The Legal 500, a leading international legal directory, analyses and ranks law firms and individual lawyers across the world based on a comprehensive research programme comprising market researches and interviews with an extensive range of clients and industry players.
The Legal 500 released its 2022 Asia Pacific rankings on 12 January 2022.
With the establishment of the Maritime and Admiralty Team in early 2020 by senior shipping lawyers Mr. Wang Jing and Mr. Wilson Wang who joined Wang Jing & GH Law Firm then, it is encouraging to see that the Firm is recognized and named for the first time by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific shipping rankings. The Firm is recognized as “Leading Firm-PRC Firms” in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific Shipping rankings. Mr. Wang Jing, Chairman of Board of Directors and Managing Partner of the Firm, is recognized as a “Leading Individual”, and partner Mr. Wilson Wang as “Practice Head”.
01 Leading Firm: Shipping (PRC Firms)
Commentary by The Legal 500
“Wang Jing & GH Law Firm established its shipping practice in 2020, when the highly-regarded Jing Wang and Wilson Wang joined the practice from Wang Jing & Co. The Guangzhou-based team counts shipowners, crews, P&I clubs, and charterers amongst its clients, and handles disputes related to collisions, cargo damage, and shipbuilding. Jing Wang has more than 30 years’ experience in this area and is well-known for his work in foreign-related shipping matters. Wilson Wang is qualified to practice in both China and England and Wales, and is highly active in arbitration.”
Clients’ comment
“They are responsive and give clear reliable advice. They are also well placed to assist with disputes across China.”
02 Leading Individual
Mr. Wang Jing, Chairman of Board of Directors and Managing Partner of Wang Jing & GH
Clients’ comment
“Wang Jing is one of the most well respected Chinese shipping lawyers who has stood the test of time having been involved in some of the largest and most significant shipping cases in China in the past 3 decades.”
“Wang Jing & GH Law Firm is a relatively new firm set up by the doyen of shipping law in China – the venerable Wang Jing. He is full of energy and very well-connected in the market.”
03 Recommended Lawyer
Practice Head
Mr. Wilson Wang, partner
Clients’Comment
“Wilson Wang is an up and coming shipping partner andcertainly someone to watch for the future!”
We take the opportunity to thank The Legal 500 and our clients for their support and trust in Wang Jing & GH. Over the years Wang Jing & GH has actively explored the international market, continued to recruit international talents and international legal service teams, established close contacts with many world leading law firms across national borders, regions and cultures. We have learned from and introduced into the Firm advanced management patterns of our international peers and strived to offer the same level of high quality legal services as our leading international peers do.
Starting from a South China based firm, Wang Jing & GH is now actively exploring the legal service markets in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and beyond in countries and regions involved in the Belt & Road Initiative, while staying true to our aspiration of “building the Firm into a first tier foreign-related commercial legal service platform in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area”.
Maritime and Admiralty Team ofWang Jing & GH
The Maritime and Admiralty Team was set up and headed by Mr. Wang Jing, former director and founding partner of Wang Jing & Co. Law Firm. Other team members include Mr. Wilson Wang, former partner of the Admiralty Group of Wang Jing & Co., as partner and other experts and professionals in foreign-related legal practice.
The Team comprises experienced legal professionals including partners, associates and consultants all with profound knowledge in the laws and judicial practice in China, the United Kingdom and other jurisdictions. The members of the Team, who have creative mindsets and capabilities to handle multi-disciplinary and multi-jurisdictional matters, have expertise in handling cross-border transactions, dispute resolution and other complex legal issues. The Team provides dispute resolution and consultancy services related to vessels and cargo transportation to shipowners, operators, brokers, charterers, underwriters, P&I clubs, navigation channel engineering companies, trading companies, shipping agents, port operators, and logistics companies, etc. Besides, it also provides legal services relating to the construction, financing and lease of ports, ships, offshore engineering and other non-contentious matters.
The Team maintains close cooperation and contact with overseas shipping law firms, Queen’s Counsels, insurance companies and agents, thus can provide comprehensive, high-quality, and professional legal services to Chinese and foreign clients in cross-border and multi-disciplinary complex maritime and admiralty matters. Our clients mainly include international banks, P&I clubs, shipping companies, navigation channel engineering companies, shipping agents, financial institutions, insurance companies, foreign-invested enterprises, and other multinational corporations, etc.
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Wang Jing
Chairman and Managing Partner
Email: wangjing@wjngh.cn
Telephone: +86 20 3564 1811
Mobile: +86 139 0227 4097
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Wilson Wang
Partner
Email: wilson.wang@wjngh.cn
Telephone: +86 20 3564 1816
Mobile: +86 138 2617 6068
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