 22 September 2015, Robert Levy QC, Steven Thompson QC, Tom Montagu-Smith, barrister, Matthew Watson, barrister, and Sue Medder, manager, vistied Guantao and delivered a lecture on dispute settlement. Guantao partner Ma Kewei, Xu Ling, Zhao Nvbing, Yang Weiguo, Li Yan and Zhang Yue, with several lawyers on international dispute settlement attended this event.