China Law & Practice Awards 2014: Celebrating progress and prestige

Welcome to the eighth China Law & Practice Awards.

The China Law & Practice Awards is the jurisdiction's most prestigious legal awards ceremony that recognises and applauds China's elite.

It celebrates trail-blazing deals, precedent-setting cases and top-quality practitioners. It upholds legal innovation and evolution, and seeks out complexity and market impact among those to be selected as finalists. Winners will be chosen based on their ability to incorporate novel and progressive legal structures, reconcile inconsistencies in the law or contribute to – perhaps even pioneer – reform.

The awards research process is renowned for its comprehensiveness and objectivity – no partial external influences interfere with research and selection.

After the success of last year's awards and based on the feedback of market participants, China Law & Practice has further expanded the awards categories. Given the increased focus on compliance and drive against corruption, the Regulatory & Compliance award for Firm of the Year has been extended to include domestic firms. An award for TMT Deal of the Year has also been added to highlight the numerous acquisitions and offerings that have taken place among the high-powered Chinese tech companies in the past year.

Finally, many younger players are increasing in prominence, and in order to recognise their hard work and contribution to the legal community, the Rising Star awards have been extended across all Individual Awards categories: Competition, Dispute Resolution, Intellectual Property, Labour & Employment, Real Estate & Construction and Tax. Please click here to view a complete list of this year's awards.

Forms

Submission forms have been sent out to key individuals at domestic firms and international firms doing China work. If you have not received these forms, please find them below:

International firms:
Firm of the Year
Individual Awards
Supplementary Deal Information

China firms:
Firm of the Year
Individual Awards
Supplementary Deal Information
Regional Firm of the Year

Please note that there are no submission forms for Teams of the Year, as we take this information from your Deal of the Year submissions. The deadline for all submissions is June 20 2014. Firms are reminded that there is no need to duplicate information that has already been provided to IFLR1000 or Asialaw Profiles.

Interviews

A key part of the awards process includes interviews with leading lawyers and in-house counsel in the region. The editorial team will be in touch with firms shortly to set these up. These will take place in June.

Shortlists

The shortlists for the China Law & Practice Awards will be released on July 23 2014.

Ceremony

The ceremony will take place in Beijing at the JW Marriott Hotel on Thursday on September 18. Please click here to view the photos of last year's awards ceremony.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact China Law & Practice's editor: [email protected]