On July 18, 2026, the “Summer Symphony · SHINE—LawNew Society 2026 ‘LawNew Guide’ Awards Ceremony” was held in Beijing. This spring launch event featured the simultaneous release of professional guides across nine major practice areas and presented numerous awards, including “Law Firms with Brand Influence,” “Leading Lawyers,” and “High-Caliber Lawyers” in various fields.
King&Capital Law Firm was selected as a “Law Firm with Brand Influence” in the *Guide to Premium Legal Service Brands (2026): Dispute Resolution* category.
Attorney Liang Yali was honored as a “Leading Lawyer” in the Dispute Resolution category; Attorneys Zhao Qilong and Gong Piguo were honored as “High-Caliber Lawyers” in the Dispute Resolution category; Attorney Ma Zhao was honored as a “Masterful Lawyer” in the Dispute Resolution category; Attorney Huang Yajun was named a “Leading Lawyer” in the Intellectual Property field; Attorneys Liu Ming and Wang Fei were named “High-Caliber Lawyers” in the Intellectual Property field; Attorneys Liu Hongyu and Teng Jie were named “Rising Star Lawyers” in the Banking and Finance field. Attorney Zhang Libin was named a “Leading Lawyer” in the Energy and Natural Resources field.
Liang Yali is a Senior Partner at Beijing King&Capital Law Firm, Director of the King&Capital Criminal Defense Research Center, Vice Dean of the Criminal Defense Research Institute at Northwest University of Political Science and Law, Standing Council Member of the Third Council of the Chinese Society of Criminal Law, Council Member of the Third Council of the Chinese Society of Criminal Procedure Law, and Council Member of the Third Council of the Chinese Society for Integrity and the Rule of Law. With nearly thirty years of legal practice, she has successfully handled numerous major, high-profile criminal cases as well as complex and challenging civil and commercial cases, and has been featured in numerous domestic media outlets. She specializes particularly in cases at the intersection of criminal and civil/commercial law, as well as criminal and administrative law. She is dedicated to researching legal prevention and control of corporate risks and has provided outstanding legal advisory services to numerous large enterprises, government departments, public institutions, and foreign-invested enterprises. She has accumulated extensive practical experience in the legal prevention and control of corporate risks, corporate restructuring, and asset reorganization.
Attorney Liang was named “Criminal Defense Lawyer of the Year” by *Fangyuan Law Review* in 2014; “Person of the Year for Assisting in Financial Risk Prevention” by *China Enterprise News* in 2017; “Annual Model Figure for Commercial Rule of Law Development” by *China Business News* in 2019; the 2020 Special Contribution Award for Commercial Rule of Law Development by *China Business News*; one of the Top 15 on the 2021 LEGALBAND China Lawyers Special Recommendation List: Criminal Compliance; a Leading Lawyer in Dispute Resolution in the 2022–2026 Chambers Global Guide; a Leading Lawyer in Dispute Resolution in Greater China in the 2022–2026 Chambers Guide; a 2022 Model Lawyer for Brand Influence and Social Responsibility; 2022 LEGALBAND Top 15 Specially Recommended Chinese Lawyers: Commercial Crime and Criminal Compliance; 2024 Commercial Law “The A-List” Legal Elite: Insight Leader in China; 2024 LegalOne Client-Trusted Lawyers: Top 15 in Commercial Crime and Criminal Compliance; 2024 LegalOne Client-Trusted Lawyers: Top 15 Outstanding Female Lawyers (North China); 2024 Law News Annual Benchmark Case – Commercial Crime Category; 2024 Law News Top 30 Women Leaders in the Legal Industry; 2025 GRCD – China Female Lawyer of the Year; 2025 ALB China Top 15 Litigation Lawyers; 2024–2025 LegalOne Rising Star (Criminal Practice); 2024–2025 LEGALBAND BOB Top 30 Lawyers in China; 2026 LEGALBAND Clients’ Choice: Top 15 Female Lawyers in China; 2026 The Litigation People’s Choice: Top 10 Commercial and Criminal Lawyers.
