On 15 November 2023, The Legal 500, a leading international legal directory, released its 2024 Asia Pacific rankings. King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) was recognized in 44 practice areas, with 28 Tier 1 practice area rankings. Of the 211 individuals on the list, 12 were named to the Hall of the Fame, 39 were ranked as Leading Individuals, 29 as Next Generation Partners, 15 as Rising Stars, and 138 were highly recommended lawyers in their respective practice areas.
KWM’s ranked areas and recommended lawyers include (in the same order of the list):
The 28 practice areas that received Tier 1 rankings:
- Antitrust and Competition Law
- Banking & Finance
- Capital Markets
- Corporate and M&A
- Data protection
- Dispute Resolution: Arbitration
- Dispute Resolution: Litigation
- Fintech
- Insurance
- Intellectual property: Contentious
- Intellectual property: Non-Contentious
- Investment Funds
- Labour and employment
- Healthcare and life sciences
- Private Equity
- Projects & Energy
- Real Estate and Construction
- Regulatory/Compliance
- Insolvency and restructuring
- Tax
- WTO/International trade
- Regional coverage: Guangdong Province: Guangzhou
- Regional coverage: Jiangsu Province: Nanjing
- Regional coverage: Sichuan Province: Chengdu including Chongqing
- Regional coverage: Zhejiang Province: Hangzhou
- Construction (Hong Kong)
- Investment Funds (Hong Kong)
- Structured Finance and Securitisation (Hong Kong)
The 16 practice areas that received Tier 1 rankings:Private Wealth Management:
- Private Wealth Management
- Shipping
- TMT
- Asset Finance: Aviation Finance (Hong Kong)
- Banking & Finance (Hong Kong)
- Capital Markets: Debt (Hong Kong)
- Capital Markets: Equity (Hong Kong)
- Corporate/ M&A (Hong Kong)
- Dispute Resolution: International Arbitration (Hong Kong)
- Dispute Resolution: Litigation (Hong Kong)
- Projects and Energy (Hong Kong)
- Real Estate (Hong Kong)
- Regulatory (Hong Kong)
- Regulatory: Anticorruption & Compliance (Hong Kong)
- TMT (Hong Kong)
- Restructuring & Insolvency (Hong Kong)
The 12 partners who were recognized with the Hall of Fame designation:
- Banking and finance: Wang Ling, Ma Feng
- Capital markets: Zhao Xiaohong
- Corporate and M&A: Xu Ping
- Dispute Resolution: Arbitration: Ariel Ye
- Private equity: Gong Mulong
- Tax: Tony Dong
- Regional coverage: Zhejiang Province: Hangzhou: Ye Guojun
- Construction (Hong Kong): Paul Starr
- Projects and Energy (Hong Kong): Sam Farrands
- Structured Finance and Securitisation (Hong Kong): Richard Mazzochi
- TMT (Hong Kong): Peter Bullock
The 39 partners who were recognized as “Leading Individuals”:
- Antitrust and competition: Susan Ning
- Capital markets: Zhang Yongliang
- Corporate and M&A: Harry Du, Wang Kaiding
- Data protection: Susan Ning
- Dispute resolution: Arbitration:Huang Tao
- Dispute resolution: Litigation: Huang Tao
- Fintech: Yu Leimin
- Insurance: Yuan Min
- Intellectual property: Gordon Gao, He Wei
- Investment funds: Gong Mulong
- Labour and employment: Linda Liang, Lucy Lu
