Guantao recoginsed by "2024 ALB China M&A Rankings"
On 23 September 2024, Asian Legal Business (ALB) officially released the 2024 ALB China M&A Rankings, and Guantao was listed in the rankings for nine consecutive years for its outstanding market performance in the M&A area and strong reputation among clients.
Corporate and M&A is one of Guantao’s core practice areas. Over the years, Guantao has been a market leader and widely recognized in this area. It has also been ranked and recommended by well-known legal rating agencies at home and abroad for many years.
In recent years, Guantao M&A team has represented a number of international and domestic MNCs, funds and listed companies in many sophiscated and complex M&A transactions. The services cover various areas ranging from industry access laws and policies, transaction structures design, due diligence, project financing, drafting, negotiation and signing of transaction documents, regulatory approvals, to the closing and synergistic integration stages of deals, covering various professional areas such as tax, foreign exchange, compliance, environment, real estate, intellectual property, employment and anti-trust.
In addition, Guantao provides corporate governance legal services to many clients, including Fortune 500 companies, well-known MNCs, leading companies, foreign and domestic listed companies, as well as investment funds. Guantao has rich experience in many industries such as energy and natural resources, finance, high-tech, real estate and infrastructure, manufacturing, TMT, e-commerce, pharmaceutical and health and life sciences.
The research of the 2024 ALB China M&A Ranking covers M&A deals in the period spanning from May 2023 to May 2024, and the rankings are based on such metrics as the volume, complexity, and size of work undertaken by law firms, to identify outstanding law firms which have completed a series of significant or complex domestic and cross-border M&A deals in the past year.