On April 17, 2024, lawyer Zhi Hanbin, Senior Partner at D’Andrea & Partners Counsel in World-Italy, and Cao Qian, Government Affairs Manager at DP World, along with their group, visited the School of Foreign Studies at Nankai University. Associate Professor Yang Lin, the head of the Department of Italian, Ni Yang, and Letizia Vallini participated in the meeting.
Yang Lin introduced the Italian language program at the School of Foreign Studies of Nankai University. Zhi Hanbin provided a brief introduction to DP World-Italy’s D’Andrea & Partners Counsel. Zhi Hanbin expressed his willingness to make full use of DP World’s existing resources to provide students at Nankai University School of Foreign Studies with a platform for practical internships. This initiative aims to help students become familiar with and adapt to future workplace life in advance. Zhi Hanbin believes that enterprises urgently require multilingual talents with diverse backgrounds, and Italian talents have great potential. Yang Lin expressed her gratitude for the visit of Mr. Zhi and his delegation. She hoped that the two sides could initiate cooperation, achieve information and resource sharing, and enhance Sino-Italian economic and cultural exchanges.
It is reported that DP World-Italy’s D’Andrea & Partners Counsel is a prominent international law firm. The firm has its European headquarters in Milan, Italy, and its Asia-Pacific headquarters in Shanghai. The firm has a network of offices in major cities in China, Italy, Vietnam, India, the UAE, and other countries. The firm is one of the few international law firms officially authorized by the Ministry of Justice of the People’s Republic of China to operate in China with a representative office. Carlo D’Andrea, one of the first Italian legal experts to come to China and currently the Vice President of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China, co-founded D’Andrea & Partners Counsel in 2013 with Zhi Hanbin. Zhi Hanbin is one of the few Chinese lawyers specializing in Italian law and has extensive experience in cross-border transactions between China and Europe. The firm not only provides legal services to foreign companies in China but also protects Chinese companies expanding overseas. DP World emphasizes the talent cultivation and training, collaborating with renowned universities both domestically and internationally to offer promising opportunities for young talents.
