Fangda Partners is a
law firm
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headquartered in
Shanghai
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,
China
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with offices in Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Hong Kong. It is one of the
15 largest China-based law firms measured by number of lawyers. It is one of the most profitable law firms in China measured by either revenue or profit per partner and is generally believed to be the most difficult law firm to be hired at.
Fangda currently has offices in Beijing,
Hong Kong
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,
Shanghai
Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flow ...
,
Shenzhen
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and
Guangzhou
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.
Fangda is smaller than other large law firms and has a relatively narrower focus on high-value work for high-end financial institution clients and major multinationals. While Fangda is making efforts to break into other practice areas, the firm currently focuses on mergers and acquisitions, private equity, commercial litigation and arbitration, and bankruptcy as well as the capital market.
History
Fangda Partners was founded in Shanghai in 1993 by six partners.
Fangda opened an office in Hong Kong in April 2012, following the recruitment of former
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP (informally Freshfields, or FBD) is an international law firm headquartered in London, and a member of the Magic Circle. The firm has 28 offices in 17 jurisdictions across Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North ...
litigation partner Peter Yuen.
Fangda joined
Ius Laboris
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, the international HR
law firm network
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, in 2012.
Main practice areas
Fangda has the following main practice areas:
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* Antitrust/Competition
* Asset-Backed Securities
* Banking & Finance
* Capital Markets
* Compliance & Government Enforcement
* Dispute Resolution
* Energy & Infrastructure
* Finance Institutions
* General Industries
* Insolvency & Restructuring
* Intellectual Property
* Investment Funds
* Investment Management
* Labour & Employment
* Life Sciences & Healthcare
* M&A
* Private Equity
* Private Wealth Management
* Real Estate & Construction
* Technology, Media & Telecommunications
See also
*
List of largest Chinese law firms
This is a list of the largest China-based law firms by revenue in 2017.
See also
*List of largest law firms by revenue
*List of largest United States-based law firms by profits per partner
*List of largest United Kingdom-based law firms by reven ...
*
Legal History of China
Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior,Robertson, ''Crimes against humanity'', 90. with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate. It has been vari ...
*
Chinese law
Chinese law is one of the oldest legal traditions in the world. The core of modern Chinese law is based on Germanic-style civil law, socialist law, and traditional Chinese approaches.
For most of the history of China, its legal system h ...
References
External links
Fangda Partners official site
Law firms of China
Law firms established in 1993