Recently Jingtian & Gongcheng was listed on the” IFLR1000 Firms to Watch In 2018” by the International Financial Law Review.

The team from IFLR1000 conducted a market survey on over one-thousand law firms before narrowing the list down to less than forty-five, among which Jingtian & Gongcheng was the only Chinese law firm.

IFLR1000’s evaluation of Jingtian & Gongcheng

• Jingtian & Gongcheng is strong in mergers & acquisitions and equity capital markets, and enjoys an outstanding reputation in the area of IPO on HKEX. The firm offers considerable international IPO services and is seasoned in solving VIE merger control issues for Chinese internet companies.
• The global collaboration between Jingtian & Gongcheng and Mayer Brown since 2015 has been preforming quite well. As Hong Kong has been deemed the ideal place for IPOs by many Chinese corporations, the law firm’s Hong Kong services has stood out. For example, in 2017, Jingtian & Gongcheng offered legal service to the largest Chinese online car dealer — Yixin Group -- in its IPO in Hong Kong. The initial offering raised US$ 870 million, 560 times oversubscribed.
• There is a lot to look forward to in 2018, when Jingtian & Gongcheng will provide legal services to two well-known internet companies in issuing IPOs overseas. One was listed in United States in March and the other will go public in Hong Kong at the end of this year.
• In addition to its core practice areas, Jingtian & Gongcheng has been expanding to new territories such as intellectual property and criminal law. In particular, the compliance practice area launched in 2016 has been very impressive with an agreement signed with CITIC Securities in last year.
• In recruiting new talent, Jingtian & Gongcheng (Shanghai office) has doubled the number of partners with many additions of excellent new partners and their teams. Jingtian & Gongcheng opened its Tianjin office in 2017 and is planning to add a branch in Nanjing and plans to relocate legal teams from Shanghai and Beijing to these new offices.

The most impressive accomplishments Jingtian & Gongcheng had upon the research team:

• Meitu Inc.’s IPO on the Mainboard of HKEX (Issuer’s legal counsel)
• Suning Group Acquires Inter Milan at US$ 290 million (Acquirer’s legal counsel)
• Wanda Film Holding Co., Ltd. Acquires Mtime at US$ 280 million
• Yixin Group’s Red Chip IPO on the Mainboard of HKEX (Underwriter’s legal counsel)
• iQIYI Inc. Listed on NASDAQ (Issuer’s legal counsel)

International Financial Law Review launched IFLR1000 in 1990. IFLR is a leading financial and law publication focused on providing lawyers with information about financial institutions, corporations and international financing. The law firms on the IFLR1000 Firms To Watch 2018 list excelled in either penetrating a new business sector, or expanding their office and/or personnel swiftly and broadly, for example, through increased market share in transactions, or fresh and innovative customer service and team training programs.