In the latest “Legal 500 Greater China 2026”, which is launched on November 19, 2025, Wanhuida Intellectual Property has been rated as a TIER-1 PRC FIRM in both categories of “Intellectual Property: Contentious” and “Intellectual Property: Non-contentious”.
According to Legal 500, Wanhuida is “frequently sought out by clients” and is “equipped to handle the entire scope of contentious and non-contentious IP matters”. The endorsement is substantiated by satisfactory client testimonials, testifying the firm’s “strong practical ability and industry understanding in judicial practices”, its “familiarity with the legal provisions”, and capability in “transforming rules into enforceable solutions” and “providing executable solutions and landing assistance”. Clients commend the firm’s practitioners for their “deep involvement in the whole process of the case, from evidence collection, case construction, response preparation, to trial performance, focusing on practical results rather than formalities every step of the way”. Clients also heap praise on the team’s “quick turnaround time”, “proactiveness in accommodating last-minute requests” and “accurate implementation”.
Bai Gang, the firm’s Founding Partner and Management Committee Chair, is inducted, six years in a row, into Legal 500 Hall of Fame, which is exclusively reserved for lawyers that are regarded as being at the very top of the profession, widely known and respected by peers and clients for their longstanding involvement in market-leading work.
Three fellow members from the firm’s Management Committee, Ren Haiyan, Jason Yao and Dr. S. Sam Li, as well as Partner Yang Mingming are listed as Recommended Lawyers.
Yang Mingming cements his inclusion in the guide as clients acknowledge his “highly commercial and responsive” style, his “detail-oriented, realistic and extremely professional approach”, and his “timely, precise, holistic and immaculate business advice”.
Wanhuida has received, since 2012, top-tier accolade from Legal 500 fifteen years in a row.
Founded in 1987, Legal 500 is the world's leading legal services benchmarking platform, connecting global law firms with international clients. It delivers, across more than 100 countries, trusted insights through comprehensive research processes and proprietary data from 300,000+ clients and 60,000+ law firm submissions annually. More than 150 researchers and analysts evaluate law firms against a broad range of practice area competencies, industry sector expertise and client satisfaction metrics. The 2026 Greater China rankings span 96 practice areas and the coverage overall features 1,871 firm rankings and 1,606 individual rankings. Across the China coverage, 52 practice areas were researched covering both major Chinese firms, foreign firms, and regional heavyweights, assessing 278 firms and over 1,900 submissions.