ESTABLISHED IN 1993
Number of partners: 898
Number of associates: 3,928
Global offices: 50
Firm Overview
DeHeng Law Offices is one of the leading law firms providing comprehensive legal services. It was founded in 1993 as China Law Office and was renamed in 1995 as DeHeng Law Offices, which now has 50 domestic and foreign offices and more than 3,900 legal professionals.
For more than 29 years, DeHeng has been committed to providing quality and efficient legal services for clients at home and abroad. The firm has made outstanding contributions to the economy’s reform and opening-up, national development, and the prevalence of rule of law. We have supported key rational infrastructure projects and created a number of first-in-the-field Chinese legal services, including the Three Gorges Project and the South-North Water Transfer Project. We also acted as legal advisers for the largest IPOs in the history of domestic capital markets, including the listing of Country Garden and Poly Property. We also provided services for: Yunnan Baiyao on merging with Baiyao Holdings and listing through merger; Shuanghui I&D on merging with Shuanghui Group through absorption; the listing of SMIC; the CNOOC IPO and listing on the Main Board of SSE, and so on.
Awards
• DeHeng won several 2022 IFLR1000 China Law Awards
• DeHeng was included on the list of Outstanding Law Firms for IPO in CBLJ, 2022
• DeHeng Was Shortlisted for 14 Nominations for the 2022 China Law and Practice Awards
• DeHeng Won the “Golden League” Award of CBLJ 2022 and its China Business Law Awards
• DeHeng was recommended by the 2022 LEGALBAND China Top Law Firm Lawyers List
• DeHeng was shortlisted for the 2022 Thomson Reuters ALB China Law Awards
• DeHeng lawyers were listed in Dawkins’ A Client’s Guide 2022: Capital Markets – Top Law Firms and Lawyers in China
• DeHeng had several deals listed as Deals of the Year 2021 by China Business Law Journal
• DeHeng had eight lawyers and six practice areas named on the Global Guide of Chambers and Partners 2022
• DeHeng had 24 lawyers and 13 practice areas named on the Great China Guide of Chambers and Partners 2022
• DeHeng had many lawyers and 13 practice areas recommended by 2022 The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific Guide
Key Practice Areas
Dispute resolution; Criminal; Capital markets; Banking & finance; M&A; Cross-border investment & finance; Construction & real estate; Antitrust & competition; Intellectual property; WTO; Employment & social security; International construction & projects; Bankruptcy & restructuring; Government & public policy; Healthcare industry; Environment; Maritime; Science and technology; Tax; Compliance.
Notable Deals
Recognised by China Business Law Journal as Deals of the Year
| Financing of Minsheng’s Airbus aircraft purchase | 2017 | US$450 million | Details |
| US ITC’s section 337 investigations against Chinese steel companies | 2017 | N/A | Details |
| China National Gold Group makes cross-border strategic investment in Russian solid mining sector | 2018 | N/A | Details |
| USD9.1bn loan to Amur GCC in Russia | 2022 | US$9.1 billion, US$2.6 billion, US$6.5 billion | Details |
| CTG issues exchangeable green bonds | 2019 | N/A | Details |
| Syndicated loan for SK Hynix plant project | 2019 | US$3.5 billion | Details |
| Yangtze River PPP project | 2020 | N/A | Details |
| Chalco quashes Korean anti-dumping investigation | 2021 | N/A | Details |
| FocalTech, Sunvolve patent application dispute | 2022 | N/A | Details |
| USD9.1bn loan to Amur GCC in Russia | 2022 | US$9.1 billion (US$2.6 billion, US$6.5 billion) | Details |
| CTG issues exchangeable green bonds | 2019 | N/A | Details |
| Syndicated loan for SK Hynix plant project | 2019 | US$3.5 billion | Details |
| Yangtze River PPP project | 2020 | N/A | Details |
| Chalco quashes Korean anti-dumping investigation | 2021 | N/A | Details |
| FocalTech, Sunvolve patent application dispute | 2022 | N/A | Details |
Contact us
Beijing Head Office
12/F, Tower B, Focus Place
19 Finance Street, Xicheng District
Beijing 100033, China
Telephone: +86 10 5268 2888
Fax: +86 10 5268 2999
Email: deheng@dehenglaw.com
Shanghai
23/F, Shanghai Magnolia Square
501 Dong Da Ming Road
Hongkou District
Shanghai 200080, China
Telephone: +86 21 5598 9888/5598 9666
Fax: +86 21 5598 9898
Email: shanghai@dehenglaw.com
Guangzhou
12/F, Tower F, GTLAND Autumn Plaza
11 Zhujiang East Road
Zhujiang New Town
Tianhe 510620, China
Telephone: +86 20 3801 1266
Fax: +86 20 3801 1230
Email: guangzhou@dehenglaw.com
Shenzhen
11F, Section B Anlian Plaza
No.4018, Jintian Rd
Shenzhen 518038, China
Telephone: +86 755 8828 6488/8828 6403
Fax: +86 755 8828 6499
Email: shenzhen@dehenglaw.com
Changchun • Tianjin • Dalian • Changsha
Wuhan • Shenyang • Xi’an • Jinan
Hangzhou • Zhengzhou• Chongqing
Ürümqi • Fuzhou • Nanjing • Chengdu
Kunming • Hefei • Taiyuan • Zhuhai
Suzhou • Wenzhou • Wuxi • Dongguan
Sanya • Ningbo • Nanning • Shijiazhuang
Nanchang • Yinchuan • Xiamen
Xixian New Area • Lanzhou • Guiyang
Hengqin • Haikou • Qingdao • Hong Kong
The Hague New York • Paris • Dubai
Brussels • Silicon Valley • Almaty
Nur Sultan • Tashkent • Vientiane
Website
www.dehenglaw.com