- Healthcare and life sciences: Huang Jianwen, Mark Zhang
- Projects and energy: Tian Wenjing
- Real estate and construction: William Jiang
- Regulatory/compliance: Harry Liu
- Insolvency and restructuring: Wang Fuxiang, Hao Zhaohui
- Shipping: Edward Ma
- Tax: Bill Ye, Daisy Duan
- TMT: Susan Ning, Wu Han
- WTO/International Trade: Liu Xinyu
- Regional coverage: Jiangsu Province: Nanjing: Zhang Mingyuan
- Regional coverage: Sichuan Province: Chengdu including Chongqing: Liu Rong
- Regional coverage: Zhejiang Province: Hangzhou: Liang Jin
- Asset Finance: Aviation Finance (Hong Kong): Ashley Wong
- Capital Markets: Debt (Hong Kong): Hao Zhou
- Construction (Hong Kong): Donovan Ferguson， Sam Farrands
- Dispute Resolution: International Arbitration (Hong Kong): Paul Starr
- Dispute Resolution: Litigation (Hong Kong): Barbara Chiu
- Investment Funds (Hong Kong): Jingjing Jiang, Guosun Lee
- Projects and Energy (Hong Kong): Xiao Yong
- Real Estate (Hong Kong): Siu-Ngor Chow
- Regulatory (Hong Kong): Richard Mazzochi
- Structured Finance and Securitisation (Hong Kong): Minny Siu
- TMT (Hong Kong): Urszula McCormack
The 29 lawyers who were recognized as “Next Generation Partners”:
- Antitrust and competition: Chai Zhifeng, Zhang Ruohan (Counsel)
- Banking and finance: Stella Wang
- Corporate and M&A: Huang Ling, Jennifer Yao
- Data protection: Wu Han
- Dispute resolution: Arbitration: Li Xinyu, Lv Mengdan
- Dispute resolution: Litigation: Yang Ting
- Fintech: Chen Fushen
- Insurance: Lin Zhe
- Intellectual property: Zhang Xiaoxia
- Healthcare and life sciences: Liu Ting, Yang Fan, Zhu Yuanyuan
- Private equity: Ren Liguang
- Project and energy: Liu Zhizhi
- Real estate and construction: Xing Meidong
- Regulatory/compliance: Xu Xiaodan
- Insolvency and restructuring: Wang Le, Shen Yuhan
- TMT: Zhang Hanyu
- Regional coverage: Guangdong and Shenzhen: Song Siyu
- Regional coverage: Sichuan Province: Chengdu including Chongqing: Guo Huan, Lu Yong
- Regional coverage: Zhejiang Province: Hangzhou: Han Yun, Shan Yingzhi
- Capital Markets: Debt (Hong Kong): Michael Lu, Song Yue
The 15 lawyers who received the “Rising Stars” recognitions:
- Antitrust and competition: Zhang Tianjie
- Corporate and M&A: Liu Xiaoping
- Dispute Resolution: Arbitration: Joanna Du
- Dispute Resolution: Litigation: Ding Wanli
- Fintech: Shao Chunjia
- Insurance: Lai Yunjie
- Labour and employment: Ding Wu
- Healthcare and life sciences: Li Lingbi
- Real estate and construction: Chen Xi
- Regulatory/compliance: Zhu Yuanyuan
- Tax: Liu Xiang
- Regional coverage: Jiangsu Province: Nanjing: Zhang Chaojun
- Regional coverage: Sichuan Province: Chengdu including Chongqing: Liang Ruilong, Tang Qi
- Regional coverage: Zhejiang Province: Hangzhou: Ren Hui
The 138 individuals who were recognized as “highly recommended” lawyers (including practice heads):
- Antitrust and competition: Wu Han
- Banking and finance: Stanley Zhou, Lv Yinghao, Chen Jie
- Capital markets: Gong Mulong, Wang Lixin, Zhang Mingyuan, Zhou Ning, Peng Jin, Su Zheng, Mu Peng, Jiang Yifeng,
