20 November 2025 — Baker McKenzie and its joint operation partner, FenXun Partners, collectively earned 51 practice area and 48 lawyer rankings, according to The Legal 500's recently published Greater China 2026 Guide.
Baker McKenzie achieved 27 Tier 1 and Tier 2 practice area rankings, including two improved rankings in Dispute Resolution: Litigation (Hong Kong), moving up from Tier 2 to Tier 1, and in Regulatory: White Collar, Compliance and Investigations (Hong Kong).
Meanwhile, FenXun recorded six Tier 1 and Tier 2 practice area rankings, including two improved rankings in Antitrust and Competition: PRC Firms and Real Estate and Construction: PRC Firms.
In the lawyer categories, among the 48 individual rankings, 63% (32) are ranked in the Hall of Fame/Leading Partner table. Baker McKenzie gained two new individual rankings and two improved rankings.
The following practice areas were recognized:
China
- Antitrust and Competition: Foreign Firms
- Antitrust and Competition: PRC Firms
- Banking and Finance: Foreign Firms
- Banking and Finance: PRC Firms
- Capital Markets: PRC Firms
- Corporate and M&A: Foreign Firms
- Corporate and M&A: PRC Firms
- Data Protection: Foreign Firms
- Data Protection: PRC Firms
- Dispute Resolution: Litigation: Foreign Firms
- Dispute Resolution: Litigation: PRC Firms
- Fintech: Foreign Firms
- Intellectual Property: Foreign Firms
- Intellectual Property: PRC Firms: Contentious
- Intellectual Property: PRC Firms: Non-contentious
- Investment Funds: Foreign Firms
- Labour and Employment: Foreign Firms
- Labour and Employment: PRC Firms
- Life Sciences and Healthcare: Foreign Firms
- Life Sciences and Healthcare: PRC Firms
- Private Equity: Foreign Firms
- Projects and Energy: Foreign Firms
- Real Estate and Construction: Foreign Firms
- Real Estate and Construction: PRC Firms
- Regulatory/Compliance: Foreign Firms
- Regulatory/Compliance: PRC Firms
- Restructuring and Insolvency: Foreign Firms
- Tax: Foreign Firms
- Tax: PRC Firms
- TMT: Foreign Firms
- TMT: PRC Firms
Hong Kong SAR
- Antitrust and Competition
- Asset Finance (including Aviation and Shipping Finance): Aviation Finance
- Banking and Finance
- Capital Markets: Equity
- Corporate (including M&A)
- Data Protection and Cyber Security
- Dispute Resolution: International Arbitration
- Dispute Resolution: Litigation
- Domestic and International Corporate Tax
- Fintech and Financial Services Regulatory (formerly Regulatory)
- Insurance
- Intellectual Property
- Investment Funds
- Labour and Employment
- Private Client and Family
- Private Equity
- Real Estate
- Regulatory: White-Collar, Compliance and Investigations
- Restructuring and Insolvency
- TMT
The following lawyers were recognized:
China
- Grace Li,* Banking and Finance: Foreign Firms — Leading Partner
- Duan Cui,* Banking and Finance: Foreign Firms — Next Generation Partner
- Shirley Wang,* Banking and Finance: PRC Firms — Leading Partner
- Howard Wu, Corporate and M&A: Foreign Firms — Hall of Fame
- Hong Zhang,* Corporate and M&A: Foreign Firms — Next Generation Partner
- Leo Zhang,* Corporate and M&A: PRC Firms — Leading Associate
- Zhenyu Ruan,* Data Protection: Foreign Firms — Leading Partner
- Wenchao He, Labour and Employment: Foreign Firms — Leading Associate
- Zheng Lu,* Labour and Employment: PRC Firms — Leading Partner
- Ting Zhang,* Labour and Employment: PRC Firms — Next Generation Partner
- Alexander Gong,* Real Estate and Construction: Foreign Firms — Leading Partner
- Vivian Wu,* Regulatory/Compliance: PRC Firms — Leading Partner
- Henry Chen,* Regulatory/Compliance: PRC Firms — Next Generation Partner
- Brendan Kelly, Tax: Foreign Firms — Hall of Fame
- Luis Zhang,* Tax: PRC Firms — Next Generation Partner
- Zhenyu Ruan,* TMT: Foreign Firms — Next Generation Partner
Hong Kong SAR
- Stephen Crosswell, Antitrust and Competition — Leading Partner
- Vivian Tsang, Antitrust and Competition — Leading Associate
- Allen Ng, Asset Finance (including Aviation and Shipping Finance) — Hall of Fame
- Andrew Lockhart, Asset Finance (including Aviation and Shipping Finance) — Hall of Fame
- Sally Hung, Banking and Finance — Leading Partner
- Christina Lee, Corporate (including M&A) — Leading Partner
- Tracy Wut, Corporate (including M&A) — Leading Partner
- Cynthia Tang, Dispute Resolution: Litigation — Leading Partner
- Pierre Chan, Domestic and International Corporate Tax — Leading Partner
- Steven Sieker, Domestic and International Corporate Tax — Leading Partner
- Cynthia Tang, Fintech and Financial Services Regulatory (formerly Regulatory) — Hall of Fame
- Karen Man, Fintech and Financial Services Regulatory (formerly Regulatory) — Leading Partner
- Grace Fung, Fintech and Financial Services Regulatory (formerly Regulatory) — Next Generation Partner
- Martin Tam, Insurance — Leading Partner
- Loke-Khoon Tan, Intellectual Property — Hall of Fame
- Isabella Liu, Intellectual Property — Leading Partner
- Ruby Chan, Intellectual Property — Leading Partner
- Andrew Sim, Intellectual Property — Leading Partner
- Jason Ng, Investment Funds — Leading Partner
- Edwin Wong, Investment Funds — Leading Partner
- Hayley Irons, Investment Funds — Next Generation Partner
- Jonathan Isaacs, Labour and Employment — Leading Partner
- Tess Lumsdaine, Labour and Employment — Next Generation Partner
- Sonia Wong, Labour and Employment — Leading Associate
- Derek Poon, Private Equity — Leading Partner
- Robert Wright, Private Equity — Leading Partner
- Xinxing Chen, Private Equity — Next Generation Partner
- Edmond Chan, Real Estate — Leading Partner
- Jeremy Ong, Real Estate — Next Generation Partner
- May Lau, Real Estate — Next Generation Partner
- Mini vandePol, Regulatory: White-Collar, Compliance and Investigations — Leading Partner
- Lex Kuo, TMG — Leading Partner
The Legal 500 rankings are based on a series of criteria, including work conducted by law firms over the past 12 months, experience and depth of teams, areas of specialization, and client feedback.
* Members from FenXun, which is a premier Chinese law firm. FenXun established a joint operation office with Baker McKenzie in China as Baker McKenzie FenXun in 2015.