China

Firm Overview

Shanghai Pacific Legal is a new and innovative PRC law firm providing business law services across China. We specialize in advising domestic and international corporates, financial institutions and Chinese state-owned entities on investments and financings into and out of China and on the growth, expansion and evolution of their businesses.

Recognised for our expertise in banking and finance, intellectual property and debt capital markets, we aim to serve our clients through the adoption of the best international standards for the delivery of high quality legal services. Our practice is made up of partners and lawyers with extensive experience in their specialist areas.

Going forward, Shanghai Pacific Legal aims to expand in size and service offerings, with a vision to work with, and support, our clients in the development and evolution of their businesses helping them to address the issues they face in an ever changing and more complex world.

Firm Overview

Llinks Law Offices is a leading PRC law firm with a national and international practice specializing in cross-border transactions. We are known for our high quality services, innovative solutions, professionalism, team spirit, and the cultivation of young lawyers. With offices in Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Hong Kong and London, Llinks aims to help its clients achieve their business goals and provide professional services of the highest calibre, combining technical excellence with commercial awareness and a practical, constructive approach to legal issues. Its professionalism and business expertise have continuously highly ranked in China. Llinks has been recognized by numerous reputable national and international publications as a leading law firm and has been awarded the honour of National Outstanding Law Firm in China.

 Some of the reasons why clients choose Llinks:

• Recognized as a leading PRC law firm by Asian In-House Handbook, Asian Legal Business, Asialaw Profiles, Chambers and Partners, Chinalaw Profiles, IFLR1000, and the Legal 500
• Regularly handles cross-border transactions, including ‘first-in-class’ and ‘best-in-class’ transactions
• Experienced in working cooperatively with clients and their consultants
• Provides clients with information on the latest legal and regulatory developments
• Cooperative and collegial work environment
• Creative and business-oriented approach to problem-solving
• Experienced lawyers with strong relationships with professionals, government agencies and regulators of various jurisdictions
• Market-leading presence in the PRC with cross-border capability and global transactional experience

Our Competitiveness

• Goals

Our goal, to continuously improve our client services, demands that we constantly improve our capabilities as individual professionals and as members of the Llinks team.

•  Integration and Partnership

Our firm thrives on the energy, collaboration, and commitment of our partners, associates, and support staff. Our commitment to teamwork and the collegial environment we foster ensures that we can provide the best legal services to our clients.

• Integrated Practice

We serve clients by integrating our attorneys, practice groups, and offices. Each client has access to all of our lawyers’ knowledge and expertise, no matter where they are based or which practice group they belong to.

• Interdisciplinary Approach

Specialized and sophisticated markets require our specialization in different practice areas, which does not prevent us from putting an ever-greater emphasis on an interdisciplinary approach.

• Dynamic Firm Culture

We are dedicated to building a culture that nurtures the best talent and allows outstanding individuals to thrive, which encouraging high morale, strong teamwork, and loyalty.

Firm Overview

First law firm in China: established in 1984, the Global Law Office (hereinafter the "GLO") came as the first law firm established after the implementation of reform and opening-up in China. After over 30 years of persistent efforts and development, we have become one of the most prominent large comprehensive law firms in the legal industry of China.

Among the most prominent large comprehensive law firms in China: GLO has been committing to the mission of "serving domestic and foreign clients with globalized vision, globalized team and globalized quality" since its inception, allowing us to always maintain leading position in the industry in the midst of ever-changing global economic environment. We are proud to be one of Chinese most respected and well-connected law firms, recognized as such by both international and domestic league tables and legal institutions for consecutive years, including the Chambers and Partners, The Legal 500 and Asian Legal Business, etc.

Professional and excellent lawyer team: all lawyers of GLO are graduates from first-tier domestic and/or international law schools, most of whom hold LLM or higher degrees. Many partners have the qualification to practice law in the U.S., UK, Australia, Switzerland, New Zealand, Hong Kong, among others. Our lawyer team has excellent professional backgrounds, and many lawyers have experience of working at courts, domestic and foreign first-tier law firms or leading enterprises and organizations in the industry.

Comprehensive one-stop legal services: we provide comprehensive one-stop legal services for domestic and foreign clients from various sectors and industries. We are committed to a variety of industries, including but not limited to sub sectors such as banking, finance, insurance, securities, investment, trade, energy, mining, chemical engineering, steel, manufacturing, transportation, infrastructure and public facilities, life science and healthcare, telecommunication, media, and high technology, culture, entertainment & sports, real estate, hotel & leisure, catering and large consumption, and etc.