Zhao Qilong is a Senior Partner at Beijing King&Capital Law Firm and the Managing Partner of the Civil and Commercial Litigation Department. He holds a Master’s degree in Civil and Commercial Law from China University of Political Science and Law, serves as a member of the Contract Law Committee of the Beijing Bar Association, and heads the King&Capital Civil and Commercial Law Research Center and the King&Capital Bankruptcy Research Center. He previously worked in the court system for over a decade, serving in the Criminal Trial Division, Enforcement Division, and Civil Trial Division, and held the position of Division Chief. Since becoming a lawyer, he has focused on criminal compliance reviews, civil and commercial litigation and arbitration, and corporate litigation and compliance reviews, specializing in handling difficult and complex civil and commercial litigation and arbitration cases. He has handled cases including a bill of exchange recourse case for a Beijing-based technology company (listed by the Beijing Financial Court as one of its top ten landmark cases); securities false statement cases involving listed companies such as LeTV and Kangde Xin; a series of disputes arising from a listed company’s merger and acquisition involving a certain listed company, Mr. Shi, and a certain partnership; an arbitration case involving a massive equity transfer dispute between Peking University Qingniao and Grandall Real Estate (China); and a Tesla product liability dispute. He was named “Beijing Lawyer of the Year” in the 2026 Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific and China Awards; was selected as one of the “Top 15 Litigation Lawyers” in the 2024 ALB China Awards; and was included in the 2025 LegalOne Top 100 Practice Elites: Award-Winning Lawyer in Corporate and Commercial Law, and was listed in LawNews’ *Guide to Premium Legal Service Brands (2024): Dispute Resolution* lawyer directory, among others. The LeTV securities false statement case he handled was selected for the Commercial Law Outstanding Transaction Award.
Gong Piguo is a Senior Partner at Beijing King&Capital Law Firm, Deputy Director of the Disciplinary Committee and a member of the Corporate Law Professional Committee of the Beijing Lawyers Association, and Deputy Director of the Regulations Committee of the Chaoyang District Lawyers Association in Beijing.
Attorney Gong Piguo has been practicing law since 1995. Over the course of his 30-year career, he has handled more than 600 criminal, civil, and commercial cases. His areas of expertise include corporate dispute resolution and criminal defense, with particular specialization in representing clients in corporate and commercial disputes and researching crimes committed by corporate executives. He has defended clients in high-profile criminal cases, including the bribery case of Zhang Erjiang, known as the “Secretary of the Five Poisons”; the fraud case of Feng Jie, a senior reporter at Xinhua News Agency; the embezzlement case of Yin Jun of Xinlik Group in the “April 27 Special Case”; and the bill (rediscounting) fraud case involving a manager surnamed Yao at China Minsheng Bank. He has represented clients in numerous complex and challenging cases, including the equity transfer dispute between Peking University Qingniao Group and Malaysia’s Guohao Group regarding the Beijing Dongzhimen Plaza project; a guarantee contract dispute between a company in Anhui and a company in Qingdao; and the retrial of Guangzhou Yinghai Industrial’s objection to enforcement proceedings—all of which were subject to retrial by the Supreme People’s Court or arbitration by the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission. He organized the compilation of the *Series on Litigation Procedures and Case Handling Techniques for Senior Lawyers* (10 volumes) and published works such as *Litigation Procedures and Case Handling Techniques for Corporate Equity Transfer Disputes* and *Guide to Protecting the Professional Rights of Criminal Defense Lawyers*. He has received honors including being named one of *Asia Legal Business* (ALB)’s “Top 15 Litigation Lawyers in China” for 2016 and *Legal500*’s “China City Elite” for 2025.
Ma Zhao is a partner at Beijing King&Capital Law Firm and a graduate of China University of Political Science and Law. He is listed in the *Rule of Law Daily*’s Expert Database of Lawyers and serves as an external instructor at the School of Law, Qingdao University of Science and Technology. He currently serves as a member of the Civil Litigation Professional Committee of the Beijing Lawyers Association and a member of the Corporate Practice Research Association of the Chaoyang District Lawyers Association.
Attorney Ma Zhao previously worked for a U.S.-listed company, where he was deeply involved in pre-IPO due diligence, private equity (PE) financing, overseas structuring, share reform, and the entire process of listing in the U.S. He has also led negotiations, drafted and reviewed legal documents, and overseen the full implementation of numerous mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and large-scale land asset transactions. He also possesses many years of hands-on corporate management experience, has a deep understanding of business operations and practical challenges, and is highly experienced in areas such as equity structure design, shareholder disputes, and the prevention and control of legal risks in corporate operations.
