In the 2022 edition of the Legal 500 Asia Pacific released on January 12, 2022, Zhong Lun was recommended in 30 practice areas/regions, of which 23 were ranked Tier 1. Among the recommended, "Private Wealth", "Insurance" and "Hong Kong: Dispute resolution (international arbitration)" were ranked for the first time. 111 Zhong Lun lawyers garnered among them 188 rankings, of whom 3 lawyers were honored in the "Hall of Fame", 26 lawyers were rated as "Leading Individuals", 11 as "Next Generation Partners" and 8 as "Rising Stars".

Ranked Practice Areas/Regions

*Tier 1

Antitrust and Competition

Banking and Finance

Capital Markets

Corporate and M&A

Data Protection

Dispute Resolution: Arbitration

Fintech

Intellectual Property: Contentious

Intellectual Property: Non-contentious

Investment Funds

Labour and Employment

Life Sciences and Healthcare

Private Wealth

Projects and Energy

Real Estate and Construction

Guangdong Province: Guangzhou and Shenzhen

Jiangsu Province: Nanjing

Sichuan Province: Chengdu including Chongqing

Zhejiang Province: Hangzhou

Restructuring and Insolvency

Tax

TMT

WTO/International Trade

*Tier 2

Dispute Resolution: Litigation

Insurance

Private Equity

Regulatory/Compliance

Shipping

Hong Kong: Private Client (tax, trusts, wealth management and contentious probate)

*Tier 4

Hong Kong: Dispute Resolution: International Arbitration

Ranked Lawyers

*Hall of Fame

Audry Li  Corporate and M&A

Wantao Yang  Banking and Finance

Anthony Zhao  Corporate and M&A; Capital Markets

*Leading Individuals

Peng Cai  Data Protection

Lijun Cao  Dispute Resolution: Arbitration

Catherine Chen  Investment Funds

Helen Cheng  Life sciences and Healthcare; Intellectual Property

Haiyan Duan  Labour and Employment

Bin Fan  Sichuan Province: Chengdu Including Chongqing

Gary Gao  Regulatory/Compliance

Lefan Gong  Private Equity

Scott Guan  Corporate and M&A

Jimmy Huang  Intellectual Property

Xinyu Liu  Data Protection; Fintech

Peter Ni  Tax

Jihong Wang  Projects and Energy; Real Estate and Construction

David Wang  Corporate and M&A

Fangrong Wu  Zhejiang Province: Hangzhou

Peng Wu  Antitrust and Competition

Clifford Ng  Hong Kong: Private Client (tax, trusts, wealth management and contentious probate)

Li Xiong  Sichuan Province: Chengdu including Chongqing

Shengfeng Xu  Restructuring and Insolvency

Yi Xue  Antitrust and Competition

Victor Yu  TMT

Zhe Yu  Corporate and M&A

Decai Zhang  Dispute Resolution: Litigation

Anthony Zhao  Private Equity; TMT

Maoyuan Zhu  Real estate and Construction

Carol Zhu  Labour and Employment

*Next Generation Partners

Mark Gao  Tax

Yunfan He  Corporate and M&A; Sichuan Province: Chengdu including Chongqing

Yuanyuan Jia  Intellectual Property

Frank Jiang  Antitrust and Competition

Guanghui Jin  Dispute Resolution: Litigation

Ursula Li  Investment Funds

Kefeng Li  Capital Markets

Jim Qiu  Life Sciences and Healthcare

John Shen  Private Equity

April Yan  Corporate and M&A

Yuru Zuo  Life Sciences and Healthcare

*Rising Stars

Roy Zheng  Capital Markets

Qi Zhang  Dispute Resolution: Litigation

Qi Lan  Life Sciences and Healthcare

Shuman Zhang  Life Sciences and Healthcare

Xiaorui Yang  Private Equity

Wenjing Zhang  Real Estate and Construction

Summer Huang  TMT

Chloe Leung  Private Client (tax, trusts, wealth management and contentious probate)