Recently, worldwide famous legal media China Business Law Journal released the report “The A-List 2017: China’s Top 100 Lawyers”. Mr. Cui Liguo and Ms. Xu Ling of Guantao were honored in the list.
Mr. Cui is the founding partner and the Chairman of the Management Committee of Guantao Law Firm. With over-20-year experience of practicing law, Mr. Cui specializes in capital market, M&A, investment and financing. Mr. Cui has provided legal service for the onshore/offshore offering and listing projects of stock, bond and trust fund of many corporations and institutions, as well as share purchase and asset purchase of many listed and non-listed companies at home and abroad, covering a wide range of industries including mineral, energy, pharmaceutical, real estate, manufacturing, communication, hotel, electric power, finance, electronics, food and special steel. Mr. Cui was named as one of China’s Top10 most influential lawyers by ALB China Power List 2015, and from the year of 2008 to 2017, he has also been nominated several times the Managing Partner of the Year by ALB China Law Awards consecutively.
Xu Ling is an executive partner in Guantao Beijing Office. She specializes in cross-border M&A, capital markets, private equity (PE), and foreign direct investment (FDI), with a particular focus on the energy & natural resources sectors. In recent years, she has become involved in international commercial arbitration and other dispute resolution. Ms. Xu provides very professional and high-calibre PRC legal services to international and domestic clients on both inbound and outbound investment. After 15 years of practice, she has earned a good reputation from clients and peers for her responsiveness, dedication, high efficiency and professionalism. Ms. Xu is selected as a member in the “Leading Talents” panel of the PRC lawyers practicing foreign-related business law by the All China Lawyers Association. Since 2011, she has been ranked or recommended consecutively each year by Chambers Global, Chambers Asia, The Legal 500: Asia Pacific, Asialaw Leading Lawyers, and IFLR 1000 as a “Leader in their Fields” or preeminent lawyer in the practices areas of “Energy & Natural Resources” and “Corporate / M&A”.
The A-List is based on extensive research conducted by China Business Law Journal. To identify the top 100 lawyers for China practice in 2017, it turned to thousands of in-house counsels in China and around the world, as well as partners at Chinese and international law firms, and asked them to tell which lawyers should make the cut.