Dacheng Nominated for Five Awards at the Benchmark Litigation China Awards 2024

On May 8, 2024, Benchmark Litigation, an internationally renowned legal rating agency, announced its shortlist for the Benchmark Litigation China Awards 2024 (regional awards). With its strong professional ability in the field of dispute resolution, outstanding market performance and leading position in regional markets, Dacheng Law Offices won five nominations, including two firm nominations for "Guangdong Firm of the Year" and "Shanghai Firm of the Year" and three nominations for "Lawyer of the Year". Among them, lawyer Lu Yuefeng was nominated for "Guangdong Lawyer of the Year", lawyer Chen Feng was nominated for "Shanghai Lawyer of the Year", and lawyer Chen Youkun was nominated for "Western China Lawyer of the Year" (the following are listed according to the release order of the shortlist).

At Dacheng Law Offices, we are sincerely grateful to our clients for their long-standing trust and support, as well as to the media and industry peers for their recognition of our legal service capabilities. Moving forward, we will be motivated by this honor, translating our responsibilities into tangible actions. We will continue to leverage the strengths of Dacheng's global legal service network to provide clients with professional, comprehensive, timely, high-quality, and efficient legal services.

 Firm Nominations

 Guangdong Firm of the Year

As one of the national law firms that set foot in Guangdong Province early, Dacheng has a strategic deployment in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, which is particularly remarkable. It has successively opened five offices in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Foshan and Dongguan (under preparation), with more than 1,000 practising lawyers. With a comprehensive service network, it continues to deepen its layout in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. Dacheng's legal service strength in the Greater Bay Area has been widely recognized by the industry, and it has won many honors such as the "Band 1 Firm in the Corporate/Commercial: Guangdong: Contentious (PRC Firms) of Chambers Greater China Region Guide 2024" and the "First-tier Law Firm in the Regional Coverage: Guangdong Province: Guangzhou and Shenzhen of The Legal 500". At the same time, Dacheng's offices in Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Zhuhai have won many honors such as the "Excellent Law Firm of Guangdong Province", "Excellent Law Firm of Guangzhou City", "Integrity · Excellent Law Firm" in the celebration of the 30th Anniversary of Deepening Lawyer System Reform in Guangzhou, "Excellent Law Firm" in the celebration of the 35th Anniversary of the Establishment of Shenzhen Lawyers Association, and "Excellent Law Firm of Zhuhai City".

In addition to continuously enhancing its professional advantages in traditional areas, Dacheng, as a foreign-related legal service law firm based in Guangdong Province and one of the first batch of legal service institutions of the comprehensive service base for Chinese companies "going global", has a number of leading foreign-related legal service lawyers from provinces and cities. The firm has created and formed several leading foreign-related legal service areas, aggregated market influence, empowered high-quality client services at multiple levels, highlighted the foreign-related legal service brand Dacheng in the Greater Bay Area in an all-round way, and continued to contribute its expertise and wisdom to the development of rule of law in Guangdong Province and the foreign-related legal services in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

Shanghai Firm of the Year

Established in 2001, Dacheng's Shanghai Office is one of the earliest partnership law firms established in Shanghai. Its localization advantages and lawyer practice level have been continuously highlighted and improved, and it has become an important legal service team in Shanghai's lawyer community. At present, with about 800 employees, it has about 600 practicing lawyers, and nearly half of them graduated from well-known overseas law schools or have overseas work experience. They can work in multiple languages. With high-quality legal services and outstanding professional strength, the Shanghai Office has successively won honorary titles such as "National Advanced Party Organization of Lawyer Industry", "Top Ten Law Firms in Shanghai" and "Excellent Law Firm in Shanghai".

Since 2017, Dacheng's Shanghai Office has established a strategic policy from large-scale development to professional development and set up practice teams and sector teams. In recent years, in addition to continuously improving the professional advantages in traditional fields, with the needs of national strategic new industrial planning, Dacheng's Shanghai Office has created emerging practice areas such as fintech, artificial intelligence, compliance, ESG and new energy vehicles, and it has been recognized by clients. It also has a considerable market share in the legal service markets of energy and natural resources, science and technology, media and telecommunications industries, biomedicine, energy conservation and environmental protection, high-end manufacturing and other fields. In 2023, Dacheng's Shanghai Office obtained the Carbon Neutral Certificate issued by Shanghai Environment and Energy Exchange, becoming one of the few law firms in China to achieve its own "carbon neutrality".

 Lawyer Nominations

Guangdong Lawyer of the Year

Yuefeng Lu

Senior Partner of Dacheng Guangzhou

Summit Chen

Senior Partner of Dacheng Shanghai

Youkun Chen

Senior Partner of Dacheng Chongqing

Founded in 2008, Benchmark Litigation is currently the only annual rating guide focusing on dispute resolution in the world and known as one of the authoritative reference guides in this field. The China Awards 2024 is based on the latest information from Benchmark Litigation China, recognizing leading dispute resolution lawyers and the most influential dispute resolution cases in China. The shortlist is the result of months of research, analyzing hundreds of submissions, surveying thousands of clients and interviewing hundreds of lawyers. The final winners will be announced online on June 8, 2024 via the Benchmark Litigation website.