Tag: Merits & Tree Law Offices
Grandall welcomes six equity partners in four offices
Grandall Law Firm has added six equity partners across its Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Fuzhou and Wuhan offices
Deals of the Year 2025
A look back at the blockbuster transactions of 2025 as we gallop into the Year of the Horse
The A-List 2025-26: Growth Drivers
Growth Drivers: We highlight leading Chinese and international lawyers who excel across legal and business sectors
Merits & Tree hires capital markets, labour partners
Merits & Tree Law Offices hires Fu Yi and Enya Yang as partners to strengthen its Shanghai capital markets practice
The A-List 2025-26: Visionaries
The Visionaries: We announce the top lawyers who have driven change and served legal society for the past year
No more wild west
China’s legal overhaul compels internet giants to follow new competition rules, reshaping platform and consumer power
China Business Law Awards 2025
Which Chinese and international law firms have earned client trust through exceptional expertise?
The A-List 2024-25: Growth Drivers
China Business Law Journal highlights Chinese and international lawyers who drove key market-shaping deals and projects this year
Global Law hires data compliance duo in Shenzhen
Global Law Office has hired Wang Yi, ex-corporate team head at Merits & Tree, and Zhao Yanming as partners in Shenzhen
Merits & Tree expands to Guangzhou with four new partners
Merits & Tree opens a Guangzhou branch, hiring four partners specializing in disputes, asset disposal, and bankruptcy
10-plus firms advise on USD20bn iron ore project in Guinea
Involving major players like China Baowu and Rio Tinto, marking a significant milestone in the mining sector
China Business Law Awards 2024
China Business Law Journal reveals its top performing law firms of 2023
The A-List 2023-24: Rising Stars
When helping clients navigate a complex legal landscape, young elite lawyers have brought fresh ideas and innovative approaches to the table
Merits & Tree welcomes two specialists to real estate team
Zhang Xiaoxia and Xiang Ping have joined Merits & Tree Law Offices as equity partner and compensation partner
The A-List 2023-24: Growth Drivers
Following an extensive survey of market opinion and independent editorial research, China Business Law Journal announces the Growth Drivers in China’s legal market.
Merits & Tree adds four partners
Four partners have joined Merits & Tree Law Offices to boost its dispute resolution, commercial and criminal advocacy sectors
Merits & Tree officially opens Chengdu office
Merits & Tree Law Offices has officially opened its sixth mainland branch in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan, with two partners, Zhong Jingjing and Liu Zhang, on board
China Business Law Awards 2023
China Business Law Journal reveals its top performing law firms of 2022
Trio to boost Merits & Tree’s dispute resolution, restructuring
Merits & Tree Law Offices continues its expansion strategy with the hiring of Gu Jing, Cai Guoqiang and Zhang Jianxin as partners
Deals of the year 2022
China Business Law Journal announces the most exciting China-related legal transactions and disputes of 2022
Merits & Tree adds four new partners
Merits & Tree Law Offices hires Li Zheng, Zhang Yong and Zheng Yan as business partners to enhance several practice areas, while Pan Yang also joins as a partner to help manage the firm
Merits & Tree adds five partners for three offices in China
Merits & Tree Law Offices hires five partners for three locations with Wang Haiqing and Qu Chenxi joining the Beijing office, Fu Huahua and Li Zeyu in Shanghai and Lv Jingya in the Wuhan office
Counting blessings
China Business Law Journal conducted its annual legal market survey for 2021 with 94 leading law firms to seek their views on trends of the past year
Eyes forward
The leaders of international and domestic firms in China have their eyes firmly on the prizes of the future
Merits & Tree hires six partners to strengthen Bejing and Shenzhen offices
Merits & Tree Law Offices has appointed Wang Tingru, Diao Shengyan and Ren Gulong as Beijing-based partners, while Wang Wenchao, Huang Guangde and Gao Songsong were hired as Shenzhen-based partners
Markets of choice
Chinese companies are finding both challenges and opportunities amid shakeups in capital markets at home and abroad
China Business Law Awards 2022
China Business Law Journal reveals the law firms that have excelled in the past year
Little to fear in Chinese regulator’s handling of US move
A consultation document released by China’s securities watchdog potentially removes a key hurdle for US regulators to gain full access to the auditing reports of Chinese companies listed in New York
Merits & Tree makes five hires
Merits & Tree Law Offices has hired four partners – Philip Qiao and Kelly Zheng in its Beijing headquarters; Stone Huang and Fan Qiuping in the firm’s Shenzhen branch – as well as Song Yaqin as a counsel in Beijing
M&T expands with Beijing, Shanghai hires
Merits & Tree Law Offices has appointed four partners – Zhang Yifei in its Beijing headquarters, and Yu Jie, Chen Xiao and Yang Cheng to its Shenzhen branch.
Needs of the many
With a state-led "common prosperity" philanthropy campaign well underway, what options do private enterprises have? Jasmine Wen reports









































































































