Grandall Law Firm Adds Six Equity Partners Across Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Fuzhou, and Wuhan Offices

Grandall Law Firm has added six equity partners across its Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Fuzhou and Wuhan offices, further strengthening its capabilities in capital markets, dispute resolution, maritime law and M&A and restructuring.

The appointments were completed in the first quarter of 2026, according to the firm’s announcement shared through Law.asia.

Zhang Lyu joined Grandall’s Guangzhou office as managing partner and concurrently serves as executive director of the firm’s Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) Business Development Centre. Established in 2025, the GBA Business Development Centre integrates the firm’s Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Hong Kong offices, as well as its global network, to build a cross-border legal services platform.

Prior to joining Grandall, Zhang served as managing partner of Tahota Law Firm’s Guangzhou office and head of its compliance legal centre. With more than 20 years of practice experience, she focuses on civil and commercial dispute resolution, commercial mediation, government and state-owned assets legal services, corporate compliance, M&A and restructuring, and capital markets matters.

Yang Ru joined Grandall’s Shenzhen office. She has extensive experience in equity and capital markets, with 16 years of practice covering securities, M&A and restructuring, and private equity investment and financing. Her clients span sectors including new energy, technology, real estate, pharmaceuticals, automotive and defence, and include state-owned enterprises, large private companies, SMEs and startups, private equity funds and listed companies.

Yang began her legal career at Grandall, first serving as a paralegal and later as an associate. She joined King & Wood Mallesons (now King & Wood) in 2013 and was promoted to partner in the firm’s Shenzhen office in 2019. During her tenure there, she led Shenzhen Capital Group’s acquisition of a 29 percent stake in a technology company.

The remaining four equity partners are Fan Qiang, Zheng Wenpei, Gong Wenjing, and Lyu Jingya. Fan Qiang and Zheng Wenpei joined the Fuzhou office, while Gong Wenjing and Lyu Jingya joined the Wuhan office.

Grandall Law Firm, headquartered in Beijing, is one of the largest full-service law firms in China with over 2000 lawyers and offices in 32 cities across mainland China and international locations including Hong Kong, Paris, Madrid, Silicon Valley, Stockholm and New York.

The firm provides expert legal services in banking and finance, capital markets and securities, corporate and commercial law, intellectual property and e-commerce, construction and real estate, power, energy and infrastructure, labor and human resources, dispute resolution, arbitration and litigation, aviation, shipping and maritime, private equity and venture capital, tax and trusts.