植德律师事务所

Merits & Tree Law Offices (M&T) takes “honorable, professional, co-operative, enterprising and friendly” as our values. After five years of development, M&T has grown into a comprehensive law firm with six offices nationwide (Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Wuhan, Zhuhai and Haikou), and more than 450 lawyers and professionals, including 110 partners.

Under the mission of “Quality Services Enable Clients”, M&T strives to deliver full-range, multidimensional and one-stop comprehensive legal services at each stage of the “investment (issuer-end)”, “transaction (asset-end)”, and “exit (dispute-end)” cycle along the life chain of its domestic and foreign corporate, financial and capital market clients from their stages of startup and growth to maturity.

M&T’s partners are all top-tier experts in the PRC legal industry. They have accumulated rich experience from their previous career paths, including leading international and PRC law firms, financial investment institutions, Fortune 500 companies, and judicial authorities. Our partners are highly seasoned in project management, organisation and execution, and capable of representing complex, challenging and ground-breaking transactions or cases. About half of our partners have an international education background and bilingual capabilities.

Awards

Chambers

• 2020-2022 Private Equity/Venture Capital

The Legal 500

• 2019-2022 Private Equity/Venture Capital

ALB

• 2022 China Law Awards; 2018-2022 Employer Of Choice; 2020-2022 IP Rankings; 2018, 2020, 2022 China’s Fastest Growing Firms

China Business Law Journal

• 2019, 2022 Notable Achiever; 2018-2022 China Business Law Awards; 2019-2021 Deals of the Year

IFLR 1000 Asia-Pacific

• 2020-2022 Private Equity; 2020 Investment Funds

IFLR 1000 China

• 2022 Private Equity; 2022 Capital Markets; 2022 Investment Funds; 2020, 2022 Financial & Corporate

Asialaw Profiles

• 2020-2022 Private Equity; 2020-2022 Media & Entertainment; 2020-2022 TMT

Key Practice Areas

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