Deal Awards
ESG Deal of the Year
IFC's First Sustainability-Linked Loan in Indonesia
ATD Law in association with Mori Hamada
Ashurst
Freshfields
Women's Livelihood Bond™ Series
Clifford Chance
Linklaters
A&O Shearman
C&A Law
TSMP Law Corporation
Advokatfirman Vinge
WongPartnership
Ampd Energy's $27.3 Million Series B Funding
Eversheds Sutherland
Hastings
Charltons
Minter Ellison
Baker McKenzie
Campbells
Suzano S.A.'s $167 Million Debut Panda Bond
Fangda Partners
Norton Rose Fulbright
JunHe
Pinheiro Guimarães e Meissner Sociedade de Advogados
Ganzhou Development Investment Holding's $300 Million
Han Kun Law Offices
Morgan Lewis & Bockius
JunHe
Jingtian & Gongcheng
Ferlo Ecological Restoration EPC Project in Senegal
Jingtian & Gongcheng
Chinachem Group Asia’s First $1 Billion Triple-Themed
Johnson Stokes & Master
Baker Mckenzie
Hahn & Company - SK Specialty Co $1.8 Billion Stake
Kim & Chang
Lee & Ko
LG Electronics $800 Million Dual-Tranche Bond Issuance
Lee & Ko
Linklaters
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
$1.44 Billion Financing of AdaniConneX’s Indian Hyperscale
Milbank
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
Rajah & Tann
Norton Rose Fulbright
Saraf & Partners
A&O Shearman
Finance Deal of the year
Sri Lanka's Landmark $12.5 Billion Landmark Debt Restructuring
Baker McKenzie Wong & Leow
Clifford Chance
White & Case
China-Saudi Gulei Ethylene Project $6.4 Billion Syndicated Loan
Dacheng Law Offices
Dentons
JunHe
$1.6 BIllion Project Financing of Ørsted’s and Cathay Life’s
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
White & Case
Linklaters
Greenberg Traurig
Baker McKenzie
Ant Digital Technologies' Landmark Green Tokenised Financing
King & Wood Mallesons
Linklaters
Walkers
IMM Consortium’s - Ecorbit $1.4 Billion Acquisition Financing
Lee & Ko
Yulchon
Financing for Yondr Group’s First Data Center Campus in Malaysia
Milbank
Zul Rafique & Partners
Maples and Calder
Clifford Chance
Rahmat Lim & Partners
$8.1 billion Osaka Resort Project Financing
Mori Hamada
Nishimura & Asahi
Nagashima Ono & Tsunematsu
Bridge Data Centers Malaysia $2.8 Billion Loan Financing
Rahmat Lim & Partners
Kirkland & Ellis
Linklaters
Zul Rafique & Partners
Mourant Ozannes
Seatrium $1.1 Billion Global Syndicated Bank Guarantee Facility
Simmons & Simmons
$300 Million Financing of the Nhon Trach 3 and 4 LNG Projects
VILAF
Norton Rose Fulbright
YKVN
Pinsent Masons
M&A Deal of the Year
Lenovo - Alat $2 Billion Investment and Partnership
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
STAT Law Firm
Latham & Watkins
Lexmark’s $1.5 Billion Sale to Xerox
Dechert
Ropes & Gray
King & Wood Mallesons
Willkie Farr & Gallagher
Johnson Controls' $8.1 Billion Sale of Its HVAC Business
Fangda Partners
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Axiata Group - Sinar Mas Group $6.5 Billion Merger
Freshfields
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Assegaf Hamzah & Partners
Hiswara Bunjamin & Tandjung
Haitong Securities - Guotai Junan Securities Merger
Haiwen & Partners
Grandall Law Firm
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Clifford Chance
Kirkland & Ellis
PAG’s $6.8 Billion Sale of AirPower’s Industrial Gas Business
Haiwen & Partners
Grandall Law Firm
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Clifford Chance
Cinven's $3.8 Billion Viridium Group Stake Sale
Mori Hamada
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer
Freshfields
Sullivan & Cromwell
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
SoftBank Vision Fund II Offer and Investments in OpenAI
Morrison Foerster
L’Occitane’s $6.5 Billion Take-Private and Delisting
Norton Rose Fulbright
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Clifford Chance
Kirkland & Ellis
Gateway Development Alliance's Takeover and Privatization of Malaysia Airports Holdings
Wong & Partners
Weil, Gotshal & Manges
Unisplendour Corporation - H3C $2.1 BIllion Stake Acquisition
Zhong Lun Law Firm
A&O Shearman
Han Kun Law Offices
Merits & Tree Law Offices
Global Law Office
Private Equity Deal of the Year
