Guantao recoginsed by "2025 ALB China M&A Rankings"
On 22 September 2025, Asian Legal Business (ALB) officially released the 2025 ALB China M&A Rankings, and Guantao was listed in the rankings for ten consecutive years for its outstanding market performance in the M&A area and strong reputation among clients.
Corporate and M&A:
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.
Guantao is experienced in providing professional legal services to large central and local state-owned enterprises. Guantao is familiar with regulatory rules on state-owned assets and has extensive practical experience in transactions such as state-owned equity contribution, equity transfer, capital increase, disposal of assets, gratuitous transfer of assets and asset restructuring. Guantao provides ongoing general corporate legal services to a broad range of clients, including Fortune Global 500 companies, well known multinational corporations, leading enterprises within specialized industries, and companies both in China and overseas. The firm has extensive experience across a wide range of industries, including energy and natural resources, finance, high technology, real estate and infrastructure, manufacturing, cultural and entertainment, e-commerce, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, and life sciences.
Guantao’s M&A team operates across multiple offices worldwide and is able to provide clients with comprehensive legal services. In recent years, the team has represented numerous domestic and international corporate clients in a wide range of well-known and complex M&A transactions. Its services cover all stages of a transaction, including legal and policy analysis on industry access, transaction structure design, due diligence on projects and counterparties, project financing, drafting, negotiation and execution of transaction documents, regulatory approvals, as well as closing and post transaction integration. The team’s work involves a broad range of practice areas, including taxation, foreign exchange, compliance, environmental matters, real estate, intellectual property, labor, antitrust, and state-owned assets administration. Guantao’s experience spans developed markets such as Europe, North America, Australia, Japan, and South Korea, as well as Belt and Road jurisdictions and emerging markets including Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. Across these transactions, lawyers from multiple jurisdictions and practice areas work closely together, demonstrating Guantao’s extensive transactional experience, efficient resource coordination capabilities, in depth understanding of PRC laws and regulatory frameworks as well as international M&A practices, integrated knowledge of tax, finance, and commercial matters, and the ability to accurately identify client needs and deliver effective solutions.
The research of the 2025 ALB China M&A Ranking covers M&A deals in the period spanning from May 2024 to May 2025, 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.
