On January 18th, Chambers and Partners, an international authoritative legal rating agency, announced the list of 2024 Chambers Greater China Region Guide 2024 (Greater China Region Guide). King&Capital Law Firm was honored to be on the list in the areas of Dispute Resolution, Corporate and Commercial, Intellectual Property, Competition and Antitrust, and Construction and Engineering, with attorneys Ms. Alice Liang, Ms. Yajun Huang, Ms. Faye Wang, and Mr. Yi Jin on the list.
Listed Fields
Dispute Resolution
Dispute Resolution
This area has been listed in Chambers Greater China for four consecutive years.
Practice Strengths:
King&Capital is a well-recognized dispute resolution team with a large and experienced team of counsel and litigators. The team specializes in all types of disputes, ranging from equity transfers and misappropriation of funds to product liability issues. King&Capital Law Firm is highly regarded for its expertise in handling major commercial, civil and criminal defense cases involving both corporate and individual clients. Its clients include the China Electronic Commerce Association as well as Baiji Shenzhou.
Client comments:
“The team has excellent negotiation and argumentation skills and is persuasive and flexible.”
“The team has a strong ability to balance commercial interests and judicial practice, helping clients to make pragmatic judgments and decisions.”
Corporate/Commercial: Beijing
Corporate/Commercial: Beijing
This practice has been ranked in the Chambers Greater China list for three consecutive years.
Business strengths:
King&Capital has comprehensive expertise in handling complex litigation, including contract disputes, intellectual property infringement and trade secrets, and is skilled in acting as liquidators and administrators in bankruptcy. The firm attracts state-owned enterprises, private companies and individual clients from a wide range of industries, including healthcare, technology, real estate and finance.
Highlighted Performance:
King&Capital provided legal advice to Tangshan Dongrun Real Estate Development in handling a dispute arising from a forged loan contract.
Intellectual Property: Litigation
Intellectual Property: Litigation
This area has been ranked in the Chambers Greater China list for three consecutive years.
Practice Strengths:
King&Capital's intellectual property team focuses on domestic trademark disputes related to opposition and infringement issues, while specializing in unfair competition and trade secret issues. The team has attracted mandates from large Chinese companies in the real estate, manufacturing, pharmaceutical and technology sectors, including Shougang Shui Cheng Iron & Steel (Group), Tonghua Dongbao Pharmaceuticals and Shenzhen Overclocking Technology.
Highlighted performance:
King&Capital represented the management of Beijing Guanmei Stomatological Hospital in a lawsuit against Wuhan Guanmei Stomatological Hospital, which arose from the other party's infringement of the client's trademark right “Guanmei Stomatology”.
Competition/Antitrust
Competition/Antitrust
This practice has been ranked on the Chambers Greater China list for three consecutive years.
Practice Strengths:
King&Capital's antitrust team is well known for its work on operator concentration notifications and intellectual property rights, and frequently handles infringement matters. The team often collaborates with its corporate department to enhance the one-stop service it provides. The team serves clients in antitrust administrative investigations and litigation, and its clients include both domestic and international companies.
Client comments:
“The team consists of a group of experienced, knowledgeable and specialized attorneys.”
“The team is responsive and can provide high quality services.”
Construction
Construction
This is the first time this area has been listed in the Chambers Greater China list.
Practice Strengths:
King&Capital is known for its excellent reputation in dispute resolution and has a growing practice focusing on equity and land transfer, construction and design contracts, leasing and property management. The team regularly represents real estate investors, developers and contractors. Its representative clients include China Construction Sixth Bureau Third Construction Engineering Company Limited, China Construction and Installation Group and Beijing Century Jinchuang Real Estate Development Company Limited.
Highlighted Performance:
King&Capital represented China Construction Sixth Bureau Third Construction Engineering Company Limited in its litigation with a project developer for outstanding payments and related damages.
Listed Lawyers
Dispute Resolution:Litigation
Dispute Resolution:Litigation
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Attorney Alice Liang
Ms. Alice Liang has been listed for three consecutive years.
