Asia Pacific Submissions

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    • Deadlines

    The deadline for submissions for the 2022 edition is 11 June 2021.

    Follow-up research will start on 5 July.

    Researchers

    Details of researchers are now available.

    To learn more about the team behind our research, please visit Meet The Team.

    The template documents you will need to send submissions are here:

    Template – Law firms
    Template – Australia, England & Wales, Hong Kong and Sri Lanka Bars
    Client referee form – law firms
    Client referee form – Australia, England & Wales, Hong Kong and Sri Lanka Bars

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    Guidelines

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    Australia, England & Wales, Hong Kong and Sri Lanka Bars

    Frequently asked questions
    Referees explained
    Law firms practice area definitions
    Australia, England & Wales, Hong Kong and Sri Lanka Bars practice area definitions

    Practice areas

    Regions and practice areas we are researching for Asia Pacific 2022 include:

    AUSTRALIA

    • Banking and finance
    • Capital markets: debt
    • Capital markets: equity
    • Capital markets: securitisation
    • Competition and trade
    • Construction
    • Corporate and M&A
    • Data protection
    • Dispute resolution: litigation
    • Dispute resolution: arbitration
    • Dispute resolution: class actions
    • Energy (transactions and regulatory)
    • Environment and planning
    • Financial services regulatory
    • IT and telecoms
    • Insurance
    • Intellectual property
    • Labour and employment
    • Labour and employment: workplace health and safety (WHS)
    • Media and entertainment
    • Native title
    • Natural resources (transactions and regulatory)
    • Project finance
    • Project development
    • Real estate
    • Restructuring and insolvency
    • Tax
    • Transport: aviation
    • Transport: shipping
    • White-collar crime

    AUSTRALIA BAR

    • Commercial disputes
    • Competition
    • Construction
    • Energy and natural resources
    • Environment and planning
    • Intellectual property
    • Labour and employment
    • Tax
    • TMT
    • White-collar crime

    BANGLADESH

    • Banking and finance – NEW
    • Corporate and M&A – NEW
    • Dispute resolution – NEW
    • Tax – NEW

    BRUNEI

    • Leading firms

    CAMBODIA

    • Leading firms

    CHINA

    • Antitrust and competition: PRC firms
    • Antitrust and competition: foreign firms
    • Banking and finance: PRC firms
    • Banking and finance: foreign firms
    • Capital markets: PRC firms
    • Corporate and M&A: PRC firms
    • Corporate and M&A: foreign firms
    • Data protection: PRC firms
    • Data protection: foreign firms
    • Dispute resolution: Arbitration: PRC firms
    • Dispute resolution: Litigation: PRC firms
    • Dispute resolution: Arbitration: foreign firms
    • Dispute resolution: Litigation: foreign firms
    • Fintech: PRC firms
    • Fintech: foreign firms
    • Insurance: PRC firms
    • Insurance: foreign firms
    • Intellectual property: contentious: PRC firms
    • Intellectual property: non-contentious: PRC firms
    • Intellectual property: foreign firms
    • Investment funds: PRC firms
    • Investment funds: foreign firms
    • Labour and employment: PRC firms
    • Labour and employment: foreign firms
    • Life sciences and healthcare: PRC firms – RENAMED
    • Life sciences and healthcare: foreign firms – RENAMED
    • Private equity/venture capital: PRC firms
    • Private equity/venture capital: foreign firms
    • Private wealth: PRC firms – NEW
    • Projects and energy: PRC firms
    • Projects and energy: foreign firms
    • Real estate and construction: PRC firms
    • Real estate and construction: foreign firms
    • Regulatory/compliance: PRC firms
    • Regulatory/compliance: foreign firms
    • Restructuring and insolvency: PRC firms – RENAMED
    • Restructuring and insolvency: foreign firms – RENAMED
    • Shipping: PRC firms
    • Shipping: foreign firms
    • Tax: PRC firms
    • Tax: foreign firms
    • TMT: PRC firms
    • TMT: foreign firms
    • WTO/international trade: PRC firms

    Regional coverage

    • Other notable firms in Beijing
    • Other notable firms in Shanghai
    • Guangdong Province: Guangzhou and Shenzhen – RENAMED
    • Zhejiang Province: Hangzhou
    • Jiangsu province: Nanjing
    • Sichuan province: Chengdu including Chongqing

