On Wednesday 23rd July 2025, Hong Kong-based legal magazine China Business Law Journal (CBLJ) releases the winners of its “China Business Law Awards 2025”. The awards are designed to showcase the diversity of talent in the legal services market while offering assistance to in-house readers as they consider and select their legal advisers.

On June 12th, 2025, WTR unveils the seventh edition of WTR Global Leaders. The WTR Global Leaders, which draws on the market-leading research projects of the WTR 1000 and the WTR 300, identify the best of the best in trademark practice.

Wanhuida Intellectual Property proudly announces its remarkable achievements in the IP STARS (Managing IP’s accreditation title) 2025 rankings. The firm has secured two top-tier rankings on the prestigious platform, across “Trade mark prosecution – domestic firms” and “Trade mark disputes – domestic firms”, which affirms its status as a leader in the PRC legal market.

On 29th May 2025, IAM unveils the 2025 edition of IAM Patent 1000: The World’s Leading Patent Professionals. Now in its 14th year, the IAM Patent 1000 helps identifying top patent professionals and firm-wide private practice patent expertise in key jurisdictions around the globe. The guided is the result of an extensive 5-month research process performed by a team of full-time analysts through 1,800 interviews with industry specialists. Only those identified by market sources for their exceptional skillsets and profound insights into patent matters feature in the IAM Patent 1000.

On 20th May 2025, the Asian Legal Business (ALB) magazine releases in its China May 2025 issue the 2025 ALB China IP Rankings.

On Monday May 19th, 2025, under the auspices of the China Trademark Association, the China Trademark Magazine and IPHOUSE, a leading innovation and compliance data supplier in China, jointly release the List of Top 40 Foreign-related Chinese Trademark Agencies in 2025, during the 147th annual meeting of the International Trademark Association.

On 2nd April 2025, Hong Kong-based legal magazine China Business Law Journal (CBLJ) releases the winners of its "Deals of the Year Award 2024".

In the 2025 edition of the World Trademark Review 1000 - The World's Leading Trademark Professionals, which is released on 29th January 2025 (UK time), Wanhuida Intellectual Property has topped both litigation and prosecution rankings for yet another year. The firm is rated in the Gold Band as a first-tier PRC firm for both "Prosecution and Strategy" and "Enforcement and Litigation" category.

On 16th January 2025, Chambers and Partners announces the launch of the Chambers Greater China Region 2025 guide. The guide brings together extensive, independent in-depth market analysis, and rankings of the leading law firms and professionals across all four jurisdictions of the Greater China Region, featuring five exclusive sections: China (International Firms), Hong Kong Bar, China (PRC Firms), Macau SAR and Taiwan Jurisdiction.

On 11th - 12th January 2025, under the auspices of Patent Protection Association of China and China Group Companies Association, the “2025 Enterprise IP Strategy Forum and Annual Conference of In-house IP Managers”, which is organised by Zhongguancun Intellectual Property Strategy Research Institute (ZGCIPSRI), jointly hosted by ZGCIPSRI Intelligent Industry Research Center and Intellectual Property Observers, is held in Beijing.

Asian Legal Business (ALB), which is owned by Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, releases in the December 2024 China edition, the list of “2024 ALB China Top 15 IP Lawyers”.

The Legal 500's 2024 China Awards ceremony is held on the evening of Thursday, December 12, 2024, at the Rosewood Beijing.