Davis Polk & Wardwell is a New York-headquartered law firm with 982 lawyers across 10 offices in North and South America, Europe and Asia. The firm has offices in Beijing and Hong Kong with more than 100 legal professionals handling transactions and disputes for Chinese corporates, multinationals, funds and financial institutions. 

Focusses / specialisms  

The firm’s China team is best known for its equity and debt capital markets work, M&A and private equity across the technology, media and telecommunications, banking, consumer goods, energy, healthcare and real estate sectors, and offers a fully integrated platform advising on US, Hong Kong and English law. 

Key clients  

Key clients of the firm include Tencent, GoTo Group, Duddell Street Acquisition, Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group, Naver Financial and Kingsoft Cloud.  

Client feedback: 32nd edition (2022/2023)  

Private equity 

“They have deep knowledge in both the business sector and their client's needs, and they have worked effectively and efficiently to help their client to achieve its goal.”