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Headquartered in Beijing, W&H Law Firm is renowned for its expertise in bankruptcy law. The practice serves a diverse clientele, including large and medium-sized state-owned enterprises, government agencies, financial institutions, public institutions, multinational corporations, foreign-invested enterprises, private companies, high-tech firms and internet platforms.
The team has shown exceptional performance in litigation, arbitration and the enforcement of notarised creditor instruments, particularly in high-stakes financing disputes, real estate sales and leasing conflicts, construction engineering disputes, private lending and guarantee contract disputes, and tort litigation.
W&H Law Firm represented Industrial Bank in a groundbreaking collective redress lawsuit involving bond investors’ claims against Dalian Machine Tool Group Corporation. The case addressed novel legal questions, such as the applicability of misrepresentation liability to bonds traded in China’s inter-bank market and the determination of causation in bond transactions – issues that had not been previously addressed by the courts.
In the intellectual property sector, the team defended Samsung in high-stakes patent infringement disputes in China, setting new standards for cross-border IP enforcement. They also represented Midea in a trade secret dispute recognised by the Guangdong High Court, reinforcing judicial standards for corporate confidentiality protections.
Over the past year, the firm has further strengthened its capabilities by adding four senior partners: Fengmin Lu, Ji Shao, Jianyao Shan, and Bin Wu. In 2025, Zhan Feiyang was approved as a senior partner, and Ren Peng was promoted to senior partner in the Beijing headquarters.
Headquartered in Shanghai, Grandall Law Firm is a leading name in commercial dispute resolution, renowned for its expertise in arbitration, banking and finance, equity capital markets, aviation, real estate, competition law, and insurance. Senior partner Zhengyu Yang is a key partner who specialises in commercial disputes.
Grandall represented Shanghai Jin Feng Wine, a historic enterprise originally established in 1954 as Shanghai First Food Store and restructured into a public company in 1992. The case arose when Xu et al. claimed inherited shareholder rights based on 1992 paper stocks allegedly owned by Xu’s father, asserting that his initial shareholder registration had been omitted. The plaintiffs also named the People’s Bank of China Shanghai Branch, the original listing authority, as a third party. Faced with missing archival records, partner Zheren Zhou and his team meticulously reconstructed the stock’s issuance history, analysing physical attributes, regulatory protocols, and issuance methods. Their efforts successfully disproved the plaintiffs’ claims, leading the court to rule in favour of Jin Feng Wine and reject the inheritance demand.
In a landmark equity transfer dispute valued at Rmb3.4 billion, Grandall’s Nanjing office secured a decisive victory for World Group, a leading agricultural machinery company, against Thaihot Group, a former listed real estate firm. The dispute centred on a 2017 agreement requiring Thaihot to pay Rmb3.8 billion for full equity in a real estate project. Amid financial strain and a market downturn, Thaihot halted payments and sought to terminate the agreement. World Group filed suit to enforce a Rmb600 million instalment, while Thaihot countersued to reclaim Rmb2.8 billion already paid. After consolidating the cases, the Supreme People’s Court upheld most of World Group’s claims, rejecting Thaihot’s termination request and affirming the enforceability of the payment obligations.
Grandall’s Hangzhou office represented Hangzhou JinTou Group through a complex Rmb1.1 billion debt restructuring involving Dexin Real Estate and ZheShang Asset. The team resolved a mix of non-litigious negotiations and litigious proceedings, addressing intricate financial and legal challenges to stabilise the client’s position.
The firm defended China Merchants Bank’s Taiyuan branch in a negotiable instruments recourse dispute against Shanxi Property Group. It also represented Guizhou Kaili Rural Commercial Bank in a negotiable instruments financing clash with Hengfeng Bank’s Nantong branch. In another matter, Grandall acted for China Huateng in a circular trade dispute against Shanxi Jianbang Group and Shanxi Tongcai Industry.
The firm’s clients include financial institutions, state-owned enterprises, and multinational corporations, reflecting its broad sectoral influence. Collaborations across its Shanghai, Nanjing and Hangzhou offices, coupled with deep regulatory insights, solidify its reputation as a powerhouse in cross-industry dispute resolution.
