Greater China Practice

Tier 1 – Restructuring and Insolvency (Hong Kong and China: Foreign Firms), Capital Markets (Equity) (Hong Kong), Corporate (including M&A) (Hong Kong), Private Equity (Hong Kong)
The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2025

"Stands out for its offering on high-value debt restructurings, complex enforcement actions, and cross-border winding-up petitions."
Chambers Greater China Region 2025

"[Acclaimed] for its work on behalf of Chinese TMT and life sciences companies wishing to go public, with clients … benefiting from a one-stop-shop service by virtue of the firm’s broader industry-wide practice groups."
The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2025

"The firm continues acting on a wide range of debt transactions, working on deals originating in China and abroad, regularly assisting Chinese SOEs and private companies and often acting for property developers and industrial clients."
Chambers Greater China Region 2024

"Notably active advising on convertible bonds and other hybrid issuances, as well as sustainability-linked issuances and private placements."
Chambers Greater China Region 2024

"[Latham's] Greater China litigation and trial team focuses on complex multi-jurisdictional disputes, along with high-stakes domestic commercial litigation, arbitration and contentious regulatory matters."
The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2024

"Consistently engaged in the largest and most complex private equity transactions in the region, heavily involved in high-growth sectors including technology, healthcare and e-commerce, as well as advising PE clients on their infrastructure related investments throughout Asia."
The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2024

"[Latham's] Greater China TMT team showcases a broad spectrum of regulatory, transactional, and litigation expertise in the tech domain, from tech transactions and intellectual property to data privacy and security."
The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2024

"A strong debtor-side and creditor-side practice that is involved in matters across capital structures for borrowers, sponsors, institutional and distressed investors (individually and as ad hoc committees). The team offers local expertise in both public high-yield bonds and private bank debts."
The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2024

"Latham & Watkins LLP continues to act for state governments and multinationals in complex disputes, consistently handling arbitrations administered under the two main institutions in Greater China, namely the HKIAC and CIETAC."
The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2024

Overview

With offices in Beijing and Hong Kong, Latham’s dedicated Greater China team advises on many of the largest and most complex transactions, compliance, and controversy matters in the Greater China region. As one of only a few international firms in Asia with the ability to provide substantive US, English, and Hong Kong law advice, we provide clients local know-how and global capabilities.

Latham’s Greater China Practice advises clients based in Asia, Europe, the US, and the Middle East on all aspects of their transactions in the Greater China region and the rest of Asia. We also advise Chinese clients on a range of outbound acquisitions and divestments, leveraging a deep understanding of the market trends, legal requirements, and competition law issues that arise in multinational M&A, as well as the commercial drivers affecting corporate and private equity transactions. We routinely advise on the most significant US and Hong Kong IPOs and other capital markets offerings. We regularly advise Chinese and international parties, both borrowers and creditors, on major restructuring matters in the region. We provide clients with effective guidance and support, leveraging our familiarity with all of the tools for mitigating execution risk and simultaneously managing financing.

We draw on significant experience conducting cross-border investigations for Chinese and multinational corporations in different industries across a broad range of topics, including high-profile and sensitive matters related to bribery, economic sanctions and export controls, professional liability, antitrust, fraud and other securities enforcement. We assist clients with presenting investigation findings to and negotiating settlements with regulators in the US and China. We handle compliance-related due diligence and risk assessments, conduct compliance training, as well as design, implement, and review compliance programs.

If disputes arise, we advise Chinese corporations in challenging complex commercial litigations, including contract and shareholder disputes, as well as securities litigation and criminal proceedings.

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Lauded as the “Most Innovative Firm in the Asia-Pacific” by The Financial Times, our united and diverse Asia team, including local and international lawyers, connects clients in the financial services, infrastructure, energy, media, and technology industries to world-class legal services in the region and to the full complement of Latham lawyers around the globe.