On December 31, 2025, the internationally renowned legal rating agency LegalOne officially released the "2025 LegalOne Stellar Accolade" list. Four senior partners from Gao Peng Law Firm—Dong Xiaohua, Guo Jinhui, Li Xiaojuan, and Jia Mengmeng—were recognized for their profound professional expertise, exceptional practical capabilities, and outstanding market reputation. They successfully secured their spots on the list, with each selected in four key practice areas: criminal law, dispute resolution (litigation), private equity and venture capital (PE/VC), and taxation. This achievement highlights Gao Peng Law Firm's professional competitiveness and industry influence across diverse business sectors.

高朋律师荣获2025年度LegalOne「实力之星」Lawyer Gao Peng was awarded the "Strength Star" by LegalOne in 2025

Lawyer Gao Peng on the list:

Dong Xiaohua

Listed field: Criminal business

Senior partner of Gaopeng Law Firm, postdoctoral candidate in management of Chinese Academy of Sciences, doctoral candidate in criminal law of Beijing Normal University, and master of constitutional and administrative law of Peking University. Lawyer Dong Xiaohua specializes in criminal defense, criminal prosecution, and compliance services, and has worked for 18 years at both the city and district level procuratorates in Beijing. Served as the head of the Arrest Department and the Public Prosecution Department, as well as a member of the Prosecution Committee. I have handled and guided hundreds of criminal cases, including ordinary criminal offenses, economic crimes, and job-related crimes. I have conducted in-depth research on financial securities crimes and job-related crimes, and have participated in the handling of multiple new types of financial crimes and job-related crimes that have a significant impact nationwide. Has won the honorary titles of "Top Ten Prosecutors" and "Outstanding Debater" in Beijing for two consecutive years. At the same time as handling cases, I devoted myself to theoretical research through practical experience, wrote research articles, and published over 20 papers in journals such as Jiangxi Social Sciences and People's Procuratorate. In 2018, selected for the post funding project of the China Law Society, published the sole book "Empirical Study on the Sentencing of Theft in Beijing". After transforming into a lawyer in 2019, I have handled hundreds of criminal cases, many of which have achieved good defense effects such as not being arrested, not prosecuted, sentenced to probation, withdrawn, acquitted, and given lighter punishments, and have received unanimous praise from the parties and their families.

Lawyer Dong Xiaohua holds multiple social positions, including Director of the Criminal Law Professional Committee of Beijing Gaopeng Law Firm, Executive Director of the Beijing Comparative Law Research Association, Special Researcher at the Criminal Law Science Research Institute of Beijing Normal University, Off campus Mentor for the Master's Degree in Law at the Law School of Beijing Institute of Technology. He has also been appointed as a special legal advisor for a certain public security bureau and has long served as a judge for the "Law Cup" National University Mock Court Competition, Beijing University Mock Court Competition, and lecturer for the No Litigation Online Training Course.

Guo Jinhui

Listed field: Dispute Resolution (Litigation)

Senior partner of Gaopeng Law Firm, Master of Law from Peking University, and also serves as an arbitrator for more than ten arbitration commissions including Dalian Arbitration Commission, Nanjing Arbitration Commission, Xiamen Arbitration Commission, etc.  

Lawyer Guo Jinhui has accumulated profound professional practical experience in the field of civil and commercial dispute resolution, representing hundreds of cases covering securities, finance, contracts, real estate, construction projects, PPP projects, private lending, and other types of litigation, arbitration, and enforcement cases. Proficient in solving difficult cases with unique case representation ideas and comprehensive, multi angle solutions.

We have served clients including CITIC Securities, Guokai Securities, Everbright Securities, Huarong Securities, Beijing Enterprises Water Group Co., Ltd., Beijing Enterprises Environmental Protection Engineering Technology Co., Ltd., China Construction Road and Bridge Group Co., Ltd., Dati Robot Co., Ltd., Huarui Century Holdings Group Co., Ltd., China Silk Road Group Co., Ltd., Beijing Agriculture and Rural Bureau, etc.