Blackstone - Airtrunk $24 Billion Acquisition
Baker McKenzie
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
King & Wood Mallesons
Allens
Hogan Lovells
DLA Piper
Kirkland & Ellis
ESR Group's $7.1 billion Privatization
Fangda Partners
Latham & Watkins
Kirkland & Ellis
Sullivan & Cromwell
Conyers, Dill & Pearman
Rahmat Lim & Partners
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co
Assegaf Hamzah & Partners
Consortium - Zhuhai Wanda Commercial Management Company $11.5 Billion Acquisition
JunHe
Fangda Partners
Haiwen & Partners
Linklaters
Carlyle Group - KFC Holdings Japan $835 Million Acquisition
Kirkland & Ellis
Nishimura & Asahi
Linklaters
Mori Hamada
CVC Capital Partners $1 billion Investment in PT Siloam
Milbank
Drew & Napier
ProfoundBio- Genmab $1.8 Billion Acquisition
Morgan, Lewis & Blockius
Cooley
Travers Smith
JunHe
Shearman & Sterling
Simmons & Simmons
Kromann Reumert
Bain Capital - Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation $3.3 Billion Acquisition
Morrison Foerster
Mori Hamada
Ropes & Gray
Nishimura & Asahi
Apollo Group - Panasonic Holdings $2 Billion Acquisition
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
AMT
Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu
CYVN Holdings - NIO Inc $3 Billion Investment
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
DCP Capital's $1.7 Billion Acquisition of Sun Art Retail Group
Weil, Gotshal & Manges
Sullivan & Cromwell
Kirkland & Ellis
JunHe
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Slaughter and May
Fangda Partners
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer
Baker McKenzie
Restructuring and Insolvency Matter of the Year
Shimao Group Holdings Restructuring
A&O Shearman
Sidley Austin
Weil, Gotshal & Manges
Zhong Lun Law Firm
Appleby
Byju Insolvency
Argus Partners
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
MZM Legal
Hanma Technology Group Restructuring and Reorganization
Dacheng Law Offices
TianYuan Law Firm
Sichuan Trust Bankruptcy and Reorganization
Global Law Office
Bankruptcy Reorganization of Yanggu Xiangguang Copper and Affiliates
JunHe
Better Life Commercial Chain Share Co. and Subsidiaries Reorganization
King & Wood Mallesons
Kaisa Group's $12.3 Billion Debt Restructuring
Maples and Calder
Sidley Austin
Ambatovy Nickel Project Restructuring
Milbank
Sullivan & Cromwell
Madagascar Law Offices
CMS
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer
Sino-Ocean $6 Billion Restructuring
Sidley Austin
A&O Shearman
Clifford Chance
Appleby
Walkers
Commerce & Finance Law Offices
China Aoyuan Group Debt Restructuring
Weil, Gotshal & Manges
Linklaters
A&O Shearman
Harney Westwood & Riegels
Securities Deal of the Year: Debt
JD.com’s $1.75 Billion Convertible Bond Offering
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Shihui Partners
Maples and Calder
Han Kun Law Offices
Latham & Watkins
BASF SE's $2 Billion Debut Panda Bond Offering
Fangda Partners
McCann FitzGerald
Eversheds Sutherland
Rechtsanwälte Steuerberater Solicitors
Global Law Office
CCCC's Issuance of First Series of Offshore RMB Green Bonds
Global Law Office
Ogier
Linklaters
Clifford Chance
Zhong Lun Law Firm
Bank of China Offshore Branches' $8.8 Billion and $781 Million Debt Issuances
Jingtian & Gongcheng
Ping An Insurance $3.5 Billion Convertible Bonds Overseas Issuance
JunHe
Linklaters
Haiwen & Partners
DLA Piper
Republic of Korea's $295 Million and $3.3 Billion Debt Issuances
Lee & Ko
King & Wood Mallesons
Wuxi Construction and Development Investment's World First Yulan Bonds Issuance
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius
JunHe
Walkers
Yinson Production's $1 Billion Project Bonds
Norton Rose Fulbright
Latham & Watkins
Baidu's $3.37 Billion Dual Bond Offerings
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Han Kun Law Offices
Jingtian & Gongcheng
Latham & Watkins
JunHe
Cathay Pacific Airway Warrants and Convertible Bonds Repurchase
Slaughter and May
Clifford Chance
Linklaters
Securities Deal of the Year: Equity
XtalPi's First 18C Listing and Debut in Hong Kong
Sidley Austin
Fangda Partners
Maples and Calder
