On June 15, the world renowned legal media China Business Law Journal published the winner list for its 2022 China Business Law Awards. Watson & Band wins the Award in Media, Entertainment and Sports with its outstanding performance and good reputation in this area throughout the years.

Watson & Band has long been dedicated to providing legal services in the culture, entertainment and sports industry, and has thereby accumulated deep insights into China's current circumstances and environment, as well as domestic and overseas developments of the industry. We have provided comprehensive legal services to enterprises and organizations within industries such as performing arts, artist agency services and athletics. Our particular strong advantages in IP-related legal services guarantee the provision of comprehensive legal solutions that take into consideration the business features of each specific client. We have been engaging in entertainment law for years, and we are very familiar with various legal problems and the solutions thereto at different stages in the development of the entertainment industry. In recent years, Watson & Band has successfully represented a number of renowned domestic and overseas culture and entertainment companies and sports clubs by providing them with high-quality, comprehensive legal services.

CBLJ's China Business Law Awards aim to recognize and praise law firms with outstanding performance in various practice areas and industry sectors in the previous year. In this year’s Awards, CBLJ conducted months of surveys and selections based on its constant attention to and reports on China’s legal market, listened to direct feedback from the market and observed thousands of votes and recommendations from domestic and overseas in-house counsels, management and decision makers, legal scholars and government officials; meanwhile, CBLJ also referred to deals, cases and other prominent achievements of the law firms in the previous year, and finally worked out the award-winner list to reflect the legal market status.