Managing Partner, Dechert LLP (China)

Jingzhou Tao is the Managing Partner at Dechert LLP responsible for developing the firm’s Asian practice.  He has almost 30 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 Chinese, European, Japanese, and American companies in hundreds of transactions in China on such matters as merger and acquisition; tax planning; strategic alliances; and intellectual property protection. He has acted as counsel, chief arbitrator, or party-nominated arbitrator in international arbitration proceedings involving merger and acquisition, letters of credit, construction projects, management contracts, joint ventures, technology transfers, trademark licensing agreements, agency agreements, and international sales of goods.

International arbitration related positions currently held by Jingzhou

Member of the Court,  ICC International Court of Arbitration;

Member of International Advisory Board of Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC);

Member of the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission  (CIETAC) and Member of its Advisory Committee;

Member of the Board of Trustee of Foundation International for Arbitration Advocacy;

Member of the Board of Global Arbitration Review;

Co-Chair of China International Arbitration Club;

Chair of the Commission on International Commercial Arbitration of ICC China;

Adjunct professor at Peking University Law School;

Specially invited Professor at Tsinghua University;

Adjunct professor at East China University of Political Science and Law;

Adjunct professor at China University of Political Science and Law for the MBA program;

Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

In addition, he is a listed arbitrator for

Court of Arbitration for Sport,

American Arbitration Association,

Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre,

Singapore International Arbitration Centre,

Vienna International Arbitral Centre

Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration,

China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission,

Beijing Arbitration Commission

Nationality

French

Admitted

China (1988)

Paris (France, 1991)

Education

University of Paris I-Panthéon Sorbonne (D.E.A. 1984); Peking University (LL.B. 1982)

Languages

Chinese, English, French

Publications

Books

Jingzhou is author of several books in English and French on Chinese law.

• Mergers and Acquisitions in China (Fifth Edition), co-author, West Law, New York, 608 pages, 2013
• Arbitration Law and Practice in China (Third Edition), Kluwer Law International, The Netherlands, 383 pages, 2012
• Resolving Business Disputes in China, CCH Asia Pte Limited, Singapore, 800 pages 2004
• Non-Tariff Trade Barriers in China, co-author, Sweet & Maxwell, Hong Kong, 357 pages 2003
• International Commercial Arbitration in Asia (China Chapter), Juris Press, New York, 45 pages, 2002

International Execution Against Judgment Debtors, (Enforcement of Foreign Judgment in the People’s Republic of China), Oceana, New York, 26 pages, October 2002