ESTABLISHED IN 2001

Managing Partner: Meng Xianming
Number of partners: 134
Number of associates: 495

Firm Overview

Established in 2001, Anli Partners is a premier law firm dedicated to providing legal services for high-stakes business transactions. With a team of more than 710 professionals, including more than 120 partners and senior counsel, more than 450 lawyers and 70 articling clerks, the firm operates offices across major cities in China such as Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Tianjin, Nanjing, Zhengzhou, Chongqing, Hohhot, Kunming, Xi’an, Hangzhou and Haikou, as well as abroad in Tokyo, and Prince Edward Island in Canada,. Additionally, Anli Partners collaborates with long-term partner firms in several jurisdictions including Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

Since its establishment, Anli has attached great importance to the building of a professional team, and has gradually developed a team of lawyers with serious service attitude and excellent professional skills over the years of practice. All of our lawyers have received excellent legal education and graduated from prestigious law schools or colleges at home and abroad, including Peking University, Renmin University of China, China University of Political Science and Law, Harvard University, the University of Tokyo, etc. Most of them have a master’s degree or above and can work in languages including English, Japanese, French and German.

Anli Partners’ clients are primarily large and medium-sized state-owned enterprises, listed companies, high-tech private firms, foreign invested enterprises, multinational corporations, government agencies, and public-sector organisations. Our work spans various industries including banking, finance, insurance, securities, private equity, M&A, technology, media, culture, entertainment, tourism, retail, aviation, pharmaceuticals, environmental protection, real estate, infrastructure, energy, automotive, high-end manufacturing, chemicals, and public services.

Key Practice Areas

Corporate business; Dispute resolution; M&A; Foreign direct investment; Japanese operations; Overseas investment; Private equity and investment funds; Capital markets and securities; Banking and finance; Real estate; Construction engineering and infrastructure; Minerals and energy; Telecommunications, media and technology; Film, culture, sports and entertainment; Legal services to government; International trade; Antitrust and competition law; Intellectual property; Labour and personnel; Compliance; Disposal of non-performing assets; Bankruptcy and restructuring; Finance and taxation; Criminal legal services; Automobiles; Private wealth management; New energy, etc