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer
JunHe
Horizon Robotics' $696 Million Hong Kong IPO
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Davis Polk & Wardwell
King & Wood Mallesons
Maples and Calder
Jingtian & Gongcheng
Midea's $4.6 Billion Hong Kong IPO
Shihui Partners
Jia Yuan Law Offices
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
King & Wood Mallesons
Freshfields
$515 Million IPO of Waaree Energies
Hogan Lovells Lee & Lee
Khaitan & Co
Sagar Associates
Tokyo Metro $2.3 BIllion IPO
Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Davis Polk & Wardwell
AMT
CATL's $4.6 Billion IPO
Kirkland & Ellis
Llinks Law Offices
CM Law Firm
China National Nuclear Power Co. A-shares Issuance
Zhong Lun Law Firm
LG CNS' $823 MIllion IPO
Lee & Ko
Kim & Chang
Latham & Watkins
Paul Hastings
Kioxia Holdings' $797 Million IPO
Sullivan & Cromwell
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Mori Hamada
ZEEKR Intelligent Technology $441 Million U.S. IPO
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Fangda Partners
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Ogier
King & Wood Mallesons
Han Kun Law Offices
Firm Awards
Banking & Finance Firm of the Year
Allen & Gledhill
Baker McKenzie
Fangda Partners
Global Law Office
JunHe
Kim & Chang
Kirkland & Ellis
Lee & Ko
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
WongPartnership
Boutique Law Firm of the Year
Collyer Law
D&P Law Group
Gall
Hastings & Co.
Hugill & Ip
Lindsay Francis & Mangan
Prolegis
Providence Law
Setia Law
Sreenivasan Chambers
Dispute Resolution Firm of the Year
Commerce & Finance Law Offices
Freshfields
Fangda Partners
Kim & Chang
Lee & Ko
Pinsent Masons
Prolegis
Providence Law
Rajah & Tann
WongPartnership
ESG Firm of the Year
Bae, Kim & Lee
Jipyong
Johnson Stokes & Master
Kim & Chang
Lee & Ko
Nishimura & Asahi
Pinsent Masons
Rajah & Tann
FinTech and Digital Assets Firm of the Year
Allen & Gledhill
Baker McKenzie
Eversheds Sutherland
Fangda Partners
Global Law Office
Han Kun Law Offices
Kim & Chang
King & Wood Mallesons
Norton Rose Fulbright
RPC
Insurance Firm of the Year
Fangda Partners
Global Law Office
Johnson Stokes & Master
Kim & Chang
Lee & Ko
Llinks Law Offices
Norton Rose Fulbright
Rajah & Tann
RPC
Zhong Lun Law Firm
Intellectual Property Firm of the Year
Fangda Partners
Jingtian & Gongcheng
JunHe
K-CASE Lawyer
Kim & Chang
Lee & Ko
RWT International Law Office
Shearn Delamore & Co.
Wanhuida Intellectual Property
Zhong Lun Law Firm
Investment Funds Firm of the Year
Allen & Gledhill
Cooley
Deacons
Dechert
Global Law Office
Goodwin
Khaitan & Co
Kirkland & Ellis
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Zhong Lun Law Firm
M&A Firm of the Year
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Fangda Partners
Freshfields
Haiwen & Partners
Han Kun Law Offices
JunHe
Kirkland & Ellis
Latham & Watkins
Morrison Foerster
Rajah & Tann Singapore
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Slaughter and May
Offshore Law Firm of the Year
Appleby
Carey Olsen
Harney Westwood & Riegels
Loeb Smith Attorneys
Maples Group
Walkers
Private Equity Firm of the Year
Fangda Partners
Goodwin Procter
Han Kun Law Offices
JunHe
Kirkland & Ellis
Latham & Watkins
Morrison Foerster
Nishimura & Asahi
Ropes & Gray
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Projects Firm of the Year
Baker Botts
Baker McKenzie
JunHe
Lee Hishammuddin Allen & Gledhill
Nishimura & Asahi
Pinsent Masons
Rajah & Tann
Zhong Lun Law Firm
Regulatory & Investigations Firm of the Year
Allen & Gledhill
Eversheds Sutherland
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
Han Kun Law Offices
JunHe
Kim & Chang
Lee & Ko
Paul Hastings
Rajah & Tann
Zhong Lun Law Firm
Securities Firm of the Year
Commerce & Finance Law Offices
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Han Kun Law Offices
Jingtian & Gongcheng
JunHe
Kirkland & Ellis
Llinks Law Offices
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Tian Yuan Law Firm
Zhong Lun Law Firm
Southeast Asian Firm of the Year
Allen & Gledhill
Rajah & Tann
Shearn Delamore & Co.
