Beijing

Firm overview

Emerged successfully from China’s legal market, we are a team of talented, passionate law practitioners who are committed to stay as strong yet adaptable market leaders. We serve our PRC and overseas clients with solid legal expertise and valuable business insights, distinguishing ourselves in the market with a well-built reputation. We have outstanding track records in a large spectrum of commercial areas, including mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, private equity, venture capital, fund formation, antitrust, foreign direct investment, outbound investment, wealth management and corporate compliance.

We have served various industry backbones, innovation pioneers, and sophisticated investors who are leading the Chinese market. We have advised our clients on a variety of high-profile transactions, through which we are privileged to witness their success in growing into the predominant leaders of their respective sectors and the rapid rise of China's economic force.

All of our partners are seasoned practitioners in their respective fields equipped with solid professional skills and extensive practice experience. Many of them have become regulars in various professionally reputable awards and rankings. All of our lawyers are graduates of prestigious law schools in China and many have received post-graduate legal education from top law schools in common law jurisdictions. We have a highly selective recruitment process to ensure that we are only joined by the most talented and promising candidates in the market.

We believe in the power of technology. We have focused on investment into information technologies and smart systems to upgrade our way of practice. Our technology edge has laid the foundation of our outstanding legal services with steady quality, high efficiency and strong adaptability. We firmly believe that our efforts in digitalizing our services will fuel the legal industry in China with fresh and powerful revolutions.

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.

Firm overview

East & Concord Partners is headquartered in Beijing and has offices in Shanghai, Shenzhen, Wuhan, Hangzhou and Chengdu. The firm has over 400 legal professionals. The firm’s working languages include Chinese, English and Japanese. East & Concord is committed to providing professional legal assistance to clients and with 20 plus years of experience has gained a leading position and earned clients’ trust and recognition and has been frequently recommended and reported by well-known international legal media such as Chambers, Legal 500 and IFLR1000 in the following practice areas: General Corporate, Securities and Capital Markets, Dispute Resolution, Criminal Defense and Compliance, Banking and Finance, Financial Lease and Commercial Factoring, Anti-dumping and Countervailing, Antitrust, Intellectual Property, Direct Investment, Private Equity and Industrial Funds, Entertainment and Sports, Infrastructure and Project Financing, Real Estate and Construction, Energy and Natural Resources, Business and Logistics Industry, Information Technology, Labour Law, Medicine and Healthcare, Bankruptcy and Restructuring, Government Legal Services.

Firm overview

AllBright Law Offices was founded in 1999 as a full-service law firm committed to providing the highest levels of quality advice to clients. Based in Shanghai, AllBright has grown, innovated and provided unmatched service throughout a period of continuous economic and political change across China. Our focus on providing excellent advice and support to our clients has led to rapid expansion and we have established branch offices in 21 cities on the Chinese mainland as well as in Hong Kong and London. In addition, as a result of our increased international presence we have also established an association with the Hong Kong law firm Stevenson, Wong & Co. and a strategic partnership with the Bird & Bird LLP.

AllBright carries on the proud cosmopolitan culture of Shanghai and constantly seeks to bring together established legal professionals and outstanding young talent. In 2018, our team included nearly 2,300 lawyers, which grew to more than 2,800 in 2019, and now stands at over 3,000. This growth is a reflection of the importance we place on driving innovation, creating value for our clients and providing a global service for our clients.

At AllBright, we never stop upgrading and improving our professional legal services, while continuing to optimize our practice area layout. Currently, AllBright has ten major professional committees: Securities and Capital Markets, Banking and Finance, Corporate and M&A, International Trade, Cross-Border Investment, Real Estate and Construction, Intellectual Property, Maritime Affairs，Bankruptcy Liquidation and reorganization, Litigation and Arbitration and Criminal. Each committee continually arranges speakers to address their members, informs members of key global conferences and encourages members to interact with partner firms and companies around the world. In doing so, we aim to achieve the highest levels of professional development within the firm.