Legal Services in Asia-Pacific

Introduction

Legal Services in Asia-Pacific industry profile provides top-line qualitative and quantitative summary information including: market size (value 2007-11, and forecast to 2016). The profile also contains descriptions of the leading players including key financial metrics and analysis of competitive pressures within the market. Essential resource for top-line data and analysis covering the Asia-Pacific legal services market. Includes market size data, textual and graphical analysis of market growth trends, leading companies and macroeconomic information.

Highlights

*The legal services market includes practitioners of law operating in every sector of the legal spectrum. These include commercial, criminal, legal aid, insolvency, labor/industrial, family and taxation law. The market's value is calculated as the total revenues received by law companies for services rendered. These values include all applicable taxes. Market volumes in this report refer to the total number of legal professionals. All currency conversions are calculated at constant average annual 2011 exchange rates.

*The Asia-Pacific legal services market had total revenues of $85.1 billion in 2011, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.3% between 2007 and 2011.

*Total number of legal professionals increased with a CAGR of 4.5% between 27-211, to reach a total of 41.2 thousands in 211.

*The performance of the market is forecast to accelerate, with an anticipated CAGR of 7.3% for the five-year period 2011 - 2016, which is expected to drive the market to a value of $121.2 billion by the end of 2016.

Features

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Leading company profiles reveal details of key legal services market players’ global operations and financial performance

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Macroeconomic indicators provide insight into general trends within the Asia-Pacific economy

Key Questions Answered

What was the size of the Asia-Pacific legal services market by value in 2011?

What will be the size of the Asia-Pacific legal services market in 2016?

What factors are affecting the strength of competition in the Asia-Pacific legal services market?

How has the market performed over the last five years?

Legal Services Industry

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Executive Summary 2
Market value 2
Market value forecast 2
Market volume 2
Market volume forecast 2
Geography segmentation 2
Market rivalry 2
Market Overview 7
Market definition 7
Market analysis 7
Market Data 8
Market value 8
Market volume 9
Market Segmentation 10
Geography segmentation 10
Market Outlook 11
Market value forecast 11
Market volume forecast 12
Five Forces Analysis 13
Summary 13
Buyer power 14
Supplier power 15
New entrants 16
Threat of substitutes 17
Degree of rivalry 18
Leading Companies 19
Baker & McKenzie 19
Dacheng Law Offices 22
King & Wood Mallesons 23
YingKe 24
Appendix 25
Methodology 25
Industry associations 26
Related MarketLine research 26

LIST OF TABLES
Table 1: Asia-Pacific legal services market value: $ billion, 2007–11 8
Table 2: Asia–Pacific legal services market volume: thousand units, 2007–11 9
Table 3: Asia–Pacific legal services market geography segmentation: $ billion, 2011 10
Table 4: Asia-Pacific legal services market value forecast: $ billion, 2011–16 11
Table 5: Asia–Pacific legal services market volume forecast: thousand units, 2011–16 12
Table 6: Baker & McKenzie: key facts 19
Table 7: Dacheng Law Offices: key facts 22
Table 8: King & Wood Mallesons: key facts 23
Table 9: YingKe: key facts 24

LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 1: Asia-Pacific legal services market value: $ billion, 2007–11 8
Figure 2: Asia–Pacific legal services market volume: thousand units, 2007–11 9
Figure 3: Asia–Pacific legal services market geography segmentation: % share, by value, 2011 10
Figure 4: Asia-Pacific legal services market value forecast: $ billion, 2011–16 11
Figure 5: Asia–Pacific legal services market volume forecast: thousand units, 2011–16 12
Figure 6: Forces driving competition in the legal services market in Asia-Pacific, 2011 13
Figure 7: Drivers of buyer power in the legal services market in Asia-Pacific, 2011 14
Figure 8: Drivers of supplier power in the legal services market in Asia-Pacific, 2011 15
Figure 9: Factors influencing the likelihood of new entrants in the legal services market in Asia-Pacific, 2011 16
Figure 10: Factors influencing the threat of substitutes in the legal services market in Asia-Pacific, 2011 17
Figure 11: Drivers of degree of rivalry in the legal services market in Asia-Pacific, 2011 18