China Law & Practice Awards 2021 | ALM Media Properties, LLC | 11 June 2021 | New World Beijing Hotel, Chongwenmen, Dongcheng, China

As China’s most renowned ceremony for the legal elite, the China Law & Practice Awards honour the best work in and out of the nation. Across our coverage of practice areas and disciplines we intend to identify the biggest and most important commercial legal matters that involved lawyers and parties in China.

Complex domestic and cross-border acquisitions and disputes and the increasing need for innovative regulatory solutions with both local and global applicability all make China one of the most vibrant, demanding, and competitive legal environments in the world.

These awards are set out to recognise exceptional achievements from within the region and will once again be open to both private practice law firms and in-house legal departments.

Categories:
• Deals of the Year
• Debt Securities
• Equity Securities
• Finance
• M&A
• Outbound
• Projects & Energy
• TMT

2020 Past Speakers

DEALS OF THE YEAR

Debt Securities
Crédit Agricole’s RMB1B Senior Preferred Bonds on China’s Interbank Bond Market

Equity Securities
JD.com’s $3.9B Secondary Hong Kong Listing

Finance
China Development Bank’s $3.5B Syndicated Loan to SK Hynix

M&A
Sale of United Family Healthcare to New Frontier Corp.

Outbound
China Yangtze Power Company’s $3.59B Purchase of Sempra Energy’s Peruvian Businesses

Projects & Energy
Goldwind’s Argentina Wind Energy Project

TMT
Alibaba’s Acquisition of NetEase Kaola

FIRMS OF THE YEAR

Banking & Finance
China: King & Wood Mallesons
International: Baker McKenzie

Capital Markets
China: Jingtian & Gongcheng
International: Davis Polk & Wardwell

Competition
China: Fangda Partners
International: Linklaters

Dispute Resolution
China: King & Wood Mallesons
International: Baker McKenzie

Healthcare & Life Sciences
China: Global Law Office
International: Paul Hastings

Intellectual Property
China: Fangda Partners
International: Steptoe & Johnson

Investment Funds
China: Han Kun Law Offices
International: Sidley Austin

Labor & Employment
China: Jingtian & Gongcheng
International: Baker McKenzie

M&A
China: Fangda Partners
International: Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

Private Equity & Venture Capital
China: Han Kun Law Offices
International: Kirkland & Ellis

Projects & Energy
China: Tian Yuan Law Firm
International: Linklaters

Real Estate
China: Fangda Partners
International: Baker McKenzie

Regulatory & Compliance
China: Jingtian & Gongcheng
International: Paul Hastings

TMT
China: Fangda Partners
International: Davis Polk & Wardwell

Trade
China: Dentons
International: Steptoe & Johnson

Offshore
Appleby

Pro Bono Initiative of the Year
Gall

Best Management of Coronavirus Crisis
Fangda Partners

DEALMAKERS OF THE YEAR

China Dealmaker
Hu Zhengzheng, Jingtian & Gongcheng

International Dealmaker
He Li, Davis Polk & Wardwell

LAWYERS OF THE YEAR

Competition
Huang Wei, Tian Yuan Law Firm

Labor & Employment
Patrick Gu, Llinks Law Offices

Private Client
Zhang Jun, Dentons

Real Estate & Construction
Shu Wen, Jingtian & Gongcheng

Regulatory & Compliance
Shaun Wu, Paul Hastings

Cybersecurity
Wang Yuwei, Guantao Law Firm

Rising Star
Guan Yue, Guantao Law Firm

IN-HOUSE AWARDS

In-house Team of the Year
Chinese Company: Autel Robotics
International Company: New Development Bank

General Counsel of the Year
Chinese Company: Ruan Lijuan, China National Technical Import and Export Corp.
International Company: Myra Gao, Danfoss China

GRAND PRIX AWARDS

Most Innovative Firm of the Year
Tian Yuan Law Firm

China Firm of the Year
Fangda Partners

International Firm of the Year
Baker McKenzie