Law firms in China

Stephenson Harwood

China, France +5

Stephenson Harwood is an international law firm with offices across Europe, the Middle East and Asia, serving listed and private companies, institutions and individuals. The firm focuses on sectors including energy transition and infrastructure, life sciences and healthcare, private capital and funds, technology, and transportation and trade.

Steptoe LLP

Belgium, China +2

Steptoe LLP is an international law firm with over 100 years of practice, known for representing clients before governmental agencies, in litigation and arbitration, and providing advice on business transactions. The firm has more than 500 lawyers and professional staff across offices in Beijing, Brussels, Chicago, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and Washington, DC.

T&C Law Firm

China

T&C Law Firm (天册律师事务所), founded in 1986, is a large integrated Chinese law firm with about 600 professionals and six offices in Hangzhou, Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Wuhan and Ningbo. The firm emphasizes commercial, finance and dispute-resolution work across areas such as securities and capital markets, M&A, litigation and arbitration, IP, private equity and insolvency, and has received national honors from the Ministry of Justice and the All-China Lawyers Association.

Tahota Law Firm is a China-based law firm with 650 lawyers. The firm offers services in multiple languages, including Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean and Russian.

Tian Yuan Law Firm

China, Hong Kong

Tian Yuan Law Firm, founded in 1992 as one of the first private partnership Chinese law firms, is a full-service domestic firm with offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Chengdu and a team of over 300 lawyers. The firm advises domestic and international clients across areas including corporate, capital markets, private equity, project and infrastructure finance, antitrust, intellectual property and dispute resolution, and its lawyers work in Mandarin, English, French, Japanese and Korean.

TianTong Law Firm

China

Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Beijing, TianTong Law Firm focuses on dispute resolution, providing a 4-in-1 service model of litigation, arbitration, enforcement and bankruptcy. The firm concentrates on major and complex commercial disputes and has a notable track record before the people’s courts (including the Supreme People’s Court) and major arbitral institutions.

Tiantai Law Firm

China

Tiantai Law Firm, established in the early 1990s, is one of China’s large-scale law firms with a team of more than 2,000 practicing lawyers and a strong reputation in business law, recognized by national and Beijing legal authorities. The firm emphasizes intellectual property, finance and capital markets, real estate and taxation and provides services to domestic and international clients in languages including Chinese, English and Japanese.

Tiger Partners

China

Tiger Partners, established in December 2019, is a boutique Chinese law firm focused on major and complex civil and commercial dispute resolution, including arbitration and court litigation. The firm emphasizes partner-led representation, practical commercial solutions, and maintaining high success rates in high-profile and difficult cases.

Topcom China Law Offices

China

Topcom China Law Offices (Topcom) is a China-based legal services provider serving Fortune Global 500 companies and leading domestic and international enterprises. The firm focuses on compliance and investigations (including anti-bribery/anti-corruption, trade secret protection, product quality and food and drug safety), dispute resolution, intellectual property, data protection, investment and M&A, corporate finance, taxation and labor matters, and advises clients across industries such as advanced manufacturing, food and agricultural products, health care, industrial automation, automotive and e-commerce.

Unitalen Attorneys at Law

China

Unitalen Attorneys at Law, founded in 1994 and headquartered in Beijing, is a large Chinese full-service intellectual property firm with a staff of 700 (attorneys, paralegals and law clerks) and branch offices across China and Hong Kong. The firm handles patent, trademark and copyright prosecution, IP licensing and enforcement, trade secret protection, media and entertainment and sports matters, and represents clients before regulatory and administrative agencies and courts.

V&T Law Firm

China

V&T Law Firm is a full-service firm with offices across major Chinese cities and international branches in Spain, the UK and Denmark. The firm advises on corporate and capital markets matters, banking and finance, private equity, M&A, intellectual property, real estate and construction, dispute resolution, criminal defense and governmental legal affairs.

W&H Law Firm, established in 1995, is a Chinese partnership formed by lawyers from the former China Legal Affairs Center. It is a comprehensive law firm providing litigation and non‑litigation services across areas including bankruptcy and restructuring, dispute resolution, banking and finance, intellectual property, corporate compliance, employment and maritime law, and cross‑border capital markets and arbitration.

