Beijing

Firm overview

Merits & Tree Law Offices was established in 2006 under the name of Beijing Hawkhigh Law Offices, and was renamed as“Merits & Tree Law Offices” in 2017. Merits & Tree aims to be a law firm that is characterized as “honorable, professional, cooperative, enterprising and friendly”, a law firm that reacts to the evolving and innovating market’s demand for an innovative legal service provider, and provides “professional, full-range and one-stop” legal solutions to meet the increasingly complex and highly creative business requirements of enterprises and entrepreneurs.

Merits & Tree implements an “integrated” management and operation system. It enables us to gather the most professional strength of the firm to provide legal services at each of “investment(issue-end)”, “transaction(asset-end)” and “exit(dispute-end)” stages along the industry chain to our domestic and foreign clients in corporates, finance and capital markets.With the emphasis on legal professional ability, our associates pay attention to the in-depth research on the industry frontier and ecology, combine the professional legal knowledge and skills with excellent business thinking and judgment, and devote to providing professional and forward-looking and innovative high-quality legal services for clients, with the aim to become an innovative and reliable legal service brand in the market.

Dispute resolution practice of Merits & Tree focuses on commercial clients and covers a wide range of disputes arising from financial management, public capital markets, investment and financing, M&A, real estate, construction projects, bankruptcy restructuring and other types of corporate routine business. In recent years, there have been many cases in the area of securities and capital markets, Merits & Tree has conducted several rounds of seminars and published relative articles, actively developing its securities misrepresentation disputes business and has established an initial advantage in this area.

With the advantages of the corporate management system of Merits &Tree, an integrated operation mechanism of professional division of work and close cooperation has been established between the litigation and non-litigation practice areas, which can quickly aggregate and effectively utilize the knowledge and resources of lawyers in each department, and the experience of litigation projects can reverse and optimize the terms of transaction documents in the non-litigation area, while the rich knowledge accumulated in the non-litigation area also provides the strongest support for the litigation area.

Firm overview

Founded in January 1993, Zhong Yin Law Firm is one of the earliest law firms in the form of partnership approved by the Ministry of Justice in China. It is headquartered in Beijing and currently has branch offices in 39 Mainland cities including Shanghai, Tianjin, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Xi'an and other cites (including the branches established and such in preparation), and established its association law firm with Hong Kong and Macao law firms, ZLF Law Office, which is China’s first, as well as its Qianhai branch. It has more than 3,200 lawyers and staff members, including more than 2,300 lawyers.

Zhong Yin lawyers adhere to the path of professional development. At present, they have the capacity to advise on securities and capital market, banking and finance, investment and M&A, corporate, insolvency and restructuring, arbitration and litigation, criminal, international business, intellectual property, real estate, construction and infrastructure, competition and regulation, and compliance and legal risk management in comprehensive and professional manners. So far, Zhong Yin Law Firm has provided various high-quality legal services to tens of thousands of domestic and foreign enterprises and government agencies, and has been ranked top by international authoritative rating agencies such as Chambers, The Legal 500, ALB, LEGALBAND, etc and received favorable comments and praise.

Firm overview

Kangda Law Firm is a large full-service law firm headquartered in Beijing, China. It was founded in 1988 and is among the first private partnership law firms approved by the Ministry of Justice of China. The firm has won many honors such as National, Provincial, and Municipal Outstanding Law Firm, and has been repeatedly honored in various rankings of international legal research companies. At present, Kangda has 22 branch offices with more than 1,800 legal practitioners, including outstanding representatives of the first batch of legal practitioners after the restoration of the lawyer system in China. The firm's staff also includes former core personnel from the public security organs, procuratorates, and people's courts, as well as young and seasoned elite lawyers who graduated from well-known law schools at home and abroad. They all share a commitment to provide domestic and foreign clients with professional, high-quality, and efficient legal services.

As a full-service law firm, Kangda not only ranks among the top in the traditional areas, such as criminal defense, civil and commercial dispute resolution, corporate legal services, government and administrative legal affairs but also maintains its competitiveness in the securities and capital markets, bankruptcy liquidation and reorganization. Kangda has notable expertise in other practice areas, such as intellectual property, tax law, maritime legal services, foreign-related legal services, labor law/labor arbitration, corporate compliance, etc.

By adhering to the cultural and spiritual inheritance of Openness and Inclusiveness, Diligence and Foresight, Modesty and Dignity, Harmony and Solidarity, Kangda has developed into a large-scale, specialized and branded law firm providing full services after more than 35 years of effort. Forming a modern legal service system through crossregional and multicultural integration and exchange, as well as service expansion and cooperation in various fields. Keeping up with the pace of China's social development, Kangda will, as always, forge ahead and contribute to the rule of law in China.

Firm overview

Lantai Partners was founded in 2002 and is based in Beijing. After 20 years of development, Lantai has become a comprehensive professional law office with deep practice and industry-leading position in many lines of business. Lantai has set up 23 offices in China and established a business team of more than 1000 professionals, including partners, senior consultants and full-time lawyers, so that its clients may have access to professional legal services with both international vision and local wisdom.

"Continuous innovation in pursuit of excellence" has been the practicing philosophy of Lantai lawyers since the inception. Lantai adheres to "services for values", and provides clients with high-quality legal services of "compliance for the expected results", and keeps exploring and optimizing its unique integrated management and operation mechanism, to the extent that the "high-quality" and "efficient" legal services are truly effectuated in every service link.