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Chief Operating Officer: Yang Pan
Quick facts
Number of partners

150

Other qualified practitioners

Other qualified practitioners

Total number of lawyers

420

Languages

Chinese, English, Japanese, Cantonese, French, Korean, Russian

Key practice areas
Dispute resolution
Commercial disputes
Firm profile

Founded in 2006, Merits & Tree Law Offices ("M&T") now boasts over 150 partners and more than 500 lawyers and staff across 8 offices, including in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Chengdu, Qingdao, Guangzhou, and Hong Kong.

M&T is a comprehensive law firm that delivers full-cycle, multi-dimensional, and one-stop legal services. We focus on domestic and international enterprises, financial institutions, and capital market participants, accompanying clients through the entire development process from startup, through growth, to maturity, under the lifecycle of "investment (issue-end)", "transaction (asset-end)", and "exit (dispute-end)". Our firm motto is: "Lean service, Client success."

What makes working with M&T unique is our "one-firm" management and operations model. Our services are not limited by specific practice areas or geographical locations. We tailor our approach to each client's needs, working together across practice areas to offer top-notch service. M&T is also fully on board with "digital intelligence", using AI and cutting-edge tech to enhance the quality and efficiency of our legal services.

 

Key practice areas
  • Arbitration
  • Bankruptcy
  • Commercial
  • Commercial disputes
  • Competition/antitrust
  • Construction
  • Construction and real estate
  • Dispute resolution
  • Environmental
  • Family and matrimonial
  • Government and regulatory
  • Insolvency
  • Intellectual property
  • International arbitration
  • Labor and employment
  • Private client
  • Securities
  • Shipping
  • Tax
  • Trade and customs
Key practice contacts & recent matter highlights
Sector expertise
  • Banking
  • Energy
  • Financial services
  • Healthcare
  • Investment management
  • Mining
  • Natural resources
  • Oil and gas
  • Pharmaceutical and life sciences
  • Real estate
  • Social infrastructure
  • Technology and telecommunications
  • Tourism
  • Other
Other offices

Shanghai
27F Tower A, THREE ITC, No.183 Hongqiao Road, Xuhui District
Shanghai 200030
China
+86 21 5253 3500
mt_branding@meritsandtree.com 

Shenzhen
16th Floor, DaCheng Fund Headquarters Building, No. 1236 Haide Third Road, Nanshan District
Shenzhen 518052
China
+86 755 3325 7500
mt_branding@meritsandtree.com 

Hong Kong
Rm. 3310, 33/F, Jardine House, 1 Connaught Place, Central
Hong Kong 510000
China – Common law system
+852 2253 2700
mt_branding@meritsandtree.com 

Address:
12/F, Raffles City
Beijing Office Tower
1 Dongzhimen South Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing, Beijing, Beijing, 100007, China
Tel:+86 10 5650 0900 Fax:+86 10 5650 0900 Email:Contact Us Web Address:https://www.meritsandtree.com/en/
Rankings published in 2026
Commercial disputes
Tier 4
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Linked Reviews
Dispute Resolution

Merits & Tree Law Offices’ dispute resolution practice is active in insolvency and intellectual property. Its assets and bankruptcy restructuring team has extensive experience in representing asset management companies, financial institutions and social investors in a large number of litigations and execution business related to non-performing assets disposal. Its IP practice, on the other hand, has a track record of handling dispute settlement in the TMT, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, medical devices, artificial intelligence, chemicals and materials fields. Key partners include Zunsi Liu, Leiming Li, Sheng Jiang and Wenliang Zhang. IP experts Lihui Zhao, Wei Deng, Jing He and Karen Hu are also notable partners of the firm. 

In a high-stakes intellectual property dispute, Beijing partner Jing He is defending Zhongnanhong Culture Group in a copyright infringement and unfair competition claim brought by The Pokémon Company. 

During the research period, the firm welcomed several new partners, including Li Hengxue (Shanghai, M&A and private equity), Li Jianjun (Beijing), and Wang Wenjun (Shanghai, equity partner, capital markets dispute resolution). 

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