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Baker McKenzie and its joint operation partner, FenXun Partners, collectively earned 63 practice area and 71 lawyer rankings in The Legal 500’s recently published Greater China 2026 Guide.

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.

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–
UiPath (NYSE: PATH), a global leader in agentic automation, today announced it has become a founding technical contributor to AIUC-1, the leading security framework for AI agent adoption in the enterprise.

Created by the Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC) in partnership with security, risk, and legal experts, AIUC-1 governs the adoption and usage of AI in a single, auditable, agent-specific framework. It pulls together existing industry and global technology standards and guidance for AI usage and adoption, such as the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, the EU AI Act, and ISO 42001.

As a technical contributor, UiPath will bring its agentic AI and technology, global customer experience in agentic AI, automation, and orchestration, and security and compliance leadership to bear in reinforcing the framework to ensure high levels of security and trust for enterprises looking to adopt agents into their everyday business-critical processes and workflows.

“We’re proud to be a founding technical contributor to AIUC-1, helping to shape the industry-leading AI agent standard for enterprise adoption,” said Scott Roberts, CISO, UiPath. “Our more than 10,000 global customers use our platform to agentify and orchestrate highly sensitive workflows, from fraud detection to financial operations, trusting us to adhere to the highest levels of AI security, safety, and reliability. As a leader in agentic automation, we’re committed to delivering to our customers the confidence that our platform meets the highest global standards.”

AIUC-1 is grounded in technical evaluations and testing to make sure many of the AI-specific risks—including jailbreaks, prompt injections, hallucinations, and data leaks—are addressed when adopting agents into the enterprise. Many of these agents often connect directly to mission-critical enterprise processes and workflows, autonomously executing real transactions and handling sensitive data across ERP, CRM, or healthcare and financial systems. That level of access calls for strict guardrails, capable of balancing flexibility with compliance, and ensuring every decision is auditable, explainable, and reversible.

“Deployments of automation agents must be secure, safe, and reliable, robustly responding to threats,” said Rajiv Dattani, co-founder of AIUC. “UiPath has deep experience meeting these needs, working with sensitive data in highly regulated industries. By partnering as a founding technical contributor, they are taking their expertise and codifying it into a standard that AI builders and adopters globally can use to secure their deployments.”

AIUC-1 certification includes independent third-party audits and quarterly adversarial testing across 1,000+ enterprise risk scenarios—identifying vulnerabilities before malicious actors can exploit them.

UiPath’s AIUC-1 audit will be led by Schellman, the largest specialized IT and cybersecurity auditor. This builds on Schellman’s work conducting UiPath’s ISO/IEC 42001:2023 certification by testing for AI agent-specific controls, including technical evaluations and security, and data safeguards as specified in AIUC-1. Schellman’s rigorous assessment gives enterprises evaluating agent platforms confidence that best practices are being met across technical, operational, and legal dimensions.

About AIUC

The Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company builds confidence infrastructure for secure AI adoption, through certification, auditing, and insurance for AI agents. Founded by experts with experience at organizations like Anthropic and developed with Orrick, Stanford, the Cloud Security Alliance, MIT, and MITRE, AIUC-1 is the first comprehensive security, safety, and reliability standard for AI agents.

About Schellman

​Schellman is a leading global provider of attestation, compliance, and certification services. Schellman is a provider of SOC reports, an ISO Certification Body, a PCI Qualified Security Assessor Company, a HITRUST assessor, and a FedRAMP 3PAO. Schellman was the first ISO 42001 certification body accredited by ANAB able to certify organizations against the AI Management System standard.

About UiPath

UiPath (NYSE: PATH) is a global leader in agentic automation, empowering enterprises to harness the full potential of AI agents to autonomously execute and optimize complex business processes. The UiPath Platform™ uniquely combines controlled agency, developer flexibility, and seamless integration to help organizations scale agentic automation safely and confidently. Committed to security, governance, and interoperability, UiPath supports enterprises as they transition into a future where automation delivers on the full potential of AI to transform industries. For more information, visit www.uipath.com.

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Released November 19, 2025