The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific Rankings 2020 has been announced on January 16, 2020. The rankings honor the work of law firms across the Asia-Pacific region over the past twelve months. GLO has retained its leading position in the market, winning recognitions in 18 practices / sectors (Banking & Finance, Healthcare and Life Sciences, TMT are in Tier 1). Meanwhile, our ranked lawyers have gained recommendation for 72 times in 18 ranked practice areas. The result has presented our comprehensive legal capabilities in solving cross-practice/sector matters and our outstanding professionalism standard.

This year, the ranking of GLO's "Investment Funds" has been upgraded which indicates the growing recognition from the industry. Since 2020, The Legal 500 has reorganized the category of "Intellectual Property" into 2 separated categories, which are "Intellectual Property : Contentious” and "Intellectual Property : Non-contentious". We've been recommended in both categories, showing our comprehensive capabilities in this area. Regarding the aspect of ranked individuals, we've obtained better achievement comparing with last year. Mr. Yifeng Gao, Mr. Xiusong Xing, Mr. Lawrence Lin, Mr. Jinrong Liu, Mr. Alan Zhou, and Mr. Steven Yu have been ranked as "Leading Individuals" , Ms. Amy Dai and Ms. Coco Fan have been named as "Next Generation" lawyers, while Mr. Xing Jin, Mr. Jacky Li, and Ms. Lili Wu have been ranked as "Rising Star"lawyers in various areas respectively. These awarded individuals have fully demonstrated our highly qualified professionals, as well as our innovative and progressive development. GLO’s outstanding achievements continue to maintain a leading position on the list. As China's first law firm, we've always maintained a leadership position in the industry.

3 Practices in Tier 1

Banking & Finance
Healthcare and Life Sciences
TMT

15 Practices as Recommended

Capital Markets: PRC Firm    
Corporate and M&A    
Dispute Resolution: PRC Firm    
Fintech    
Private Equity / Venture Capital    
Projects and Energy    
Regulatory / Compliance    
Shipping    
WTO / International Trade    
Antitrust and Competition    
Intellectual Property : Contentious
Intellectual Property : Non-contentious   
Labour and Employment    
Real Estate and Construction    
Investment Funds

6 Partners as Leading Individuals

Yifeng Gao, Shipping
Xiusong Xing, Dispute Resolution
Lawrence Lin, Banking and Finance
Jinrong Liu, Capital Markets, Corporate and M&A, PE/VC
Alan Zhou, Healthcare and Life Sciences
Steven Yu, TMT

2 Partners as "Next Generation"

Amy Dai, Investment Funds
Coco Fan, Healthcare and Life Sciences

2 Partners & 1 Of-Counsel as "Rising Star"

Xing Jin, Capital Markets
Jacky Li, Regulatory / Compliance
Lili Wu, Antitrust and Competition

Recommded Individuals

Antitrust and Competition
John (Jiang) Wan, Qing Ren, Shujun Liu, Lili Wu

Banking and Finance
Lawrence Lin, Xin Zhang

Capital Markets
Jinrong Liu, Xing Jin, Xin Zhang, Yu Zhang

Corporate and M&A
Jinrong Liu, Yu Zhang, Cheng Li, Huawei Lin, Alex Liu, Shifang Guo, Steven Yu

Dispute Resolution
Yifeng Gao, Xiusong Xing

Fintech
Jinrong Liu, Steven Yu, Vincent Wang, Qiuning Kang

Healthcare and Life Sciences
Alan Zhou, Coco Fan, Michael Yu, Bojia Zhao

Intellectual Property (Contentious / Non-contentious)
Degang Ma, Yonghua Zhang, Meph Gui Jia, Ying Mu, Ping Qiao, Jack Li, Hongbin Zhang

Investment Funds
Jinrong Liu, Amy Dai, Xianlai Liu, Yuan Yuan, Jinghe Wang, Zhihong Jian, Huijie Xu, Shifang Guo

Labour and Employment
Zhao Li, Weiwei Gu, Gaochong Hu

Private Equity / Venture Capital
Jinrong Liu, Steven Yu, Cheng Li, Jihong He, Huawei Lin, Michael Yu

Projects and Energy
Kevin Wang, Miller Wang

Real Estate and Construction
Huawei Lin, Kevin Wang, Miller Wang, Minghao Xu, Jason Wang

Regulatory / Compliance
Weiwei Gu, Alan Zhou, Jacky Li, Michael Weng

Shipping
Yifeng Gao, Jingye Jiang, Ting Lei

Technology, Media, Telecoms (TMT)
Steven Yu, Vincent Wang, Meph Jia Gui, Maggie Meng

WTO / International Trade
Deming Zhao, Frank Hang, Qing Ren