Tilleke & Gibbins
UMBRA
TMT Firm of the Year
Allen & Gledhill
Bae, Kim & Lee
Baker McKenzie
Fangda Partners
Han Kun Law Offices
Kim & Chang
Morrison Foerster
Nishimura & Asahi
Rajah & Tann
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Transport Firm of the Year
Baker McKenzie
Fangda Partners
Jingtian & Gongcheng
JunHe
Norton Rose Fulbright
Rajah & Tann
Sullivan & Cromwell
Zhong Lun Law Firm
Lawyers of the Year
Banking and Finance Lawyer of the Year
Hoang Kim Oanh Nguyen, Baker McKenzie
Yin Ge, Han Kun Law Offices
Jiejiang Wu, Jingtian & Gongcheng
Juyi Lu, JunHe
Myoung Chul Kwak, Lee & Ko
Ben Morris, Ropes & Gray
Makiko Harunari, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Quang Truong Nhat, YKVN
Data Privacy Lawyer of the Year
Lim Chong Kin, Drew & Napier
Rhys McWhirter, Eversheds Sutherland
Kevin Duan, Han Kun Law Offices
Cheng Lim, King & Wood Mallesons
Esther Franks, Latham & Watkins
Jennifer Wu, Pinsent Masons
Serene Kan, Wong & Partners
Sun Hee Kim, Yulchon
Employment Lawyer of the Year
Sanjiv Kumar Rajan, Allen & Gledhill
Kaitian Luo, Anli Partners
Tess Lumsdaine, Baker McKenzie
Thuan Dinh Quang, Global Vietnam Lawyers Law
Lifeng Lu, Han Kun Law Offices
Xiao Zhao, Jingtian & Gongcheng
Yimu Bu, JunHe
Hyun-seok Song, Lee & Ko
Heng Seng Lim, Lee Hishammuddin Allen & Gledhill
Jason Lu, River Delta Law Firm
ESG Lawyer of the Year
Rong Fang, Han Kun Law Offices
Chang Wook Min, Jipyong
Fang Yi, JunHe
Hak Jin Lee, Kim & Chang
Sangmin Kim, Lee & Ko
Leo Li, Zhong Lun Law Firm
Fintech and Digital Assets Lawyer of the Year
Wei Luo, Anli Partners
Stephanie Magnus, Baker McKenzie Wong & Leow
Frankie Tam, Eversheds Sutherland
Wei Quan, Han Kun Law Offices
Jacqueline Qiao, JunHe
Gye-Jeong Kim, Kim & Chang
Etelka Bogardi, Norton Rose Fulbright
Sahil Arora, Saraf & Partners
Sion Yoong Tian, WongPartnership
Jeffrey Liu, Zhong Lun Law Firm
International Arbitration Lawyer of the Year
Yee Leong Chong, Allen & Gledhill
Robert Rhoda, Dentons
Cavinder Bull, SC, Drew & Napier
Chen Yang, Jincheng Tongda & Neal Law Firm
Arthur Dong, JunHe
Sanghoon Han, Lee & Ko
Yi-Jun Kang, Morrison Foerster
Abraham Vergis, SC, Providence Law
Friven Yeoh, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Swee Yen Koh, SC, WongPartnership
Investment Funds Lawyer of the Year
Brandon Tee, BTPLaw
Benjaporn Puttinan, Chairin & Partners
Pang Lee, Cooley
Lu Ran, Han Kun Law Offices
Shelley Wang, JunHe
Chul-Ho Kwon, Lee & Ko
Geoffrey Chan, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Zhenliang Xu, Zhong Lun Law Firm
IPO Lawyer of the Year
Michael Yu, Cooley
Li He, Davis Polk & Wardwell
Zaiguang Lu, Han Kun Law Offices
Zhiqiang Zhang, Jingtian & Gongcheng
Rajiv Gupta, Latham & Watkins
Ke Geng, O'Melveny & Meyers
Takahiro Saito, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Haiping Li, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Litigator of the Year
Martin Rogers, Davis Polk & Wardwell
Cavinder Bull, SC, Drew & Napier
Chen Yang, Jincheng Tongda & Neal