    HONG KONG

    • Antitrust and competition
    • Asset finance (including aviation and shipping finance)
    • Banking and finance
    • Capital markets: Debt
    • Capital markets: Equity
    • Construction
    • Corporate (including M&A)
    • Dispute resolution: litigation
    • Dispute resolution: international arbitration
    • Domestic and international corporate tax
    • Insurance
    • Intellectual property
    • Investment funds
    • Labour and employment
    • Offshore law firms
    • Private equity
    • Private client (tax, trusts, wealth management and contentious probate)
    • Projects and energy
    • Real estate
    • Regulatory
    • Regulatory: anti-corruption and compliance
    • Restructuring and insolvency
    • Shipping
    • Structured finance and securitisation
    • TMT

    HONG KONG BAR

    • Administrative and public law – NEW
    • Commercial disputes
    • Competition
    • Construction and property – RENAMED
    • Family and private client
    • Intellectual property
    • Labour and employment
    • Regulatory, investigations and crime – RENAMED
    • Shipping and aviation – RENAMED
    • TMT

    INDIA

    • Antitrust and competition
    • Aviation (including aerospace and defence)
    • Banking and finance
    • Capital markets
    • Corporate and M&A
    • Data protection
    • Dispute resolution: litigation
    • Dispute resolution: arbitration
    • Financial services regulatory – NEW
    • Foreign firms
    • Insurance
    • Intellectual property
    • Labour and employment
    • Private client
    • Private equity and investment funds
    • Projects and energy
    • Real estate and construction
    • Restructuring and insolvency
    • Shipping
    • Tax
    • TMT
    • WTO/international trade
    • White-collar crime

    INDONESIA

    • Aviation
    • Antitrust and competition
    • Banking and finance
    • Capital markets
    • Corporate and M&A
    • Dispute resolution
    • Foreign firms
    • IT, telecoms and Fintech – RENAMED
    • Intellectual property
    • Labour and employment
    • Projects and energy
    • Real estate
    • Restructuring and insolvency
    • Shipping
    • Tax

    JAPAN

    • Antitrust and competition – International firms and joint ventures
    • Antitrust and competition – Independent local firms
    • Banking and finance – International firms and joint ventures
    • Banking and finance – Independent local firms
    • Capital markets – International firms and joint ventures
    • Capital markets – Independent local firms
    • Construction – International firms and joint ventures
    • Corporate and M&A – International firms and joint ventures
    • Corporate and M&A – Independent local firms
    • Dispute resolution – International firms and joint ventures
    • Dispute resolution – Independent local firms
    • Fintech – International firms and joint ventures
    • Fintech – Independent local firms
    • Intellectual property – International firms and joint ventures
    • Intellectual property – Independent local firms
    • Investment funds – Independent local firms
    • Labour and employment – International firms and joint ventures
    • Labour and employment – Independent local firms
    • Private wealth: Independent local firms
    • Projects and energy – International firms and joint ventures
    • Projects and energy – Independent local firms
    • Real estate and construction – Independent local firms
    • Restructuring and insolvency – International firms and joint ventures
    • Restructuring and insolvency – Independent local firms
    • Risk management and investigations – Independent local firms
    • Shipping – Independent local firms
    • Tax – International firms and joint ventures
    • Tax – Independent local firms
    • TMT: international firms and joint ventures
    • TMT: independent local firms

    LAOS

    • Leading firms

    MACAU

    • Leading firms

    MALAYSIA

    • Antitrust and competition
    • Banking and finance
    • Capital markets
    • Corporate and M&A
    • Dispute resolution
    • Foreign firms
    • Intellectual property
    • Islamic finance
    • Labour and employment
    • Law firms in Sabah and Sarawak
    • Projects and energy
    • Real estate and construction
    • Shipping
    • TMT (including Fintech) – RENAMED
    • Tax

    MONGOLIA

    • Leading firms

    MYANMAR

    • Corporate and M&A
    • Projects
    • Foreign desks

    NEW ZEALAND

    • Banking and finance
    • Competition law
    • Construction – NEW
    • Corporate and M&A
    • Data protection
    • Dispute resolution
    • Insurance
    • Intellectual property
    • Investment funds
    • Labour and employment
    • Projects and resource management (including environment)
    • Real estate – RENAMED
    • Restructuring and insolvency
    • Tax
    • TMT
    • Transport (rail, road, air and sea)