Chambers Ratings:
Ms. Alice Liang is a renowned lawyer with extensive experience in the field of dispute resolution. She is competent in civil and criminal litigation as well as administrative litigation. Her client base includes a number of state-owned enterprises.
Yali Liang is a senior partner of King&Capital Law Firm, director of the King&Capital Criminal Defense Research Center, deputy director of the Institute of Criminal Defense at Northwestern University of Political Science and Law, executive director of the third council of the China Society of Criminal Law, and director of the third council of the China Society of Integrity and Legal System Research. She has been practicing law for nearly 30 years and has successfully undertaken many significant and influential criminal cases and difficult and complex civil and commercial cases, which have been reported by many domestic media. She is particularly good at the intersection of criminal and civil and commercial affairs and the intersection of criminal and administrative affairs, and is committed to researching the legal prevention and control of corporate risks, and has provided excellent legal counseling services for many large enterprises, government departments, institutions and foreign-invested enterprises. He has accumulated rich practical experience in the legal prevention and control of corporate risks, corporate restructuring, asset reorganization and other aspects of practice. Criminal Defense Lawyer of the Year 2014 by Fangyuan Law and Politics; 2017 People Helping Financial Risk Prevention by China Enterprise Newspaper; 2019 “Model Person of the Year for Commercial Rule of Law Construction” by China Business Newspaper; 2020 Special Contribution Award for Commercial Rule of Law Construction by China Business Newspaper; 2021 Annual LEGALBAND LEGALBAND China Lawyers' Special Recommendation List of Top 15 Criminal Compliance Lawyers, 2022 Chambers Greater China Leading Lawyers in Dispute Resolution, 2022 Brand Influence - Model Lawyers in Practicing Social Responsibility, 2022 LEGALBAND China Lawyers' Special Recommendation List of Top 15 Commercial Crime and Criminal Compliance Lawyers, 2023 Chambers Greater China Leading Lawyers in Dispute Resolution.
Intellectual Property: Non-litigation
Intellectual Property: Non-litigation
Mr. Huang Yajun
Mr. Huang has been listed seven times.
Chambers Review:
Ms. Huang Yajun works at the forefront of intellectual property practice and is particularly experienced in handling trademark examination procedures and registration issues.
Ms. Huang Yajun has been specializing in intellectual property law for nearly thirty years. She is particularly good at difficult and complex intellectual property business, good at insight and understanding of clients' far-reaching business needs, and able to identify breakthroughs in major cases, often with constructive solutions and work results, where companies can get value-added services. In her daily work, she leads her team to provide refined business management, which is admired by her clients. She is deeply engaged in the business fields of enterprise intellectual property legal risk prevention and control, commercial operation of intangible assets, and strategic layout of intellectual property assets, etc., and has accumulated rich and pragmatic experience, which has been implemented in solving practical problems in specific cases. She has provided outstanding legal counseling services for centralized state-owned enterprises, large and medium-sized enterprises, and listed companies. Her cases have been recognized by the Supreme People's Court and China Business News as “The Most Influential Trademark Cases of 2013”, “Top Ten Hot Trademark Cases”, “20 Typical Cases of Trademark Review in 2018”, and many other professional recognitions. “ and many other professional recognitions.
From 2015-2018, Mr. Huang Yajun served as an expert of the Supreme People's Court Intellectual Property Case Guidance Research (Beijing) Base, and is currently a director of the Chinese Society of Behavioral Law, deputy director of the Professional Committee of the Chinese Trademark Association's Agents Branch, a member of the Professional Committee of the Beijing Municipal Lawyers' Association's Professional Committee (Research Committee) of the Media and Press and Publication Legal Affairs Professional Committee, and serves as an independent director of a listed company, He also serves as an independent director of a listed company, an invited mediator of the Intellectual Property Mediation Center of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, a member of the Technology and Platform Service Committee of the China Fashion Intellectual Property Protection Center, and a member of the Legal Work Committee of the Alumni Council of Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business.
