Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre
The Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC) is one of the world’s leading dispute resolution organisations, specialising in arbitration and other forms of alternative dispute resolution processes including, mediation, adjudication and domain name dispute resolution. In addition to its headquarters and hearing centre in Hong Kong, HKIAC has offices in Seoul, Shanghai, and Beijing.
HKIAC maintains one of the largest commercial caseloads in the Asia-Pacific region, having handled over 13,000 commercial cases involving 120 jurisdictions since its establishment in 1985.
According to the 2025 Queen Mary University and White & Case International Arbitration Survey, Hong Kong was ranked as the second most preferred seat of arbitration, and HKIAC Rules were the second most preferred set of arbitration rules worldwide.
HKIAC maintains one of the largest commercial caseloads in the Asia-Pacific region, having handled over 13,000 commercial cases involving 120 jurisdictions since its establishment in 1985.
According to the 2025 Queen Mary University and White & Case International Arbitration Survey, Hong Kong was ranked as the second most preferred seat of arbitration, and HKIAC Rules were the second most preferred set of arbitration rules worldwide.
Dentons
Dentons is among the world's largest law firms, with more than 9,000 lawyers in over 70 countries. We offer international strengths and excellent knowledge of local markets and can quickly deliver advice in more than 75 local languages.
Our genuine wide geographic coverage is one of the reasons that our clients choose us. We have more than 600 IP and technology lawyers located in every key market worldwide, including North, South and Central America and the Caribbean, Northeast and Southeast Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe and the United Kingdom. We are committed to ensuring that our clients receive best-in-market service anywhere in the world. While experts in their own jurisdictions, our lawyers have deep experience in multi-jurisdictional IP matters – from prosecution to litigation and from licensing to data privacy issues.
We help clients to not only protect their IP, but also find real business solutions involving it. We strive to understand clients’ businesses and their goals so that we can focus on what success means to them in any matter. We are recognised by leading corporations for our ability to achieve that success through innovative thinking drawn from experience.
With our unique global footprint, agile resourcing, industry experience and investment in innovation, Dentons is ideally positioned to serve clients today and equipped to respond to their future needs
Our genuine wide geographic coverage is one of the reasons that our clients choose us. We have more than 600 IP and technology lawyers located in every key market worldwide, including North, South and Central America and the Caribbean, Northeast and Southeast Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe and the United Kingdom. We are committed to ensuring that our clients receive best-in-market service anywhere in the world. While experts in their own jurisdictions, our lawyers have deep experience in multi-jurisdictional IP matters – from prosecution to litigation and from licensing to data privacy issues.
We help clients to not only protect their IP, but also find real business solutions involving it. We strive to understand clients’ businesses and their goals so that we can focus on what success means to them in any matter. We are recognised by leading corporations for our ability to achieve that success through innovative thinking drawn from experience.
With our unique global footprint, agile resourcing, industry experience and investment in innovation, Dentons is ideally positioned to serve clients today and equipped to respond to their future needs
CMS
CMS Hong Kong is a key hub for CMS’s international disputes and arbitration practice. Our specialised, multilingual and multi-qualified team represents multinational corporations, listed companies, financial institutions, state-owned entities and investors in complex commercial and investment disputes across Asia-Pacific and beyond.
Drawing on CMS’s extensive global reach and strong sector focus, our Hong Kong team works as an integral part of the firm’s International Arbitration Group. We bring together the right experience across Asian, European, and American jurisdictions while maintaining local insight, continuity and clear strategic direction. This integrated approach enables us to combine legal expertise with a practical understanding of the commercial and regulatory forces shaping today’s disputes, particularly in the technology, life sciences and healthcare, renewable and conventional energy, automotive, infrastructure and foreign investment sectors.
CMS is recognised among the world’s leading international arbitration practices and is ranked 13th globally in the GAR 30. Our experience spans commercial arbitration, investment treaty disputes, related court proceedings, enforcement and asset recovery. We advise and act under the rules of all major arbitral institutions, including particularly HKIAC, ICC, CIETAC, SCIA, BIAC, SHIAC, SIAC, LCIA, DIS, SCC, ICDR, AAA and ICSID.
From early risk assessment and dispute avoidance to arbitration, settlement and enforcement, we provide clear, coordinated advice across the full dispute lifecycle. Our aim is not merely to manage proceedings, but to identify the strategy that best advances the client’s wider business objectives—combining international reach, sector fluency and practical judgement from a single, joined-up team.
Drawing on CMS’s extensive global reach and strong sector focus, our Hong Kong team works as an integral part of the firm’s International Arbitration Group. We bring together the right experience across Asian, European, and American jurisdictions while maintaining local insight, continuity and clear strategic direction. This integrated approach enables us to combine legal expertise with a practical understanding of the commercial and regulatory forces shaping today’s disputes, particularly in the technology, life sciences and healthcare, renewable and conventional energy, automotive, infrastructure and foreign investment sectors.
