Earlier this year, our Managing Partner Alan Chiu was appointed by the Beijing Normal University as their HK Entertainment Law Course Consultant and was invited to teach a course on Entertainment Law for their master students at their Zhuhai campus.

Eager to nurture legal talents across Hong Kong and Greater China, team members of the ELLALAN Hong Kong and Guangzhou team joined Alan to give 16 lectures on the topic.

We covered a comprehensive curriculum spanning Hong Kong and PRC laws, including publicity rights, IP protection, defamation, advertising law, confidentiality, music royalties, film and music contracts, movie investment and co-production, and artist management and disputes. To enrich students’ global perspective, we shared landmark precedents from Hong Kong and Mainland China, as well as Korea, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States, illustrating how cross-border case law shapes today’s entertainment industry.

At the close of our series, we also awarded scholarships to our top three students, and offered two of them internships at our Guangzhou office.

We believe that by equipping Hong Kong lawyers with knowledge in PRC laws and Mainland lawyers in Hong Kong laws, we empower our teams to guide clients seamlessly through inbound and outbound engagements.

A heartfelt thank you to BNU for this collaboration. We look forward to continuing our mission of training the next generation of entertainment law experts!