From 2016-2019, he was selected as a recognized lawyer in the non-litigation category in the field of intellectual property in Asia-Pacific by Chambers, an international authoritative ranking organization, for four consecutive years, and was reported to be one of the 13 female lawyers in China who have been selected by Chambers for three consecutive years; in the list of the world's leading trademark legal services for the year of 2018 and the year of 2019, which was published by the World Trademark Review (WTR) --In 2018 and 2019, World Trademark Review (WTR) published a list of the world's leading trademark legal services, WTR1000 list, for two consecutive years in the “world's leading trademark lawyers”; in 2018-2019, in the Asia-Pacific region lawyers rankings published by the UK's leading legal ratings organization The Legal 500 list, for two consecutive years In 2018-2019, we were selected as a “Recommended Lawyer” in the field of intellectual property; in 2022-2023, we were selected as a leading lawyer in the non-litigation category in the field of intellectual property in the “Chambers Greater China 2022 Guide” for two consecutive years.
Intellectual Property: Litigation
Intellectual Property: Litigation
Faye Wong
Faye Wang has been listed for the third consecutive year.
Chambers comments:
Ms. Wang's diverse practice areas range from trademark infringement to patent litigation. She serves clients in a variety of fields, including biotechnology and healthcare.
Ms. Fei Wang is a senior partner at King&Capital Law Firm in Beijing. Ms. Wang's team has been focusing on intellectual property and digital competition for more than 16 years. Ms. Wang also serves as a member of the Data Security Industry Expert Committee of the China Computer Federation, a director of the China Intellectual Property Research Association and the Director of the Trademark and Brand Protection Center, a member of the Science and Technology and Big Data Committee of the Beijing Lawyers' Association, and a member of the Advertising and Marketing Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce, among other social positions. Mr. Wang and his team have been repeatedly recommended by Chambers, ALB and other well-known legal lists as recommended lawyers and teams for intellectual property litigation to the relevant global public. Mr. Fei Wang was selected to ALB's Top 15 in Intellectual Property for 2023.
Competition/Antitrust
Competition/Antitrust
Mr. Jin Yi
For the fourth consecutive year, Mr. Jin Yi has been recognized on the list.
Chambers Review:
Mr. Jin Yi represents clients in unfair competition disputes and antitrust investigations. He also handles merger filings and private enforcement actions related to intellectual property rights.
Yi Jin is the Managing Partner of the Antitrust Department at King&Capital Law Firm. Mr. Jin Yi specializes in antitrust, anti-unfair competition and intellectual property rights, representing clients in antitrust litigation, investigations, merger notifications and corporate compliance. Before the Anti-Monopoly Law came into effect in 2008, Mr. Jin had already started to cooperate with the Ministry of Commerce and the State Administration for Industry and Commerce to handle foreign investment mergers and acquisitions in accordance with the “Provisions on the Mergers and Acquisitions of Domestic Enterprises by Foreign Investors”, and so far he has already handled nearly 200 cases of declaration of concentration of operators, most of which are the transactions of well-known multinational corporations in various industries such as pharmaceuticals, chemical industry, shipping, energy, automobiles, foodstuffs, publishing, media, education, sports and so on. Most of them are well-known multinational enterprises, involving pharmaceuticals, chemicals, shipping, energy, automobiles, food, publishing, media, education, sports and other industries. Mr. Jin Yi also represented Beijing Qihoo Technology Co. Ltd. v. Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. and Shenzhen Tencent Computer System Co. Ltd. in the case of abuse of dominant market position heard by the Supreme People's Court, which was selected as a guiding case of the Supreme People's Court in 2017. 2021 to 2023, Mr. Jin Yi was selected as a recommended lawyer by Chambers USA for the third consecutive year in “Competition and Anti-Monopoly”. From 2021 to 2023, Mr. Jin Yi was selected by Chambers' “Competition and Anti-Monopoly” for three consecutive years, and was selected by The Legal 500 “Competition Law and Anti-Monopoly” for 2022, 2023 and 2024 consecutively.
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