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Undisputed Leaders: Banking and Finance 2021

Legal Media 360 specializes in the research and analysis of market leading legal rankings and awards.

In the run up to the launch of our 2022 edition, Legal Media 360 reveals Asia’s best law firms and lawyers by area of practice from our 2021 dataset.

To find out who the Undisputed Leaders are, we look at which firms have been consistently ranked in Tier 1 in firm and lawyer rankings AND have won at least one award. Here are our findings for Banking and Finance in 2021:

Individual Firm and Lawyer Leaders

In 2021, thirty-four firms and forty-one lawyers were consistently ranked in the highest tier in multiple publications.

FIRMS

CHINA
Clifford Chance
JunHe
King & Wood Mallesons

HONG KONG
Allen & Overy
Clifford Chance
Linklaters

INDIA
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
JSA
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co

INDONESIA
Ginting & Reksodiputro
Hadiputranto Hadinoto & Partners

JAPAN
Anderson Mori & Tomotsune
Mori Hamada & Matsumoto
Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu
Nishimura & Asahi

MALAYSIA
Adnan Sundra & Low
Albar & Partners
Zul Rafique & Partners

PAKISTAN
Haidermota & Co
Mohsin Tayebaly & Co

PHILIPPINES
SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan

SINGAPORE
Allen & Gledhill
Linklaters
WongPartnership

SOUTH KOREA
Kim & Chang
Lee & Ko

SRI LANKA
Nithya Partners

TAIWAN
Baker McKenzie

THAILAND
Allen & Overy
Baker McKenzie
Linklaters

VIETNAM
Allen & Overy
VILAF
YKVN

LAWYERS

CAMBODIA
Youdy Bun, Bun & Associates

CHINA
Hongjiu Zhang, Jingtian & Gongcheng
Ling Wang, King & Wood Mallesons

HONG KONG
Anthony Wang, Clifford Chance
David Irvine, Kirkland & Ellis
Roger Lui, Allen & Overy

INDIA
Cyril Shroff, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
Rajiv Luthra, L&L Partners
Shardul Shroff, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co

INDONESIA
Ahmad Fikri Assegaf, Assegaf Hamzah & Partners
Daniel Ginting, Ginting & Reksodiputro
Emir Nurmansyah, ABNR Counsellors at Law
Indri Pramitaswari Guritno, Hadiputranto Hadinoto & Partners

JAPAN
Akihiro Wani, Morrison & Foerster (JE)
Hiroo Atsumi, Atsumi & Sakai
Masanori Sato, Mori Hamada & Matsumoto
Naoaki Eguchi, Baker McKenzie (JE)
Takashi Ejiri, Natori Law Office

MACAU
Carlos D Simões, DSL Lawyers
Jorge Neto Valente, Jorge Neto Valente Advogados
Manuela António, Manuela António - Lawyers and Notaries

MALAYSIA
Deepak Sadasivan, Adnan Sundra & Low
Mei Mei Loh, Zul Rafique & Partners

PAKISTAN
Irfan Tayebaly, Mohsin Tayebaly & Co
Kairas Kabraji, Kabraji & Talibuddin
Salman Butt, Afridi Shah & Minallah

PHILLIPINES
Mia Gentugaya, SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan
Rafael Morales, Morales & Justiniano

SINGAPORE
Chee Wai Kok, Allen & Gledhill
David Zemans, Milbank
Gautam Narasimhan, Allen & Overy
Susan Wong, WongPartnership

SOUTH KOREA
Helen Hyun Ju Pak, Shin & Kim
Young Kyun Cho, Kim & Chang

THAILAND
Jessada Sawatdipong, Chandler MHM
Stephen Jaggs, Allen & Overy
Wilailuk Okanurak, Linklaters

TAIWAN
Thomas McGowan, Russin & Vecchi

VIETNAM
Duc Tran Anh, Allen & Overy
Mark Fraser, Frasers Law Company
Tran Tuan Phong, VILAF

Firms with firm and lawyer rankings in the highest tier

Nineteen firms had both a firm and at least one lawyer ranked in highest tier:

CHINA
King & Wood Mallesons

HONG KONG
Allen & Overy
Clifford Chance

INDIA
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co

INDONESIA
Ginting & Reksodiputro
Hadiputranto Hadinoto & Partners

JAPAN
Mori Hamada & Matsumoto

MALAYSIA
Adnan Sundra & Low
Zul Rafique & Partners

PAKISTAN
Mohsin Tayebaly & Co

PHILIPPINES
SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan

SINGAPORE
Allen & Gledhill
WongPartnership

SOUTH KOREA
Kim & Chang

THAILAND
Allen & Overy
Linklaters

VIETNAM
Allen & Overy
VILAF

Leading the Pack

While rankings performance reflects year-on-year consistency, awards recognise the top firms and lawyers based on recent work. Therefore, awards is a key differentiator that reveals who is currently doing outstanding work.

When award wins for Banking and Finance are considered along with firms that have both Tier 1 firm and lawyer rankings, only eight firms are featured.

The Undisputed Leaders for Banking and Finance in 2021 are:

CHINA
King & Wood Mallesons

HONG KONG
Allen & Overy

INDIA
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co

INDONESIA
Hadiputranto Hadinoto & Partners

MALAYSIA
Adnan Sundra & Low

SOUTH KOREA
Kim & Chang

VIETNAM
Allen & Overy

 

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