Merits & Tree Law Offices

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Awarded leading firm in Greater China Region 2026

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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.

植德始创于2006年,现拥有合伙人150余位,律师及其他专业人员共500多名,在北京、上海、深圳、武汉、杭州、成都、青岛、广州、香港设有9家办公室。

植德是一家能提供全周期、立体化、一站式法律服务的综合性律所。我们聚焦境内外公司、金融及资本市场客户,围绕“资金端(发行端)、交易端(资产端)、退出端(争议端)”这一闭环,陪伴客户从初创期、成长期到成熟期的发展全过程。“精益服务,成就客户”是我们的使命。

植德是一家少有的全所“公司制、一体化”管理运营的律所。这使我们的服务完全没有专业领域或地理区域的界限,而是根据客户实际需要,无缝调配全所资源,通过专业分工与紧密协作,服务好每一个项目或案件。植德也是一家全面拥抱“数智化”的律所,用数据驱动管理、赋能业务,借助人工智能和新兴科技不断提升法律服务的质量和效率。

Firm Details

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.

秉持以客户为导向的理念,植德聚焦于 13 个业务领域和10个行业板块。在各个领域中,我们将专业的法律技能与卓越的商业思维相结合,积极应对不断演进的法律服务市场以及客户日益复杂的业务需求。凭借全面而深入的专业能力,植德能够以高水平、前瞻性的视角协助客户实现其商业目标。迄今为止,植德已为3,000余家知名境内外投资机构及企业提供了全周期、立体化、一站式的综合法律服务。

植德的合伙人深谙中国法律市场,成员背景多元,不少律师曾任职于国际律师事务所、中国本土律师事务所、金融投资机构、世界500强企业或司法机关,拥有丰富的执业与实务经验。合伙人在项目管理、团队组织及执行方面经验成熟,擅长代理复杂性高、挑战性强及具有开创性的交易与案件。半数合伙人具备国际教育背景,能够以多语言开展专业法律服务。

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China - Head office

Beijing

12/F, Raffles City Beijing Office Tower 1 Dongzhimen South Street, Dongcheng District , Beijing, Beijing, China, 100007, Beijing

www.meritsandtree.com

+86 (10) 5650 0906

China

Guangdong Province

Unit 1701, 17/F, Chow Tai Fook Financial Center No. 6 Zhujiang East Road, Tianhe District , Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China, Guangzhou


Shanghai

27F Tower A, THREE itc, No.183 Hongqiao Road Xuhui District , Shanghai, Shanghai, China, 200051, Shanghai


Guangdong Province

16th Floor, DaCheng Fund Headquarters Building No. 1236 Haide Third Road Nanshan District , Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China, Shenzhen


Hubei

湖北省武汉市江岸区中山大道1505号企业天地1号45层4504-4506单元, Wuhan, Hubei, China, 430014, Wuhan

Chambers Laurel

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    Ruiming Jiang

    Capital Markets: Debt & Equity (PRC Firms), China

  • E
    Shouchun Xu

    Capital Markets: Debt & Equity (PRC Firms), China

  • E
    Tongyun Li

    Capital Markets: Debt & Equity (PRC Firms), China

  • 1
    Youyuan Jin

    Private Equity: Buyouts & Venture Capital Investment (PRC Firms), China

  • 3
    Hong Lu

    Construction (PRC Firms), China

  • 3
    Ping Zhang

    Corporate/Commercial: Hubei (PRC Firms), China

  • 3
    Wenliang Zhang

    Restructuring/Insolvency (PRC Firms), China

  • 3
    Yunyun Zhao

    TMT: Media & Entertainment (PRC Firms), China

  • 4
    Fangfei Ouyang

    Private Client/Wealth Management (PRC Firms), China

  • 4
    Gulong Ren

    Banking & Finance (PRC Firms), China

  • 4
    Han Ye

    Head of Competition/Antitrust (PRC Firms), China

  • 4
    Jun Sha

    Corporate/Commercial: Guangdong: Contentious (PRC Firms), China

  • 5
    Fangfang Gui

    Private Client/Wealth Management (PRC Firms), China

  • 5
    Haitao Long

    Banking & Finance (PRC Firms), China

  • 5
    Lingyue Sun

    Real Estate (PRC Firms), China

  • 5
    Qinghong Cai

    Corporate/M&A (PRC Firms), China

  • 5
    Wenhao Chen

    TMT: Data Protection & Privacy (PRC Firms), China

  • 5
    Xiaoxing Guo

    Private Equity: Buyouts & Venture Capital Investment (PRC Firms), China

  • 6
    Lihui Zhao

    Intellectual Property: Litigation (PRC Firms), China

  • U
    Huadong Tang

    Intellectual Property: Litigation (PRC Firms), China

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