Sang-Hyuk Ha, Kim & Chang
Daniel Chia, Prolegis
Danny Ong, Setia Law
Steve Kwok, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Mohit Rohatgi, Trilegal
Wendy Lin, WongPartnership
Baosheng Zhang, Zhong Lun Law Firm
M&A Lawyer of the Year
Cherrie Shi, Baker McKenzie FenXun
Miranda So, Davis Polk & Wardwell
Maria Tan Pedersen, Dechert
Gloria Xu, Han Kun Law Offices
Joe Chen, JunHe
Daehoon Koo, Lee & Ko
Daniel Kim, O'Melveny & Meyers
Jonathan Stone, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Kay Ian Ng, Sullivan & Cromwell
Maria Hou, Zhong Lun Law Firm
Private Client Lawyer of the Year
Pierre Chan, Baker McKenzie
Jeffrey Lee, Charles Russell Speechlys
Jing Xue, Dacheng Law Offices
Huiyi Song, Han Kun Law Offices
Alfred Ip, Hugill & Ip
Angell Xi, Jingtian & Gongcheng
Divi Dutta, Khaitan & Co.
Suzanne Johnston, Stephenson Harwood
Tahera Mandviwala, TDT Legal
Private Equity Lawyer of the Year
Shuting Qi, Han Kun Law Offices
Lu Zhou, Jingtian & Gongcheng
Sammuel Zhao, JunHe
Je Won Lee, Lee & Ko
Selena She, Llinks law Offices
Ning Zhang, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius
Saeko Inaba, Ropes & Gray
Gunhee Kim, Yulchon
Projects Lawyer of the Year
Nadia Soraya, HHP Law Firm
Jian Yao, Jingtian & Gongcheng
Chang Sup Kwon, Kim & Chang
Kwang Yul Kim, Lee & Ko
Per Lindberg, Morrison Foerster
Rio Fafen Ciptaswara, Nadim Zaki Fornawansyah Law Firm
Mark Hu, Pinsent Masons
Shera Chuah Tien Jing, Rosli Dahlan Saravana Partnership
Jun Cheng, Zhong Lun Law Firm
Transport Lawyer of the Year
Cheng Shen, Jingtian & Gongcheng
Gavin Wang, JunHe
Yang Ho Yoon, Lee & Ko
Ben Rose, Norton Rose Fulbright
Ching-Yang Lin, Sullivan & Cromwell
Chenbiao Li, Zhong Lun Law Firm
In-House Awards
Asian In-House Legal Team of the Year
American Express
Bank of Singapore
British American Tobacco
IBM Japan, Ltd.
Janssen Korea
Mastercard
NetEase
Singapore Exchange Group
UBS AG
Unilever
General Counsel of the Year
Shruti Sharma, 42Gears Mobility Systems
Joshua Chu, China Information Technology Development
Grace Yuen, CPP Investments
Al-Shwaid de Leon Ismael, Frontiir Company Limited
Eddie Chan, Hong Kong Tourism Board
Gregory Chew, Nanyang Technological University
Putri Sukma Mandiri, PT Jala Akuakultur Lestari Alamku
Noverina Swasty, PT Tripatra Engineers and and Constructors
Lucy Beaumont, Unilever
Lingjun Feng, Wenshan Finance and Investment Group
Other Awards
Asian Diversity Initiative of the Year
Han Kun Law Offices
Johnson Stokes & Master
JunHe
Khaitan & Co
Nishimura & Asahi
Asian Pro Bono Initiative of the Year
Allen & Gledhill
Bae, Kim & Lee
Baker McKenzie
Han Kun Law Offices
Johnson Stokes & Master
JunHe
O'Melveny & Meyers
Patricia Ho & Associates
Legal AI Product of the Year
JunHe
Lexagle
Nadim Zaki Fornawansyah Law Firm
Singapore International Mediation Centre
Thomson Reuters
Strategic Legal Operations Team
AIA Singapore
Bayer
CPP Investments
Johnson Stokes & Master
JunHe
Kim & Chang
Lee & Ko
PepsiCo
PwC
Rajah & Tann