In the evening of Apr. 20, 2017, “ChinaLaw Awards 2017” ceremony sponsored by Asian Legal Business (ALB),a famous legal media, was held in Park Hyatt Beijing Hotel. Tahota Law Firm washonored as the only “West China Law Firm of the Year”, which was the ninth timefor Tahota to win this title.

Senior partner He Peng accepted theaward and gave a Acceptance Speech on behalf of Tahota Law Firm.

Lawyer Shen Zhijun, executive directorof Beijing office, as the award presenter, presented an award to Chen Leiming,Chief Law Officer of Ant Financial Group which won “Tahota In-house Team of the Year”.

When Tahota Law Firm won “West China LawFirm of the Year” for the first time, Asian Legal Business commented by sayingthat “Tahota Law Firm was once regarded as a ‘new star’, but it has undoubtedlybecome a chief law firm in west China now and its honor as 2008 West China LawFirm of the Year shows that its achievement has been recognized by the public”.Though Tahota Law Firm began its business in west China, we have adopted a differentiationdevelopment strategy plan in recent years, are constantly overcoming regionalrestrictions, and will step into overseas markets in Hong Kong, Washington,South Korea and Australia etc. after the preliminary accomplishment ofdistributions in Chinese window cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhenetc., aiming to form a global pattern based on west China.

   Though there is an arduous and long way togo, we will give full play to our own special features and show our courage.Having gone through 17 years, Tahota Law Firm will move towards its “Five-yearPlan”, expecting to obtain more and greater progress and achievements in thefuture.