In 2025 and early 2026, the firm added equity partners in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Fuzhou and Wuhan.
Zhong Yin Law Firm is highly experienced in bankruptcy reorganisation and liquidation, with a strong focus on dissolution and liquidation, bankruptcy liquidation, reorganisation, reconciliation, enterprise restructuring, debt restructuring, and the resettlement of employees from state-owned enterprises and related legal matters. Notable figures at the firm include Xiaoyu Liu, Songzhe Zheng, Xinjian Yuan, Lihua Deng, and Yu Wang.
Among the publishable matters, the team is representing Singapore’s Santai Group in over a dozen rights protection litigations initiated simultaneously in mainland China and Singapore, involving patent rights, trade secrets, malicious litigation, and embezzlement. The firm successfully reclaimed five core patents, maintaining a competitive advantage in a market worth billions of yuan, and pursued criminal liability for the chief technology officer and civil compensation for the chief business officer.
Previously, the firm represented Shanxi Juli Minsheng Natural Gas Reserve Co. in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei LNG Peaking Reserve Center project, utilising the EPC general contracting method for the public tender. This project involves local government investment, consortium bidding and tight deadlines, and it is the largest inland LNG project.
In insolvency matters, the firm served as the bankruptcy manager for the merger and bankruptcy reorganisation cases of Hongye Chemical Industry Group and 28 other enterprises. Additionally, they have handled the bankruptcy liquidation case of Beijing Tianrui Xiaguang Technology Development and provided advice on the bankruptcy reorganisation case of Tangshan Fuqiang Real Estate Development.
Some of the firm’s key clients include China Minsheng Bank (Tianjin branch), Shandong Baisheng Biotechnology, Shandong Yucheng Huaxin Investment, Shenji Group Kunming Machine Tool and Zhonghang Shixin Energy Saving Technology (Beijing).
City Development Law Firm occupies, and some would argue dominates, a construction-focused space in the Shanghai legal market. The firm’s construction team consists of star lawyers with both legal and civil engineering backgrounds. The team has always been in a leading position in the field of construction with a particular forte in infrastructure, public utilities and landmark projects. Deputy directors Zhongchun Song, Rubo Han and La Wei are key names to note.
In an ongoing contract dispute, the firm is acting for a world top 500 construction enterprise in China in Evergrande’s failure in payment. The firm also acted for a large real estate enterprise affiliated to Fangyuan Group and suing the general contractor, the Fourth Construction Bureau of China, over allegations of overdue completion arising from a commercial housing project. In another matter, the firm represented Yunnan Construction Investment Sixth Construction in an Rmb640 million construction contract dispute initiated by Yunnan Jianqiang Construction Labor Service.
Some of the firm’s recent clients include Henan Jinjian Construction, Shanghai Road & Bridge (Group), Shunjie Construction (Group) and Yangquan Vocational and Technical College.
In 2023, the firm hired one partner Jiao He from Beijing-based Yi An Lawyers. More recently, in 2025, the firm’s Chengdu office promoted several lawyers to partnership, including Hu Lianlin, Yang Han and Xie Sijie as first-level partners.
AnJie Broad Law Firm's rapidly growing dispute resolution team is recognized for its work in international arbitration and commercial litigation, with particular industry expertise in insurance. The firm regularly represents clients before all levels of court and at various international arbitration institutions, including the International Chamber of Commerce, the London Court of International Arbitration and the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre. Key partners of the team include antitrust and insurance expert Hao Zhan and employment specialist Zhenghe Liu. On the commercial disputes front, the firm advised Cornerstone International Financial Leasing Co on a Rmb80 million financing lease contract dispute involving 'one property, multiple financing' complications.
