AllBright Law Offices explained

AllBright Law Offices
锦天城律师事务所
Headquarters:Shanghai, China
Num Offices:13
Key People:Wu Mingde (Director)
Practice Areas:Corporate & Commercial, Securities & Capital Markets, Banking & Finance, Real Estate & Construction, Dispute Resolution, International Trade, Intellectual Property
Num Lawyers:1,000+ (2015)
Date Founded:January 1, 1999

AllBright Law Offices is a Shanghai-based Chinese law firm ranked the seventh largest in the country and eighth largest in Asia by number of lawyers.[1] Among national corporate law firms, AllBright is the only one headquartered in Shanghai.[2]

AllBright was founded on January 1, 1999, from the merger of three Shanghai-based law firms, Jin Lian, Tianhe, and Great Wall.[3]

Practice areas

AllBright's main practice areas include:[4]

Offices

AllBright presently has offices located in 23 cities in mainland China, Hong Kong SAR, and additional offices in London, Seattle, Singapore, and Tokyo:

AllBright marked the opening of its first office outside of mainland China on November 15, 2013 through an association and eventual merger with the Hong Kong-based law firm of Stevenson, Wong & Co.[5]

Global alliances

AllBright has a long-standing strategic alliance with NCTM Law Firm of Italy.

AllBright is one of the original member firms of the Sino-Global Legal Alliance, which was formed with Lovells in 2007.[6] The SGLA is a non-exclusive referral network which provides clients with legal services in mainland China and abroad.[7]

AllBright signed a formal (non-exclusive) cooperation agreement in 2012 with De Pardieu law firm of France, cementing already existing working relationships on cross-border transactions.[8]

References

  1. News: Asia's Top 50 Law Firms . Asian Legal Business . Dec 12, 2012.
  2. http://www.chambersandpartners.com/firm/92423/8 Chambers & Partners - AllBright Law Offices
  3. http://www.legal500.com/firms/30308-allbright-law-offices/offices/31400-shanghai/profile The Legal 500 - AllBright Law Offices Profile
  4. http://www.chambersandpartners.com/firm/92423/8 Chambers & Partners - AllBright Law Offices
  5. Yun Kriegler, China's AllBright opens in Hong Kong and forms local association, The Lawyer, Nov. 4, 2013
  6. Asian Legal Business, News Analysis: Nine firms, 27 offices, 1,000 lawyers: China's new law alliance launched, Nov. 1, 2007
  7. Web site: Sino-Global Legal Alliance . 2013-11-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131202225220/http://sglalaw.com/EN/index.aspx . 2013-12-02 . dead .
  8. Joanne Harris, France's De Pardieu and China's AllBright enter into cooperation, The Lawyer, Mar. 19, 2012

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