We are a law firm born in Asia with an Asian perspective and world-class service capabilities.
King & Wood Mallesons has more than 3,000 lawyers in 31 offices around the world. Our lawyers are well versed in Eastern and Western cultures, and rely on diversified thinking, profound professional knowledge and an in-depth understanding of client needs to provide clients with precise legal services.
Our customers are at the heart of everything we do. We always insist on improving our business capabilities, constantly seeking breakthroughs, fundamentally understanding our customers' needs, and helping them solve problems and explore opportunities.
We provide customers with flexible and unique professional services and tailor-made service plans to help customers deeply explore the local market and develop international business.
King & Wood Mallesons has a best-in-class Corporate and Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) team, serving high-profile transactions in the market. We work with the world's leading corporations, investment banks, private equity houses and investors, providing a full range of services covering corporate law, M&A, private equity, corporate governance and commercial matters.
As an international law firm headquartered in Asia, we provide clients with unique insights to help them navigate the cultural, legal and regulatory complexities of doing business in Asia. We rely on our in-depth understanding of the local market to provide solutions to our customers, especially in the field of cross-border transactions, whether our customers are from Asia or entering Asia.
Our corporate, M&A, private equity and commercial law practices are second to none – not just in China, but in every significant region of Asia. With the increasing pace of internationalization of our customers, our "going global" business is also developing rapidly.
We provide comprehensive legal support to a wide range of clients, including multinational corporations, state-owned enterprises, private companies in China and overseas, real estate developers, financial investors (including private equity funds) and contractors.
Disputes are inevitable in business operations. King & Wood Mallesons’ global dispute resolution team can provide full legal services from commercial disputes, financial litigation, investigations to compliance to achieve the best results for clients.
King & Wood Mallesons is a national leader in dispute resolution. We also have a deep understanding of our customers and the markets in which they expand their business in China, Asia, and around the world.
Our dispute resolution team has 100 partners and more than 400 lawyers, making it one of the largest dispute resolution teams in China. With more than 20 years of experience in handling domestic and cross-border litigation dispute resolution and alternative dispute resolution in China, we can provide the most powerful support for international and domestic clients in the field of dispute resolution.
Our lawyers can provide clients with legal services on issues in a variety of fields, including representing clients in dispute resolution before Chinese courts and administrative agencies and major arbitration institutions and organizations around the world.
In terms of handling litigation and arbitration cases, our lawyers are highly respected both at home and abroad and have participated in many major litigation and arbitration cases. We represent multinational corporations, large state-owned enterprises, private enterprises and financial institutions in important litigation and arbitration cases before Chinese courts, arbitration institutions and administrative agencies.
It is not easy to create wealth, but it is even harder to keep it. Is the family wealth safe? What risks will family wealth face during the inheritance process? How to pass on family wealth in an orderly manner? The above issues have become a concern for family business founders and family members.
The King & Wood Mallesons team is well versed in the security and inheritance of family wealth, and is familiar with various inheritance tools, paths and legal structures for the security and inheritance of family wealth, from actual control of family businesses, domestic/overseas marriage and inheritance, to family business/family member taxation. Providing services to family businesses/family members in aspects such as planning, domestic/overseas family trusts, internationalization of family businesses/family members’ assets, foreign exchange compliance of family businesses/family members, crisis response for family businesses/family members, and dispute resolution for family businesses/family members. Comprehensive comprehensive legal services.
With the rapid development of economy and technology, China's business environment is also constantly changing and transforming. Protecting inventions and innovations has become the key for many companies and entrepreneurs in emerging industries to gain a foothold in the Chinese market. Provide effective strategic business solutions and strive for the best interests of clients in dispute resolution. More and more clients expect lawyers to have extensive and in-depth professional knowledge to deal with their daily legal affairs in patents, trademarks, and intellectual property rights. and significant challenges in litigation.
At King & Wood Mallesons, our practice is based on understanding the value of our clients’ intellectual property rights.
We have a loyal client base of major brand owners and corporate giants, and we advise clients on both litigation and non-litigation intellectual property matters. By working for the largest and most ambitious brands on the market, we understand that our clients require superior professional judgment and solutions that align with business strategy, not just the best legal solutions. We have grown rapidly by finding solutions to our clients' most complex problems.
King & Wood Mallesons’ labor law team has very professional and systematic legal knowledge and experience in the field of labor and employment, and can provide clients with advice and services that combine legal compliance and commercial operability on various labor law issues. At the same time, we resolve labor disputes and handle arbitration and litigation cases for our clients. We have accumulated a lot of experience and established our own case management system. We have successfully applied litigation experience and skills to non-litigation business to provide customers with more accurate opinions and action plans.
King & Wood Mallesons’ labor law team has China’s top labor law professional lawyers. We help clients establish labor policies and compliance systems that are consistent with their overall strategic goals by ensuring management compliance now and in the future, as well as developing strong internal labor management policies that are consistent with the client's company culture.
