德恒律师事务所

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.