C & T Partners C & T Partners, a law firm of partnership, was transformed in September, 2000 from the state-owned law firm, Jiangsu Tongren Law Firm with its former name of Jiangsu Foreign Economic Law Office, which was founded in 1984 upon approval of the Ministry of Justice of the People's Republic of China.   C & T Partners is , as a result of years of hard working, one of top firms in China and has built up a strong business relationship with a large amount of reputable clients involved in a wide variety of industry, and also C & T Partners enjoys a very good reputation and has valuable relationships with law firms worldwide.   There are twelve partners and more than twenty fee Earners with C & T Partners, all of them are at their young or middle ages, more than one-third of them have their master in law degrees, and the majority have more than ten years' practising experience in Chinese law. In recent years, more than ten lawyers in this law firm have been sent to the USA, the UK, Germany, Singapore and Hong Kong for study and professional training. All these show that a group of professional lawyers with high qualities has been formed within C & T Partners.   C & T Partners insist on maintaining its reputation based on quality of legal service, development on reputation. It has also created, during the due course of business, several 'First's compared with other law firms in Jiangsu Province, such as, the first law firm which provides legal service for large foreign invested projects and overseas investment projects; the first rendering legal opinions in international syndicate loans; the first representing clients in litigation concerning the use of internet; the first advising clients in 'A','B' and 'H' share listings and the first consulting in BOT projects, etc.   In 1997, C & T Partners was granted by the Department of Publicity of CPC and the Ministy of Justice a title of 'Civilization Window on National Legal Service'(one of seven in China and the only one in Jiangsu Province)and in 1998,was again certified by the Ministry of Justice to be one of the twenty Excellent Practice Law Firms in China(only one in Jiangsu Province).The Bureau of Justice of Jiangsu Province issued in July 1998 a Decision regarding C & T Partners .   Areas of Practice 　　Corporate Investment 　　International Trade 　　Intellectual Property 　　Finance and Securities 　　Real Estate 　　Litigation and Arbitration