Guantao partner Zhan Yonghong listed among "China's Top 15 Leading Female Lawyers" on Legal Hall of Fame’s Legal Pioneers Ranking
On March 7, 2025, Legal Hall of Fame - a premier legal rating authority - unveiled its legal pioneers ranking "China's Top 15 Leading Female Lawyers 2025". Guantao Partner Zhan Yonghong secured her position on this prestigious list through exceptional professional excellence, seminal industry contributions, and acclaimed market reputation.
Zhan Yonghong
Executive Director, Guantao Beijing Office
Practice Area: Corporate and M&A, Real Estate and Construction, Dispute Resolution
Email: zhyh@guantao.com
Zhan Yonghong specializes in real estate and construction, project development, acquisitions and transfers, as well as structuring complex transactions for multi-sector projects involving investments, operations, and management. She possesses extensive experience in transaction structuring analysis and design, deal risk mitigation frameworks, phased transaction execution planning, coordinating multi-disciplinary legal teams and professional. Simultaneously, her dispute resolution practice demonstrates profound expertise in real estate JV and partnership litigation, high-value property transaction disputes, leasing arbitration cases, construction conflicts involving BOT, PPP, and government agency projects.
Recognized for her practice in real estate/construction and project development, Ms. Zhan has earned consecutive inclusions in prestigious legal directories, including: The Legal 500 Asia Pacific, IFLR1000, and China Law & Practice.
Ranking Rationale:
Zhan Yonghong distinguishes herself through deep specialization in real estate and construction law, establishing an integrated "Investment-Development-Operation-Exit" service framework with precise full-lifecycle risk governance. Her leadership in landmark projects—including city-scale developments valued at RMB 100+ billion and cross-border industrial park acquisitions—demonstrates a paradigm-setting dual-track methodology: preemptive risk identification combined with dynamic mitigation protocols. This approach has successfully resolved the title disputes involving land rights, public-private partnership negotiation deadlocks, and multi-disciplinary coordination challenges across regulatory frameworks, emerging as the standard for industry compliance governance. Her strategic oversight resets the parameters of real estate legal services, cementing her status as an industry benchmark where land value and legal acumen grow symbiotically.
- Legal Hall of Fame