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Dacheng Law Offices > The Legal 500 Rankings

China > Regional coverage: Guangdong Province: Guangzhou and Shenzhen Tier 1

Dacheng Law Offices has a strong profile across the Greater Bay Area, maintaining robust full-service offices in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and Hong Kong. With extensive teams, the firm demonstrates expertise across varied domains such as real estate, M&A, taxation, insurance, and cross-border investment. The Guangzhou front is spearheaded by Zhangkai Ma. Within this office, ‘trusted legal consultant’ Chenhui Li stands out for guiding state-owned giants and government departments in major projects, offering experience in real estate, dispute resolution, and public policy. The real estate team in Guangzhou is led by Jian Zhang, with notable expertise in the hotel industry. Additionally, Yongsheng Xu, the head of the Chinese global tax practice with ‘extensive legal experience in taxation’, Qinghua Lu, a specialist in real estate, energy, and natural resources, and Xiaohui Liu, with his deep involvement in finance and criminal affairs, further underscore the office’s strengths. The Shenzhen office is led by Jianfeng Cheng, who is joined by experienced lawyers such as Jian Zhang, who steers the office’s corporate and M&A group.

China > Regional coverage: Jiangsu Province: Nanjing Tier 1

Dacheng Law Offices has a broad offering encompassing advice to governments, construction and energy work, and financial services. Yongming Shen is the head of the Nanjing office. He is supported by Ye Dong and Pei Xu. Ye is praised for his 'excellent professional knowledge' with deep experience in restructuring and liquidation, with major clients including large chemical, natural resources, financial and governmental institutions.

China > Private wealth: PRC firms Tier 2

Dacheng Law Offices is recognised for its extensive experience in wealth management, encompassing areas from family trusts to international tax regulations and private banking. The firm offers comprehensive services in family and corporate wealth preservation and inheritance, especially for Chinese banks, financial institutions, and ultra-high-net-worth clients both within and outside of China. The practice, co-led by Jacky Wang, Lijun Huang, Naidong (Michael) Ma, Jing Xue, Jun Zhang and Xiaochu Zhang, offers a wide spectrum of specialised services. Huang is an expert in family wealth inheritance, asset isolation, and second-generation enterprise inheritance planning, with proficiency in marriage wealth protection and family trust consultancy. Ma focuses on global wealth management and inheritance including thorough due diligence investigations of marriage property worldwide, as well as expert arrangements for wealth inheritance. Xue offers innovative services including family trust, family business governance, and equity inheritance, while Jun Zhang excels in family governance, ownership restructuring, and both onshore and offshore family trust planning. Xiaochu Zhang’s forte is representing Chinese tycoons and major financial institutions, especially in planning cross-border assets and inheritance.

China > Regional coverage: Sichuan Province: Chengdu including Chongqing Tier 2

Dacheng Law Offices‘ Chengdu office acts for banks, financial institutions, and state-owned enterprises on issues spanning from corporate M&A to real estate and bankruptcy restructuring. The office is led by Zhi Zhang, who also heads the competition and antitrust group. Ying Zhang joined in 2022 from Tahota Law Firm, bringing expertise in private equity, real estate, and M&A. Ying Lan’s proficiency lies in bankruptcy, Shan Cheng is highly experienced in real estate and construction-related disputes, while Yun Zhao is an intellectual property and dispute resolution expert with an engineering background.

China > Regional coverage: Zhejiang Province: Hangzhou Tier 2

Dacheng Law Offices‘ significant footprint in the Zhejiang region extends to Hangzhou, Ningbo, Wenzhou, and Zhoushan, offering experience in sectors like banking and finance, intellectual property, and compliance. The Hangzhou office is steered by Wanjun Xu. Jingjing Xia has expertise in civil and commercial law, advising a diverse clientele that includes state-owned enterprises, banks, and cutting-edge fintech and Internet companies. Moreover, Lin Zhang meticulously handles financial lease-related cases.

