NEO-ARK Law Firm’s Senior Partner, attorney Liang Xiaofeng , was listed as ‘2025 ALB China's attorneys of Choice for Clients in Southern China’

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2025-05-26

On 23rd May 2025, the internationally renowned legal media Asian Legal Business (ALB) announced the 2025 ALB China Regional Ranking: South China. Among them, NEO-ARK Law Firm’s senior partner Liang Xiaofeng was honoured as the ‘South China Client Choice’ for her outstanding professional performance and high quality reputation among clients.

Asia Law Bulletin (ALB), the cutting-edge legal magazine of Thomson Reuters, is one of the most influential legal media in the world, aiming to provide clients and readers with cutting-edge legal business information and professional ratings of law firms. The selection of the Rising Stars of attorneys in South China is based on a number of aspects such as major achievements, significant transactions or cases represented, major work in the past 12 months, the candidate's major clients, awards received by the candidate, client comments and colleague comments.

Guangdong NEO-ARK Law Firm is a comprehensive law firm located in the CBD Central Business District of Zhujiang New City, Tianhe District, Guangzhou. NEO-ARK Law Firm has established a perfect organisational structure as well as a management system, and has been rated as a standardised law firm in Guangzhou and an A-class unit of tax credit in Guangzhou. Based on its excellent performance and good reputation, NEO-ARK Law Firm has been shortlisted for the ALB Most Promising Law Firm Award in 2021, and for two consecutive years in 2023 and 2024, NEO-ARK Law Firm has been shortlisted for the ALB Real Estate and Construction Law Firm of the Year in South and Central China. The award of ‘Client's Preferred attorney in South China’ further highlights the outstanding performance and professionalism of NEO-ARK Law Firm's attorneys in the legal industry. In the future, attorney Liang Xiaofeng will continue to develop the legal field in South China with his professionalism and provide better legal services to clients.

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