We make positive contributions to my country's legislation, judicial practice, administrative law enforcement and legal research with professional knowledge and spirit. We work closely with and have established stable working relationships with government agencies, legal research institutions and human resources research institutions, which enables the KWM labor law team to accurately grasp the latest legislative developments in China and gain an in-depth understanding of our clients’ needs in this part of China. Different needs in the unique market environment, thereby providing more timely and effective legal services.
King & Wood Mallesons is the first law firm in China to set up a dedicated insurance business team. The King & Wood Mallesons insurance team is one of the outstanding legal service teams in the domestic insurance field. We are committed to providing exquisite legal services to insurance industry clients and providing them with comprehensive, rigorous and practical solutions in the complex and ever-changing business and regulatory environment. As the world's economic integration deepens, many international insurance institutions and multinational corporate clients seek creative and strategic insurance legal services from King & Wood Mallesons. King & Wood Mallesons also provides legal services for Chinese-funded insurance institutions to cooperate with foreign-funded insurance institutions or conduct international operations. , while complying with existing Chinese laws and integrating with international practices.
The lawyers in King & Wood Mallesons’ insurance team have solid legal foundation, rigorous work attitude, rich practical experience and skilled service skills. We have always stood at the forefront of the market, participated in a series of landmark projects in China's insurance and financial fields, accumulated a lot of first-hand market experience, and have the ability to creatively use existing laws to solve structural problems. King & Wood Mallesons lawyers also provide advice on insurance regulatory legislation and are able to accurately interpret China’s insurance laws and policies and analyze the changing trends of such laws and policies.
King & Wood Mallesons’ insurance team is involved in the preparation and establishment of insurance institutions, including insurance companies, reinsurance companies, insurance asset management companies and insurance intermediaries, as well as restructuring and listing of A and H shares, bond issuance, mergers and acquisitions, investment and utilization of insurance funds, Providing legal services to clients in the insurance industry and other financial institutions in professional or industry fields such as overseas investment, investment or establishment of insurance financial products, corporate governance, compliance management, development and design of insurance product terms, insurance dispute resolution, and risk disposal of financial institutions. At the same time, thanks to King & Wood Mallesons’ integrated internal management system, when faced with large-scale and complex insurance projects, King & Wood Mallesons can quickly form a cross-department and cross-region professional lawyer team, and the insurance team can quickly integrate various professional resources , providing customers with all-round, comprehensive, one-stop legal services.
King & Wood Mallesons' clients in the real estate field span all industries and are diverse, ranging from real estate developers, construction companies, and design companies to investment banks, funds, trusts, and insurance companies; from state-owned and private enterprises to government agencies; from Hotel owners to management companies; from retailers to logistics companies.
The business scope of King & Wood Mallesons’ real estate team covers all areas of real estate. Combining many years of leading strength in the Chinese market and a global platform, we are able to operate in residential buildings, office buildings, shopping malls, hotels, industrial plants, corporate headquarters, warehousing and logistics properties, theaters, catering and entertainment facilities, sports venues, theme parks, infrastructure We provide clients with a full range of legal services in other fields, including primary land development, old city reconstruction, cooperative development, franchising, engineering construction, real estate financing, real estate mergers and acquisitions, bulk property sales, property leasing, hotel management, non-performing asset disposal, Comprehensive legal services in asset securitization, overseas investment, and the emerging development and construction of public buildings and properties through PPP in recent years.
We understand the Chinese market, understand customer needs, and have all-round professional knowledge required for real estate transactions in China. Our lawyers' expertise in real estate, corporate, finance, environment and taxation can help clients reduce risks, increase returns and achieve business goals.
We have a team of professional lawyers who are good at handling real estate business. Our team members not only have insight into the development trends of the real estate market, are familiar with professional legal knowledge, and have the latest project experience, but can also combine the three to help customers realize their commercial demands.
It has a full range of real estate business categories, especially the ability to provide comprehensive legal services to large clients such as government departments, state-owned enterprises, listed companies, and multinational enterprises, as well as rich experience in providing legal advisory services in the field of foreign investment in real estate.
We not only understand the special needs of our clients, but also understand the particularities of China’s political, legal and business environment, and are familiar with the legislative principles and application of Chinese laws and regulations as well as judicial practice. These allow our lawyers to provide constructive and innovative services to our clients. sexual solution. In order to help our clients make the best business decisions, we also provide adequate solutions and professional insights on the latest regulatory developments and local legislation for projects.
With long-term and rich experience in the real estate field, our team is able to provide solutions to the legal obstacles that may be encountered in each specific project based on its knowledge and understanding of customer demands and the actual legal environment, and provide maximum assistance within a legal and compliant framework. Customers realize their business demands. The real estate team will work closely with KWM’s other professional teams, such as tax, finance, securities, litigation and arbitration, to provide clients with more comprehensive legal services.
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