Catherine Guo

Introduction

Catherine Guo is a specialist in Chinese litigation laws, focusing on commercial dispute resolution. Her clients include intergovernmental organisations, companies and individuals from the UK, the US, Canada, Australia, Germany, Italy, South Africa, Kenya, South Korea and other countries.

Guo began practicing law in 2005. On the recommendation of the Ministry of Justice, she was selected by the Law Society of England and Wales to attend the 10-month Lord Chancellor’s Training Scheme for young Chinese lawyers in London in 2010.

She has been recommended in the field of Dispute Resolution – Litigation by Chambers Global and Chambers Asia Pacific/Greater China from 2020 to 2023, and was among the 2021 Top 15 Litigators of the Year by Legalband, the 2022 Top 15 Litigators of the Year by Asian Legal Business, and China’s Top 15 Lawyers in Automobile and Manufacturing by Legalband.

Guo and her team are adept at representing customers in product quality responsibility disputes. She leverages her work experience in the media industry to successfully deal with media crises. Guo has focused on vehicle-related legal services in the past eight years, during which her team has solved more than 300 quality responsibility disputes on behalf of various vehicle brands. She represented the case against Tesla in the world’s first incident of driver death caused by autopilot driving in China in January 2016, which was deemed a leading litigation that explored the allocation of legal responsibilities between an autonomous driving car manufacturer and the driver when an accident happens.

She graduated from Beijing Foreign Studies University in 1992, with English as her first major. She worked as a journalist at Xinhua News Agency and China Central Television (CCTV) for a decade before getting her LLM from Renmin University of China and becoming a lawyer.