Schmittzehe & Partners is an affiliate of both the Sustainomics Group, which it represents in the UK, as well as a leading firm specialised in Intellectual Property Rights in China.


We differentiate ourselves via our values, which are reflected in our people.

Client-Focused Philosophy: we have a strong emphasis on client satisfaction, and a culture of putting the client first and responding to client needs. We prefer to work closely and in an interactive way with our clients, allowing us to adapt our work to client requirements as an assignment evolves. This is enhanced by having offices both in Europe and China.

Deep Local Experience: we focus on China. This allows us to develop deeper insights into this unique and complex market. Our team members have substantial experience in corporate development in China, with backgrounds in Corporate Finance (both ‘¡n-house’ and in Investment Banking), General Management, and Global Procurement. Crucially, this has allowed us to develop a solid local network of relationships.

Strong International Outlook: As well as our China expertise, we only recruit people with an international outlook. All are multi-lingual and the vast majority have lived and worked both within and outside China.

High Intellectual Capital: all of the team are from top tier academic and professional backgrounds.

Discretion: we strictly honour client requirements for confidentiality and are careful to avoid all conflicts of interest.

Relationships: we strongly value long-term relationships with both clients and strategic partners and will seek to continue to grow our business through favouring developing a few long and evolving relationships, over many shallower and shorter term relationships.

We have offices in three continents. This, combined with the international experience and outlook of our team and our China expertise, provides some key benefits to our clients:

Global Breadth: be it identifying suppliers on a procurement assignment or identifying a target for an acquisition, we can offer true global coverage.

Client Proximity: having people in the same time zone allows us to be more responsive, and better able to work alongside our clients at their headquarters if required.

China Depth: most of our resources are in China which is where most of our work takes place and where our ultimate expertise lies.