Jingzhou Tao

Partner

Jingzhou Tao has more than 25 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, the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), and the Advisory 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 Commission, 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.