We are delighted to announce that Deacons has once again achieved strong rankings across multiple practice areas in the 2025 edition of Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific! Overall, we have a total of eight highly-ranked practice areas and eight practitioners in Hong Kong, and one ranked practice area in China. We are proud to mention that our International arbitration – International firms practice area, along with four practitioners have been newly ranked this year. This achievement reflects our unwavering commitment for continuous improvement and excellence.
Practice areas:
Hong Kong
- Commercial and transactions – Domestic firms
- Construction
- Family and matrimonial
- Insolvency – Domestic firms
- Intellectual property
- International arbitration – International firms
- Labour and employment
- Private client – Domestic firms
China
- International arbitration – International firms
Special congratulations to the following practitioners:
Hong Kong
- Joseph Kwan: Partner, Litigation Star for Commercial and transactions, Private client
- Catherine Zheng: Partner, Litigation Star for Intellectual property
- Peter So: Partner, Litigation Star for Commercial and transactions
- Elsie Chan: Partner, Litigation Star for Labour and employment
- Kelley Loo: Partner, Future Star for Intellectual property
- Theresa Luk: Partner, Future Star for Intellectual property
- Charmaine Koo: Consultant, Litigation Star for Intellectual property
- Stephanie Yip: Senior Associate, Future Star for Labour and employment
Benchmark Litigation is the definitive guide to the region’s leading dispute resolution firms and lawyers. It provides law firm and lawyer rankings based on extensive interviews with litigators, arbitrators, dispute resolution specialists and their clients as well as their recent casework handled.
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