2024.12.13
On December 12, 2024, Legal 500, an internationally renowned legal rating agency, held its China Awards 2024 ceremony in Beijing. JunHe received four awards:
Lawyer of the Year: Arbitration – DONG, Arthur (Xiao)
Lawyer of the Year: Litigation - WANG, Zhao (George)
Lawyer of the Year: Antitrust and Competition – Janet Hui
Lawyer of the Year: Regulatory – Leon C.G. Liu
JunHe partners DONG, Arthur (Xiao), Leon C.G. Liu, and Janet Hui (in alphabetical order by surname) attended the award ceremony on behalf of JunHe.
JunHe secured the only two individual awards in the dispute resolution field for Chinese law firms, i.e. Lawyer of the Year: Litigation and Lawyer of the Year: Arbitration, demonstrating the firm’s outstanding talent in dispute resolution.
As a seasoned expert with nearly 30 years of experience in international commercial arbitration, Mr. DONG, Arthur (Xiao) has been consecutively recognized as the Lawyer of the Year: Arbitration. He has acted as legal counsel or arbitrator in international commercial dispute cases administered under the arbitration rules of institutions such as ICC, HKIAC, SIAC, LCIA, SCC, JAMS, ICDR, CIETAC, BAC, SHIAC, SCIA and UNCITRAL. He has successfully procured the cross-border enforcement of arbitral awards for his clients and earned high recognition from them.
Mr. WANG, Zhao (George) has achieved remarkable success in litigation and arbitration and has handled complex cases in areas such as equity, foreign investment, antitrust, and anti-commercial bribery. This includes the first vertical monopoly agreement case ever litigated in China, as well as the Danone v. Wahaha joint venture and trademark dispute. Mr. Wang provides constructive and practical dispute avoidance approaches, designs litigation and arbitration strategies and represents clients at all stages of litigation and arbitration.
Ms. Janet Hui has more than 30 years’ experience in providing legal services. She specializes in antitrust, cross-border M&A, FDI and general corporate matters. With her outstanding professional capabilities, Ms. Hui assists multinational corporations and domestic enterprises in antitrust investigations and litigations and provides strategic antitrust solutions. She has extensive experience in regular antitrust consultations, compliance system establishment, and compliance self-examination and review.
Mr. Leon C.G. Liu has expertise in the fields of white-collar crime, government investigations, data security, corporate governance, export control, and regulatory compliance and is adept at cross-border compliance and investigations. Mr. Liu has represented numerous Fortune 500 companies from both the East and the West. For more than 20 years, he has offered robust support to clients in responding to investigations by powerful government departments such as the U.S. Department of Justice/U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, as well as other Chinese government bodies.
JunHe understands that its path to excellence lies in its talent. The firm is committed to attracting and cultivating outstanding legal professionals to build a team equipped with international knowledge and local expertise. With an open and inclusive attitude, JunHe welcomes legal talents from all over the world to jointly write the future chapters for its clients.