King & Wood Mallesons’ Hong Kong office (KWM HK) achieved 20 practice area rankings and celebrated 21 lawyers earning individual rankings across 13 practice areas in the International Firms category of the 2025 Chambers Greater China Region legal rankings.
We maintained our Band 1 rankings in Construction in the 2025 Chambers Greater China Region (International Firms) rankings and in the 2025 Chambers China FinTech Legal (International Firms) rankings.
Ranked practice areas of KWM HK include (all International Firms category):
- Aviation Finance
- Banking & Finance
- Capital Markets: Debt
- Capital Markets: Derivatives & Structured Products
- Capital Markets: Equity
- Capital Markets: High Yield Products
- Capital Markets: Securitisation
- Construction
- Corporate M&A: Highly Regarded
- Dispute Resolution: Arbitration
- Dispute Resolution: Litigation
- Energy & Natural Resources
- Financial Services
- FinTech Legal
- Investment Funds: Private Equity
- Investment Funds: Registered Funds
- Real Estate
- Restructuring/Insolvency
- Technology, Media, Telecoms (TMT)
- Technology, Media, Telecoms (TMT): Data Protection & Privacy
Leading individual lawyers of KWM HK include (all International Firms category):
- Aviation Finance – Katherine Ke
- Banking & Finance – David Lam, Jessica Zhou, Richard Mazzochi
- Capital Markets: Debt – Hao Zhou, Michael Lu, Song Yue
- Capital Markets: Derivatives & Structured Products – Richard Mazzochi, Minny Siu, Angus Sip, Andrew Fei
- Capital Markets: High Yield – Hao Zhou
- Construction – Paul Starr, Edmund Wan, Donovan Ferguson
- Dispute Resolution: Arbitration – Paul Starr, Jessica Fei
- Dispute Resolution: Litigation – Paul Starr, Peter Bullock, Edmund Wan
- Energy & Natural Resources – Yong Xiao
- Financial Services – Non-contentious Regulatory - Richard Mazzochi, Minny Siu, Urszula McCormack
- FinTech Legal – Urszula McCormack, Minny Siu
- Investment Funds – Hayden Flinn, Guo Sun Lee, Jingjing Jiang, Cindy Shek
- TMT: Information Technology – Peter Bullock, Urszula McCormack
- TMT: Information Technology: Data Protection & Privacy – Peter Bullock, Urszula McCormack
“Congratulations all our partners and practice teams.” said Hao Zhou and Hayden Flinn, Co-Chief Executives of KWM HK. “We greatly appreciate our clients for their ongoing trust and support. These accomplishments demonstrate the robustness of KWM HK and our dedication in assisting clients with their crucial and strategic initiatives in the Greater China region and worldwide.”
In the China guide, KWM’s China Mainland offices and partners achieved a remarkable 22 Band 1 rankings, along with 86 individual ranking recognitions. For details, please refer to this link. This outstanding accomplishment, together with the strong result for KWM HK, underscores KWM’s exceptional expertise and capabilities across the Greater China Region.
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