On November 19, 2025, The Legal 500, an authoritative international legal rating organization, released its 2026 list of law firms in Greater China. King&Capital Law Firm was honored in 2 areas and recommended by 4 people. For the first time, the list of “China's Urban Elite” was released, and Senior Partners Chen Yu and Gong Piguo from the Beijing office, and Partners Wu Jianhui, Yang Lin, and Zhang Qingsheng from the Shanghai office successfully made the list.
Dispute Resolution: Litigation
Liang Yali, senior partner of Beijing King&Capital Law Firm, director of Ky&Capital Law Firm Criminal Defense Research Center, deputy director of the Institute of Criminal Defense of Northwestern University of Political Science and Law, executive director of the third council of China Criminal Law Research Association, director of the third council of China Criminal Procedure Law Research Association, director of the third council of China Integrity and Rule of Law Research Association. She has been practicing law for nearly 30 years and has successfully undertaken many major 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 cross-cutting areas of criminal and civil and commercial affairs, as well as the cross-cutting areas of criminal and administrative affairs. She is committed to the study of 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 Lawyer Special Recommendation Top 15 Criminal Compliance, 2022 Chambers Greater China Leading Lawyer in Dispute Resolution, 2022 Brand Influence - Model Lawyer in Practicing Social Responsibility, 2022 LEGALBAND China Lawyer Special Recommendation Top 15 Commercial Crime and Criminal Compliance, 2023-2024 Chambers Greater China Leading Lawyer in Dispute Resolution; 2024 LegalOne Clients' Trusted Lawyers: Top 15 in Commercial Crime and Criminal Compliance; 2024 LegalOne Clients' Trusted Lawyers: Top 15 Outstanding Women Lawyers (North China); 2024 LegalNews Benchmark Cases of the Year - Commercial Crime; 2024 LegalNews Top 30 Women Leadership Figures of the Year in Legal Sector; 2025 GRCD-China Women Lawyer of the Year; 2025 ALB China Top 15 Litigation Lawyers.
Zhao Qilong, Senior Partner of Beijing King&Capital Law Firm, Partner-in-Charge of Civil and Commercial Litigation Department, Master of Civil and Commercial Law of China University of Political Science and Law, Member of Contract Law Committee of Beijing Lawyers' Association, Head of King&Capital Law Firm Civil and Commercial Research Center, Kyoto Bankruptcy Research Center. He has worked in the court system for more than ten years, and has served as president of the criminal trial court, the enforcement court and the civil trial court. Since he started his career as a lawyer, he has specialized in criminal compliance review, civil and commercial litigation and arbitration, and corporate litigation and compliance review, and is good at handling difficult and complex civil and commercial litigation and arbitration cases. He has handled a bill recourse case of a technology company in Beijing (listed as one of the top ten typical cases by the Beijing Financial Court), a case of misrepresentation of securities of a listed company such as Leshi.com and Kangdexin, a series of disputes between a listed company and Shi and a partnership arising from mergers and acquisitions of listed companies, an arbitration case of a dispute over a huge amount of equity transfer between NLM and Guoco Real Estate (China), and a dispute over Tesla's product liability, among other cases. He was honored as one of the top fifteen litigation lawyers in 2024 ALB China, an award-winning lawyer in 2025 LegalOne Practice Elite 100: Corporate Commercial, selected in the Lawyer Directory of “Guide to Boutique Legal Service Brands (2024): Dispute Resolution” by Yixin News Agency, etc., and selected in the Outstanding Transactions in Business Law Awards for the case of misrepresentation of securities of LeSee.com.
