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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 — WINNER
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 & Co.
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
Nishimura & Asahi

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
A&O Shearman

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 — WINNER
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
White & Case
Linklaters
Greenberg Traurig
Baker McKenzie

Ant Digital Technologies' Landmark Green Tokenised Financing
King & Wood Mallesons
Linklaters
Walkers
JunHe

IMM Consortium’s - Ecorbit $1.4 Billion Acquisition Financing
Lee & Ko
Yulchon
Kim & Chang

Financing for Yondr Group’s First Data Center Campus in Malaysia
Milbank
Zul Rafique & Partners
Maples and Calder
Clifford Chance
Rahmat Lim & Partners
Walkers

$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 — WINNER
Dechert
Ropes & Gray
King & Wood Mallesons
Willkie Farr & Gallagher

Johnson Controls' $8.1 Billion Sale of Its HVAC Business
Fangda Partners
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett 
Freshfields
Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu

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
Clifford Chance
JunHe

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
Freshfields

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 
Appleby

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
Walkers

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
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison 
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Freshfields

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 
Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu

CVC Capital Partners $1 billion Investment in PT Siloam 
Milbank
Drew & Napier
Allen & Gledhill 

ProfoundBio- Genmab $1.8 Billion Acquisition
Morgan, Lewis & Blockius
Cooley
Travers Smith
JunHe
A&O Shearman
Simmons & Simmons
Kromann Reumert

Bain Capital - Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation $3.3 Billion Acquisition — WINNER
Morrison Foerster
Mori Hamada
Ropes & Gray
Nishimura & Asahi
Kim & Chang
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Baker McKenzie

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
Walkers

Byju Insolvency
Argus Partners
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
MZM Legal
Kirkland & Ellis

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  — WINNER
Maples and Calder
Sidley Austin
Kirkland & Ellis

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
Walkers

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  — WINNER
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
Maples and Calder

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  — WINNER
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
Nishimura & Asahi
Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu

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 — WINNER
  • 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 — WINNER
  • Setia Law
  • Sreenivasan Chambers

Dispute Resolution Firm of the Year

  • Commerce & Finance Law Offices    
  • Freshfields  — WINNER  
  • 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 — WINNER
  • Rajah & Tann

FinTech and Digital Assets Firm of the Year

  • Allen & Gledhill — WINNER
  • 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  — WINNER
  • 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  
  • Yenlex Partners  — WINNER
  • 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 — WINNER

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  — WINNER

Offshore Law Firm of the Year

  • Appleby
  • Carey Olsen
  • Harney Westwood & Riegels
  • Loeb Smith Attorneys
  • Maples Group
  • Walkers — WINNER

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 — WINNER

Projects Firm of the Year

  • Baker Botts  — WINNER   
  • 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 — WINNER
  • 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  — WINNER   
  • 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  — WINNER    
  • 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  — WINNER    
  • 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 — WINNER
  • 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  — WINNER

Data Privacy Lawyer of the Year

  • Lim Chong Kin, Drew & Napier
  • Rhys McWhirter, Eversheds Sutherland
  • Kevin Duan, Han Kun Law Offices — WINNER
  • 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  — WINNER   
  • 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  — WINNER

Fintech and Digital Assets Lawyer of the Year

  • Wei Luo, Anli Partners
  • Stephanie Magnus, Baker McKenzie Wong & Leow — WINNER
  • 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 — WINNER
  • 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 — WINNER
  • 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 — WINNER
  • Ke Geng, O'Melveny & Myers
  • 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 — WINNER
  • 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 & Myers
  • Jonathan Stone, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
  • Kay Ian Ng, Sullivan & Cromwell — WINNER
  • 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  — WINNER
  • 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 — WINNER
  • 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  — WINNER

Transport Lawyer of the Year

  • Cheng Shen, Jingtian & Gongcheng
  • Gavin Wang, JunHe
  • Yang Ho Yoon, Lee & Ko
  • Ben Rose, Norton Rose Fulbright  — WINNER
  • 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.  — WINNER
  • Janssen Korea
  • Mastercard
  • NetEase
  • Singapore Exchange Group
  • UBS AG
  • Unilever

Presented by:   

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  — WINNER
  • 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  — WINNER
  • 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 & Myers
  • Patricia Ho & Associates — WINNER

Legal AI Product of the Year

  • JunHe — WINNER
  • 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 — WINNER

Grand Prix Awards

Asian Law Firm Leader of the Year

  • Cyril Shroff, Cyril Amarchand Mangalda

International Law Firm Leader of the Year

  • Jonathan Hammond, Simmons & Simmons

International Law Firm of the Year

  • Freshfields

Asian Law Firm of the Year

  • Mori Hamada