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JunHe Wins Two Awards at the 2025 China Benchmark Litigation Awards

2025.06.09

On June 5, 2025, Benchmark Litigation, a renowned legal media journal focused on dispute resolution, announced their 2025 China Awards. JunHe won two awards: Beijing Firm of the Year and Northwestern China Lawyer of the Year: DU, Xiaocheng.


Dispute Resolution Team: Expertise Forged Through Specialization


JunHe's dispute resolution team consists of over 120 lawyers, including more than 50 partners and counsels. Thanks to their extensive experience in handling cases at different levels in the courts and serving as arbitrators in major domestic and international arbitration institutions, our team has a deep understanding of China's legal system and judicial practices, as well as the execution of international commercial arbitration and litigation. We provide clients with high-quality, cross-jurisdictional, and multilingual dispute resolution services.


Leveraging JunHe's integrated advantages, our dispute resolution team has expanded its services from traditional civil and commercial litigation and arbitration to include criminal cases, administrative penalties and litigation. We also deal with compliance matters such as anti-unfair competition, multilateral development bank compliance investigations, FCPA investigations and internal corporate compliance investigations, and bankruptcy services. The comprehensiveness and breadth of our services is industry-leading.


Du Xiaocheng: Expert in Dispute Resolution


Chambers and Partners commented, "With extensive knowledge in dispute resolution, Du Xiaocheng is the counsel of choice for major clients' litigation, particularly in appellate trials and higher courts." Mr. Du focuses on civil and commercial litigation, and has handled hundreds of difficult and complex civil and commercial litigation cases. These have covered areas such as energy and natural resources, banking and finance, corporate governance, and various other commercial contract and guarantee disputes. His experience in litigation representation, anticipation of civil and commercial litigation processes and judicial thinking are key reasons clients choose him as their attorney. Mr. Du’s expertise has been widely recognized by the industry and clients, earning him awards from both  and international media. He was recognized as Chambers Greater China Region Corporate/Commercial: Shaanxi Up-and-Coming Lawyer 2025, The A-List: The Growth Driver by China Business Law Journal in 2024, and a Litigation Star by Benchmark Litigation in 2023, 2024, and 2025. In 2023, he was named among the Top 15 West China Rising Lawyers by ALB and a Rising Lawyer of the Year by China Business Law Journal. In 2022, he was named one of LEGAL BAND's Client Choice: Top 15 Rising Partners. 


This recognition reaffirms JunHe’s formidable strength and outstanding reputation in dispute resolution, and Mr. Du's personal accolades highlight our strategic vision and deep talent pool. JunHe is committed to expanding its presence in dispute resolution and protecting our clients’ rights and interests. 


JunHe is the only Chinese law firm to be admitted as a member of Lex Mundi and Multilaw, two international networks of independent law firms. JunHe and selected top law firms in major European and Asian jurisdictions are “best friends.” Through these connections, we provide high quality legal services to clients doing business throughout the world.
As the first carbon neutrality fund sponsored by a law firm in China, the BAF Carbon Neutrality Special Fund was jointly established by JunHe and the Beijing Afforestation Foundation (BAF) to promote carbon neutral initiatives, and encourage social collaboration based on the public fundraising platform to mobilize engagement in public welfare campaigns.