Translator：Xiong Yajie

On July 12, 2020, with the melodious rhyme of lotus and the verdant summer trees, in this enthusiastic season, the global headquarters of Landing Law Firm held a relocation ceremony on the 16th floor of the East Tower of the Raffles City on the North Bund of Shanghai. Lawyer Yixing Liu, Director of the Landing Global Management Committee, partners, directors of each branch, heads of offices and all Landing employees gathered together to celebrate this historic leap of Landing.

"Gathering Strength and Leaping" is not only the theme of this relocation celebration, but also has always been the main theme and feature of Landing culture. It means that all Landing people will work together to achieve one after another new leap under the leadership of Director Yixing Liu.

Director Yixing Liu delivered a speech

At the relocation ceremony, Lawyer Yixing Liu, director of Landing Global Management Committee, delivered a speech first. Director Liu reviewed Landing's humble beginnings and the arduous entrepreneurial journey, shared the impressive achievements of Landing in the past two years, and encouraged Landing people to focus on professionalism, keep improving, and create greater glories. Director Liu's speech was full of passion, humorous and wise, which encouraged all Landing's people.

Professional guest speakers

Under the leadership of Director Liu, Landing Law Offices has worked hard and forged ahead, and the encouragement and guidance of many teachers and seniors are indispensable along the way. The ceremony was honored to invite Professor Xinliang Tao, a leading figure in the field of intellectual property law, as a professional guest. Professor Tao has many titles, but he claims that "half of a teacher is a lawyer, and half of a lawyer is a teacher". The roles of teachers and lawyers are in perfect harmony, complementing each other and bringing out the best in each other, and the main thread running through the relationship between teachers and lawyers is the teaching, research and legal practice of intellectual property rights. From 2015 to 2020, he was selected as "The 'Industry Sage' of China's Intellectual Property Litigation Lawyer" for six consecutive years by Chambers & Partners, and was recently selected as the 4th "Oriental Lawyer" in Shanghai in 2019. Teacher, who could propagate the doctrine, impart professional knowledge，and resolve doubt. Professor Tao’s speech made all Landing people feel like returning to the classroom, and enlightened.

Relocation Ceremony

At 10:50 a.m., accompanied by an exciting countdown, Landing Global Headquarters Relocation Ceremony was officially launched under the joint announcement of six representatives, including Lawyer Yixing Liu, Director of Landing Global Management Committee, Lawyer Yan Wang, Director of Landing (Jinan) Law Firm, and Lawyer Guoqing Cai, Director of Landing Zhejiang Management Committee, Lawyer Xiangnan Ying, Director of Landing (Changsha) Law Firm, Lawyer Guodong Sun, Director of Landing (Shenzhen) Law Firm, and Lawyer Xiaoming Shen, Representative of Landing Global Headquarters Partners.

Speech Highlights

After the ceremony started, Lawyer Guoqing Cai, Director of Landing Zhejiang Management Committee, was the first to speak on stage. Lawyer Cai introduced his relationship with Landing and shared the progress and phased results of Landing Zhejiang regional integration. With "absolute specialization, strong internationalization, and relative scale" as its development philosophy and purpose, Landing has its unique charm and continues to attract outstanding lawyers to join. In the first half of this year, against the background of the spread of the Covid-19, Landing Global Headquarters welcomed many outstanding senior partners and senior consultants, including lawyer Wenjia Zhou, lawyer  Lei Tian, lawyer Yunkai Ye, lawyer Longyan Wei, lawyer Xuanhua Wu, lawyer Xiang Tang, lawyer Haibo Li, lawyer Fang Liu, lawyer Xian Sun, lawyer Chunsong Yuan, lawyer Yijun Zhang, lawyer Jiaxin Liu, lawyer  Kai Zhang, lawyer Bin Wu, lawyer Yanling Ding and Senior Consultant  Jun Wang, etc., and a non-equity partner Lawyer Jinhua Zhang was promoted to senior partner. Lawyer Haibo Li, a senior partner newly joined Landing Global Headquarters, made a wonderful speech. Landing's rapid development is inseparable from the silent contribution and perseverance of young lawyers and paralegals. Dexiu Lin, a lawyer from Taiwan, who has lawyer licenses on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, took the stage to share his feelings for Landing and his good expectations for Landing. Time flies, and the relocation ceremony lasted for 2 hours. After the event, all Landing people took a group photo. A new environment, a new starting point, a new location, without changing the original intention. This relocation is an important milestone in the development of Landing Law Offices. In the future, Landing will always adhere to the development concept of "absolute specialization, strong internationalization, and relative scale", forge ahead, constantly achieve new leaps, and realize the goal of establishing the international big law firm dominated by Chinese.