16 January 2019, The Legal 500, an internationally known legal rating agency, released its 2019 Asia-Pacific ranking. Global Law Office (GLO) was ranked as “Top-Tier Law Firm” in 3 practice areas, and was described as “Highly Recommended Law Firm” in 14 practice areas. Meanwhile, our ranked lawyers gained recommendation for 61 times in 17 ranked practice areas, which demonstrates our partners’ capabilities of full service offering.

 

Following success last year, GLO reached new heights in this year ranking. We markedly raise our ranking of Banking and Finance and Capital Markets to the higher tier (especially Banking and Finance won the “Top-Tier Law Firm” rating), while maintaining leading position in many other fields. Moreover, we successfully qualified in Investment Funds and achieved second tier of Fintech ranking, which were two new practice areas born in this year.

 

Top-Tier Law Firm in 3 Practice Areas

Banking and Finance

Healthcare and Life Sciences

TMT

 

Highly Recommended/Recommended Law Firm in 14 Practice Areas

Antitrust and Competition

Capital Markets

Corporate and M&A

Dispute Resolution

Fintech

Intellectual Property

Investment Funds

Labour and Employment

Private Equity/Venture Capital

Projects and Energy

Real Estate and Construction

Regulatory/Compliance

Shipping

WTO/International Trade

 

Besides, in the list of ranked lawyers, the frequency that our lawyers were highly recommended by The Legal 500 increased from 58 to an impressive 61.

 

Leading Lawyers

 

Banking and Finance

Lawrence Lin

 

Capital Markets

Jinrong Liu

 

Corporate and M&A

Jinrong Liu

 

Dispute Resolution

Xiusong Xing

 

Healthcare and Life Sciences

Alan Zhou

 

Private Equity/Venture Capital

Jinrong Liu

 

Shipping

Yifeng Gao

 

Next Generation Lawyers - Regulatory/Compliance

Jacky Li

 

Recommended Lawyers

 

 Antitrust and Competition

John Wan, Qing Ren

 Banking and Finance

Xin Zhang, Jin Liu, Isabella Liu, Li Zhu

 Capital Markets

Wen Li, Alan Zhou, Carrie Sun

 Corporate and M&A

Amy Dai, Shifang Guo, Alan Zhou, Alex Liu, Yu Zhang

 Dispute Resolution

Jingye Jiang, Zhao Li, Jiuguang Zhao, Weiwei Gu, Yifeng Gao

 Fintech

Xin Zhang, Steven Yu, Amy Dai

 Healthcare and Life Sciences

Coco Fan, Robert Sun, Michael Yu, David Fu, Jacky Li

 Intellectual Property

Meph Jia Gui, Jack Li, Ping Qiao, Degang Ma

 Investment Funds

Jinrong Liu

 Labour and Employment

Zhao Li, Weiwei Gu, Gaochong Hu

 Private Equity/Venture Capital

Huawei Lin, Michael Yu

 Projects and Energy

Kevin Wang, Miller Wang

 Real Estate and Construction

Huawei Lin, Minghao Xu, Jason Wang

 Regulatory/Compliance

Weiwei Gu, Alan Zhou, Michael Weng

 Shipping

Jingye Jiang

 TMT

Steven Yu, Cheng Li, Jihong He, Meph Jia Gui, Jack Li

 WTO/International Trade

Frank Hang, Qing Ren