His practice focuses on corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, civil and commercial litigation, the intersection of criminal and civil law, class-action lawsuits, and corporate dispute resolution, with a particular expertise in major, complex, and challenging cases. He previously led a class-action lawsuit involving nearly 100 million yuan in claims. Despite an extremely low national success rate for similar cases and an initial loss at the first-instance trial, he successfully overturned the ruling on appeal and had the final judgment vacated. This case was awarded the LegalOne Merits Exemplary Rating, recognized as an “Outstanding Transaction of 2025” by *Commercial Law*, and named a “Benchmark Case of 2025” by LawNews. She was also named a 2025 LegalOne Rising Star and recognized as a “Master Lawyer” in the Corporate and Commercial Law category for the North China region in LawNews’ *Guide to Premium Legal Service Brands (2025)*.
Huang Yajun, a senior partner at Beijing King&Capital Law Firm, has dedicated over thirty years to the field of intellectual property, drawing on her extensive experience spanning intellectual property regulatory authorities, agencies, and law firms. She has established a professional framework in trademark practice that combines both depth and breadth. Attorney Huang Yajun excels particularly at resolving complex and challenging issues in the trademark field. When handling a reexamination case involving the rejection of a three-dimensional shape trademark for a well-known conglomerate, she approached the matter from the perspectives of trademark distinctiveness, the company’s actual usage needs, and consumer perception patterns, successfully reversing an unfavorable situation during the examination stage and securing critical trademark protection for the company’s new bottle design; While representing a construction company in a trademark opposition case, she drew upon the rights basis of a well-known trademark held by a Fortune 500 company and combined this with a final judgment from a prior infringement lawsuit to precisely identify the malicious拼凑 nature of the opposed trademark, ultimately preventing its registration; in addressing a trademark dispute for a holding group, she systematically organized evidence of long-term corresponding use between brands to reinforce the public’s perception of their association, effectively combating malicious squatting and safeguarding the company’s core brand. As Deputy Director of the Academic Committee of the Trademark Agency Branch of the China Trademark Association and a Specially Invited Mediator at the Intellectual Property Mediation Center of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, Attorney Huang Yajun’s professional value extends beyond winning individual cases to improving industry regulations and efficiently resolving disputes. She participates in academic seminars on trademarks to provide guidance on industry practice standards and, in her capacity as a mediator, promotes out-of-court resolutions for trademark disputes, thereby reducing the litigation burden on enterprises. Attorney Huang Yajun’s long-standing experience serving large and medium-sized state-owned enterprises, central government-owned enterprises, and listed companies—including China State Construction Engineering Corporation, China Resources Snow Breweries, and JD Digital Technology—demonstrates her ability to tailor trademark services to meet the brand protection needs of diverse industries. From trademark strategy and risk monitoring to infringement response, she provides full-cycle support, further solidifying her professional standing.
Liu Ming is a Senior Partner at Beijing King&Capital Law Firm, an adjunct professor, a supervisor for Master of Law programs, a commercial arbitrator at the Beijing Arbitration Commission and other institutions, an independent director, and a Senior Data Compliance Specialist. He serves as a member of the 13th Central Committee of the China Democratic League, Deputy Director of the Legal Affairs Committee of the China Democratic League Central Committee, and an expert at the Liaoning China Democratic League Revitalization Think Tank. He has served as a member of the Chaoyang District Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) for the 12th, 13th, and 14th terms; an inspector for the Supervisory Commission; a supervisor for the Political and Legal Affairs Commission; a member of the Administrative Reconsideration Committee; a director of the Law Society; Chair of the Intellectual Property Committee of the National Cultural and Creative Zone; and Chair of the Chaoyang District Intellectual Property Mediation Committee, among other roles. As a representative of Beijing’s “new social strata,” he served in a deputy-division-level secondment at the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Justice (2013–2014). She is a special commentator for CCTV’s Society and Law Channel and has been honored by CCTV as one of the “Most Outstanding Commentators.” With over 20 years of legal practice, she has consistently served as legal counsel to the Ministry of Science and Technology, administrative agencies at all levels, listed companies, and large state-owned and private enterprises. She has represented clients in numerous litigation and arbitration cases involving complex and challenging issues with broad social impact. Cases she has handled have been featured in media reports, including on the *Xinwen Lianbo* (News Broadcast), and have been selected as exemplary cases for university textbooks and as classic court precedents.
