On March 19, 2025, LegalOne, an internationally renowned professional rating agency, announced its 2025 “LegalOne Practice Pioneers 45 under 45 (Counsel for Prominent Clients)” list. King&Capital lawyers Changsha and Li Zhiguang were honored to be on the list for their excellent legal service ability, wide market recognition and outstanding client reputation.
Ms. Chang Sha is a partner of King&Capital Law Firm, a member of Beijing Lawyer Association Culture, Tourism, Media and Sports Law Committee, a member of Beijing Chaoyang District Lawyer Association Culture and Media Law Research Committee, and a tutor of Master of Laws (LLM) of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS).
Ms. Chang's main practice areas are: intellectual property, entertainment law, civil and commercial litigation and arbitration. Ms. Chang studied under the civil law experts, the main drafter of China's civil code, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Professor Sun Xianzhong, in the field of civil and commercial law has a deep theoretical background and practical experience.
Ms. Changsha maintains long-term cooperative relationships with many famous domestic listed companies in the film and television industry, large-scale Internet platforms, well-known live e-commerce enterprises and many celebrities. Ms. Changsha provides the above clients with professional legal services, including reputation protection, intellectual property management and protection, anti-unfair competition, contract review, dispute handling and product investment and financing. Ms. Changsha and her team are known for their prompt feedback and strong professionalism, and have won extensive praise from clients.
Li Zhiguang is a senior partner of Beijing King&Capital Law Firm, with a master's degree in litigation law and a qualification in securities practice. He has worked in China Armed Police Force and PLA Military Procuratorate, during which he handled many major criminal cases, and is now a lawyer of Beijing King&Capital Law Firm. He has conducted criminal defense training at Peking University, Tsinghua University, Renmin University of China, and China University of Political Science and Law. He has been appointed as a lawyer of the Supreme People's Procuratorate Criminal Complaint Cases Database, an expert lawyer of the Rule of Law Daily Expert Database, a member of the Expert Group of TGES Platform, a Top 20 Dispute Resolution Lawyer in LEGALBAND Elite Ranking of the year of 2024, and the Preferred Compliance Lawyer of the GRCD Anti-corruption Against Commercial Bribery and Anti-Corruption. 2024 Top 100 Outstanding Partners Specially Recommended by Law Newswire, 2024-2025 CBLJ A-List Legal Elite Lawyer Rising Star of Business Law. He has participated in the production of the program as a special guest of Beijing TV, and published many articles in Chang'an Jian, Caixin.com, Rule of Law Daily and other multimedia. Provided legal services for financial institutions such as Bank of China, China Construction Bank, CITIC Bank and Baxin Bank. Focusing on major cases, he has represented CCTV reporter Cheng Lei in the espionage case, Cui Li Mei in the casino case in Macau, leaders of the board of directors of Sinopec in the illegal fund-raising case, and leaders of the Construction Bank in the huge amount of bribery case. He mainly focuses on criminal-civil and criminal-executive cross-businesses, and defends cases of job-related crimes, economic crimes, and property crimes, etc., and has been recognized and praised by the clients for his rich case-handling experience and careful and conscientious style of work.
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