These rankings reflect Reed Smith’s reputation in asset finance; banking; corporate and M&A; dispute resolution; energy; FinTech and financial services regulatory; international arbitration; investment funds; projects; shipping; technology, media and telecoms (TMT); venture capital; and white-collar crime.
These rankings are in addition to Legal 500’s Greater China rankings, released in November 2025, in which six lawyers from Reed Smith’s Asia Pacific offices were featured on elite lists and the firm was endorsed in 19 practice categories, including a repeated top Tier 1 ranking for Data Protection: foreign firms in China.
PRACTICE RANKINGS
The Legal 500 Asia Pacific ranked Reed Smith in the following categories:
India
- Foreign firms
Indonesia
- Foreign firms
Kazakhstan
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution
Singapore
- Asset finance
- Banking and finance: foreign firms
- Corporate and M&A: foreign firms
- Corporate and M&A: local firms (Resource Law)
- Energy: foreign firms
- Fintech and financial services regulatory: foreign firms
- International arbitration
- Investment funds: foreign firms
- Projects: foreign firms
- Shipping: foreign firms
- Shipping: local firms (Resource Law)
- Start-up and venture capital: foreign firms
- TMT: foreign firms
- White-collar crime: foreign firms
South Korea
- Shipping: foreign firms
LAWYER RANKINGS
Singapore-based partner Gregory Xu achieved rankings in two categories. The full list of the firm’s ranked lawyers includes:
- Calvin Chan, Singapore White-collar crime: foreign firms (Leading Partner)
- Timothy Cooke, Singapore International arbitration (Leading Partner)
- Peter Glover, Singapore Shipping: foreign firms (Leading Partner)
- Han Ming Ho, Singapore Investment funds: foreign firms (Leading Partner)
- Johnny Lim, Indonesia Foreign firms (Leading Partner)
- Sultan Seidalin, Kazakhstan Commercial, corporate and M&A (Leading Associate)
- Simon Spells, Singapore Asset finance: foreign firms (Leading Partner)
- Gregory Xu, Singapore Asset finance: foreign firms (Next Generation Partner) and Singapore Shipping: foreign firms (Leading Partner)
- Askar Zhansagimov, Kazakhstan Commercial, corporate and M&A (Leading Partner)
Leading partners are seen as “true market leaders, with long-established reputations in their sector, lead roles in multiple recent significant matters, and exceptional, widespread recognition and endorsement from peers in the market and clients alike.”
A next generation partner refers to “a junior partner with significant recognition from clients and peers in the market, and key roles on multiple matters.”
Leading associate denotes impressive lawyers below partnership level.
In Singapore, Reed Smith is in a Formal Law Alliance with Resource Law LLC, with whom it shares its offices.
About Reed Smith
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