Recently, the Ministry of Justice published the List of National Top 1000 Lawyer Talents Specializing in Foreign Matters. A total of 985 lawyers from provinces and cities all overChinaare selected into the List. The top five provinces and cities in terms of the number of locally registered lawyers selected into the List are: Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong, Jiangsu and Shandong. The 99 lawyers from Shanghai account for approximately 10.1% of the total, contributing to the second place for Shanghai in terms of the listed lawyers.

The lawyers selected into the List cover nine major practice areas: international economic cooperation, international trade, cross-border investment, civil and commercial litigation and arbitration, energy and infrastructure, finance and capital market, intellectual property and information security, maritime law, and transnational crime and asset recovery.

Watson & Band’s Managing Partner Frank Qian, and Partners Xiaosu Zhu and Liming Zhang are honored to be selected into the said List of National Top 1000 Lawyer Talents Specializing in Foreign Matters.