On December 3, 2024, LEGALBAND, a well-known legal services rating agency, released "BOB (Best of the Best): 2024 Top 30 Law Firms & Top 30 Lawyers in China". Anli is ranked among the top 2024 law firms in China based on its outstanding professional capabilities, excellent reputation in the market and extensive influence in the industry. Meanwhile, Partner Ji Jun and partner Catherine Guo are also ranked among the top 30 lawyers in China for their outstanding performance in their respective fields of practice, outstanding performance and high recognition from clients.

This time, in addition to the successful listing of law firms, Anli is also one of the very few law firms with two lawyers on the list at the same time. It is not only demonstrates the high recognition of Anli's outstanding strength and professional standards in legal services by the industry and clients, but also fully proves Anli's remarkable achievements in promoting professional construction and continuous innovation. In the future, Anli will continue to expand and deepen a wider range of business areas, continuously optimize, upgrade and innovate service models, cultivate more excellent lawyers with both professional quality and practical ability, have in-depth insight into meeting the diverse needs of clients, provide them with professional, efficient and practical legal services and support, and help clients safeguard their core interests and achieve steady and long-term development in the fierce market competition.

Top 30 Law Firms in China

As one of the "National Outstanding Law Firms" by the Ministry of Justice, Anli has developed rapidly in recent years, and has been awarded the "Beijing Excellent Law Firm" by the Beijing Lawyers Association for 7 consecutive years (2012-2018), the "Beijing Law Firm of the Year" by Asian Legal Business (ALB) for four consecutive years (2021-2024), and the "Top 10 Growing Law Firms in China" by ALB for two consecutive years (2018-2019). Recently, it won the 2024 ALB "Beijing Law Firm of the Year" and "International Arbitration Law Firm of the Year". Rated as "2024 Top 20 Law Firms in China: Key Client Services" by LEGALBAND; China Business Law Journal (CBLJ) "Employment & Labor & Intellectual Property (Copyright) Law Firm of the Year 2024", and has been recognized by Chambers & Partners, The Legal 500, IFLR1000, Asia law and Benchmark are highly recommended.

China Top 30 Lawyers: Best of Best

Ji Jun

Partner,Beijing Office

Reasons for being on the list

Partner Ji Jun has a legal background and outstanding foreign language skills in world-renowned law schools, and his practice covers intellectual property, foreign-related dispute resolution, foreign investment, and corporate mergers and acquisitions, especially in the fields of intellectual property litigation and litigation and arbitration such as patents, trademarks, and trade secrets.Lawyer Ji has served a number of large foreign-funded enterprises for a long time, and his clients involve different industries such as chemicals, high-end manufacturing, medical and pharmaceutical, food, and finance. With a solid professional foundation and rich practical experience in intellectual property cases, he is able to conduct in-depth analysis of the complex technical issues and legal disputes involved in the case, and communicate and cooperate with the parties efficiently, and help clients fully protect their legitimate rights and interests and effectively reduce the burden of litigation with all-round and multi-angle litigation plans and legal opinions, and the litigation results have been highly praised and recognized by corporate clients.

Customer evaluation

"Lawyer Ji Jun can be said to be a brave and courageous warrior. Also he is a logical and meticulous strategist. His expertise in the field of legal services, especially in the field of IP is undoubtedly. He has always carried out the concept of 'customer first', so he won the trust of many Chinese and foreign enterprises.

Introduction of Lawyers

Lawyer Ji graduated from Peking University, the University of Tokyo and Harvard Law School. Ji Jun is a qualified lawyer of both China and the New York State of the USA. Proficient in Chinese, English and Japanese, he has specialized in practices relating to intellectual property (IP), litigation and arbitration, dispute resolution, foreign direct investment and M&A of companies.

Lawyer Ji currently serves as an arbitrator of the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration, and has won many honors such as Chambers, ALB, LEGALBAND, Business Law Journal, Benchmark Litigation, Managing IP, etc., and has been selected into the "Beijing Lawyers Association Foreign-related Lawyer Talent Pool List", and has provided legal services for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics as a foreign-related lawyer.

As a Chinese lawyer for 30 years, Lawyer Ji has been engaged in legal business in large law firms in China, Japan and the United States, and has established a law firm as a founding partner. In litigation and arbitration, especially in intellectual property-related litigation and arbitration, he has rich experience and outstanding performance, and is able to provide Chinese and foreign clients with problem-solving, professional, high-quality, and international standard professional legal services. Mr. Ji has been deeply engaged in the legal profession for many years, and has a profound foundation in legal theory and rich practical experience.

Guo Qing

Partner, Beijing Office

Reason for inclusion on the list

Lawyer Catherine Guo has made great achievements in civil and commercial litigation, public opinion legal risk prevention and control, foreign-related dispute resolution, and the intersection of criminal and civil law, especially in handling various dispute cases in the automotive industry. Its representative customers include: China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, Great Wall Motor Co., Ltd., NIO Automobile (Anhui) Co., Ltd., Beijing Hyundai Motor Co., Ltd., Metro Car Rental (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., Hezhong New Energy Automobile Co., Ltd., Budweiser Investment (China) Co., Ltd., BOE Digital Technology Co., Ltd., etc. In a cross-border dispute resolution case with complex facts, huge amounts of money involved and a large time span, Lawyer. Guo led the team to meticulously sort out and analyze the number and variety of documents and evidence, and fully reminded the client of the legal risks and case trends at different levels such as civil, criminal, litigation and arbitration.

Client evaluation

"Lawyer Guo Qing is a senior lawyer who is very professional and understands the clients' claims. She has the unique advantage of being a lawyer with deep understanding of the automotive industry, having worked in the media for many years, and being fluent in English. Her expertise, ability to solve client problems and industry influence have brought tremendous benefits to our cooperation. "

Introduction of Lawyers

LL.B. from Beijing Foreign Studies University and LL.M. from Renmin University of China. Participator of The Lord Chancellor’s Training Scheme for Young Chinese Lawyers. She specializes in civil and commercial dispute resolution, international dispute resolution, and interlocked penal and civil cases.

Ms. Catherine Guo had worked as a journalist for the Xinhua News Agency and China Central Television (CCTV) for 10 years. After becoming a professional lawyer, she has served as a legal consultant for intergovernmental international organizations and many Fortune 500 multinational companies and has undertaken a large number of complex civil and commercial litigation cases. Catherine’s superb trial skills, excellent negotiation skills, and powerful methods of persuasion help her gain widespread recognition from clients. Catherine has outstanding achievements in the field of civil and commercial dispute resolution and foreign criminal litigation. Many cases she represented, such as “the world's first case of driver’s death caused by automatic driving”, have cutting-edge reference value in the industry.

In addition to being listed in Chambers Global and Chambers Asia Pacific for four consecutive years, Catherine also won the Asian Legal Business (ALB)’s Top 15 Litigators of The Year 2022 and was ranked in LEGALBAND’s Top 15 Litigators of The Year 2021.