- Corporate and M&A: Wang Lixin, Mo Haibo, Zhao Jingchuan, Jiang Mengbi, Pan Zhenhua, Yu Zhenzhen, Luo Hai
- Dispute resolution: Arbitration: Yu Rihong, Liu Yuwu, Jessica Fei, Zhang Mei, Dai Yue, Ricky Xu, Wang Yue, Liu Yang
- Dispute resolution: Litigation: Yu Rihong, Liu Lingyun, Zhang Shouzhi, Zhang Mei, Xia Dongxia, Dai Yue, Peng Ya, Cheng Shigang, Wang Yue
- Fintech: Allen Zhong
- Insurance: Hua Dongdong
- Intellectual property: Wang Maohua, Tina Tai, Li Yong, Zhu Nongfan, Yang Xiaoli, Mia Qu, Li Hui, Qin Yugong, Shi Yusheng, Chen Wenping, Sun Mingfei, Xu Jing, Mao Jin
- Investment funds: Ma Tianning, Du Honghui, Jia Diyan, Wang Zhaoyan, Wan Minxiu
- Private Equity: Richard Nie, Ma Tianning, Han Yun, Wang Shuai
- Private Wealth Management: Wang Hui, Zheng Hui, Wu Peng, Feng Hui, Bill Ye, Daisy Duan
- Project and energy: Xiao Yong, George Zhao, Xiong Jin, LV Yinghao, Kathy Fan, Sally Hou, Molly Su, Zhenzhen Yu, Suodi Xi, Yi Liu, Long Jing,
- Real estate and construction: Harry Du, Tao Zhangqi, Zhao Xianlong, Cheng Shigang, Kathy Fan, Peng Fu, Sun Huili
- Regulatory/compliance: Wu Wei, Chang Junfeng, Gan Yulai
- Insolvency and restructuring: Liu Yanling, Zhao Kuncheng
- Tax: Liu Bo, Zhang Ci, Yu Yue, Lan Meng, Ma Xiaoyu
- TMT: Richard Nie, Zhang Mingyuan, Mia Qu, Wang Ningyuan, Yu Leimin
- WTO/International trade: Suchang, Li Zhenghao
- Regional coverage: Guangdong Province: Guangzhou: Wang Lixin, Zhao Xianlong, Cheng Ke, Ariel Ye, Wang Jianxue, Sun Mingfei, Liu Ting, Cao Yuhui, Chen Junwen
- Regional coverage: Jiangsu Province: Nanjing: Hao Zhaohui, Shi Liufang, Ma Xiaoyun, Chen Wei
- Regional coverage: Sichuan Province: Chengdu including Chongqing: Liu Hu, Li Baoshan, Wang Xin, Liu Feng, Yu Yi, Zhang Mo
- Regional coverage: Zhejiang Province: Hangzhou: Yang Ming, Jiang Conghua, Li Zhenjiang, Zhang Cheng
- Asset Finance: Aviation Finance (Hong Kong): Katherine Ke
- Banking & Finance (Hong Kong): David Lam, Katherine Ke, Jessica Zhou
- Capital Markets: Debt (Hong Kong): Richard Mazzochi
- Capital Markets: Equity (Hong Kong): Candy Chan, John Baptist Chan, Anthony Wan, Corey Zhang, Sheldon Tse, Yu Wang, Gary Lcok
- Construction (Hong Kong): Edmund Wan, Sam Farrands, Scott Gardiner, Xiao Yong, Nicholas Molan
- Corporate/ M&A (Hong Kong): Sheldon Tse, Hayden Flinn, Gary Lock
- Dispute Resolution: International Arbitration (Hong Kong): Jessica FEi, Barbara Chiu, Edmund Wan, Peter Bullock, Donovan Ferguson, Rachel Yu
- Dispute Resolution: Litigation (Hong Kong): Paul Starr, Peter Bullock, Edmund Wan, Donovan Ferguson, Rachel Yu, Crystal Luk
- Investment Funds (Hong Kong): Cindy Shek, Helena Huang
- Projects and Energy (Hong Kong): Scott Gardiner, Jessica Zhou, Nicholas Molan, Tian Xu
- Real Estate (Hong Kong): Hayden Flinn, Ching-Wo Ng
- Regulatory (Hong Kong): Minny Siu, Cindy Shek
- Regulatory: Anticorruption & Compliance (Hong Kong): Barbara Chiu, Crystal Luk, Rachel Yu
- Restructuring & Insolvency (Hong Kong): Helena Huang, Barbara Chiu, Edmund Wan
- Structured Finance and Securitisation (Hong Kong): Paul McBride
