Awards & Rankings

Freshfields and Fangda triumph at CLP awards

September 16, 2013 | BY

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Freshfields and Fangda won the coveted international and domestic law firms of the year at the CLP awards ceremony held in Beijing last week

Over 200 leading legal practitioners attended the seventh annual China Law & Practice Awards. For the first time, CLP honoured individual lawyers and included new categories such as insurance, life sciences and trade firms of the year.

King & Wood Mallesons performed strongly, working on four of the winning deals, while partner Susan Ning picked up the individual award for competition. Allen & Overy won two deals, picked up the banking and finance team of the year trophy and saw partner Richard Kim win the real estate and construction individual award.

The outstanding achievement award went to Professor Wang Xiaoye from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, one of the country's leading authorities on competition law. Professor Wang was the only representative from academia in the 10 person drafting group of the PRC Anti-monopoly Law (中华人民共和国反垄断法).

Deals of the Year

Debt & Equity-Linked

Baidu SEC-registered bond

Davis Polk & Wardwell, Jingtian & Gongcheng, Han Kun Law Offices, Li & Partners, Maples and Calder and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom

Energy & Natural Resources

Yancoal Australia's A$8 billion acquisition of Gloucester Coal

Baker & McKenzie, Dacheng Law Offices, Herbert Smith Freehills, King & Wood Mallesons and Minter Ellison

Equity

PICC IPO

Davis Polk & Wardwell, King & Wood Mallesons, Slaughter & May, Sullivan & Cromwell and Jun He

M&A

Ping An's sale of Yihaodian to Wal-Mart

DLA Piper, Morrison & Foerster, King & Wood Mallesons, T&D Associates and Jun He

Outbound

Weichai Power's stake in Germany's KION Group and Linde Hydraulics

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, King & Wood Mallesons, Paul Hastings, Baker & McKenzie and White & Case

Private Equity

Focus Media's $3.7 billion privatisation

Clifford Chance, Conyers Dill & Pearman, Fangda Partners, Fried Frank, Kirkland & Ellis, Maples and Calder, Morrison & Foerster, Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison, Ropes & Gray, Shearman & Sterling, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, Sullivan & Cromwell, Walkers, Weil Gotshal & Manges and Zhong Lun Law Firm

Project Finance

Asian Development Bank financing to Dynagreen for waste-to-water energy project facility

Allen & Overy, Global Law Office and Shearman & Sterling

Real Estate & Construction

China Vanke's JV with Tishman Speyer

Allen & Overy and Gibson Dunn

In-House Teams of the Year

Chinese Company

Sinopec

Chinese Financial Institution

Bank of China

Teams of the Year

Banking & Finance

China: Concord & Partners

International: Allen & Overy

Capital Markets

China: Zhong Lun Law Firm

International: Davis Polk & Wardwell

M&A

China: Jun He

International: Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Private Equity

China: Fangda Partners

International: Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom

Projects, Energy & Infrastructure

China: Guantao Law Firm

International: Vinson & Elkins

Dealmaker – PRC

Ma Hong Li – Jun He

Dealmaker – International

Chun Wei – Sullivan & Cromwell

Regional Firms of the Year

Chongqing – Solton & Partners

Guangzhou – Guangda Law Firm

Hangzhou – Zhejiang T&C Law Firm

Nanjing – JC Master Law Offices

Qingdao – Wincon Law Firm

Shenzhen – V&T Law Firm

Tianjin – Winners Law Firm

Outstanding Achievement 2013

Professor Wang Xiaoye – Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Firms of the Year

Anti-corruption & Bribery

Hogan Lovells

Competition

China: Broad & Bright

International: Linklaters

Dispute Resolution:

China: Jingtian & Gongcheng

International: Sidley Austin

Insurance

China: AnJie Law Firm

International: Baker & McKenzie

Intellectual Property

China: Liu Shen & Associates

International: Rouse

Labour & Employment

China: TransAsia Lawyers

International: Simmons & Simmons

Life Sciences

Global Law Office

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Real Estate & Construction

China: Zhong Lun Law Firm

International: Paul Hastings

Tax

China: Llinks Law Offices

International: O'Melveny & Myers

TMT

China: TransAsia Lawyers

International: Bird & Bird

International Trade

China: King & Wood Mallesons

International: Mayer Brown JSM

Country Firms of the Year

Hong Kong – Deacons

Japan – Nishimura & Asahi

Korea – Kim & Chang

Taiwan – Lee & Li

Up-and-Coming Firm of the Year

Anjie Law Firm

Offshore Firm of the Year

Maples and Calder

Lawyers of the Year 2013

Dispute Resolution – May Tai, Herbert Smith Freehills

Labour & Employment – Lesli Ligorner, Simmons & Simmons

Intellectual Property – Linda Chang, Rouse

Competition – Susan Ning, King & Wood Mallesons

Real Estate & Construction – Richard Kim, Allen & Overy

Rising Star – Xu Liang, Hogan Lovells

China Firm of the Year

Fangda Partners

International Firm of the Year