<p style="text-align: justify;">On January 17, 2026, the DHH Yangtze River Delta High-Quality Integrated Development Forum and Joint Annual Meeting of Seven Regional Offices was grandly held in Kunshan. Partners, lawyers and staffs from offices in Shanghai, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Ningbo, Wuxi, Hefei, and other locations gathered together. The forum was centered around the theme of "Serving National Strategies, Deepening Regional Synergy, Empowering the Rule of Law Construction," explored new paths for the integrated development of legal services in the Yangtze River Delta region. At the beginning of the event, Jin Yao, Senior Partner and the director of the Management Committee at DHH, delivered an opening speech. He stated that as a major law firm deeply rooted in the region, DHH's various offices need to take the initiative to assume responsibilities. By focusing on client and market demands, they should adopt a "point-line-plane" approach, leveraging the coordinated development of regional offices, major business centers, and various regions to drive the integration of business operations across different locations, thereby better empowering lawyers and serving clients. The forum also invited Li Pengzhan, the founder of DHH Nanjing; Wang Chao, the director of DHH Ningbo; Ye Lin, a representative from DHH Nanning; and Li Kebin, the founding partner of DHH Suzhou and the director of DHH Urumqi, to deliver speeches respectively. Each speaker expressed that the integrated development of DHH's regional offices is a trend in line with DHH's vision of building a global regional network. They also stated that each office would leverage its geographical advantages within the development framework to provide clients with more efficient and high-quality legal services. During the keynote speech session,Yu Xiaoqiang, Senior Partner and Director of the Shanghai Office; Fang Mingxing, the director of the Suzhou office; Cheng Xuelin, the director of the Hangzhou office; Zhang Yan, the director of the Nanjing office; Shao Yongyi, the executive deputy director of the Ningbo office; Zhu Yihong, the director of the Wuxi office; and Xu Chao, the director of the Hefei office, shared their insights on the theme of "High-Quality Integrated Development of the Yangtze River Delta." In the subsequent roundtable sessions, one representative from each of the seven regional offices participated and shared in-depth insights on the integrated development of DHH Yangtze River Delta from three dimensions: "professional teams," "markets," and "young lawyers". The successful hosting of this joint annual meeting in the Yangtze River Delta not only established a solid platform for DHH's regional coordination but also clarified the direction and path for future integrated development. Moving forward, DHH's various offices in the Yangtze River Delta will take this meeting as an opportunity to continuously deepen professional, market, and talent coordination, striving to set a benchmark for integrated legal services in the Yangtze River Delta and providing a more solid legal guarantee for the region's high-quality development.</p>

DHH Yangtze River Delta High-Quality Integrated Development Forum and Joint Annual Meeting of Seven Regional Offices Successfully Held

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