Zhong Lun Law Firm has a strong reputation for advising multinational clients and business funds from across a variety of industries in relation to tax advisory and wealth planning matters. It offers expertise in cross-border tax matters, as well as in disputes arising from cross-border investment and transactions. It also specialises in wealth planning for ultra-high-net-worth individuals and families. The team is led by Mingjun Jia, who specialises in family matters and acts for a number of top high-net-worth individuals in China, alongside Yunxiang Guan and Fei Wang who co-head the practice’s corporate department. Peter Ni has extensive experience in international tax matters, including in the US. Mark Gao has expertise in domestic and offshore family trusts, employee benefit trusts and cross-border inheritance matters, whilst Hengka Ji focuses on international tax and transaction tax cases, including tax planning and compliance, tax-efficient structuring, and tax disputes.

AllBright Law Offices offers expertise across a range of private wealth matters, primarily focusing on non-litigious marriage and family affairs, family trust, family wealth management, inheritance business, and family enterprise management business. It also frequently acts for banks and insurance companies, providing wealth inheritance advice to their high-net-worth clients. The team is also experienced in advising on cross-border marriage consultation and planning, with expertise across a variety of jurisdictions including the US, UK, Japan, Singapore, and Hong Kong. Xianming Li heads the practice, specialising in wealth management and financial trust matters. Xuanling Guo focuses on marriage, inheritance and contentious family matters, whilst Han Zhang provides additional expertise in the family trust, testamentary trust, charitable trust planning and establishment matters.

The private wealth team at Dentons China handles a variety of matters for private banks, trust companies, insurance companies, and wealth management agencies. It is also well adept in advising high-net-worth individuals on cross-jurisdictional matters, and it has seen increased growth in inheritance planning work. The team is co-led by Jun Zhang, who has extensive expertise in family wealth management, family trust and charitable trust business, alongside Lingli Xie. Naidong Ma leads the Shanghai branch, focusing on family disputes for ultra-high-net-worth clients as well as providing wealth protection and inheritance advice. Meanwhile, Xiaochu Zhang is experienced in family enterprise governance and family business succession planning, as well as in cross-border matters.

King & Wood Mallesons has a comprehensive private wealth offering and is particularly active in family wealth management and inheritance cases. It regularly acts for high-net-worth individuals, shareholders and family investment trusts in a range of matters, including investment management and restructuring, succession planning, wealth protection, tax planning and family disputes. Wang Hui leads the team, specialising in family wealth management and inheritance, with additional experience in domestic and overseas listings and financing. Daisy Duan is experienced in providing tax advice for enterprises and individuals, whilst Hui Zheng has expertise in cross-border family wealth management projects. Peng Wu focuses on disputes pertaining to marriage and family wealth issues.

DeHeng Law Offices’ private wealth practice is led by Weifeng Guo, who has significant experience in advising domestic family members and family offices in private wealth management matters. The team advises on a variety of matters, including family office establishment and operation, domestic and overseas trust establishment, private tax planning, asset allocation, and marriage inheritance.

With its international expertise, Global Law Office is particularly adept at handling cross-border tax issues for high-net-worth individuals. More broadly, the practice advises on matrimonial and inheritance disputes, as well as property distribution planning, family trust and insurance planning and inheritance matters. Feng Sheng co-leads the practice, specialising in wealth management and private client tax planning, alongside Jerry Liu and Jun Qian who are both experienced in investment-related matters and dispute resolution.

Han Kun Law Offices handles a range of private wealth matters, including issues relating to family trusts, family offices, divorce and estate planning, with particular experience advising clients in the business community due to strong ties with the firm’s wider PE finance and capital markets departments. It is also heavily involved in advising both domestic and global private banks, trust companies, and asset management companies. Han Chen leads the team, with extensive experience in family wealth management and intergenerational inheritance matters.

The family law and private wealth team at Merits & Tree Law Offices advises clients on a range of contentious and non-contentious private client matters, including domestic and overseas family trust, wealth management, and family disputes. The team is co-led by Fangfei Ouyang, Chunjie Zheng, and Kailun Li. Ouyang specialises in family trust matters, Zheng focuses on dispute resolution in the area of private wealth, and Li has significant experience in family wealth management matters.