China Weekly: Recently, an emotional group drama "South to North", which focuses on the work and life of two generations of railway public security officers and has spanned 40 years, is being broadcast on **TV 1 set, **TV station 8 sets** strong file, and iQiyi. The reporter learned that the lawyer team of Shen Honggang of Hiways Yongtai Beijing Office provided all-round legal escort for the series.
As a CCTV New Year drama at the beginning of the year, the attention and discussion of the show continued to soar, and it has climbed the ratings high point many times, and the ratings have been leading all the way since its launch. On the night of the finale, Kuyun showed that the real-time ratings of the show peaked at 40335%, a record high for CCTV-8**. At the same time, the popularity of the show in iQiyi station is as high as 9959, and the effective market share of Yunhe feature films continues to rise to 298%。According to the public data of the Douyin platform, as of February 26, the topic of "South to North" has been harvested more than 15.5 billion times on Douyin, and the comprehensive popularity of Douyin has reached 5900 million, truly realizing the brilliant results of the double explosion of the Taiwan network.
Behind such excellent results, it is inseparable from all-round and high-quality legal support. Lawyer Shen Honggang, lawyer Zhang Xiaohui, and paralegal Yin Lifeng of the film and television entertainment legal service team of Hiways Yongtai Beijing Office were hired as the legal counsel of the drama to provide them with full legal services. Lawyer Shen Honggang and lawyer Zhang Xiaohui, as the host lawyers of this project, led the team to participate in the special legal services of "South to North" after accepting the entrustment of the producer Drama Xingtianxia Company, and provided all-round legal support including but not limited to legal document review, daily legal consultation, incident handling, negotiation, intellectual property operation and other links in project preparation, investment and financing, cast and staff employment, shooting, post-production, publicity and distribution, etc., escorting the smooth progress of the play.
During the filming of the TV series "South to North", lawyer Shen Honggang and director Liu Zhangmu and other crew colleagues took a photo of the on-site work).
At present, the film and television entertainment industry is still in the rising stage of continuous development, and in this disruptive market full of vitality and opportunities, there are a series of cumbersome links behind each project that need to be implemented, which is a great test for the professional ability of the lawyer team. Lawyer Shen Honggang told reporters that with profound professional knowledge and rich experience in media, entertainment and Internet, Hiways Yongtai will continue to help enterprises stabilize their wings and contribute to the steady development of the industry by improving their professional capabilities and developing high-quality legal service products. (China Practice Reporting Group).
Lawyer Profile
Shen Honggang
Executive Director of Hiways Beijing Office.
Mr. Shen Honggang is familiar with the rules of China's film and television industry and the "rules of the game" in Hollywood, and has served a number of American production companies, many Chinese first-line actors and film and television groups, and more than 100 film and TV series works, assisting Chinese producers and actors to deeply participate in film and television works, and providing special services for screenwriters, producers, producers, film and television shooting and production teams, post-production and special effects, publicity, conventional and unconventional film and television advertising placement, derivatives development, online ticketing and other fields. He was invited to serve as the secretary-general of the China TV Drama Production Industry Association, an expert member of the legal talent expert database of the Chinese film and television industry, a member of the Film and Television Foreign-related Affairs Professional Committee of the Beijing Culture and Entertainment Law Society, a member of the foreign-related lawyer talent pool of the Beijing Lawyers Association, and an arbitrator of the Changsha Arbitration Commission. Recently, Mr. Shen was listed in the "2023 ALB China Top 15 TMT Lawyers" and the "Outstanding Young Entertainment Lawyer of the Year in the 6th Chuxin List" for his superb business ability and excellent service reputation. (CIIC Fusion Media).
Zhang Xiaohui
Partner of Hiways Beijing office.
Ms. Zhang graduated from China University of Political Science and Law and is a partner of Shanghai Haihua Yongtai (Beijing) Law Firm. So far, Mr. Zhang has undertaken nearly 1,000 litigation and non-litigation cases, and is good at litigation and non-litigation legal services, and has extensive experience in the fields of corporate and commercial, intellectual property and dispute resolution. Over the years, Mr. Zhang has taken the film and television industry chain as the entry point, focusing on the research of the legal and policy environment, market system and financial needs of the film and television cultural industry, focusing on providing domestic and foreign television stations, ** platforms, film and television production companies, artist brokerage companies, film and television industry investment entities, ticket operation companies, cultural communication companies, pan-entertainment companies and many other enterprises, organizations and individuals related to film and television culture and media (artists, Authors and performers of written or audio-visual works, etc.) provide legal services for the entire film and television industry chain, provide practical solutions to the problems of enterprise development and growth in the field of entertainment and culture, and are the favored legal counsel for many enterprises. Mr. Zhang is currently a member of the Legal Affairs Committee of the China TV Drama Production Association and a member of the Finance and Taxation Law Committee of the Entertainment Industry of the China Law Society.
Editor: Chu Yu