Guantao recognised by Legal 500 Asia-Pacific 2025 rankings

On November 20, 2024, The Legal 500, an international legal rating agency, released its annual rankings of the year 2025 for the Asia-Pacific region.  Guantao’s 16 practice areas and 44 lawyers was recognized by the rankings for its outstanding legal expertise, remarkable market performance and strong client reputation.

Practice area rankings listed:

Banking and finance: PRC firms

Capital markets: PRC firms

Corporate and M&A: PRC firms

Dispute resolution: Arbitration: PRC firms

Dispute resolution: Litigation: PRC firms

Insurance: PRC firms

Intellectual property: PRC firms: contentious

Intellectual property: PRC firms: non-contentious

Private equity: PRC firms

Projects and energy: PRC firms

Real estate and construction: PRC firms

Regional coverage: Shaanxi Province: Xi’an

Restructuring and insolvency: PRC firms

TMT: PRC firms

Life sciences and healthcare: PRC firms

Regional coverage: Jiangsu Province: Nanjing

Lawyer rankings listed:

Wei Jiang - Projects and energy: PRC firms

Weihong Tan - Banking and finance: PRC firms, Insurance: PRC firms

Liqiu Lyu - Banking and finance: PRC firms

Ying Yin - Banking and finance: PRC firms

Dagang Liu - Banking and finance: PRC firms

Bo Su - Capital markets: PRC firms

Liguo Cui - Capital markets: PRC firms, Corporate and M&A: PRC firms

Yaping Huang - Capital markets: PRC firms, Corporate and M&A: PRC firms

Jingmei Hao - Capital markets: PRC firms

Dongying Sun - Capital markets: PRC firms

Wenliang Zhang - Capital markets: PRC firms

Fan Wang - Capital markets: PRC firms, Projects and energy: PRC firms, Regional coverage: Shaanxi Province: Xi’an

Rongyuan Xu - Capital markets: PRC firms, Private equity: PRC firms

Yang Wang - Corporate and M&A: PRC firms, Private equity: PRC firms

Shaosong Sun - Dispute resolution: Arbitration: PRC firms, Dispute resolution: Litigation: PRC firms, Restructuring and insolvency: PRC firms

Dequan Li - Dispute resolution: Arbitration: PRC firms, Dispute resolution: Litigation: PRC firms

Zhe Deng - Dispute resolution: Arbitration: PRC firms, Intellectual property: PRC firms

Frank (Fulong) Huang - Dispute resolution: Arbitration: PRC firms, Dispute resolution: Litigation: PRC firms

Runyu Liu - Insurance: PRC firms

Zhengyu Hao - Insurance: PRC firms, Intellectual property: PRC firms

Hongjiang Li - Intellectual property: PRC firms

Yang Hu - Intellectual property: PRC firms

Fei Xiao - Private equity: PRC firms

Yan Li - Private equity: PRC firms

Xiaochuang Chen - Private equity: PRC firms

Lu Bai - Private equity: PRC firms

Zi Wang - Projects and energy: PRC firms

Huiwen Li - Projects and energy: PRC firms, Regional coverage: Shaanxi Province: Xi’an

Hang Zhou - Projects and energy: PRC firms

Zheng Wang - Projects and energy: PRC firms

Hongyi He - Real estate and construction: PRC firms

Yonghong Zhan - Real estate and construction: PRC firms

Xihua Yu - Real estate and construction: PRC firms

Xuexia Wang - Real estate and construction: PRC firms

Rong Zhang - Real estate and construction: PRC firms

Dongfeng Sun - Regional coverage: Shaanxi Province: Xi’an

Jianwei Jia - Regional coverage: Shaanxi Province: Xi’an, Restructuring and insolvency: PRC firms

Cuiyu Zhang - Regional coverage: Shaanxi Province: Xi’an

Yucheng Jin - Restructuring and insolvency: PRC firms

Yansheng Li - Restructuring and insolvency: PRC firms

Guang Yang - Restructuring and insolvency: PRC firms

Jun Qian - Restructuring and insolvency: PRC firms

Yuwei Wang - TMT: PRC firms

Haifeng Hu - TMT: PRC firms

The Legal 500 is a world-renowned legal rating agency with a history of over 30 years.  It annually ranks and recommends law firms and private practitioners in more than 150 jurisdictions.  The Legal 500's research is based on feedback from clients worldwide, submissions by law firms and interviews with private practitioners to assess the strengths of law firms and to bring the most up-to-date vision of the global legal market.