China > Intellectual property: PRC firms

Dacheng Law Offices‘ ‘responsive, organised and reliable‘ IP practice is highly focused on patent and trademark work, particularly in relation to emerging industries. Fielding both patent and trademark agents, in addition to lawyers, the group consistently acts in IP rights-related litigation at all levels of China’s courts. It also assists with obtaining IP rights. The team comprises several experienced IP practitioners, namely Mingyue Dun, Feng Liu, Yuzhou Yang, Wallace Li, Weihua Li, and Dayong Sun, along with Zhangwei Wang, Yong Zhang, Miao Huang, and Chunyao Zhang. In January 2023, Yuan Yuan was recruited as partner from Shanghai Xinben Law Offices.

China > Labour and employment: PRC firms Tier 3

Dacheng Law Offices is recommended for conducting and advising on anti-corruption and anti-bribery investigations – as well as handling team moves, disputes and restructuring – for a tech and industrial focussed client base including SOEs, private PRC companies and multinational corporations. The team is jointly led by Danny Jiang in Guangzhou, Fanxin Zeng in Shenzen, Dennis Fu in Beijing and Shane Luo in Shanghai. The firm is known for having offices covering many of China’s regions; an advantage in the PRC employment space where regulation can be variable in different provinces.

China > Real estate and construction: PRC firms Tier 3

Boasting a large practice across China, Dacheng Law Offices is able to provide its clients with comprehensive legal services related to real estate and construction. Construction is a strength of the firm, with lawyers specialising in architectural, civil, and electromechanical engineering projects. The team also regularly assists developers, investors, financial institutions, and real estate funds on the real estate side with a variety of matters such as raw land development, state-owned land transfer, and project development. Arbitrator Guanshan Yang heads up the transportation and infrastructure group at the firm. Chenyao Wu takes on real estate innovation projects such as urban redevelopments, while Jingpu Zhao handles government investments and PPP projects.

China > Life sciences and healthcare: PRC firms Tier 4

Dacheng Law Offices is noted for its China wide capability, with offices across China’s regions, from Yunnan in the far south to Heilongjiang on the northern borders. The life sciences team regularly assists both start-ups and established PRC life sciences companies with financing work, with associate Shengdi Mao particularly recommended for handling capital markets and private equity investments in this sector. Andy (Xin) Wang is also integral, assisting with compliance and procurement matters in the life sciences space.

China > Antitrust and competition: PRC firms

Dacheng Law Offices‘ antitrust team operates mainly from its Beijing and Shanghai offices and handles all area of antitrust and competition matters. Jet Deng and Ken Dai jointly lead the team that particularly excels in high-profile antitrust investigations representing clients in high-tech areas including semiconductors, public utilities, and the Internet.

China > Banking and finance: PRC firms

Dacheng Law Offices has a strong presence in the banking and finance sphere in China. The firm offers a wide range of services, including syndicated loans, project finance, and asset-backed securitisations, as well as contentious matters involving financial institutions. Based in Xi’an, Jacky Wang is the director of the firm’s financial committee and has extensive experience of advising major financial institutions and securities companies on contentious and regulatory matters. Among the other key contacts are Wei Zhang in Beijing, Jingjing Xia in Hangzhou, and Xie Fei in Zhuhai.

China > Projects and energy: PRC firms

Energy, natural resources and environmental law is a core practice area for Dacheng Law Offices, which is consistently sought out to advise on mining, agriculture and forestry projects, along with environmental issues. Areas of expertise include carbon asset management and carbon trading, compliance, environmental impact assessments, community relations, and the financing and listing of energy and mining projects. Other key specialisms range from energy and mining joint ventures, power projects and pipeline construction to M&A deals involving oil, gas, LNG, coal and shale gas. The ‘very good‘ group additionally acts in litigation and arbitration relating to energy, natural resources and environmental projects. Guisheng Yang advises on investments in the mining, energy and construction sectors; Guanshan Yang heads the firm’s transportation and infrastructure group; Yunfeng Song is an energy, natural resources and environmental law expert; and Nancy Sun advises on inbound and outbound investments, along with M&A transactions.

China > Restructuring and insolvency: PRC firms

Dacheng Law Offices regularly assists large enterprises with bankruptcy reorganisations, liquidations, and non-performing asset disposal issues. Other strengths include settlements, pre-reorganisations, debt restructurings, and NPA disposals. The team utilises its knowledge in a wide range of industries, such as industrial manufacturing, real estate, education, and energy. Large state-owned enterprises and private enterprises also make up a portion of the firm’s client base. Meili Gao leads the practice, undertaking major bankruptcy reorganisation and debt resolution cases for listed companies, alongside fellow co-heads Guang Han and Guangming Wang. Ye Dong handles a range of matters from Nanjing, while Ting Zhang, Zhibin Zheng, and ‘experienced and intelligent‘ Ying Jian all work from Beijing. Yeshan Cao is notable for his work in corporate restructurings.

