Shan TAO Honored as One of the 2022 ALB China Top 15 TMT Lawyers

Shan TAO, Partner

Practice Areas: Entertainment Media & Internet (TMT) | Capital Markets / Securities | M&A

Shan TAO is dedicated to providing legal services in fields of film and entertainment, and provides legal consultation services for state-owned, private, foreign-funded and listed film and culture enterprises, with services covering the overall industry chain of film and television industry, including but not limited to: film and television project investment and financing, film and television project production and distribution, development of derivatives, business development, agent of artists, performance, transaction of film and television assets, daily business of film and television companies, M&A and restructuring, etc. Shan TAO is specialized in providing customers with feasible solutions from the perspective of the industry based on the characteristics of the industry. In recent years, Shan TAO has been deeply engaged in the field of taxation legal services, and is committed to providing more comprehensive legal solutions to customers, which has been well recognized by customers. Shan TAO has been ranked as one of the top lawyers in the sports and entertainment sector in the List of Top Lawyers in China by Legalband for two consecutive years in 2020 and 2021, and has been named as a recommended lawyer in the TMT sector in the Asia-Pacific region by The Legal500 in 2021 and 2022. Currently, Shan TAO serves as Deputy Director of the Finance and Taxation Law Committee of the Beijing Bar Association. 

Based on the profound accumulation of Hylands in the field of traditional intellectual property legal services, the entertainment media and Internet (TMT) team of Hylands is dedicated to the refined legal field based on intellectual property business and extended by civil and commercial business in various TMT industries, especially in handling many legal issues in film and TV variety, performance brokerage, games, sports, animation, music, publishing and media, live streaming with goods, e-commerce, Internet regulatory compliance and data compliance, etc., so as to provide customers with the overall industry chain legal services including IPR operation and compliance, new business construction and implementation, investment and financing, M&A restructuring, tax planning, corporate compliance and dispute resolution of complicated and difficult issues. The TMT team of Hylands has both solid legal expertise and keen business insights, and has provided legal services to nearly 100 renowned customers at home and abroad, such as Alibaba Pictures, Youku, Huayi Brothers, Dongshen Future, Youhug Media, Emperor Entertainment, Happy Picture, CKF Pictures, Aimmedia Pictures, Sino-Ocean Group, and Huaxia Bank, etc., and has a high market popularity and a favorable reputation in the legal market in this field.

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