Chambers Greater China Region Guide

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About the Chambers Greater China Region Legal Guide 2025

Welcome to the Chambers Greater China Region Guide. Search the legal market's best law firms and lawyers using the search functionality above.   

As we continuously strive to deliver unparalleled coverage of legal markets across the Greater China Region, we have evolved our research and rankings and are delighted to announce the Chambers Greater China Region 2025 Guide.   

The guide brings together extensive, independent in-depth market analysis, and rankings of the leading law firms and professionals across all four jurisdictions of the Greater China Region. It features five exclusive sections: China (International Firms), Hong Kong Bar, China (PRC Firms), Macau SAR and Taiwan Jurisdiction.   

Our rankings are based on the unrivalled research conducted by our dedicated and experienced team of researchers, through tens of thousands of one-to-one interviews each year with submitting firm's referees, to help us understand the authentic views and experiences of their clients.  
 
Chambers Greater China Region provides reliable impartial recommendations, to ensure that anyone can make an informed decision when purchasing legal services to suit their needs.    

Please see our methodology page if you would like to find out more about how we conduct our research or if you would like to submit to Chambers Greater China Region Guide. 

Chambers Independence

We are delighted to see so many firms and companies participating in our research, ensuring we can have an in-depth understanding of law firms and their practices. However, Chambers prides itself on the independence and impartiality of our research and rankings and therefore we have not authorised, and do not work with, any third-party partner(s) on the research process. 

Chambers Greater China Region Guide 2026 Submissions

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Chambers Greater China Region Guide 2025: Highlights

New/change to our Greater China Region Legal Coverage

Following the market development and the fast-evolving legal landscape across the region last year, Chambers Greater China Region 2025 Guide is featured with the following new tables or table restructurings:   

China (International Firms) rankings

• The lawyer tables of TMT: Information Technology (International Firms) and TMT: Telecommunications & Broadcasting (International Firms) merged into one under the parent table Technology, Media, Telecoms (TMT) (International Firms)

Hong Kong Bar rankings

• Trusts, Probate & Succession: The Bar (New)

China (PRC Firms) rankings

• TMT: Equity Financing (PRC Firms) scrapped
• Corporate/Commercial: Gansu (PRC Firms)’s firm rankings changed to banded rankings
• Corporate/Commercial: Qinghai (PRC Firms) adding lawyer table for the first time

China (PRC Firms) rankings - China rankings - Corporate/Commercial (PRC Firms) (new table split)

Corporate/Commercial: Chongqing

• Corporate/Commercial: Chongqing: Contentious
• Corporate/Commercial: Chongqing: Non-contentious

Corporate/Commercial: Jiangsu

• Corporate/Commercial: Jiangsu: Contentious
• Corporate/Commercial: Jiangsu: Non-contentious

Contentious vs Non-contentious sub-sections in five Corporate/Commercial (PRC Firms) sections

As above, this change has added to the three existing provincial markets (Guangdong, Sichuan, Zhejiang) where the Corporate/Commerical research is subcategorised into Contentious and Non-contentious, making it a total of five sections with such structure.  

We first introduced this structure last year in Chambers 2024 Guide based on our observation of notable division and interaction between contentious practice and non-contentious practice on the provincial level. The lawyers who advise exclusively on transactions rarely come across those engaged in dispute work. Moreover, clients have more specific requirements of their mandates when sourcing the right firm and lawyer for the job.  

The total number of provinces/municipalities that we offer corporate/commercial research and rankings is 27.   

Chambers Greater China Region Guide 2025: Summary

We are dedicated to championing the best legal talent, wherever it exists. Driven by the rising amount of law firms participating in our research year on year and by the introduction of new practice areas as our engagement with the markets further strengthens, Chambers research coverage across the Greater China Region remains comprehensive and continues to grow.  

The statistics below give a snapshot of the research and rankings of the Greater China Region 2025 Guide.    

391

Law Firms Ranked

1,442

Department rankings

2,777

Individuals ranked

3,151

Individual lawyer rankings

27

Provinces/municipalities in Corporate/Commercial Research Coverage

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of China (PRC Firms) Section

Our in-depth research runs from February to October. 

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Meet the Chambers Legal Research Team

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Dennis Li

Head of Greater China Region Research

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About our Legal Rankings

Firms ranked in the guide have been researched and analysed by our team of Research Analysts who speak to law firm clients/referees and carefully research each submitting firm to have a clear understanding of each practice's strengths, providing those looking to purchase legal services with the most detailed analysis, editorial and insights of the top law firms and lawyers, to aid decision making. 

In-Depth Overviews

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CHINA: An Introduction to Capital Markets: Debt & Equity (PRC Firms)

In 2024, China’s capital market has further advanced structural reforms dedicated to enhancing mark...

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CHINA: An Introduction to Commercial Dispute Resolution: The Bar

2024 was an exciting year in the area of commercial dispute resolution, encapsulating the developme...

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CHINA: An Introduction to Competition/Antitrust (PRC Firms)

China’s antitrust legislative efforts were notably active in 2024.In terms of behavioural regulatio...

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CHINA: An Introduction to Construction (PRC Firms)

In March 2024, delegates from courts across China discussed the long-brewing “Interpretation of Iss...

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In the past, multinational companies have tended to conduct internal investigations led by specific...

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CHINA: An Introduction to Corporate/Commercial: Beijing (PRC Firms)

The newly amended Company Law of the People's Republic of China (the "Company Law") was promulgated...

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