Liaoning Tongfang (Shanghai) Law Firm serves as the core hub for Tongfang Law Firm’s strategic focus on the Yangtze River Delta integration and its expansion into the international legal services market. It was officially established in October 2025 in Pudong, Shanghai—the heart of China’s financial district. As a pivotal move for Tongfang Lawyers to transcend regional boundaries and embark on a path of “national + international” development, the Shanghai branch draws deeply on the parent firm’s more than twenty years of accumulated expertise, extensive resource network, and established brand reputation. At the same time, it fully integrates Shanghai’s international outlook as an international financial center, its mature rule-of-law environment, and its rich local practical experience, thereby becoming a vital gateway through which Tongfang Law Firm can serve high-end financial clients and meet international legal demands.

Leveraging Shanghai Pudong’s advantageous location—characterized by a well-developed financial market system and prominent open-hub functions—the Shanghai branch can precisely connect global financial resources and efficiently address the complex legal needs of clients such as financial institutions and listed companies. This not only fills the gap in Tongfang Lawyers’ presence in the high-end legal services sector of the Yangtze River Delta region but also imbues the Tongfang brand with new international and financial dimensions.

The Shanghai branch closely aligns with Shanghai’s urban positioning as an “international financial center,” focusing on four high-value core business areas to achieve a deep alignment between the headquarters’ professional capabilities and the needs of the Shanghai region.

Legal Services in the Financial Sector: Covering a wide range of financial sectors including banking, securities, insurance, and trust services. We provide end-to-end services—including compliance design for financial products, financial risk prevention and control, and resolution of financial disputes—to meet the diversified needs of the financial market.

Capital Markets Legal Services: We specialize in services including IPOs, refinancing for listed companies, mergers and acquisitions, and bond issuances, helping enterprises access Shanghai’s multi-tiered capital market and providing professional legal support that complies with regulatory requirements.

Foreign-related legal services: Handling matters such as cross-border investment, international trade, and resolution of foreign-related disputes (including international arbitration), helping clients address cross-border legal risks and bridging international best practices with Chinese legal practice.

Legal Services for Disposal of Non-Performing Assets: Tailored to the scale and disposal needs of non-performing assets in financial markets, we offer integrated solutions including asset valuation, debt restructuring, judicial auctions, and bankruptcy liquidation, helping financial institutions mitigate asset risks.

The Shanghai branch takes “experienced leadership + youthful empowerment” as its talent core, creating a team advantage that complements “depth of experience” with “vitality and speed.” Its core members include seasoned, authoritative lawyers who have spent decades deeply immersed in the fields of finance and commercial law. They boast profound practical experience, insightful industry knowledge, and strong capabilities in resource integration, enabling them to grasp the big picture of complex cases and provide clients with high-level, strategic solutions. The team is also supported by young lawyers equipped with cutting-edge legal thinking and digital expertise, who excel at leveraging legal tech tools to enhance service efficiency and tackle novel legal challenges from innovative perspectives.

The Shanghai Branch inherits the core firm philosophy of the Head Office—“Walking Together on the Great Path, Upholding Integrity and Adhering to Principles.” Grounded in its strategic positioning as a financial hub in the East, the Shanghai Branch takes “professionalism and craftsmanship” as the cornerstone of its services and adopts “customer needs at the heart of everything we do, driven by professional value” as its guiding principle. We are committed to becoming a trusted “partner in the rule of law” for our clients. The Shanghai Branch keeps pace with the development of the financial sector, aligns closely with our clients’ business objectives, and provides high-end, precision legal services to companies in the Yangtze River Delta region, thereby contributing to the construction of Shanghai as an international financial center. At the same time, through its sophisticated practice, the Shanghai Branch feeds back into and enhances the professional capabilities of the Head Office, propelling the Tongfang Lawyers brand toward the goal of becoming “nationally leading and internationally renowned.”