Dr. Andreas Urban (Managing Partner) and Dr. Stefan Duhnkrack (former Managing Partner) of the German law firm Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek have officially visited the headquarter of GLO in Beijing on July 13 and the Shanghai Office on July 15 respectively. Present at the meeting were Mr. Jinrong Liu as Managing Partner of GLO, Mr. Xiusong Xing, Mr. David Fu, Mr. Xin Zhang, Mr. Hai Huang ,Mr. Kevin Wang, Mr. Haifeng Li, Mr. Yujie Chang, as well as Mr. Christoph Koeppel as foreign consultant from Switzerland. The both sides have had a frank and friendly exchange on professional and practicing issues. On the basis of constructive deliberation on main practice areas and business strategies, the both law firms have reached a consensus to build up close cooperation in Sino-European legal services markets.

Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek is a leading law firm in Germany and well-known for its “full-services” with nine offices in Germany and Europe. This time the two firms come together to build up cooperation on a basis of personal exchange: Dr. Yiliang Dong as Counsel of GLO has long time study and practicing experience in Germany. This year he has been appointed by Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek as Foreign Counsel to coordinate its China Desk; at GLO he is in charge of German Desk. In this way the two firms are jointly committed to lead a client exchange and teamwork in cross-border legal services markets between China, Germany and Europe.