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Firm overview

Founded in the early 1990s, Jingtian & Gongcheng is one of the first private and independent partnership law firms in China. Since our establishment almost three decades ago, and through the dedicated efforts and innovative initiatives launched by its founding partners, Jingtian & Gongcheng has developed a dynamic culture where its emerging talent are continually inspired, challenged, and provided with ample opportunity for growth. We are by now widely recognized as one of the top full service business law firms in China.

We command leading positions in Capital Markets, Major Asset Restructuring, Mergers and Acquisitions, Cross-border Investments, Dispute Resolution, Banking and Finance, Asset Management, Investment Funds, Private Equity and Venture Capital, Real Estate & Construction, Intellectual Property, Employment and Labor, Cybersecurity & Data Protection, as well as a range of industry sectors including Technology, Media and Telecommunications, Healthcare, Education, Arts, Sports & Entertainment, and Global Energy & Natural Resources.

Headquartered in Beijing, Jingtian & Gongcheng advises our clients through our offices that are located in China’s key economic centers, including Shanghai, Shenzhen, Chengdu, Tianjin, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Sanya and Hong Kong, enabling us to collaborate with our clients where they need us. Among our regional locations, our Hong Kong office (Jingtian & Gongcheng Law Firm Limited Legal Liability Partnership) is a leading law firm with highly experienced partners who are qualified to practice Hong Kong law and who maintain the ability to independently provide Hong Kong legal services. As part of Jingtian & Gongcheng’s long-term expansion plans, this means we currently provide comprehensive coverage of China’s five special economic zones, which include Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, the Yangtze River Delta, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the Southwest Economic Zone, and the Hainan Free Trade Port. Through this strategic coverage, in addition to our unique management approach and integrated “one firm” platform, Jingtian & Gongcheng provides a wide range of innovative legal services tailored to our domestic and multinational clients.

Our firm maintains 180 partners registered and approximately 780 lawyers and legal assistants. Most of our lawyers graduated from top-tier Chinese and international law schools and maintain solid technical capabilities and commercial know-how. Many of our lawyers have previously worked in government agencies, PRC courts, arbitration institutions, PRC and international law firms, and industry-leading enterprises and, through their work, they have developed an in-depth knowledge of their respective focus areas. As our firm continues to grow, we have increasingly attracted more of the brightest talent to join our next generation of lawyers who will continue to serve our valued clients and build upon our track record of success.

Jingtian & Gongcheng is deeply committed to serving our clients and we advance and protect their interests by providing innovative, commercial legal advice. We adapt our solutions to shifting market trends and to the needs of our clients. Because of this, we have deep, practical experience in many “first-of-its-kind” deals and cases, which have contributed to our leading position in the market and have also been recognized by both our clients and the legal industry. Jingtian & Gongcheng has won many acclaim and numerous awards from leading legal publications including Chambers & Partners, The Legal 500, Asian Legal Business, China Law & Practice, China Business Law Journal, IFLR1000, Asialaw Profiles, LEGALBAND, and many more. In 2020, Jingtian & Gongcheng won "Asian Law Firm of the Year" by The Asian Lawyer and “Golden League”, China Business Law Journal's most prestigious award for Chinese law firms. Jingtian & Gongcheng was awarded "China (PRC Firms) Finance Law Firm of the Year" in Chambers Asia-Pacific Awards 2021.

Firm overview

DOCVIT Law Firm, founded in 2003, is an early professional brand law firm with corporatisation as its management feature in China. With innovative institution, industrial market and cross-border development as our core competitiveness, we are committed to creating a new generation of top brand firm in China with the concept of building a high-quality and powerful law firm.

DOCVIT focuses on high-end, prior and strategic legal affairs. It adheres to the modularity of legal services and industrialisation of practice areas. Upholding the concept of building a research and development law firm and depending on industry segmentation and in-depth professionalisation, DOCVIT has formed a three-dimensional matrix business layout.

In recent years, DOCVIT has continuously set up offices in provincial and key cities, including Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Tianjin, Jinan, Taiyuan, Harbin, Haikou, Wuhan, and Chengdu, and has taken Hong Kong, London, New York, and Singapore as the pivot points of its international offices, forming a multi-matrix layout of six domestic and four international regions, and accelerating the formation of a nationwide and global layout.

Adhering to the concept of “utmost professionalism, optimal service”, DOCVIT has won a good reputation among clients and the industry, and has been honoured as “National Excellent Law Firm” “Beijing Excellent Law Firm” “Chaoyang District Excellent Law Firm” and “Special Contribution Award of All China Lawyers Association”. DOCVIT has been recommended by ALB as Asian Top 10 Firms To Watch, Trailblazers-China, Top 15 China Fastest Growing Firms for three consecutive years, as well as China Business Law Awards of China Business Law Journal (CBLJ).

Furthermore, it has been listed in Chambers, ALB, Legalband, asialaw, CBLJ, Benchmark Litigation, IFLR1000 China, etc. for many times.

Firm overview

Han Kun is a leading full-service law firm in China.

Over the years, Han Kun has been widely recognized as a leader in complex cross-border and domestic transactions and compliance matters. Our main practice areas include private equity, mergers and acquisitions, international and domestic capital markets, investment funds, asset management, compliance, banking and finance, aviation finance, foreign direct investment, antitrust/competition, data protection, private client/wealth management, intellectual property, bankruptcy and restructuring and dispute resolution.

We have nearly 800 professionals located in our seven offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Haikou, Wuhan, as well as Singapore, a leading financial center in the Asia-Pacific. All our lawyers are graduates of top universities and have extensive experience in complex cross-border transactions and dispute resolution as counsel to both Chinese and foreign clients.

Firm overview

Founded in 1992, we are one of the first partnership law firms established in China and today one of the largest. With more than 7,000 lawyers in over 50 offices across China, covering all of the nation’s provinces, direct-administered municipalities and autonomous regions, we are able to provide the full spectrum of legal services to our clients and boast strong practices in almost all practice areas.

The excellency of our lawyers and practice has been widely recognized in the legal industry. Since 2021, we have 46 practice areas and 316 lawyers ranked in Chambers Global & Greater China Region Guides, and 26 practice areas and 487 lawyers recognized by The Legal 500, including among which, “2023 China (PRC Firms) Best Growth Law Firm of the Year” awarded by Chambers and Partners, “M&A Firm of the Year 2023 (Honoree) - China”“Trade Firm of the Year 2023 (Honoree) – China”awarded by China Law & Practice. We have also received awards and recognitions by many other mainstream legal media such as Asian Legal Business, China Business Law Journal, LEGALBAND, IFLR1000, asialaw Profiles, Benchmark Litigation, China Law and Practice, Who’s Who Legal, etc.

In 2007, we started to implement the strategy of “Global Reach, Local Insight”, that is, to build a global legal services network to serve the need of our clients across the world. Through the rapid expansion that has resulted, our lawyers have gained access to global resources, referrals, knowledge and experience – enhancing the delivery of high-quality, comprehensive, cost-effective, agile and efficient service to our clients both within and outside China. In particular, we enjoy close cooperation with Dentons, one of the world's largest global law firms and a top 3 firm on the Acritas’ Global Elite Law Firm Brand Index and are “Dentons’ Preferred Law Firm in China".