Hengdu Law Firm

Director of the Management Committee: Jingbing Gao

Director, Founder: FengTao Jiang

National Equity Partner: Wen Zhong, YinYing Zhang, Ya Lu, Genping He, Chao Xi, Liying Ding

Number of employees: 2700

Number of legal professionals: 2400

Number of lawyers: 1800

Languages: Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, German, French, Russian

Contacts: Jingjing YI

Email: [email protected], [email protected]

Firm Overview:

Hengdu Law Firm was established in 2010 with its headquarters in Beijing. It is a large-scale comprehensive legal service institution. After 15 years of pioneering efforts, Hengdu now employs nearly 2,700 staff members across mainland China, including over 2,400 legal professionals, with approximately 1,800 practicing attorneys. Hengdu's attorneys are graduates of top-tier domestic and international law schools, offering international perspectives and multilingual capabilities. Over 1,000 hold master's or doctoral degrees, and many possess professional qualifications including Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Class A Construction Engineer, Patent Agent, Tax Agent, and foreign legal practitioner licenses.

Hengdu's practice spans five core areas: Capital Markets, Corporate M&A, Intellectual Property, Commercial & Litigation, and Criminal Law. These are further refined into 16 practice departments and 48 practice lines, enabling the firm to deliver comprehensive, competitively advantageous business solutions to clients. Hengdu has consistently been recommended and ranked by renowned legal media such as Chambers, ALB, and LEGALBAND.

Hengdu Law Firm upholds the core value of“client success-centricity,”having provided professional legal services to over 20,000 enterprises and dozens of leading enterprises with revenues exceeding 100 billion yuan. Its client base encompasses government agencies, state-owned enterprises, large private enterprises, foreign-invested enterprises, and renowned investment institutions, spanning multiple industries including energy, telecommunications, internet, food, finance, investment banking, and automotive.

Hengdu pursues a strategic layout characterized by“one leading firm with multiple strong branches, one firm spanning the globe, and global integration.”Headquartered in Beijing, it serves clients nationwide and extends its reach globally. Ranked among the “Top 20 Largest Law Firms in China for 2025,”Hengdu possesses substantial scale and legal talent resources in the most dynamic economic regions both domestically and internationally. Hengdu's branch offices now span major Chinese cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Tianjin, Chongqing, Nanjing, Chengdu, Hangzhou, Zhengzhou, Quanzhou, and Kunming. Its global legal service network covers 195 countries/regions, 520 law firms, and 405 cities, truly achieving the strategic goal of“one firm per country.”

Honors and Awards:

Since its establishment, Hengdu has brought together a group of legal and technical professionals with outstanding expertise, extensive practical experience, and strong teamwork skills. With its outstanding performance and comprehensive capabilities in various business areas, Hengdu and its lawyers have earned a reputation both at home and abroad. They have not only received high recognition from the industry and clients, but also numerous accolades from major rating agencies and media platforms.

Key Awards:

• 2025 Top 20 Largest Law Firms in China
• Chambers & Partners Greater China Guide: Leading Firms in Corporate & Commercial, Dispute Resolution, Intellectual Property: Litigation, and Telecommunications & Media
• The Legal 500 Greater China Rankings: Intellectual Property and Dispute Resolution: Litigation
• ALB China's Top 20 Law Firms, Best Employer Award, Top 15 Fastest-Growing Firms, Top 10 Most Rapidly Expanding Firms, IP Practice Rankings
• Asialaw Profiles - Intellectual Property
• China Business Law Journal - Intellectual Property (Trademarks & Copyright & Patents & Trade Secrets): Law Firm of the Year, Deal of the Year, A-list Ranking
• LEGALBAND China Top Law Firm Rankings - Dispute Resolution (Litigation), Intellectual Property: Litigation & Non-litigation
• Benchmark Litigation Asia Pacific Dispute Resolution Rankings - Business and Transactions: Firms to Watch
• GRCD“China Dispute Resolution & Intellectual Property Law Firm of the Year”
• MIP (Managing Intellectual Property) Outstanding Domestic Law Firm
• Asia IP China IP Awards - China Law Firm of the Year

Our Clients:

With our profound professional expertise and extensive network in core markets, we have provided professional legal services to dozens of companies with market values exceeding RMB 100 billion yuan, including: SINOPEC, CNPC, CNOOC, CFHI, CCB, CMBC, CSC, HTSC, Shenhua Group, CNBM, CRCC, Huawei, Google, Tencent, Baidu, Netease, SAIC, GWM, BYD, Midea, BULL Group, BOE, CATL, Weichai, SAIC Motor, New Oriental , Mango Excellent Media, Nongfu Spring, TSINGTAO, Yili Group, New Hope Group, Haitian, CR LAND, Country Garden, Poly Developments and Holdings Group, Vanke, etc.

We also offer high-quality retained legal advise and specific-project based legal services to government agencies, public institutions, and public welfare organizations. Our clients range from the Chinese Ministry of Commerce and Tsinghua University to the Chemical Industry Museum of China and Nanjing Municipal Judicial Bureau.