CMS is recognised among the world’s leading international arbitration practices and is ranked 13th globally in the GAR 30. Our experience spans commercial arbitration, investment treaty disputes, related court proceedings, enforcement and asset recovery. We advise and act under the rules of all major arbitral institutions, including particularly HKIAC, ICC, CIETAC, SCIA, BIAC, SHIAC, SIAC, LCIA, DIS, SCC, ICDR, AAA and ICSID.
From early risk assessment and dispute avoidance to arbitration, settlement and enforcement, we provide clear, coordinated advice across the full dispute lifecycle. Our aim is not merely to manage proceedings, but to identify the strategy that best advances the client’s wider business objectives—combining international reach, sector fluency and practical judgement from a single, joined-up team.
Debevoise & Plimpton
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is a premier law firm with market-leading practices, a global perspective and strong New York roots. Our clients look to us to bring a distinctively high degree of quality, intensity and creativity to resolve legal challenges effectively and cost efficiently.
Deep partner commitment, industry experience and a strategic approach enable us to bring clear commercial judgment to every matter. We draw on the strength of our culture and structure to deliver the best of our firm to every client through true collaboration.
More than 900 lawyers work in nine offices across three continents, within integrated global practices, serving clients around the world. In the last year, our teams advised on matters in more than 90 countries. We are known for developing a deep understanding of the business of our clients, and pursuing every matter with intensity and creativity to achieve optimal results.
We are committed to serving our clients through excellence in lawyering. We receive numerous accolades and awards recognizing this commitment and the firm’s market prominence worldwide.
We believe that an inclusive workforce, where all of our colleagues feel respected, builds a stronger firm, and benefits clients and the wider community.
The firm’s culture fosters a collaborative approach across disciplines and regions, and, as a result, clients benefit from the dedication, cohesiveness and superior quality that we bring to all of our work worldwide.
Deep partner commitment, industry experience and a strategic approach enable us to bring clear commercial judgment to every matter. We draw on the strength of our culture and structure to deliver the best of our firm to every client through true collaboration.
More than 900 lawyers work in nine offices across three continents, within integrated global practices, serving clients around the world. In the last year, our teams advised on matters in more than 90 countries. We are known for developing a deep understanding of the business of our clients, and pursuing every matter with intensity and creativity to achieve optimal results.
We are committed to serving our clients through excellence in lawyering. We receive numerous accolades and awards recognizing this commitment and the firm’s market prominence worldwide.
We believe that an inclusive workforce, where all of our colleagues feel respected, builds a stronger firm, and benefits clients and the wider community.
The firm’s culture fosters a collaborative approach across disciplines and regions, and, as a result, clients benefit from the dedication, cohesiveness and superior quality that we bring to all of our work worldwide.
Tahota Law Firm
Established in 2000, TAHOTA has grown up to be one of the biggest and most famous law firms in China. Started from Chengdu, It now owns practice offices in Washington D.C. , Sydney, Kathmandu, Hong Kong(China), and 16 other mainland cities including Beijing, Chongqing, Shenzhen, Shanghai, Tianjin, Xi'an, Taiyuan, Xining, Lhasa, Urumqi，Nanjing, Wuhan, Kunming, Guiyang, Jinan and Haikou with more than 510 partners and more than 1700 attorneys. The legal service provided by TAHOTA is targeted on both Chinese and foreign enterprises, practice areas ranging from International investment and trade, Intellectual Property, Corporate and M&A, Finance, Real estate, Construction, Environment to Tax.
Docket Navigator
Docket Navigator is a litigation research and analytics platform that delivers deep insights into US federal patent, trademark, copyright, antitrust, securities and trade secret litigation. Based in Texas, Docket Navigator’s unique and innovative approach to modeling court cases in a digital platform has made it a must-have tool for patent litigators in the US, including over 16,000 attorneys, judges, clerks, litigation support firms, expert witness firms, tech companies and researchers. Docket Navigator delivers insights to its subscribers via a daily email called the Docket Report, customised daily alerts, a searchable online database, and powerful analytics tools. Eighty-eight of the AmLaw 100 firms, and 28 of the top 30 ‘busiest’ patent litigation firms (based on the number of patent cases filed each year) maintain subscriptions to Docket Navigator.
Law.com
Law.com provides lawyers within the world’s leading law firms and legal departments (Global 200, Law.com subscribers, GCs at the F1000) with news and analysis of the global legal industry, insights into what’s happening across all sectors of the legal industry in all major markets around the world. Law.com is the world’s legal authority, offering quality local coverage with global insights & trends on the entire legal industry to give international lawyers the competitive edge and business intelligence needed to grow their business worldwide.
Lexology
Lexology delivers the most comprehensive source of international legal updates, analysis and insights. Publishing in excess of 450 articles every day from over 900 leading law firms and service providers worldwide across over 50 work areas in 25 languages. Lexology’s searchable archive now contains more than 1,000,000 articles. Endorsed by more than 100 associations, corporations and corporate counsel groups, Lexology is not only considered an invaluable resource of its kind, but also regarded as the industry benchmark.
