Guantao News | Guantao Law Firm Nanjing Office Appointed as the Official Legal Service Provider for the “Su Super League”
Recently, Guantao Law Firm Nanjing Office was officially appointed as the designated legal service provider for the Jiangsu Provincial City Football League (the “Su Super League”).
The Jiangsu Provincial City Football League is jointly organized by the Jiangsu Provincial Sports Bureau and the municipal governments of all prefecture-level cities, and co-hosted by the municipal sports bureaus, the Jiangsu Football Association, and Jiangsu Sports Industry Group Co., Ltd. Guided by the concept of “public participation + city honor,” the league aims to promote the deep integration of football and nationwide fitness initiatives. The league adopts a distinctive competition format in which each prefecture-level city forms a city-named representative team, creating a comprehensive “one city, one home venue” model across the province. Through vibrant inter-city competition, the league strengthens regional identity and transforms football into a new vehicle for showcasing urban culture and fostering social cohesion—establishing a pioneering model for integrated “sports + city” development.
The project is led by Lai Yunlong, Director of Guantao Law Firm Nanjing Office, with Hu Yiming serving as Project Manager and Zhao Xun as Project Lead. Senior lawyers Qian Zhou, Shui Tiankun, Li Yuan, Fan Jun, and other experienced team members also contributed to the project. In addition, Zhou Yuan of Guantao Law Firm Hangzhou Office and Jiang Yuanzhe of Guantao Law Firm Shanghai Office served as project consultants, jointly supporting the legal services for the league.
Guantao’s legal team will draw on its professional strengths to provide comprehensive legal support for this high-profile sporting event. The team will assist the organizing committee with issues relating to intellectual property and sponsorship rights protection, as well as anti-unfair competition matters, delivering multi-dimensional sports law services to ensure the event is conducted in a professional, compliant, and high-quality manner.
Introduction of Guantao’s Sports Law Team
Guantao Sports Law Team has extensive experience in sports events, venue assets, intellectual property rights and sports dispute resolution. Guantao provided professional legal consulting services to the Beijing Municipal Government during the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and became the legal consultant to the Olympic Promotion Committee; Guantao is also the legal consultant to the Olympic Preparedness Office of the General Administration of Sport of China, the Chinese Olympic Committee, the Chinese Triathlon Association, government sports agencies and sports associations at all levels, and has been selected as the public interest legal service team for the Beijing Winter Olympics; as the official legal service provider for the Hangzhou Asian Games and the Asian Paralympic Games, Guantao makes full use of its rich experience in sports legal services and professional knowledge of sports law to provide comprehensive and three-dimensional legal service for the Asian Games and the Asian Paralympic Games in the areas of sports events, sponsorship and endorsement, intellectual property rights, labor Law and International Law.
With deep professional experience and an unwavering commitment to excellence, Guantao will continue to draw on its extensive capabilities in sports law to provide diligent, high-quality, and efficient legal services. Guided by principles of integrity and professionalism, the firm remains dedicated to supporting China’s drive toward becoming a leading sports nation and contributing to the sustained development of the country’s sports industry through the power of the rule of law.