Main Areas of Practice:

Capital Markets:

Capital market business is the fastest-growing business area of Hengdu. Hengdu, with its first-class management, professional and market capabilities, assists clients in completing a large number of complex transactions with extensive professional knowledge and exquisite professional skills, achieving precise matching of capital and the real economy. It is committed to providing the highest quality legal services to numerous domestic and foreign clients in all fields of the capital market.

Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions:

The Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions Legal Services Team have professional knowledge covering various industry fields such as finance, manufacturing, real estate, high-tech, infrastructure, electronics, medicine and services. They are particularly skilled at assisting clients in handling investment and financing, M&A and reorganization projects with huge targets and heavy tasks. Hengdu is widely involved in large-scale, structurally complex and innovative domestic and cross-border investment transactions, including VC/PE, mergers and acquisitions, corporate compliance, corporate restructuring and property rights transactions, etc. At the same time, with the active cooperation and assistance of Hengdu's lawyers in other fields, it jointly provides clients with comprehensive legal services.

Intellectual Property:

Intellectual property is the cornerstone of our business. We boast unique experience and capabilities in this field. Over the past decade, our intellectual property team has represented a multitude of well-known domestic and foreign enterprises, government agencies, and institutions in handling a large number of intellectual property cases. As a top provider of intellectual property legal services, we offer the full range of cutting-edge legal services in the field, including intellectual property litigation, strategic planning for intellectual property, evaluation of intellectual property protection, legal risk prevention, rights application and infringement investigation, rights protection, customs intellectual property registration and protection.

Business and Litigation:

Commercial and litigation practices are Hengdu's flagship specialties. With extensive litigation experience and exceptional commercial negotiation skills, Hengdu represents clients in resolving complex disputes across various sectors, effectively safeguarding their legal rights and interests, earning high reputation in the legal industry. Hengdu has represented numerous prominent enterprises and financial institutions in major litigation and administrative cases before courts and government agencies across China. The firm has also handled client disputes in leading international arbitration institutions worldwide. The dispute cases handled by Hengdu cover various legal fields including civil, commercial, administrative and construction projects, and widely involve major industries both at home and abroad.

Criminal:

Hengdu Criminal Business Unit has gathered many criminal business elites with over ten years of legal practice experience who graduated from top domestic law schools. They are well-versed in the work processes of judicial organs and can provide professional and efficient legal services to clients, safeguarding the clients’ legitimate rights and interests to the greatest extent.

Hengdu Criminal Business Unit has established a core guidance group composed of criminal defense experts, criminal investigation experts, criminal investigation technology experts, legal experts of public security, prosecution expert of the procuratorate, court trial experts, corporate governance experts, and management experts to provide technical guidance for its subordinate departments.

Hengdu's Advantageous Service Model:

1.The New Organizational Structure of Hengdu

Integrated Construction

After 15 years of dedicated development, Hengdu has established a strong foothold in Beijing, serves clients nationwide, and extends its reach globally. Our service network now spans major cities across China, while extensive collaborations with overseas offices worldwide have enabled us to assemble a large team of professional attorneys and legal talent, achieving significant scale and results. The establishment of an integrated and middle-office model ensures Hengdu's professionalism and comprehensiveness in client service. Adhering to the principles of “unified planning, unified standards, unified management, and unified service requirements”, Hengdu guarantees consistent high quality and rigorous standards across all its offices.

Two Powerhouse Teams Join Forces

In advancing its integrated development, Hengdu consistently upholds its vision of "client success at the core" by combining a high-caliber legal team with a high-efficiency management support team to enhance the quality of its legal services. The legal team focuses on the professional handling of client cases, continuously refining expertise to deliver superior and satisfactory legal solutions. The management support team coordinates firm-wide resources, providing lawyers with the tools and support needed to ensure efficient case resolution. With clear role definitions and seamless cross-departmental collaboration, Hengdu establishes a tightly interconnected workflow, maximizing its ability to exceed clients expectations and deliver practical solutions to their needs.

Five Core Practice Areas

After years of development, Hengdu has established five core practice areas: capital markets, corporate mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property, commercial and litigation, and criminal law. The firm comprises dozens of specialized departments and hundreds of task forces, enabling seamless coordination in delivering services to clients.

Based on client needs, a project team will be formed by combining multiple task groups from the same or different practice departments to undertake specific projects. According to the legal relationships of the case, issues will be assigned to relevant practice teams, with seamless coordination among all task groups, so as to achieve cross-cooperation among multiple industries and avoid the embarrassing situation of only being able to solve specific/partial legal problems caused by "working alone".

2.Hengdu's Scientific Operational Model

Hengdu is a distinctive comprehensive legal service provider that fully utilizes the advantages of its integrated management model. Through compatibility and efficient empowerment, it achieves comprehensive allocation of internal resources and personnel.With top-tier management capabilities under the firm's unified leadership, Hengdu has effectively integrated its lawyer resources.

3.Hengdu Specialized Service Teams

For every litigation case handled by Hengdu, we tailor the service team composition based on the client's core objectives, adopting a customized approach. We completely break away from the traditional single-practitioner model, achieving true collective collaboration.