China > Tax: PRC firms

‘Armed with a wealth of experience‘, Dacheng Law Offices‘ tax law practice covers administrative disputes, tax criminal defence matters and tax civil disputes. The team also advises on domestic and cross-border tax compliance and planning, and is involved in international taxation work at international levels. In Beijing, current China tax business group head Xuefeng Leng is ‘a discerning strategist and seasoned negotiator‘, while Guangzhou-based Yongsheng Xu leads the global tax group in China. The practice of Jinji Wei in Shenzhen covers domestic and cross-border taxation, investments, foreign exchange issues, and international trade; and Lishan Fang heads the Nanjing office’s tax professional group.

China > Data protection: PRC firms

Cybersecurity and data compliance are key to the cross-border matters handled by Dacheng Law Offices. The team advises on regulations, implementing cybersecurity protection systems, cross-border data transfers, and data asset transactions. The practice also handles contentious work representing clients in litigation and alternative resolution proceedings related to data assets or data practices. Zhangwei Wang assists with data related matters involving risk identification, compliance design, and dispute resolution. Kaiming Cai handles data protection and cross-border compliance, Ken Dai leads on data privacy, while Donghui Ruan works on corporate related data issues.

China > Insurance: PRC firms

In addition to advising a large number of insurance companies in China on a range of issues, Dacheng Law Offices acts for specialised insurance asset management companies and institutions on insurance fund utilisation matters. The practice’s principal figures are insurance and pharmaceutical healthcare industry specialist Guangrui Liu; Hui Yu, who leads the firm’s global insurance industry group; insurance fund investment expert Jing Zhou; and Jin Xingliang, who acts in major disputes. Providing additional support, Yuanhang Du is a specialist in insurance capital investments, while Baoting Yang is an experienced insurance litigator. Associate Shiyu Ye also acts in insurance disputes.

China > Regulatory/compliance: PRC firms

Dacheng Law Offices has a well-established compliance practice, and is sought out by domestic state-owned and private enterprises, as well as major multinational corporations, to assist with issues such as anti-monopoly related notifications, administrative investigations, and lawsuits. The team is adept at assisting companies with export control and economic sanctions, as well as setting up compliance programs. Practice head Liping Yan specialises in risk control and compliance, often assisting state-owned enterprises. Kaiming Cai and Donghui Ruan are key team members, both assisting across the board on export control, data protection, and cross-border compliance.

China > Capital markets: PRC firms

Dacheng Law Offices has particularly strong experience in advising on asset securitisation products, including supply chain finance, PPP project special asset-backed plans, and housing mortgage-backed security. The firm regularly represents large listed companies in cross-border matters. The capital markets practice is headed by Xugang Yu, Shoushuang Li, Xingcheng Fan, Renwen Geng and Emilia Shi.

China > Corporate and M&A: PRC firms

Despite the demerger with Dentons in August 2023, Dacheng Law Offices remains as one of the largest Chinese firms with over forty offices across China. The full service corporate and M&A team advises both private Chinese firms and SOEs, and counts China Datang Corporation, Beijing Metro Construction Facilities Maintenance and Huishang Bank as its new clients. Zhang Hong and Guang Han jointly lead the team from Beijing, while Summit Chen and Jiamao Cheng head the practice in Shanghai.

China > Private equity: PRC firms

The private equity group at Dacheng Law Offices is highly sought after by various well-known Chinese and international institutional investors, assisting with the establishment of complex successor funds, buyout funds, RMB funds, and funds of funds. Qing Guo is a leading presence in the Beijing office, advising on a wide range of PE setting-up, investments and financing; with particular strength in the healthcare, software and high-end manufacturing sectors. Shoushuang Li has recognisable experience advising Chinese companies when they go public on stock exchanges in Mainland China, Hong Kong and the US. In Shanghai, Chambers Yang has a proven track record in the raising, investment, management and exit of PE funds, as well as specialist knowledge in the field of valuation adjustment mechanism.