Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Languages

• Chinese
• English
• French

Lawyer Overview

Jingzhou Tao has more than 20 years of experience in advising Fortune 500 companies on China-related matters. His areas of practice include international mergers and acquisitions, arbitration, and corporate work. Jingzhou has represented major European, Japanese, and American companies in hundreds of transactions in China on such matters as the establishment of equity joint ventures, contractual joint ventures, and wholly foreign-owned enterprises; tax planning; strategic alliances; and intellectual property protection. He has acted as counsel, chief arbitrator, or party-nominated arbitrator in international arbitration proceedings involving letters of credit, construction projects, management contracts, joint ventures, technology transfers, trademark licensing agreements, agency agreements, and international sales of goods.

Jingzhou is member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration and the Expert Committee of China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission. He is chair of the Commission on International Commercial Arbitration of ICC China, an adjunct professor at Peking University Law School, and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. In addition, he is a listed arbitrator for the Court of Arbitration for Sport, the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre, the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Committee, and the Beijing Arbitration Commission.

He is author of several books in English and French on Chinese law. He also has written articles on matters related to Chinese arbitration, foreign investment, and foreign trade.

Areas of Practice

• Mergers & Acquisitions
• M&A
• International Litigation & Arbitration
• Construction

West Practice Categories

Business Organizations, Business Successions, Closely Held Businesses, Corporate Governance, Directors' & Officers' Liability, Dissolution, Formation & Business Planning, Franchising, Joint Ventures, Limited Liability Companies, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Non-profit & Tax-exempt Organizations, Partnerships, Reorganizations, Shareholders' Rights, Trade Associations

Bar Admissions

• Paris, France

Education

• Peking U - China

Published Works

• Mergers and Acquisitions in China, co-author, West Law, New York,, 2009
• Arbitration Law and Practice in China (Second Edition), Kluwer Law International, The Netherlands, 2008
• Rewards and Risks of a Career in the Legal System, FT.com Financial TimesVideo, Full article, 2008
• One Award –Two Obstacles: Double Trouble When Enforcing Arbitral Awards in China, (2008) 4 AIAJ, Kluwer Law International, The Netherlands, 2008
• Resolving Business Disputes in China, CCH Asia Pte Limited, Singapore, 2004
• Non-Tariff Trade Barriers in China, (coauthor), Sweet & Maxwell, Hong Kong, 2003
• International Execution Against Judgment Debtors, (Enforcement of Foreign Judgment in the People's Republic of China), Oceana, New York, 2002
• International Commercial Arbitration in Asia (China Chapter), Juris Press, New York,, 2002
• Droit Chinois des Affaires, Econamica, Paris, 1999
• Le Droit Chinois Contemporain, (Collection "Que sais-je?"), Presses Universitairs de France (P.U.F.), Paris, 1991

Address

3201 China World Tower
No.1 Jianguomenwai Avenue
Beijing 100004, China

Phones

86.10.5866.1118 (Business Phone)

Faxes

86.10.5866.1122 (Business Fax)

Emails

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Websites

http://www.jonesday.com