This week, we published our flagship Global 200 report, which ranks law firms worldwide based on their revenues and other metrics like head count, revenue per lawyer and profit per equity partner. As part of that push, we also published our Asia 50 report, which identifies and ranks the largest law firms in Asia by head count, as well as our China 45 report, which sorts top Chinese law firms based on their revenue.

I can’t begin to tell you what a feat it was to collect financial information from Chinese law firms, but I suspect you can imagine the struggle. There might be parallels here to the U.S. battling to gain access to audit information of listed Chinese companies. OK, I am joking. (Or am I?)