Yanhui Sun, Senior Partner of Beijing King&Capital Law Firm, graduated from the Law School of Jilin University in 1990, began to work as a lawyer in 1992, is now the partner-in-charge of the corporate and compliance department of Beijing King&Capital Law Firm, senior partner, member of the Rules Committee of Beijing Bankruptcy Administrators' Association, member of the Bankruptcy Committee of Beijing Lawyers' Association, director of the Bankruptcy and Liquidation & M&A & Reorganization Practice Research Committee of Beijing Lawyers' Association, member of Beijing Bankruptcy Law Society, member of Beijing Bankruptcy Law Society, director of Beijing Bankruptcy Law Society, member of Beijing Bankruptcy Law Society, member of Beijing Bankruptcy Law Society. Director, member of Beijing Bankruptcy Law Society, member of the first Lawyer Expert Pool of Rule of Law Daily, drafter of “Compliance Evaluation and Certification Standard for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises”, and qualified as one of the first batch of securities lawyers in China. He was awarded the 2022 Outstanding Award for Reorganization Practice by Beijing Bankruptcy Administrators Association, the 2024 Brand Star-Craftsman Lawyer in Bankruptcy by Lixin News Agency; honored to be the main lawyer on Chambers & Company's Commercial and Dispute Resolution List, the “Top 15 Bankruptcy Reorganization Lawyers” in 2024 by LegalOne's Customer Trusted Lawyers (Blue Ribbon) Chambers & Company's Commercial and Dispute Resolution list, LegalOne's “Top 15 Bankruptcy Reorganization Lawyers”, LEGALBAND's “Top 15 Chinese Lawyers: Debt Restructuring”, and the bankruptcy and liquidation of the China Electronic Commerce Association (CECA), which was sponsored by CECA, was awarded the “Outstanding Transaction of the Year Award” by the China Business Law Journal in 2023. The case of bankruptcy and liquidation of China E-commerce Association, which Mr. Sun sponsored, won the Outstanding Transaction of the Year Award by China Business Law Journal. Mr. Sun has been practicing law for more than 30 years and has represented hundreds of civil and commercial litigation cases, undertaken many difficult and complex cases, and has outstanding performance in the fields of bankruptcy and reorganization, disposal of distressed assets, corporate compliance, and civil and commercial dispute resolution.
Private Wealth Management
Gao Huiyun, Senior Tax Law Consultant of Beijing King&Capital Law Firm, Executive Director of Kyoto Family Trust Legal Affairs Center, Master of Law in International Economics of University of International Business and Economics, Professor of Tax Law, Plenipotentiary Member of International Institute of Trust and Asset Planning (TEP), Member of Wealth Management Law Committee of Beijing Lawyers Association. Mr. Gao has profound attainments in the field of wealth management, family trusts and their tax-related criminal proceedings, and is not only proficient in Chinese tax laws, but also in the tax laws of wealth management of the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, Singapore and other countries, and his services to (ultra-)high net-worth clients are spread across a number of countries and regions, including, but not limited to, the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, Japan, Singapore, New Zealand, Italy, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. Mr. Gao has provided family member tax identification and planning, CRS compliance planning, offshore family trust tax services, foreign beneficiary family trust tax services, domestic and overseas family wealth inheritance tax services, domestic and overseas shareholding structure design and tax planning for financial institutions such as head offices of large state-owned banks and national banks, trust companies, insurance companies, and more than a hundred of (ultra) high net worth clients. Gao's services include tax-related services for offshore family trusts, tax-related services for family trusts with foreign beneficiaries, tax-related services for family wealth inheritance, design and tax planning for domestic and foreign equity structures, tax planning for domestic and foreign family enterprises, tax risk detection and planning for domestic and foreign family enterprises, and criminal proceedings related to tax, which have successfully helped to prevent tax risks. In terms of legal research, Mr. Gao has not only written articles and interviews for many publications for a long time, but has also published books such as “Family Taxation and Identity Planning Practices for High Net Worth Individuals” and “Tax Planning for Financial Innovation Businesses” as the editor-in-chief, as well as participated in the writing of a series of books, such as “Jurisprudence and Case Study of Insurance Trusts”, “Jurisprudence and Case Study of Family Trusts” and “Research on the Jurisprudence and Practice of Asset Securitization”, etc., and participated in a series of books such as “The China Trust Association's Project on 2022”. He has also participated in the research of a number of topics, including “Research on the Revised Content of the Trust Law”, a topic of the China Trust Association in 2022, and “Research on the Status of Legal Subjects of Trusts”, a topic of the China Trust Association in 2025.
Elite List of Chinese Cities
Beijing: Commercial Disputes
Chen Yu, a lawyer of Beijing King&Capital Law Firm, has been deeply engaged in civil, commercial and criminal cases for more than ten years. Utilizing his extensive experience in legal services in the fields of finance and capital market, TMT, intellectual property rights, etc., he provides comprehensive legal services for the design of corporate governance structure, standardized operation, public relations management and crisis disposal, so as to avoid enterprises, shareholders and executives from bearing the risks of civil and commercial compensation, administrative penalties, and criminal charges in the course of corporate operation.
