Merits & Tree Law Offices

Merits & Tree Law Offices aims to be a law firm that is characterised as “honorable, professional, co-operative, enterprising and friendly”, a law firm that reacts to the evolving and innovating market’s demand for an innovative legal service provider, and provide “professional, full range and one-stop” legal solutions to meet the increasingly complex and highly creative business requirements of enterprises and entrepreneurs.

Merits & Tree implements an “integrated” management and operation system. It enables us to gather the most professional strength of the firm to provide legal services at each of the “investment (issue-end)”, “transaction (asset-end)” and “exit (dispute-end)” stages along the industry chain to our domestic and foreign clients in corporates, finance and capital markets.

Merits & Tree’s partners are top-tier experts in the PRC legal services industry, having rich experience in leading international and PRC law firms. They are highly seasoned in project management, organisation and execution, and capable of representing complex, challenging and/or ground-breaking transactions or cases. More than half of our associates have an international education background and bilingual capability. We have also established a network of relationships with well-known law firms in many countries and regions.

With an emphasis on legal professional ability, our associates pay attention to the in-depth research on the industry frontier and ecology, combine their professional legal knowledge and skills with excellent business thinking and judgment, and devote themselves to providing professional, forward looking and innovative high-quality legal services for clients, with the aim to become an innovative and reliable legal service brand in the market.

Awards

• Chambers & Partners
2020-2021 Private equity & venture capital
• The Legal 500
2019-2021 Private equity & venture capital
• ALB
2018-2021 China Employer of Choice
2018, 2020 Top 10 Fastest Growing Law Firm
2020-2021 China IP Law Firm
• China Business Law Journal
2018-2021 China Business Law Awards
2019 Outstanding Trading Awards
• IFLR 1000 Asia-Pacific
2020, 2022 Private equity; 2020 Investment fund
• Asialaw Profile
2020 Private equity
2020 Media and Entertainment; 2020 TMT

Key Practice Areas

Banking and finance; Investment funds; Family law and wealth management; Private equity/venture capital; Mergers & acquisitions; Real estate and infrastructure; Securities and capital markets; Dispute resolution; Intellectual property; Special assets and bankruptcy; Restructuring; Regulatory and compliance; Antitrust and competition law; Human resources and labour relations; Tax.