Han Feng is a PRC-licensed lawyer and a partner at Tiantai Law Firm Shanghai Office, in practice since 2013. We act for overseas brands, e-commerce sellers and importers that have products made in mainland China: purchase and manufacturing contracts, mold and design ownership, Chinese trademarks, supplier background checks, customs IP recordal and disputes with suppliers. In this work we act for the buyer and never take instructions from a factory against a buyer.
Experience
Han Feng has practised law since January 2013 without a break, and has been with Tiantai Law Firm Shanghai Office since January 2014. In that time he has drafted more than 500 commercial agreements. About 90 of them are the NNN, product development and manufacturing agreements that overseas buyers bring to us.
The clients have been spread across many markets, including Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, France, Japan and Hong Kong, and across many industries, from printed matter and industrial parts to leather goods and furniture. The products differ, but contracts with Chinese factories tend to fail in the same places: who owns the molds, and which sample the bulk goods are checked against. We settle those two points first in every draft. We do not name clients or factories on this site.
Why the firm signs, invoices and receives payment
When buyers first look for a lawyer in China, the question that worries them most is who they are paying. Our answer is simple. Your company signs the engagement agreement with Tiantai Law Firm Shanghai Office, the firm issues the invoice, and the fee goes to the firm’s corporate account at a bank in mainland China, not to a lawyer personally.
Tiantai was founded in Beijing in 1994 and has more than 2,700 lawyers, which places it among the 15 largest law firms in China by headcount (ALB China, 2025). What matters for you is not the ranking. It is that you are contracting with, and paying, a licensed law firm supervised by the justice authorities, and that if a matter turns into litigation or arbitration, the same firm handles it.
Everything in writing
We work with clients by email. Every fee, deadline, comment and piece of advice is on record, so you can forward it to a colleague, a partner or the factory without reconstructing what was said on a call. Most clients find this faster, not slower: you write the question when it suits you, and we answer each point in writing.
Our fees are fixed and confirmed in writing before work starts, with the scope, the documents you will receive and the delivery time in business days. The full list is on the Fees page.
Mainland China law only
We advise on mainland Chinese law and on Chinese courts, arbitration commissions, Customs and the trademark office. Patents and trademarks in your own markets, infringement suits there, and account appeals on Amazon or other platforms belong with local counsel. Where both sides are involved, we handle the China end and set out in writing what goes to your local lawyer.
How to verify me
If you receive an email from someone who says they are a lawyer in China, checking before you pay is the right instinct. This is how to check us:
- Han Feng’s profile on the firm’s website: English ↗, Chinese ↗.
- We correspond with clients from two addresses only: hanfeng@tiantailaw.com (the firm’s email) and han@hanfenglegal.com. A “Han Feng” writing from any other address, messaging app or phone number is not us.
- Fees are paid only to the corporate account of Tiantai Law Firm Shanghai Office stated on the invoice, which the firm issues under the engagement agreement you signed. We never ask for payment to a personal account, a Hong Kong company or any other third party.
- If you receive an email saying our bank account has changed, do not pay. Check with us first, in writing, at one of the two addresses above.
It is the same test we recommend for a Chinese supplier: the name, the account and the documents have to match before money moves. See Your Chinese Supplier Says It Has a New Bank Account: How to Verify Before You Pay.
Want to ask before you decide?
Write a few lines on what you are about to sign, pay or deal with. We reply in writing with a fixed fee and a delivery time.