2017年9月25日，中伦律师事务所北京办公室合伙人刘相文律师、程军律师、许世夺律师代表中伦与来访的加拿大顶级律所之一Blake, Cassel & Graydon LLP亚洲区主席Michael Laffin律师、中东办公室管理合伙人Graham Mcleod律师、温哥华办公室合伙人胡再持律师及中东办公室合伙人Tim Sunar律师在中伦律师事务所北京办公室进行了会谈，双方就未来的业务合作与发展前景进行了深入的沟通与交流。

 

September 25th, 2017, Mr. Xiangwen Liu, Mr. Jun Cheng, and Mr. Shiduo Xu, partners of Zhong Lun Law Firm Beijing office, met on behalf of Zhong Lun with the visitors from Blake, Cassel & Graydon LLP, one of Canadian top law firms, including Mr. Michael Laffin, the Chair of Asia Region, Mr. Graham Mcleod, managing partner of Middle East offices, Mr. Zaichi Hu, partner of Vancouver office, and Mr. Tim Sunar, partner of Middle East office. The two sides had had an in-depth conversation on the prospective development of their incoming business cooperation.

 

会议伊始，Blakes律所四位合伙人首先对其律所规模、专业领域、法律服务能力以及加拿大的商业环境等进行了全面的介绍。Blakes在加拿大的多伦多、蒙特利尔、温哥华、卡尔加里、渥太华五个城市设有办公室，并在纽约、伦敦、北京，以及中东地区巴林王国的麦纳麦、沙特阿拉伯的利雅得与胡拜尔均设有办公室。Blakes的执业范围横贯加拿大全境，执业领域涵盖各主要法律服务领域，在能源、矿产、基础设施建设等诸多领域都拥有资深的专家与业内领先的精英律师，能够为客户提供高质量的法律服务，是加拿大顶级律师事务所之一。Blakes亚洲区主席Michael Laffin律师同时表示，中国与加拿大间有着日趋活跃频繁的商业往来，且中国公司在加拿大境内有着众多的贸易投资机会，这其中蕴含着巨大的法律服务需求。Blakes希望与作为中国顶级律师事务所之一的中伦建立长期友好关系，共谋业务合作与发展。

 

At the beginning of the meeting, the partners of Blakes firstly made a comprehensive introduction to the size, practice fields, legal service abilities of Blakes, as well as the business environment of Canada. Blakes has five Canadian offices based in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Calgary, and Ottawa. It also has offices in New York, London, Beijing, and of the Middle East in Manama (Kingdom of Bahrain), Riyadh and Al-Khobar (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia). Blakes' practice extends throughout Canada, covering all major fields of legal services. It has senior experts and outstanding lawyers in many fields such as energy sources, mining, construction and infrastructure, etc., rendering itself with one of the top law firms in Canada which provides high quality legal services to the clients. Blakes’ Chair of Asia Region, Mr. Michael Laffin, indicated the increasing and flourishing commerce between China and Canada, and the various opportunities of Chinese companies of investment and commerce in Canada, from which significant demand for legal services arises. Blakes expects to establish friendly long-term cooperative relationship with Zhong Lun, one of the top law firms in China, to explore future business collaboration and development.

 

 

此后，刘相文律师、程军律师与许世夺律师向Michael Laffin主席一行全面介绍了中伦律师事务所的整体情况以及近几年的迅猛发展，重点介绍了中伦民主透明的管理体制以及“专业、进取、包容、共享”的核心价值理念，并详细介绍了中伦在房地产与基础设施建设、能源、矿产、海外投资与并购、合规、争议解决等诸多领域丰富的法律服务经验和领先的专业优势。三位合伙人也表达了中伦对于双方未来合作的开放态度与友好意愿。

 

Mr. Xiangwen Liu, Mr. Jun Cheng, and Mr. Shiduo Xu then introduced to the Blakes’ partners comprehensively with the overall situation and the booming development of Zhong Lun in the recent years. They presented emphatically the democratic and transparent management system of Zhong Lun, as well as Zhong Lun’s core values of "professional, enterprising, embracing, and sharing", and presented detailedly Zhong Lun’s rich experiences and professional advantages on various fields including real estate, construction and infrastructure, energy sources, mining, outbound investment, merger and acquisition, compliance, dispute resolution, etc. They also expressed Zhong Lun’s openness and willingness towards future cooperation between the two firms.

 

 

经过近两小时的深入交流与沟通，双方共同认为，在中国“一带一路”战略与经济全球化热潮的背景下，中伦与Blakes分别作为根植于中国、加拿大的顶级律师事务所，具有各自的本土法律服务突出优势与广泛的合作空间。双方期待在分享客户资源、共享商业机会、共同拓展业务等方面进一步地加深交流与合作，共谋发展，互利共赢。

 

After nearly two hours of in-depth conversation, both sides believe that, in the context of China’s “the Belt and Road Initiative” and the trend of economic globalization, Zhong Lun and Blakes, as the top law firms rooted respectively in China and Canada and both possessing prominent advantages on their localized legal services, have extensive space of cooperation. They both look forward to further deepening their exchanges and cooperation on the aspects of sharing clients, sharing opportunities, jointly expanding business, etc., and to exploring a win-win situation of joint-development, reciprocity and mutual benefits.