Founded on May 2000, Tahota Law Firm has undergone more than two decades of rapid development, and has become a leading comprehensive law firm both in China and the international arena. Our office network spread across Beijing, Chengdu, Chongqing, Guiyang, Jinan, Kunming, Lhasa, Shenzhen, Shanghai, Tianjin, Hong Kong, Xi’an, Taiyuan, Xining, Nanjing, Wuhan, Haikou, Urumqi, Fuzhou, Guangzhou,Nanchang,Zhengzhou,Rangtang,Washington, Sydney, Kathmandu, Bangkok and other major cities around the globe. The performance of each office ranks forefront in the local market.By virtue of unremitting investment in talent cultivation, Tahota has established a scientific and comprehensive training mechanism, and maintained an open and inclusive attitude towards the talents. At present, Tahota has more than 3000 practitioners and more than 4000 employees, ranking the first array of China’s law society. Moreover, Tahota has become one of the top 100 big law firms around the globe. Most practitioners of Tahota graduated from reputable law schools with nearly 100 of them holding the PhD degree. Numerous members of our team have comprehensive educational background and are qualified to practice law multilingually across borders.With a global network and exceptional talent pool, Tahota integrates its development with China’s new “dual circulation” system and the global “Post-Epidemic Era” transformation. Tahota has provided long-term legal services for more than 10,000 domestic and overseas clients in dozens of industries covering finance, real estate, aviation, high-end manufacturing, environmental protection, energy, medicine, commerce, tourism and culture, etc. Our legal products encompass the field of real estate, capital market, investment, financing, M&A, restructuring and government legal advisors, etc. Embracing the era of the digital economy, Tahota is also expanding into emerging fields throughout Internet, artificial intelligence, block chain, pharmaceutical, healthcare and studio entertainment.Based on the systematic management, refined specialization and efficient cooperation, Tahota is competent to confront the opportunities and challenges of the new era with our clients. Tahota have presented numerous sophisticated legal service products and we are in the process of building more than ten cross-regional “legal service centers”. Empowering legal services with cutting-edge technology, the intelligent office and administrative support system has made efficient inter-team, cross-provincial and even cross-country coordination and close collaboration the norm of Tahota. We has set up a special business research department as the knowledge management center coordinating the whole firm, and along with the enrichment of our clients, we also have the Law School’s continuous support for our service field extension and service expertise enhancement.In 2005, Tahota was awarded “National Outstanding Law Firm”. Over the past two decades, we has also been recognized by Chambers, Asia Legal Business (ALB), The Legal 500, China Business Law Journal, Asialaw Profiles, IFLR 1000, LEGAL BAND and other international rating agencies, and has been listed in authoritative professional rankings for numerous times.The year of 2021 is not only the crucial year of China’s 14th Five-Year Plan, but also the key year of Tahota’s 2th Five-Year Strategy. In the next five years, we will strive to become a law firm with efficient cross-domain collaboration, multi-core business leadership and in-depth client service. Our “Law&Industry One-Stop International Service Center” is already under construction.With a professional network throughout China and the world, we are imperturbable without arrogance, harmonious with diversity. In the near future, Tahota will build a more comprehensive, connected and professional global service network, further participate in the process of China’s rule of law from the perspective of lawyers, and actively engage in the global economy and development evolution with the strength of multi-industry integration.
AnJie Broad is a full-service law firm with a wide range of practice areas. We are committed to delivering high-quality bespoke legal solutions to clients.
AnJie Broad has extensive experience serving clients in practice areas such as Capital Market & Securities, Antitrust & Competition, Private Equity & Venture Capital, Intellectual Property, Dispute Resolution, Labor & Employment, Cross-border Investment & Acquisition, Insurance & Reinsurance, Maritime & Shipping, Banking & Finance, Energy, International Trade, Technology Media & Telecommunications，Private Wealth Management, Real Estate & Construction, Hotels Resorts & Tourism and Media, Game and Entertainment & Sports.
We have won multiple awards in most of the above areas, so you can rest assured that your business will be left in safe hands should you engage us.
AnJie Broad was founded by a group of senior attorneys from different practice areas, and all of its key partners are graduates of the most prestigious law schools in China and overseas, with abundant work experience from leading international law firms.
Many of AnJie Broad's partners are highly recommended by respected legal ranking agencies, such as Chambers & Partners, Who's Who legal, Legal 500, IFLR1000, Asialaw Profiles, Asia Legal Business, LEGALBAND, Benchmark Litigation and China Business Law Journal.