Wang Fei is a Senior Partner at Beijing King&Capital Law Firm and Head of the Competition Law Practice Group. She has long specialized in the theory and practice of dispute resolution in intellectual property and competition law, accumulating extensive practical experience over nearly two decades of practice. With a multidisciplinary background in both law and science, she excels at implementing comprehensive strategies in areas such as trademarks, patents, copyrights, and unfair competition. She is particularly adept at resolving technology and competition disputes involving data and the internet, integrating administrative, civil, and criminal avenues to provide clients with systematic dispute resolution solutions. In litigation practice, she is renowned for her rigorous logic, pragmatic strategies, and steady courtroom presence. The team she leads has successfully represented clients in thousands of intellectual property cases to date, recovering losses totaling billions of yuan for clients. Many of these cases have been cited as exemplary precedents by judicial authorities and research institutions, reflecting the high quality of her work and her significant influence within the industry. Her past and current clients include renowned institutions and enterprises such as Microsoft, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tsinghua University, Bank of China, the Head Office of China Construction Bank, Huaxi Biologics, and NBCUniversal. In major disputes, she has effectively helped companies manage legal risks and maintain operational stability. Attorney Wang Fei actively participates in industry governance, leading or contributing to the deliberation and formulation of national and industry standards in areas such as active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), data security, and artificial intelligence. She serves as legal counsel for multiple projects drafting national mandatory standards for traditional Chinese medicine APIs, thereby promoting the integration of legal practice with industrial development. Additionally, she serves as a member of the Expert Committee on Network and Data Security of the China Computer Industry Association and as a director of the China Intellectual Property Research Association. She has been invited to conduct professional exchanges at judicial bodies, government ministries and commissions, and universities, and is dedicated to enhancing the professional standards of intellectual property dispute resolution. With her solid professional competence and ongoing contributions to the industry, Attorney Wang Fei has earned widespread recognition from clients and peers alike.
Liu Hongyu is a partner at Beijing King&Capital Law Firm. She holds a Master of Laws and a Bachelor of Laws from Nankai University and is a registered member of the Society of Trust and Estate Planning (STEP Affiliate). Ms. Liu primarily practices in the areas of trusts, banking, wealth management, corporate law, funds, and asset securitization. She has provided legal services—including the design of family trust, insurance proceeds trust, employee stock incentive trust, special needs trust, and charitable trust structures; implementation of solutions; due diligence; and drafting and revision of legal documents—to numerous domestic and international financial institutions as well as high-net-worth clients. In the field of legal research, he served as associate editor of *In-Depth Analysis of the Legal Theory and Case Law of Insurance Proceeds Trusts* and contributed to the writing of *In-Depth Analysis of the Legal Theory and Case Law of Family Trusts*, among other publications. He has also participated in multiple research projects, including the 2022 China Trust Industry Association project “Research on the Revisions to the Trust Law” and the 2025 China Trust Industry Association project “Research on the Legal Status of Trusts.”
Teng Jie is a partner at Beijing King&Capital Law Firm. He holds a Doctor of Law degree from Nankai University and serves as a member of the Wealth Management Committee of the Beijing Bar Association. He is a registered member of the Society of Trust and Estate Planning (STEP Affiliate), an external supervisor for master’s degree candidates at the School of Law of Civil Aviation University of China, and an adjunct instructor at the School of Humanities and Law of Hebei University of Technology. Attorney Teng has long served numerous financial institutions—including the headquarters of various banks and trust companies—as well as high-net-worth clients, providing services such as legal consultation, compliance assessments, seminar lectures, innovative product design, and the development of comprehensive solutions. He has provided full-cycle legal advisory services for numerous projects involving equity investment, financial asset management, cross-border wealth management and succession planning, family trusts, family business governance, and philanthropy, and serves as the supervisor for several charitable trusts. In the field of legal research, Attorney Teng has co-authored works such as *In-Depth Analysis of the Legal Theory and Case Law of Family Trusts*, *In-Depth Analysis of the Legal Theory and Case Law of Insurance Proceeds Trusts*, and *In-Depth Analysis of the Legal Theory and Case Law of Asset Securitization*. He has also participated in numerous research projects, including the 2022 China Trust Industry Association project *Research on the Revision of the Trust Law* and the 2025 China Trust Industry Association project *Research on the Legal Status of Trusts*.
Zhang Libin is a Senior Partner at Beijing King&Capital Law Firm. He holds a J.D. from the University of Texas and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of International Business and Economics. Admitted to practice in both China and the United States, he has dedicated over three decades to the field of cross-border dispute resolution, combining an international perspective with local expertise. He previously served as an attorney at Paul, Weiss in New York and held positions including Partner at the Beijing Representative Office of Baker Botts, Chief Legal Counsel for M&A in Asia at Siemens, and General Counsel at ENN Group. Since joining King&Capital in 2022, he has continued to drive the professionalization and internationalization of cross-border legal services. Attorney Zhang Libin has long specialized in cross-border investment and international commercial arbitration in the energy sector, serving as an arbitrator for CIETAC and HKI