WJC Law Firm

China

Wang Jing & Co.'s Shanghai branch, established in October 2002 and located in the Pudong Lujiazui Financial & Trade Zone, provides foreign-oriented legal services to clients operating in eastern China. The office focuses on admiralty, maritime, insurance and corporate matters and is led by a senior partner supported by a team of more than 20 lawyers.

Wanhuida Intellectual Property

China

Wanhuida Intellectual Property is the service mark shared by Wanhuida IP Agency and Wanhuida Law Firm and employs around 500 professionals, including roughly 120 IP lawyers, 160 trademark attorneys and 80 patent attorneys. The firm advises multinational and domestic clients on registration, prosecution, litigation, licensing and management of IP rights (trademarks, patents, copyright, domain names, trade names, trade dress and trade secrets) and is experienced in administrative and judicial dispute resolution, enforcement, compliance and IP strategy.

White & Case

Australia, Belgium +27

White & Case is an international law firm serving companies, governments, and financial institutions across multiple global regions. The provided location pages indicate offices and affiliated practices in Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.

Wikborg Rein

China, England +2

Wikborg Rein is one of Norway's largest and most international business law firms, providing full-service legal advice to national and international clients in both the public and private sectors. The firm is headquartered in Oslo and maintains offices in Bergen, Stavanger, London, Shanghai and Singapore, highlighting its industry expertise and international experience.

WilmerHale

Belgium, China +2

WilmerHale is an international law firm with offices in Belgium, China, Germany, and the United States, offering expertise in EU regulatory and competition law, corporate transactions, intellectual property, and high-stakes litigation.

Winston Taylor

Belgium, Brazil +7

Winston Taylor is described as a transatlantic law firm serving clients across major commercial centers in the U.S., U.K., Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. The firm highlights experience in major litigation, critical transactions, strategic IP, and private wealth, with sector focus on technology, media & telecommunications, life sciences & healthcare, financial services, and projects, energy & infrastructure.

Wintell & Co Law Firm

China

Wintell & Co Law Firm, founded in 2005 with its principal office in Shanghai, is a China-based firm with a team of over 500 professionals operating across multiple offices including branches in Beijing, Shenzhen and Singapore. The firm provides services in areas such as finance, real estate, corporate restructuring, aviation and international arbitration, maintains strategic alliances with Holman Fenwick Willan and Damodara Ong LLC, and has received recognitions including Advanced Party Organization and Outstanding Law Firm.

Yingke Law Firm

China

Yingke Law Firm is a Beijing-headquartered global law firm established in 2001 with an extensive network of branches across Mainland China and an international presence spanning 143 cities in 83 countries. The firm provides broad commercial legal services including dispute resolution, construction and real estate, international trade, capital markets, investment and M&A, and intellectual property.

Zhong Lun Law Firm

China, Hong Kong

Founded in 1993 and restructured as a limited liability partnership in 2012, Zhong Lun Law Firm is a leading full-service Chinese law firm with nearly 400 equity partners and more than 2,200 professionals operating across eighteen offices in China and internationally.

Zhong Yin Law Firm

China

Zhong Yin Law Firm, founded in January 1993 and headquartered in Beijing, is one of the earliest partnership law firms in China with more than 4,000 staff (including over 3,000 lawyers) and branch offices in more than 42 mainland cities. The firm has associations in Hong Kong and Macao, a Qianhai branch, strategic partnerships with legal-service agencies in countries including the United States, Germany, France and Canada, and multilingual capabilities in English, French, Japanese, Korean and German to support international work.

Zhonglun W&D Law Firm

China

Established in 1992 and among the first partnership law firms approved by China’s Ministry of Justice, Zhonglun W&D is a large Beijing‑headquartered full‑service firm with more than 2,600 licensed lawyers and branch offices across China and overseas. The firm provides multilingual legal services and has noted strengths in private equity, REITs, internet finance and capital markets (including the Sci‑Tech Innovation Board), and advises on major infrastructure and energy projects.