Law firms in China

Linklaters

Belgium, Brazil +18

Linklaters is a leading global law firm with offices across Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and the United States. Its locations provide integrated cross-border advice across a broad range of transactional, regulatory, and disputes practices.

Llinks Law Offices

China

Llinks Law Offices is a China-based law firm with offices in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen. Contact details and office addresses are listed on the firm's website (llinkslaw.com).

Founded in 1992, Long An Law Firm is described in the source as the oldest partnership law firm in China and has developed a prominent banking and finance practice. Since 2017 the firm strengthened its financial team after the arrival of Xiuping Pan and Weiguo Wang (both holding leadership roles in the China Society of Banking Law), and the firm and its lawyers have received Chambers and Legal 500 rankings (2022–2024) and won a Commercial Law Excellence Award in 2021.

Lung Tin IP Attorneys is a China-based intellectual property law firm with offices in Beijing and Shanghai. Office addresses and contact details are listed on the firm's website.

Merits & Tree Law Offices

China

Merits & Tree Law Offices, founded in 2006, has over 150 partners and more than 500 lawyers and staff across 10 offices including Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Wuhan, Hangzhou, Qingdao, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Haikou and Hong Kong. M&T provides full‑cycle, multi‑dimensional legal services to domestic and international enterprises, financial institutions and capital market participants across the investment, transaction and exit (dispute) lifecycle, operates a one‑firm model and uses digital intelligence (including AI) to support service delivery.

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP

Belgium, China +9

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP is a global law firm with offices across North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. The firm provides corporate, transactional, litigation, regulatory, intellectual property, labor and employment, finance, and related services to clients ranging from multinational companies to startups.

Mori Hamada & Matsumoto Shanghai Office

China, Japan +4

Mori Hamada & Matsumoto is a Tokyo‑headquartered international law firm with a strong presence across Asia, including offices and affiliated firms in China (Beijing and Shanghai), Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. The firm provides full‑service cross‑border legal advice covering corporate and M&A, banking and finance, project finance, real estate, dispute resolution, regulatory and compliance (including antitrust and data protection) and intellectual property, and its China practice has operated since the early 1990s (Beijing office opened in 1998; Shanghai in 2005).

Morrison Foerster

China, Japan +2

Morrison Foerster is a global law firm with approximately 1,000 lawyers across 18 offices, serving clients in the United States, Asia, and Europe. The firm handles cross-border transactions, major disputes, and provides counsel in areas such as capital markets, dispute resolution, banking and finance, and technology and life sciences.

Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu Shanghai Representative Office

China, Japan +4

Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu is a Tokyo-based international full-service law firm with an extensive overseas network and over 600 lawyers. The Shanghai Representative Office serves as a China-based point of contact advising on Japanese law and supporting Chinese companies considering investments in or cooperation with Japanese entities.

Norton Rose Fulbright

Australia, Belgium +24

Norton Rose Fulbright is a global law firm providing a full business law service to corporations and financial institutions across more than 50 cities worldwide. The firm has offices and alliances in multiple jurisdictions across Europe, the Americas, Asia, Australia, Africa and the Middle East.

Ogier

British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands +8

Ogier is an international law firm providing advice on BVI, Cayman, Guernsey, Irish, Jersey and Luxembourg law, with offices across Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Its work focuses on corporate and financial sector matters, including banking and finance, corporate, investment funds, dispute resolution, private equity, private wealth, restructuring and insolvency, and related services.

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

China, France +8

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP is a global law firm focused on serving clients in the technology & innovation, energy & infrastructure, and finance sectors. The firm provides legal services including M&A, private equity, capital markets, intellectual property, dispute resolution, and regulatory compliance across multiple jurisdictions.

Osborne Clarke

Belgium, China +10

Osborne Clarke is an international legal practice with over 800 lawyers across Europe, Asia, and the US, offering a full range of legal services with a focus on seven key industry sectors: digital business, energy and utilities, financial services, life sciences and healthcare, real estate and infrastructure, retail, and transport and automotive.

PW & Partners

China

PW & Partners is a China-based law firm providing commercial legal services across areas including corporate and investment, dispute resolution, intellectual property, competition and data, employment, insolvency and criminal defense. The firm advises foreign companies, listed companies and state-owned enterprises and offers multilingual services and memberships in several international and bilateral chambers and legal networks.

Proskauer Rose LLP

Brazil, China +3

Proskauer Rose LLP is a global law firm with over 900 lawyers in key financial centers, known for its pragmatic and commercial approach to transactional and contentious practices. The firm serves asset managers, private equity and venture capital firms, Fortune 500 and FTSE companies, major sports leagues, and entertainment industry clients.

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP

Australia, Belgium +11

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP is an international law firm with offices across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific. The directory pages shown emphasize rankings and office locations in multiple jurisdictions.

Rajah & Tann Sok & Heng Law Office

Cambodia, China +8

R&T Sok & Heng Law Office is a Phnom Penh–based full-service law firm and a member of the Rajah & Tann Asia network. The firm is noted for handling complex cross-border and high-value transactions and leverages the regional Rajah & Tann network to support multinational and domestic clients.

Ropes & Gray LLP

China, Japan +3

Ropes & Gray is a global law firm with offices in key business and financial centers throughout Asia, the U.S., and Europe, advising corporate clients, investment banks, and private equity funds on complex legal matters.

Shanghai Pacific Legal

China

Shanghai Pacific Legal is a PRC law firm providing business law services across China, advising domestic and international corporates, financial institutions and Chinese state-owned entities on investments and financings into and out of China and on the growth and expansion of their businesses. The firm is recognised for expertise in banking and finance, corporate and M&A, dispute resolution, intellectual property and labour and also advises on antitrust/competition, data privacy and cybersecurity, capital markets, foreign direct investment and private equity.

Shihui Partners

China

Shihui Partners, founded in 2016 with about 300 professionals, is a comprehensive law firm headquartered in Beijing with additional offices in Shanghai and Shenzhen. The firm advises domestic and international clients across sectors such as internet & telecommunications, life sciences, high-technology, entertainment & media and financial services, and has been recognised by Chambers, The Legal 500, ALB, asialaw, Managing IP, IAM, IFLR 1000, Benchmark Litigation and CBLJ.

Sidley Austin

Australia, Belgium +8

Sidley Austin is an international law firm with more than 2,300 lawyers across 21 offices worldwide. The firm has offices in Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and the United States, and advises clients across a range of transactional, regulatory, and litigation matters.

Simmons & Simmons

Belgium, China +14

Simmons & Simmons is an international law firm that describes itself as collaborative, agile, and partner-led, with a focus on highly regulated sectors and complex cross-border matters. The firm has offices and associated locations across Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Brazil, China +3

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP is a global law firm with approximately 1,500 lawyers, providing coordinated legal advice and transactional capability across over 30 practice areas from 11 offices worldwide. The firm is recognized for its work in complex corporate transactions and litigation matters.