    NEPAL

    • Leading firms

    PAKISTAN

    • Banking and finance
    • Capital markets
    • Corporate and M&A
    • Dispute resolution
    • Environment
    • Insurance
    • Islamic finance
    • Labour and employment
    • Projects and energy
    • Real estate and construction
    • Tax
    • TMT

    PAPUA NEW GUINEA

    • Leading firms

    PHILIPPINES

    • Antitrust and competition
    • Aviation
    • Banking and finance
    • Capital markets
    • Corporate and M&A
    • Dispute resolution
    • Foreign firms
    • Immigration
    • Intellectual property
    • Labour and employment
    • Projects and energy
    • Real estate and construction
    • Shipping
    • Tax
    • TMT

    SINGAPORE

    • Asset finance – Foreign firms
    • Antitrust and competition – Local firms
    • Banking and finance – Foreign firms
    • Banking and finance – Local firms
    • Capital markets: equity and debt: Foreign firms
    • Capital markets: equity and debt: Local firms
    • Capital markets: structured finance, derivatives and securitisation: Foreign firms
    • Capital markets: structured finance, derivatives and securitisation: Local firms
    • Construction – Local firms
    • Corporate and M&A – Foreign firms
    • Corporate and M&A – Local firms
    • Dispute resolution – Local firms
    • Energy – Foreign firms
    • Financial services regulatory – Foreign firms
    • Financial services regulatory – Local firms
    • Insurance: Foreign firms
    • Insurance: Local firms
    • Intellectual property – Local firms
    • International arbitration
    • Investment funds – Foreign firms
    • Investment funds – Local firms
    • Labour and employment – Foreign firms
    • Labour and employment – Local firms
    • Offshore law firms
    • Private wealth and family law – Foreign firms – RENAMED
    • Private wealth and family law – Local firms – RENAMED
    • Projects – Foreign firms
    • Projects and energy – Local firms
    • Real estate – Local firms
    • Restructuring and insolvency – Foreign firms
    • Restructuring and insolvency – Local firms
    • Shipping – Foreign firms
    • Shipping – Local firms
    • Tax – Local firms
    • TMT – Local firms
    • TMT – Foreign firms
    • White-collar crime – Local firms
    • White-collar crime – Foreign firms

    SOUTH KOREA

    • Antitrust and competition – Local firms
    • Banking and finance – Local firms
    • Capital markets – Local firms
    • Capital markets – Foreign firms
    • Corporate and M&A – Local firms
    • Corporate and M&A – Foreign firms
    • Dispute resolution – Local firms
    • Insurance – Local firms
    • International arbitration
    • Intellectual property – Local firms
    • Intellectual property – Foreign firms
    • Labour and employment – Local firms
    • Projects and energy – Local firms
    • Projects and energy – Foreign firms
    • Real estate – Local firms
    • Regulatory: compliance and investigations – Local firms
    • Shipping – Local firms
    • Shipping – Foreign firms
    • Tax – Local firms
    • TMT – Local firms

    SRI LANKA

    • Banking and finance
    • Corporate and M&A
    • Dispute resolution
    • Intellectual property
    • Labour and employment
    • Private client, wills and probate
    • Projects and energy
    • Real estate and construction
    • Shipping
    • Tax

    SRI LANKA LEAD COUNSEL

    • Lead counsel

    TAIWAN

    • Antitrust and competition
    • Banking and finance
    • Capital markets
    • Corporate and M&A
    • Data protection
    • Dispute resolution
    • Insurance
    • Intellectual property
    • Intellectual property: prosecution
    • Labour and employment
    • Projects and energy
    • Real estate and construction
    • Shipping
    • Tax
    • TMT

    THAILAND

    • Banking and finance
    • Capital markets
    • Corporate and M&A
    • Customs and international trade
    • Dispute resolution
    • Dispute resolution: international arbitration
    • Insurance
    • Intellectual property
    • Labour and employment
    • Projects and energy
    • Real estate and construction
    • Restructuring and insolvency
    • Transport
    • Tax
    • TMT

    VIETNAM

    • Banking and finance
    • Capital markets
    • Corporate and M&A
    • Data protection
    • Dispute resolution: litigation
    • Dispute resolution: arbitration
    • Foreign desks
    • Insurance
    • IP – International firms
    • IP – Local firms
    • Labour and employment
    • Projects and energy
    • Real estate and construction
    • Shipping and aviation
    • Tax
    • TMT

    REGIONAL  INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION

    ENGLISH BAR

    • Commercial
    • Construction, energy and infrastructure
    • Shipping and commodities