Merits & Tree Law Offices

Founded in 2006, Merits & Tree Law Offices ("M&T") now boasts over 150 partners and more than 500 lawyers and staffs across 10 offices, including Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Wuhan, Hangzhou, Qingdao, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Haikou, and Hong Kong.

M&T is a comprehensive law firm that delivers full-cycle, multi-dimensional, and one-stop legal services. We focus on domestic and international enterprises, financial institutions, and capital market participants, accompanying clients through the entire development process from startup, through growth, to maturity, under the lifecycle of "investment (issue-end)", "transaction (asset-end)", and "exit (dispute-end)". Our mission is "Lean service, Client success."

What makes working with M&T unique is the "one-firm" management and operation model. Our services are not limited by specific practice areas or geographical locations. We tailor our approach to each clients' needs, working together across practice areas to offer top-notch service. M&T is also a firm that fully on board with "digital intelligence", using AI and cutting-edge tech to enhance the quality and efficiency of legal services.

Being client-oriented, M&T has focused on 13 practice areas and 10 industry sectors. In each of these areas, we combine professional legal skills with excellent business thinking to respond to the ever-evolving legal market and the increasingly complex business requirements of clients. Our comprehensive expertise allows us to accomplish business objectives with a high-level and forward-looking perspective.M&T has provided full-range, multi-dimensional, and one-stop comprehensive legal services to over 3,000 well-known domestic and foreign investment institutions and enterprises.

M&T's partners are experts in the Chinese legal market, with rich experience from previous careers with international law firms, PRC law firms, financial investment institutions, Fortune 500 companies, or judicial authorities. Our partners are highly seasoned in project management, organization, and execution. They are skilled at representing complex, challenging, and ground-breaking transactions and cases. Half of our partners have an international education background. They are capable of working multilingual.

M&T has also joined LAW, a global network of legal services that advance our ability to respond to the needs of our clients in different jurisdictions worldwide.

Capital Markets

Contact 1: Tongyun LI

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Contact 2: Yuepeng WANG

Email: [email protected]

PE/VC, M&A:

Contact: Qinghong CAI

Email: [email protected]

Banking and Finance:

Contact: Yang WU

Email: [email protected]

Investment Funds:

Contact: Feng ZHOU

Email: [email protected]

Real Estate & Infrastructure:

Contact: Hong LU

Email: [email protected]

Dispute Resolution

Contact 1: Zheng LI

Email: [email protected]

Contact 2: Jing GU

Email: [email protected]

Contact 3: Shanshan REN

Email: [email protected]

Intellectual Property:

Contact: Lihui ZHAO

Email: [email protected]

Special Assets, Restructuring and Insolvency

Contact: Wenliang ZHANG

Email: [email protected]

Regulatory and Compliance:

Contact: Wenhao Chen

Email: [email protected]

Antitrust and Competition:

Contact: Han YE

Email: [email protected]

Human Resources and Labor Relations:

Contact: Lei CHEN

Email: [email protected]

Tax:

Contact: Guohao ZHANG

Email: [email protected]

Family Law and Wealth Management:

Contact: Fangfei OUYANG

Email: [email protected]