Law firm submission STAGE
China Business Law Journal is conducting extensive research for the annual China Business Law Awards 2026, which will be presented to the best Chinese and international law firms serving the China market.
As part of this process, we are requesting submissions from law firms at home and abroad in order to ensure that we have up-to-date information about your firm and its recent achievements. Please click to complete an online submission form. The information that you provide will support your firm’s candidacy for the awards.
The deadline for making a submission is 11 February 2026 (Wednesday).
To better facilitate the gathering of information, you may click the following buttons to download an offline submission form and the client referee list. However, it is strictly for your firm’s internal communication purposes only. So please do not return these documents to us, as we will ONLY see contents of the online submission form as valid submissions.
| Offline submission form | Client referee list | Outbound dealcase template |
Final results will be announced in April 2026. The awards will be judged on a fair and objective basis, with no fees or any obligations associated with participation or judgement. To determine winners in each category, we take into account law firm submissions, client referee’s comment, nominations from business leaders and in-house counsel, as well as in-depth editorial research of China Business Law Journal.
Participation in China Business Law Journal’s survey, awards research and nomination process does not involve any fee or obligation. In line with our principles of independence and neutrality, we have not authorised any third party to act on our behalf in relation to submissions. Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact us directly at cblj@law.asia.
External nomination STAGE
Here we cordially invite in-house counsel, business leaders and legal experts to share with us the law firms of their choice. Any nominator who has hired or worked with Chinese and/or international law firms and has positive feedback about their services is welcome to recommend their preferred law firms.
Please access the nomination form by . The deadline for nominations is Friday, 13 February 2026. (Please note: if you work at a law firm, you are only permitted to nominate other law firms.)
Please feel free to share this webpage to any colleagues and in-house counsel who may also be interested in making nominations.
