On August 28, 2025, LEGALBAND, a renowned legal ranking institution, released its list of the “2025 LEGALBAND Elite List: Top 20 Business Lawyers.” Mr. Xueliang Mao, Founding Partner of Kingland Partners, was named to the list in recognition of his profound expertise in commercial legal services and his outstanding reputation among clients, fully demonstrating his leading position and broad recognition in business law practice.
Daniel MAO
Founding Partner of Kingland Partners
Reason for Inclusion: Mr. Mao’s practice primarily focuses on mergers and acquisitions, private equity investment, and fund formation. He has demonstrated exceptional capabilities in handling major and complex cross-border transactions. He has led teams in multiple large-scale deals, providing clients with innovative solutions that are closely aligned with their commercial objectives, thereby ensuring compliance and efficient execution. Mr. Mao has long served numerous internationally renowned investment institutions and enterprises in industries such as real estate, TMT, and consumer sectors, while also actively expanding his practice into emerging industries including life sciences, carbon neutrality, artificial intelligence, new energy, and advanced manufacturing. His consistent performance has earned him the continued trust of a wide range of corporate clients.
Client Testimonial: “Mr. Mao has become the preferred legal advisor for leading foreign investors in the market, particularly in the areas of cross-border M&A and real estate investment and financing, owing to his outstanding expertise, extensive transactional experience, and precise understanding of the core concerns and key risks of both parties. In past collaborations, Mr. Mao and his team’s high-quality, efficient, and pragmatic working style has ensured the smooth advancement of projects and the achievement of commercial objectives. Over the past decade, he has provided our company with top-tier legal services across the full lifecycle of our USD- and RMB-denominated fund formation, investment, and exit processes both domestically and internationally.”
LEGALBAND is a professional legal ranking agency under Accurate Media, an internationally renowned legal media company headquartered in Hong Kong, with a dedicated research team based in mainland China. This year’s evaluation combined LEGALBAND’s longstanding research into elite lawyers in the field of commercial legal services with the deep insights of its China-based research team, ultimately selecting 20 business lawyers in mainland China who demonstrate outstanding capabilities and are highly regarded by clients.
