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 started her law career in 2005. She was recommended by the Chinese Ministry of Justice and selected by The Law Society of England and Wales to participate in the 10-month Lord Chancellor’s Training Scheme for Young Chinese Lawyers in London in 2010.

Guo has been recommended in the field of dispute resolution in litigation by Chambers Global and Chambers Asia Pacific/Greater China from 2020 to 2024. She was named among Legalband’s Top 15 Litigators of the Year in 2021 and China’s Top 15 Lawyers in automobile and manufacturing, as well as Asian Legal Business’ Top 15 Litigators of the Year in 2022.

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

Guo 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 for a decade before getting her LLM from Renmin University of China and becoming a lawyer.