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.

On the morning of 9 April 2025, Yan Wenjing, Deputy Director of Zhuhai International Arbitration Court (ZIAAC), Tang Nan, Deputy Director of Zhuhai International Arbitration Court (ZIAAC), and Li Yaozu and Yang Dan, arbitration secretaries of ZIAAC, and their entourage visited Guangdong NEO-ARK Law Firm (NEO-ARK Law Firm) for exchanges and visits. attorney Huang Jianqiu, Director and Senior Partner of the firm, attorney Liu Minghong, Executive Director and Senior Partner of the firm, attorney Huang Ziran, Secretary of the Management Committee and Senior Partner of the firm, attorney Yao Qing, Partner of the firm, and attorney Yang Guoliang, Partner of the firm, warmly received them and participated in the discussion.

Yan Wenjing and Tang Nan, Associate Directors, shared and introduced Zhuhai International Arbitration Institute (ZIAI)'s development history, system innovation, young arbitration talents cultivation and institutional reform experience, and focused on ZIAI's cutting-edge explorations and reform experience in implementing the development of arbitration institutions.

Director Huang Jianqiu shared the professional team building and practical achievements of the Institute in the fields of foreign-related arbitration and construction engineering arbitration cases. Executive Director Liu Minghong gave a comprehensive introduction of the development overview, staff scale, professional advantages and service characteristics of the firm, and looked forward to both parties further strengthening exchanges and cooperation in the field of arbitration dispute resolution.

Through this sharing and exchange, Guangdong NEO-ARK Law Firm will continue to deepen the synergy and linkage with Zhuhai International Arbitration Court, improve the legal service level of arbitration business, and empower arbitration dispute resolution with professional legal services.

After the declaration, audit, selection and relevant deliberation procedures, Yu Yuting was formally selected as a member of the Foreign-related Legal Services Sub-committee of Guangzhou Lawyers Association. Our firm would like to express our sincere congratulations to Yu Yuting and look forward to her further success in her future work, which will add more colours to the development of the Guangzhou Lawyers Association and the firm!

The selection is not only the affirmation of Yu Yuting's personal professional ability, but also the recognition of our firm's strength in the field of foreign-related legal services. In the future, the firm will continue to uphold the ‘professional, efficient, honest and innovative’ service concept, and is committed to providing customers with more high-quality, comprehensive foreign-related legal services.

Recently, Guangdong NEO-ARK Law Firm has received a series of good news, which not only demonstrates the excellent ability and professionalism of our lawyers, but also further enhances the reputation and influence of our firm.

2024 ALB China Regional Market Legal Awards: South China & Central China Ceremony

On 6 December 2024, the 2024 ALB China Regional Market Legal Awards: South China & Central China Ceremony was held at the Ritz-Carlton Shenzhen. The ceremony brought together influential professionals such as top lawyers, corporate lawyers, investment bankers and company CEOs in China's legal market, and our senior partners Pan Wenjing and Liu Minghong were invited to attend the ceremony.

In the ‘2024 ALB China Regional Market Legal Awards: South China & Central China’, the firm was shortlisted for the ‘South and Central China Real Estate and Construction Law Firm of the Year’ for the second consecutive year, and our director and senior partner, attorney Huang Jianqiu, was shortlisted for the ‘South and Central China Real Estate and Construction Law Firm of the Year’. attorney Huang Jianqiu, Director and Senior Partner of the firm, was shortlisted for the ‘South and Central China Managing Partner of the Year Award’.

Looking ahead, the firm will continue to strengthen its professional achievements and brand value, and provide solid legal support for its clients.

Foshan Metro Group Legal Services Library

According to the relevant provisions of the ‘Foshan Metro Group External Legal Service Institutions and Lawyers Management Measures’, Foshan Metro Group Co., Ltd. (Foshan Metro Group) selected 8 law firms and 8 lawyers as the first batch of law firms/lawyers to be included in the legal service pool of Foshan Metro Group in an open manner through the release of the announcement of the establishment of the pool, self-enrollment, and comprehensive assessment procedures. Legal services library of the first batch of law firms / lawyers. Our director and senior partner attorney Huang Jianqiu and senior partner attorney Tan Huiyi were selected as the first batch of law firms/lawyers to be included in the legal service pool of Foshan Metro Group.

Guangzhou Chamber of Commerce for Foreign Invested Enterprises 2024 Annual Meeting

In order to further gather strength, promote exchanges, better unite and serve the development of Hong Kong, Macao and foreign enterprises in Guangzhou, and build a better future for Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Greater Bay Area, the 2024 Annual Meeting of Guangzhou Chamber of Commerce for Foreign Invested Enterprises (GCCFIE) was successfully held on the evening of 6 December at the Four Seasons Hotel in Guangzhou. Our senior partners attorney Liang Xiaofeng and attorney Yu Yuting were invited to attend.

In order to thoroughly implement the spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee and to strengthen the construction of foreign-related rule of law, the Office of the Guangzhou Municipal Party Committee for Rule of Law and the Municipal Bureau of Justice released three handbooks, including the ‘Guangzhou Foreign Lawyers’ Sub-discipline Directory’. The Directory of Foreign Lawyers in Guangzhou has a catalogue designed according to the field of practice, from which readers can quickly search for foreign lawyers of the corresponding specialties according to their needs, thus achieving accurate matching of supply and demand.

Sun Jianhui, Liang Xiaofeng and Qin Hailing of Guangdong NEO-ARK Law Firm are the three lawyers selected in the ‘Guangzhou Foreign Lawyers Sub-discipline Directory’, and the selected sub-disciplines are as follows:

Recently, Asia Law Bulletin (‘ALB’), an international authoritative legal media, announced the shortlist of ‘2024 ALB China Regional Market Legal Awards: South China & Central China’. Based on the excellent performance and good reputation, Guangdong NEO-ARK Law Firm was shortlisted for the ‘South & Central China Real Estate & Construction Law Firm of the Year Award’, and attorney Huang Jianqiu, Director and Senior Partner of NEO-ARK Law Firm, was shortlisted for the ‘South & Central China Managing Partner of the Year Award’.

For two consecutive years, NEO-ARK and NEO-ARK lawyers have been shortlisted in the ALB list, which fully demonstrates NEO-ARK's professional strength, client recognition and industry influence. In the future, NEO-ARK Firm will continue to forge ahead, constantly improve its professional standards and service quality, and continue to provide clients with all-round, multi-level and professional quality legal services.

2024 ALB China Regional Market Legal Awards: South China & Central China Legal Awards focus on 7 provinces and autonomous regions in South China and Central China, namely Fujian Province, Guangdong Province, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Hainan Province, Henan Province, Hubei Province and Hunan Province, attracting more than 760 nominations from more than a hundred law firms and corporate legal teams that have achieved outstanding results in the legal services market in South China and Central China. The award covers 30 legal practice areas.