In April 2025, Zhong Yin Law Firm was recognized by LEGALBAND as one of China’s Top Ranked Law Firms in 2025, earning top rankings in the following practice areas:

• Asset Securitization and Derivatives

• Banking and Finance

• Labor Law

• International Trade and Customs Law

• Bankruptcy Reorganization and Liquidation

• Real Estate and Construction

• Intellectual Property: Contentious

• Overseas Investment

  White-Collar Crime & Commercial Crime

Top Ranked Lawyers

Dong Wan

Practice Area:

Asset Securitization and Derivatives

Lawyer Dong Wan is highly skilled in the area of asset securitization and derivatives, with a wide range of clients. Lawyer Dong has handled many projects in this area which are the “first” offerings in the country or the industry. In recent years, Lawyer Dong Wan has undertaken a number of infrastructure quasi-REITs with great industry influence, including the first exchange capital-increase quasi-REITs “Ping An Securities-CRCC Venture Building Asset-backed Special Plan (quasi-REITs)”.

Jia Zheng

Practice Area:

International Trade and Maritime Affairs

Zhong Yin International Trade practice group led by Lawyer Jia Zheng has profound professional expertise and rich practical experience in the areas of international trade, trade remedies, WTO, and maritime affairs. They are able to review and produce documents and materials in multiple languages, provide clients with consultation, advice, and participation in negotiations and other legal services, and have achieved remarkable results.

Gao Jinghe
Practice Area:
Intellectual Property: Contentious

Gao Jinghe, a senior partner at Zhong Yin Law Firm, specializes in intellectual property dispute resolution, trade secret protection, standard-essential patents (SEPs), and competition & antitrust law. Notable cases he led have been included in: guiding cases or IP trial guidance of the Supreme People’s Court, 100 cases in five years of the Intellectual Property Division under the Supreme People’s Court, and Top 10 IP cases in Chinese courts. He has also participated in such groundbreaking cases as China’s first-ever plant variety name protection case and China’s first data scraping unfair competition dispute. Gao Jinghe has been recognized in: Chambers Greater China Region Guide 2025 in the area of Intellectual Property: Litigation, 2025 LEGALBAND China Top Ranked Lawyers in the area of Intellectual Property: Litigation, and China’s 50 Intellectual Property Lawyers under the Age of 50.

Liu Xiaoyu

Practice Area:
Banking and Finance

Liu Xiaoyu, a senior partner at Zhong Yin Law Firm, specializes in both contentious and non-contentious matters in banking and financial legal services. With a deep understanding of the latest laws and regulations and industry compliance requirements, Liu provides clients with practical, commercially viable solutions from both legal and business perspectives.

Liu has been recognized in prestigious rankings, including: 2024 LEGALBAND BOB (Best of the Best) China Top 30 Lawyers, 2023 LEGALBAND China Top 15 Lawyers: Finance & Asset Management, Benchmark Litigation China 2025 Rankings – Rising Star in Dispute Resolution, and 2025 Asian Legal Business Dispute Resolution Lawyer of the Year (Nominee).

Liu Zhenyu

Practice Area:

Banking and Finance"& "Bankruptcy, Restructuring and Liquidation

Specializing in banking and finance practices for many years, Lawyer Liu Zhenyu has provided comprehensive legal services, representing a number of well-known banks and financial institutions at home and abroad, such as China Minsheng Bank, Hua Xia Bank, China CITIC Bank, Yingda Fund, and has extensive practice experience in this area.

Lawyer Liu Zhenyu is skilled in handling legal affairs related to bankruptcy, restructuring and liquidation, and has numerous representations. With his in-depth research and impressive achievements in this area, Lawyer Liu has also gained widespread favor and recognition from clients and peers.

Su Rongjian

Practice Area:

Real Estate and Construction Engineering

Lawyer Su Rongjian has extensive legal service experience in real estate, finance, M&A, and other areas. Su Rongjian’s practice group actively participates in the development and construction of Xiongan, and provides comprehensive legal advisory services to enterprises such as China Xiongan Group Urban Development Investment Co., Ltd. and China Xiongan Group Public Service Management Co., Ltd. on a long-term basis, and has been highly recognized by clients. Meanwhile, Su Rongjian's practice group has also established strong cooperative relationships with renowned real estate enterprises such as CIFI Group, Longfor Group, and HuaYuan Group, and delivered top-tier legal services. Furthermore, Lawyer Su Rongjian has actively been representing financial institutions including the headquarters of the Bank of Communications and the Agricultural Development Bank of China, China Life Insurance, PICC and China Gold Coin Group in litigation, arbitration, and disposal of non-performing assets. His comprehensive service capabilities, innovative legal thinking, and timely and effective feedback have made a profound impression on clients.

Yang Baoquan

Practice Area:
Labor Law

Yang Baoquan leads a dedicated team of over 10 professionals, serving as long-term legal counsel for hundreds of enterprises across industries such as finance, insurance, internet, technology, manufacturing, education, and media. He also provides services to many enterprises and public institutions in the areas of confidentiality & non-compete agreements, labor arbitration & litigation, corporate governance & equity incentives, labor and employment compliance, staff layoff and reduction and placement, as well as civil and commercial dispute resolution and accumulated rich experience.

Yang has successfully handled many high-impact cases and has been consistently ranked in international legal directories, including Chambers and Partners, for his outstanding contributions.

Harvey Yan

Practice Area:
Overseas Investment

Harvey Yan, a senior partner at Zhong Yin Law Firm in Beijing, has over 15 years of experience in cross-border investment, international M&A, securities & capital markets, and complex commercial litigation & arbitration. His expertise spans: cross-border deal structuring, overseas direct investment compliance, foreign exchange regulations, international project finance, and cross-border dispute resolution.

With a global practice covering Russia, Central & Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa, and the Americas, Harvey has advised state-owned enterprises, listed companies, private corporations, and multinational clients at home and abroad on high-stakes transactions and disputes.

Yuan Xinjian

Practice Area:

Bankruptcy, Restructuring and Liquidation

Lawyer Yuan Xinjian has led highly focused bankruptcy, restructuring and liquidation projects in the past three years, involving real estate, medicine, biotechnology, equipment manufacturing and other industries, and the restructuring cases he handled have been awarded classic precedents by the courts for many times.

ABOUT LEGALBAND

As an internationally renowned legal ranking agency, LEGALBAND has been committed to closely monitoring and conducting in-depth research on the global legal services market, covering dozens of jurisdictions in the mainland of China. aiming to become the most influential and credible legal ranking brand in China and win the respect and reverence of the practitioners of commercial law. For the list of winners, LEGALBAND's research team based in China has carefully studied the submissions delivered by major law firms and lawyers for several months, and conducted in-depth research on clients and legal peers through methods including but not limited to phone calls and emails, and combined with the long-term observation and insight of the research team on the Chinese legal market, and the final ranking is presented.