GUOZUN CATHAY ASSOCIATES officially launched its Norway office in the central business district of Oslo, capital of the Kingdom of Norway, in November 2023. As a key service node of the firm’s global legal service network across the Nordic region, the office focuses on addressing full-scenario legal needs of Chinese enterprises investing in Norway, two-way Sino-Norwegian economic and trade exchanges, and individual cross-border matters.

GUOZUN CATHAY ASSOCIATES established its Montenegro Office in the central business district of Podgorica, the capital of Montenegro, in June 2025. As part of the firm’s global legal service layout, the office serves as a service hub supporting Chinese-funded enterprises expanding into the Balkan region and developing cross-border business under the framework of China-Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC) cooperation. Integrating the cross-border legal expertise of its Beijing headquarters with local professional practising capabilities, the office has built a full-time team with both cross-border legal service backgrounds and local practising qualifications in Montenegro.

GUOZUN CATHAY ASSOCIATES officially inaugurated its Moldova office in June 2025 in the core business district of Chisinau, the capital of Moldova. As a cross-border legal service institution under Guozun’s strategic footprint in South-East Europe, it serves as a bridge linking the Chinese market with EU associated states. The office focuses on addressing the legal needs of Chinese-funded enterprises investing in Moldova and expanding into EU-related markets. It has assembled a dedicated service team with composite qualifications in Chinese law, Moldovan law and EU law. All core practitioners have over 10 years of hands-on experience in cross-border legal services across Central and Eastern Europe, and provide multilingual support in Chinese, Romanian, Russian and English, covering full-cycle legal service scenarios including investment access, commercial operation, compliance and risk management, and dispute resolution.

GUOZUN CATHAY ASSOCIATES Malta Office completed its establishment registration and officially commenced operations in the core business district of Valletta, Malta’s capital, in August 2025. As a key node in the firm’s global legal service layout, the office is positioned as a central legal service hub covering the entire European Union, the Mediterranean coast and North African markets.

GUOZUN CATHAY ASSOCIATES’ North Macedonia Office was launched in September 2025 in the central business district of Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia. It serves as the Firm’s core service hub for its presence in the Balkan Peninsula and for supporting Chinese enterprises expanding into this EU candidate country. The office has built a multidisciplinary in-house legal service team, with core members holding practising qualifications in Chinese law, EU law and North Macedonian local law respectively, enabling coordinated service delivery across three jurisdictions. With decades of practical experience in commercial legal services across the Balkan region, the team is well adapted to the iterative regulatory system and local commercial rules amid North Macedonia’s EU accession process. Backed by the global cross-border service network of the Beijing headquarters, it provides professional legal services to Chinese and foreign clients with full-process, full-cycle and multi-jurisdictional coordination.

GUOZUN CATHAY ASSOCIATES Luxembourg Office was officially established in July 2023 in the Kirchberg central financial and business district of Luxembourg City, adjacent to core EU institutions including the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Investment Bank. Leveraging Luxembourg’s status as a world-renowned global hub for investment funds, the office serves as a core strategic pillar of the Firm in supporting Chinese-funded enterprises to expand into Europe and develop cross-border EU business.

GUOZUN CATHAY ASSOCIATES (Beijing) officially established its Latvia office in Riga, the capital of Latvia, in October 2024. As a core branch tasked with deepening the Firm’s presence in the Baltic region and extending its coverage to Nordic and EU markets, the office has built an integrated service system enabling onshore coordination in China, local service delivery within the EU, and coordinated mobilisation of global resources.

​On 10 September 2023, the Italian Office of GUOZUN CATHAY ASSOCIATES completed its registration and officially commenced operations in the central business district of Milan. As a core service node in the firm’s EU market strategy, the office leverages the global legal service system of its Beijing headquarters and has built a professional team with Chinese-Italian bilingual capabilities and in-depth knowledge of both jurisdictions. Specialising in cross-border investment, EU compliance, commercial disputes and other practice areas, it aligns with Italian local judicial practice and EU regulatory requirements to provide standardised cross-border legal service support to entities engaged in two-way investment between China and Italy.

In August 2024, GUOZUN CATHAY ASSOCIATES established its Iceland office in the core business district of Reykjavík, the capital of Iceland. As a key branch of the firm’s strategic layout in the Nordic and North Atlantic economic circles, the office operates under the framework of the China-Iceland Free Trade Agreement, and aligns its services with Iceland’s domestic judicial system and the regulatory norms of the European Economic Area (EEA). The service team holds Icelandic lawyer practising licences and local court appearance qualifications, with core lawyers each boasting over 10 years of professional experience. We provide multilingual services in Chinese, Icelandic and English, and cater to core demands including Chinese capital outbound investment, local business operations in Iceland, and cross-border commercial cooperation, delivering localised, multi-chain and cross-legal-system compliance legal services for enterprises.

Established in Budapest, the capital of Hungary, the Hungary Office of GUOZUN CATHAY ASSOCIATES operates as the firm’s European regional headquarters and a professional service provider for Chinese-funded enterprises entering the EU market and expanding cross-border business across Central and Eastern Europe. The office brings together lawyers holding dual practising qualifications in China and Hungary, EU compliance specialists and cross-border commercial legal personnel. Its core members have years of deep expertise in China-EU legal services, are fully conversant with the EU legal framework and Hungarian local regulatory requirements, and focus on practices including Chinese outbound investment into Europe, cross-border commercial disputes, EU compliance governance and transnational dispute resolution, providing clients with multilingual, end-to-end, cross-jurisdictional integrated legal services.