Lawyer Guo Jinhui has been selected as one of the top 100 outstanding criminal defense lawyers in Beijing by the Beijing Bar Association, and has been honored with the title of "Top 100 Outstanding Partners Recommended in 2024" by the Law News Society.

Li Xiaojuan

Listed fields: Private Equity and Venture Capital (PE/VC)

Li Xiaojuan, a senior partner at Gaopeng Law Firm, has worked at several well-known law firms both domestically and internationally. She has also served as the risk control manager of a fund company under China National Machinery Industry Corporation and the legal director of Yixin Wealth Private Equity Master Fund. Lawyer Li not only holds the qualification of practicing lawyer in China, but also has qualifications in securities industry, fund industry, CFA Level I (Chartered Financial Analyst Level I) and other related fields. Lawyer Li has extensive practical experience in various aspects of the entire private equity fund industry chain, including the establishment and issuance of private equity funds, fund fundraising, fund investment, fund operation and post investment management, fund exit, fund liquidation, fund compliance, and dispute resolution.

The industries that Lawyer Li has served include but are not limited to entertainment, film and television media, medical and pharmaceutical, real estate and construction engineering, finance, blockchain, new energy, software development, production and manufacturing, and consumer upgrading.

The case of the "Bitcoin" mining dispute represented by Lawyer Li, as the first typical case in China to apply the green principles of the Civil Code to Bitcoin reasoning, was recommended by the Supreme People's Court and selected for the CCTV-12 Social and Legal Channel's "Rule of Law Depth" program. The program was broadcasted on March 4, 2023.

Jia Mengmeng

Listed field: Taxation

Jia Mengmeng, Senior Partner of Gaopeng Law Firm, graduated from Southwest University of Political Science and Law with a Master's degree in Tax Law. Currently serving as the Deputy Secretary General of the Finance and Taxation Committee of the Beijing Bar Association, a member of the Finance and Taxation Business Research Committee of the Chaoyang District Bar Association, a member of the Economic Law Research Committee of the China Law Society, and a member of the Finance and Taxation Committee of the Beijing Cultural and Entertainment Law Society. Lawyer Jia Mengmeng has been invited multiple times to participate in academic activities of the China Law Society's Finance and Taxation Law Research Association and the Beijing Finance and Taxation Law Research Association, and to share his professional views.

Lawyer Jia has been a member of the legal advisory team for the State Administration of Taxation and the Beijing tax system (including various district tax bureaus, inspection bureaus, and tax sub bureaus). He is one of the few lawyers in China with experience in providing two-way tax related legal services to tax authorities and taxpayers. Since June 2020, Lawyer Jia has been focusing on providing tax dispute resolution agency services for taxpayers. Resolve tax disputes and help businesses mitigate tax risks in hundreds of major and difficult tax cases. Lawyer Jia's representation in tax related criminal defense cases (false opening, illegal sale, illegal purchase, tax evasion, etc.) has achieved satisfactory representation results for clients. At the same time, the tax case represented by Lawyer Jia Mengmeng has also been selected for the "Chinese Court Cases of 2025".

In the past two years, Lawyer Jammon has won the following awards: Top 15 Administrative Law Lawyers on the 2024 LEGALBAND Annual List; Commercial Law 2024-25 A-List Legal Elite "Rising Stars in the Legal World"; 2025 GRCD "Top 15 Preferred Tax Lawyers for Chinese Customers"; 2025 GRCD "Annual Tax Lawyer"; The Legal 500 recommended lawyers in the tax field for the year 2026 in Greater China.

This award is not only a high recognition of the personal professional strength of the four lawyers, but also a full affirmation of the industry's professional service capabilities of Gaopeng Law Firm. In the future, Gaopeng Law Firm and all its lawyers will continue to deeply cultivate their professional fields, empower their clients with better legal services, and inject professional strength into the construction of the rule of law.

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