Wen's lawyers in spotlight for rebuttal of NYT story
Premier's two legal representatives best known for work in corporate and commercial spheres
A rebuttal by the family of Premier Wen Jiabao following a New York Times report about his family's wealth has cast a spotlight on lawyers from two of China's top law firms.
Bai Tao is a partner with the Beijing-based Jun He Law Offices and she specialises in corporate law, intellectual property rights, inbound investment, real estate, anti-dumping, sports law and dispute resolution.
Wang Weidong is a managing partner of the Grandall Law Firm in Beijing, and he specialises in corporate mergers and acquisitions, as well as capital markets and securities.
The two were chosen to represent Wen's family because of their dealings with foreign firms and legal affairs involving other countries, even though neither has done much work with defamation cases, according to a legal source familiar with the two lawyers.
Bai is a former director of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Beijing Lawyers' Association, and Wang is the current director. Both lawyers were fluent in English, the source said.