From the Editor

Welcome to The Legal 500 Asia Pacific rankings. Globally more than six million users visit The Legal 500 website each year and this guide offers those buying legal services, reliable and up-to-date information on the firms operating in Asia Pacific legal market.

Published annually, The Legal 500 Asia Pacific provides unbiased commentary and insight into the legal marketplaces of 25 Asia Pacific jurisdictions. Current rankings and information online are taken from The Legal 500 Greater China 2024 edition, which was published on 16 November 2023. These rankings reflect the results of detailed analysis of law firm submissions and thousands of interviews with GCs and private practice lawyers, conducted by our team of experienced researchers in accordance with our guidelines. Law firms pay nothing to participate and so we are free to make ranking decisions on merit alone.

In addition to ranking firms and listing leading individuals by jurisdiction and practice area to help in-house counsel make an informed choice, the guide also allows law firms to benchmark their own performance against their peers or when seeking to instruct local counsel in an unfamiliar jurisdiction. Every firm ranked – and individual mentioned – in the Legal 500 Asia Pacific guide is ‘recommended’.

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Bei Zhao Editor, The Legal 500 Asia Pacific

Current rankings and information taken from The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2024 – Greater China edition.