Lawyer Mingyue Gao specializes in theoretical research and practice in the fields of family law, trust law and charity law for years. With 16 years of practice, he leads a team that has handled hundreds of professional, difficult and cross-border family and wealth succession projects and cases with huge properties and complicated matters. His team offers legal services for domestic financial institutions including banks, insurance institutions and trust companies. His team also has offered professional and customized comprehensive legal services in family wealth protection and succession successfully for hundreds of famous entrepreneurs in the world. His team is dedicated to dignified wealth succession and charity succession, providing comprehensive inheritance services for special groups.
Practice
Family Law field
Charity Law field
Crossing legal field of family field and capital market
Practice
• As the sponsor of "Mingyue Lawyer Educational Charitable Trust", he established it and combines two fields of charitable plan and family succession.
• He has assisted family enterprise clients to establish the "JIN CHENG Charitable Trust", "XIANG YUAN Charitable Trust", "YANG LING LIN Charitable Trust" and acted as the supervisors of them; He is appointed as the chief charitable consultant for"Pre-assigned Guardianship Charitable Trust".
• He co-founded the "Diverse Futures Fund" with Professor Li Xia of East China University of Political Science and Law and other experts to provide philanthropic support in the area of gender diversity.
• He is committed to promoting professional and systematic legal services for succession in combining "Guardianship"and "Trust".
• He handled the first case in China in which"Pre-assigned Guardianship " was applied to prevent legal risks in matrimonial and family matters.
• He has handled a number of divorce, inheritance and guardianship cases successfully for major shareholders of domestic listed companies.
• He acted for the disabled in a case of protecting their equal rights for using public transport services which was awarded as "Annual Top 10 Cases in Shanghai Courts".
• He provides comprehensive legal services to various banks, insurance, trust and other financial institutions and their VIP clients on family wealth protection and succession all year round.
• He served as a sub-editor in the publication of the book "China’s Family Office Management Frontier".
• He was awarded as "Chinese Rule of Law Standardization in 2018".
• He was awarded as "Top Ten Public Legal Service Award" by Law of New Club.
• He was nominated for the 2019 China Law Practice "Private Client Family & Private Client" Award for Outstanding Lawyer.
• He was awarded as the fourth "Outstanding Young Lawyer of Hongkou District" in 2020.
• He was appointed by the Law School of Fudan University in 2021 as an industry tutor in the LLM program.
• He was ranked for Private Client/Wealth Management in the Chambers Greater China Region Guide 2025.
• He was elected as a fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL) in 2025.
• He was invited to serve as a visiting scholar at Yale Law School in 2025.
Memberships
• Fudan University Law School’s LLM Program —— Industry Mentor
• The Supreme People’s Procuratorate of the People’s Republic of China —— Consulting Expert in Civil and Administrative Cases
• Shanghai Bar Association Marriage and Family Practice Committee —— Committee Member
• Legal Centre for NGO —— Council Member
