Barlow Lyde & Gilbert's Shanghai office was established in 2000 to meet clients' increasing needs for representation in mainland China.  The firm’s Hong Kong (established in 1986) and Shanghai offices operate as an integrated unit.  The team also works closely with our colleagues in Singapore who also have extensive experience in China.

We have over 20 years experience in advising both international and local clients on business and investment opportunities in China, Hong Kong and throughout the Asia Pacific region.  We advise clients across a wide range of sectors including financial services, aviation, retail and manufacturing, logistics, property and construction, biotech and media and technology.

Our practice is international in nature and we offer full commercial service to international and local clients on a broad range of areas including corporate commercial, insurance and reinsurance, dispute resolution, international arbitration, aerospace, employment, restructuring and insolvency, intellectual property, regulatory, property and financial services. 

The firm’s Asia Aerospace Group is the largest aviation insurance practice in the region and one of the largest regulatory and commercial aerospace practices.  We are recognised as market leaders in the handling of claims for the aviation industry in China, Hong Kong, Macau, South Korea and Vietnam. We are also the only aviation insurance practice with a dedicated team in Greater China.

We have significantly expanded our practice over the past few years and currently have a team of 8 partners and over 45 lawyers and legal professionals.

Our lawyers are qualified to practise law in China, Hong Kong, England and Wales, Ireland, Singapore, Italy, Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand and Canada.   They are multilingual in languages including Mandarin, Cantonese, English, German, French, Italian, Portuguese and Malay.

We have well established affiliations with local Chinese law firms and correspondent law firms in all major jurisdictions which enables us to assist our clients throughout China, the Asia Pacific region and worldwide.