Arts and Sports always mean to be part of education and human development. By integrating education with our arts and sports practice groups, we advocate for the principle in practice.

■ Art & Education 

Jin Mao’s experience in arts and creative industry is highly respected for our active involvement in staging of art fairs and exhibitions, commercialisation of artworks, as well as the donation, auction and acquisition in relation to artworks. Among the prominent art institutions we regularly work with are China Art Museum, Power Station of Art, Shanghai Chinese Painting Academy, Cheng Shi Fa Art Museum, Liu Haisu Art Museum, Shanghai Mass Art Center, Shanghai Opera House, Shanghai Ballet, Shanghai Research Institute of Culture and History, Wu Changshuo Art Association and Shanghai Cishu Publishing House.

Among the educational institutions we represent are STA Shanghai Dance School, Shanghai Vocational College of Agriculture and Forestry, Shanghai Education Affairs Supervision Centre and Shanghai Huangpu Campus Security Management Centre.

■ Sports

In addition to providing services to institutional clients such as international and domestic sports organisations and clubs, Jin Mao's sports practice also pays special attention to the rights and interests of sportspersons and sustainable development. Jin Mao has successfully represented a number of football players and coaches in resolving disputes and has the awareness and ability to help clients salvage business relationships on the verge of breaking up. Jin Mao is adept at exploring and reaching win-win solutions for the parties involved in such disputes. dispute resolution to the mutual benefit of the parties. Since 2018, Jin Mao lawyers have represented a foreign football coach in a case that lasted for more than four years, and the legal focus of the disputed claim was upheld by the Supreme People's Court and published as the 2022 Typical Cases of Judicial Review of the Supreme People's Court Involving Arbitration (No. 201). In addition, Jin Mao's sports practice is committed to the protection of the rights and interests of young athletes, and the organising lawyers have saved a young athlete's career at a critical moment through independent judgement of the situation and avoided important losses for the relevant clubs.

Our experience covers various types of sports, including the emerging e-sport sector, ranging from sports governance, sports diplomacy, dispute resolution proceedings at People’s Court, FIFA, CAS, Swiss Federal Tribunal and European Court of Human Rights, to commercial aspects of sports. Jin Mao specialises in resolving public relations crises for clients and expanding business opportunities for clients through legal strategies and grows together with clients. Jin Mao leaves its mark in the Chinese sports market through persistence in difficult cases, making breakthroughs in jurisprudence, while consciously engages with courts and regulators to drive systematic reforms. Our sports and international law team receives regular invitation to speak at international events, and have been recognized as a Global Leader in sports sector by Who’s Who Legal, and Rising Star award presented by China Business Law Journal．Our team is the co-author of the inaugural Sports Dispute Resolution in China (for consecutive years of 2020 and 2021), as part of the Commercial Dispute Resolution in China (An Annual Review and Preview) published by the Beijing Arbitration Commission.

■ Gaming and E-sports

Jin Mao pays great attention to the emerging industry of gaming and e-sports, and in recent years, it has provided high-quality and efficient legal services for many domestic and foreign game developers, operators, e-sports clubs, tournament organizers, live broadcasting platforms, media, and other industry chain related enterprises, including but not limited to Tencent's enterprises, Fist, You Clan Networks, Scatter Burst Networks, etc., which have been praised and highly praised by the parties concerned. With continuous research and deep cultivation, Jin Mao has formed four core legal service products in the field of gaming and e-sports, including intellectual property rights, compliance (operation compliance, data and personal information protection compliance, etc.), commercial dispute resolution (litigation and arbitration), and labor and personnel, with a view to providing professional legal services that fit the new ecology of gaming and e-sports.

In terms of industry exchanges, Jin Mao is a member unit of Shanghai e-Sports Association and a member of Shanghai Huangpu District e-Sports X Alliance, which maintains good communication and exchanges with all kinds of industry-related subjects, and deeply understands the legal needs of market subjects, legal difficulties and pain points. Jin Mao has provided them with customized solutions. A number of attorneys have published professional articles in various major media, which were warmly responded to and widely acclaimed.