Mr. Gong Piguo is a senior partner of King&Capital Law Firm, Deputy Director of the Disciplinary Committee of Beijing Lawyers Association, Deputy Secretary General of the Corporate Law Committee, and Deputy Director of the Regulations Committee of Chaoyang District Lawyers Association.
Mr. Gong Piguo has been practicing law since 1995, and has handled more than 600 criminal, civil and commercial cases individually or as part of a team. Mr. Gong specializes in corporate legal affairs and civil-criminal cross-cutting cases, and is particularly good at handling corporate business disputes and researching crimes committed by corporate executives. He has defended influential cases such as Zhang Erjiang, the “Five Poisonous Secretaries”, Feng Jie, a senior reporter of Xinhua News Agency, Yin Jun of Xinlik Group, Yao Mou of Minsheng Bank, etc. He has also acted as a representative of Hong Kong Roche Group in the cooperation dispute with Beijing Sumitomo Group, Hong Kong New Henderson Group in the dispute with China Huarong Asset Management Co. Henderson Group of Hong Kong and China Huarong Asset Trust Beneficiary Right Transfer, the dispute between Beida Qingdao Group and Malaysia Guohao Beijing Dongzhimen Plaza Project, Taizhou Yufeng Real Estate and Guocheng Trust Trust Trust Contract Dispute, Guangzhou Yinghai Industrial Implementation Objection Claim and other difficult and complex cases of the Supreme Court, China International Trade Arbitration Commission Arbitration, and achieved good results. Mr. Gong Piguo presided over the preparation of the series of “Litigation Process and Case Handling Skills for Barristers' Representation Cases” (10 books), published the books of “Litigation Process and Case Handling Skills for Disputes over Transfer of Company's Equity Interests”, “Guide to Protection of Rights and Interests for Criminal Lawyers' Practices”, etc., and was honored as one of China's Top 15 Litigators in the year of 2016 by Asian Law Bulletin (ALB).
Shanghai: Commercial Disputes
Wu Jianhui, senior partner of Beijing King&Capital Law Firm, joined King&Capital Law Firm in 2009 and started to work as a lawyer, practicing for more than fifteen years, handling a large number of litigation and non-litigation business. Currently, she mainly provides legal services to financial institutions, including legal compliance, financial litigation and disposal of non-performing assets.
She is also involved in civil and commercial litigation and enforcement and criminal defense for high net worth clients, and is able to provide fast, effective and reasonable solutions for all kinds of commercial transactions.
Yang Lin, partner of Beijing King&Capital Law Firm, has been practicing law since 2001, and has handled a large number of litigation and non-litigation business for more than 20 years. She has provided legal services for hundreds of enterprises and individuals, and has in-depth research in the fields of corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, equity investment, restructuring and listing, intellectual property rights, labor and human resources, contract management, etc. Her clients are involved in a variety of industries such as chemical industry, energy industry, pharmaceutical industry, postal service, private equity and so on, and she has also accumulated rich experience in arbitration litigation and other aspects of the law practice. Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Yang worked for government agencies, real estate companies, and network companies.
Mr. Zhang Qingsheng, partner of King&Capital Law Firm (Shanghai), started to work as a lawyer in 2001, successively served as deputy director of Shandong Juncheng Renhe Law Firm and director of Shandong Juncheng Renhe (Shanghai) Law Firm. 2013, he practiced in the Shanghai Branch of King&Capital Law Firm and joined King&Capital Law Firm (Shanghai) in 2014, and he has practiced in the field of legal services for more than 20 years, handling a large number of litigation and non-litigation business, with rich experience in litigation and non-litigation. Mr. Zhang has been practicing for more than 20 years and has handled a large number of litigation and non-litigation business, and has rich litigation and non-litigation experience.
Mr. Zhang Qingsheng has served as the legal advisor of many companies and organizations, member of the Securities Law Committee of Shanghai Lawyers Association, member of the Property Management Committee of Shanghai Lawyers Association, and director of the District Owners' Committee. He also holds a master's degree from China University of Political Science and Law, a senior training class for the president of Shanghai Jiaotong University on private equity and listing (New Third Board) financing, and an entrepreneurial course on finance and investment at the School of Management of Fudan University. He was awarded the title of “Outstanding Criminal Defense Lawyer” at the Seventh Forum on Criminal Defense of the Law Society of China and the Criminal Defense Summit in 2014.
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