The Firms achieved 45 Tier 1 & Tier 2 practice rankings and 44 Hall of Fame/ Leading Partner recognitions.
Baker McKenzie recorded two improved rankings in Dispute Resolution: Litigation (Hong Kong), moving up from Tier 2 to Tier 1, and in Regulatory: White Collar, Compliance and Investigations (Hong Kong). Meanwhile, FenXun recorded two improved rankings in Antitrust and Competition: PRC Firms and Real Estate and Construction: PRC Firms.
In the lawyer categories, among the 71 individual rankings, 62% (44) are ranked in the Hall of Fame/Leading Partner table. Baker McKenzie gained eight new individual rankings and three improved ranking, while FenXun gained one new individual rankings and one improved ranking.
The practice areas that have earned Tier 1 rankings are as follows:
China
• Labor and Employment: Foreign Firms
• Real Estate and Construction: Foreign Firms
• Tax: Foreign Firms
Hong Kong SAR
• Antitrust and Competition
• Asset Finance (including Aviation and Shipping Finance): Aviation Finance
• Dispute Resolution: Litigation
• Domestic and International Corporate Tax
• Intellectual Property
• Labour and Employment
• Real Estate
Taiwan
• Antitrust and Competition
• Banking and Finance
• Capital Markets
• Corporate and M&A
• Dispute Resolution
• Intellectual Property
• Intellectual Property: Prosecution
• Labour and Employment
• Real Estate, Energy and Projects
• Tax
• TMT
The following lawyers were recognized:
China
• Grace Li, Banking and Finance: Foreign Firms — Leading Partner (improved ranking)
• Duan Cui, Banking and Finance: Foreign Firms — Next Generation Partner
• Shirley Wang, Banking and Finance: PRC Firms — Leading Partner
• Howard Wu, Corporate and M&A: Foreign Firms — Hall of Fame
• Hong Zhang, Corporate and M&A: Foreign Firms — Next Generation Partner
• Leo Zhang, Corporate and M&A: PRC Firms — Leading Associate
• Zhenyu Ruan, Data Protection: Foreign Firms — Leading Partner
• Wenchao He, Labour and Employment: Foreign Firms — Leading Associate (newly ranked)
• Zheng Lu, Labour and Employment: PRC Firms — Leading Partner
• Ting Zhang, Labour and Employment: PRC Firms — Next Generation Partner (improved ranking)
• Alexander Gong, Real Estate and Construction: Foreign Firms — Leading Partner
• Vivian Wu, Regulatory/Compliance: PRC Firms — Leading Partner
• Henry Chen, Regulatory/Compliance: PRC Firms — Next Generation Partner
• Brendan Kelly, Tax: Foreign Firms — Hall of Fame
• Luis Zhang, Tax: PRC Firms — Next Generation Partner (newly ranked)
• Zhenyu Ruan, TMT: Foreign Firms — Next Generation Partner
Hong Kong SAR
• Stephen Crosswell, Antitrust and Competition — Leading Partner
• Vivian Tsang, Antitrust and Competition — Leading Associate
• Allen Ng, Asset Finance (including Aviation and Shipping Finance) — Hall of Fame
• Andrew Lockhart, Asset Finance (including Aviation and Shipping Finance) — Hall of Fame
• Sally Hung, Banking and Finance — Leading Partner
• Christina Lee, Corporate (including M&A) — Leading Partner
• Tracy Wut, Corporate (including M&A) — Leading Partner
• Cynthia Tang, Dispute Resolution: Litigation — Leading Partner
• Pierre Chan, Domestic and International Corporate Tax — Leading Partner
• Steven Sieker, Domestic and International Corporate Tax — Leading Partner
• Cynthia Tang, Fintech and Financial Services Regulatory — Hall of Fame
• Karen Man, Fintech and Financial Services Regulatory — Leading Partner
• Grace Fung, Fintech and Financial Services Regulatory — Next Generation Partner
• Martin Tam, Insurance — Leading Partner
• Loke-Khoon Tan, Intellectual Property — Hall of Fame
• Isabella Liu, Intellectual Property — Leading Partner
• Ruby Chan, Intellectual Property — Leading Partner
• Andrew Sim, Intellectual Property — Leading Partner (newly ranked)
• Jason Ng, Investment Funds — Leading Partner
• Edwin Wong, Investment Funds — Leading Partner (improved ranking)
• Hayley Irons, Investment Funds — Next Generation Partner (improved ranking)
• Jonathan Isaacs, Labour and Employment — Leading Partner
• Tess Lumsdaine, Labour and Employment — Next Generation Partner
• Sonia Wong, Labour and Employment — Leading Associate
• Derek Poon, Private Equity — Leading Partner
• Robert Wright, Private Equity — Leading Partner (newly ranked)
• Xinxing Chen, Private Equity — Next Generation Partner (newly ranked)
• Edmond Chan, Real Estate — Leading Partner
• Jeremy Ong, Real Estate — Next Generation Partner
• May Lau, Real Estate — Next Generation Partner
• Mini vandePol, Regulatory: White-Collar, Compliance and Investigations — Leading Partner
• Lex Kuo, TMT — Leading Partner
Taiwan
• Sonya Hsu, Antitrust and Competition — Leading Partner
• Fang-Yi Jen Antitrust and Competition — Next Generation Partner
• Justin Liang, Banking and Finance — Hall of Fame
• Bee Leay Teo, Banking and Finance — Leading Partner
• Evangeline Wang, Banking and Finance — Next Generation Partner
• Alex Chiang, Capital Markets — Leading Partner
• Mark Tu, Capital Markets — Next Generation Partner
• Sophia Huang, Capital Markets — Leading Associate (newly ranked)
• Kevin Wang, Corporate and M&A — Hall of Fame
• Michael Wong, Corporate and M&A — Hall of Fame
• Gwyneth Gu, Corporate and M&A — Next Generation Partner
• Mark Tu, Corporate and M&A — Next Generation Partner
• Sean Shih, Data Protection — Next Generation Partner (newly ranked)
• Anna Hwang, Dispute Resolution — Leading Partner
• Robert Lee, Dispute Resolution — Next Generation Partner
• Grace Shao, Intellectual Property — Hall of Fame
• Monica Chao, Intellectual Property — Next Generation Partner
• Seraphim Ma, Labour and Employment — Leading Partner
• Sabrina Hsu, Labour and Employment — Leading Associate (newly ranked)
• Tiffany Huang, Real Estate, Energy and Projects — Hall of Fame
• Jady Kao, Real Estate, Energy and Projects — Leading Associate (newly ranked)
• Michael Wong, Tax — Leading Partner
• Henry Chang, TMT — Leading Partner
The Legal 500 rankings are based on a series of criteria, including work conducted by law firms over the past 12 months, experience and depth of teams, areas of specialization, and client feedback.