Innovative problem-solving abilities: our lawyers are able to apply practical and constructive comprehensive legal solutions by integrating excellent professional law skills with sophisticated business knowledge so as to solve various complex and fast-changing matters. With leading professional innovative capabilities, we are adept at creatively designing transaction structures as well as details. Over the last three decades, our expertise has helped set the agenda for change through precedents involving many of the country's "firsts".

Client oriented service philosophy: over the past three decades, with profound legal knowledge, extensive practice experience, high professional dedication and strong professional ethics sense, we have demonstrated and proved our values and won trust from domestic and foreign clients. In the future, we will continue to help domestic and foreign clients get enduring and long-term success via our unique advantages.

Awards and accolades:

Chambers & Partners

• 2020 Nominated in Client Service Law Firm of the Year – China
• 2018 & 2012 Client Service Law Firm of the Year – China

Asialaw Profiles

• 2020 Asialaw Client Service Excellence: The highest rated lawyers to work with
• 2020 Client Satisfaction Ratings - 2 top one rankings: Client relationship management, Risk management
• 2019 Client Satisfaction Ratings - 5 top one rankings: China: Good communication, Tailored and specific advice, Knowledge of my company's business, Effective use of technology, Innovative solutions
• 2018 Client Satisfaction Ratings - 2 top one rankings: Good communication, Tailored and specific advice

LEGALBAND

• 2020, Clients Most Favoured Chinese Law Firm of the Year

Firm Overview

We are one of the few law offices in China that oriented from providing legal services to foreign clients, including but not limited to clients from Belgium, Switzerland, Germany as well as many other European countries. From day one, Fangben has been always focusing on providing high-valued services to our clients. Now we totally have five offices in Shanghai, Suzhou, Wuxi, Lianyungang and Yancheng.

With utmost diligence, prudence and dedication in law, Fangben is committed to providing pragmatic, efficient and constructive legal solutions for its multinational and local clients on the expansion of their operations both nationally and internationally.

Fangben holds the qualification of patent agent and possesses a competent team for patent services. Fangben is one of the few offices in China capable of providing professional legal services and patent services simultaneously. Fangben is also industrious in trademarks, copyrights and technology licensing in order to create a boutique section of comprehensive commercial legal services.

Our lawyers have played critical roles in numerous cross-border M&A, foreign direct investment, land purchasing and construction as well as various IP wrestling.

During the past year 2020, facing C0VID 19, Fangben have been providing free legal advices to over 200 foreign-invested companies in Shanghai, Jiangsu and adjacent places. Also, Fangben have produced lots of bilingual governmental policies.

Our lawyers always stick to “Ethics is essential” and try to provide a most professional and effective solution to our clients.

Firm Overview

Joint-win Partners were Founded in 2008, Joint-Win Partners (“Joint-Win”) is a Shanghai based law firm which is known for providing specialized legal services for commercial affairs.

For the past ten years’ development, Joint-Win has been making constant exploration and innovation. Since 2017, Joint-Win has achieved a huge leap since its establishment by pursuing the basic strategies of “moderate scale, high organization, deep specialization, and echelon internationalization”. Now, it has more than 230 attorneys, with an annual revenue of over CNY 100 million, successfully becoming a leading comprehensive law firm in the industry.

With a comprehensive business coverage in the commercial field, Joint-Win can provide clients with professional legal services mainly in the areas such as dispute resolution, financial capital, intellectual property, corporate compliance, and administrative law. During the process of providing legal services, Joint-Win attorneys can have an accurate understanding to the legal service needs providing clients with accurate, all-round and effective legal solutions.

Firm Overview

Founded in 1993, Zhong Lun Law Firm was one of the first private law partnerships to receive approval from the Ministry of Justice. Today Zhong Lun has over 360 partners, 2,400 professionals working in 18 offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Wuhan, Chengdu, Chongqing, Qingdao, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Haikou, Tokyo, Hong Kong, London, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Almaty. As the only PRC law firm member of the World Law Group, Zhong Lun has established a multi-dimensional and multi-channel rapport with overseas law firms to provide clients with unique business legal insights and an unparalleled customer experience.

Zhong Lun has been the PRC law firm recommended by Chambers for many consecutive years. Zhong Lun has 29 practice areas obtaining rankings, of which 19 practice areas have received Band 1 recommendations and 68 lawyers have been rated as leading lawyer (Chambers Asia Pacific, 2021)