On November 23, 2022, The Legal 500, the world's renowned legal directory, released its 2023 rankings of PRC law firms. The rankings honor Han Kun by highly recommending 71 of the firm's lawyers (with 98 honors in total) and 18 practice areas, including seven areas recognized as "Tier 1", the highest designation.
Seven Tier 1 practice areas:
■ Private equity
■ Corporate and M&A
■ Capital markets
■ Investment funds
■ TMT
■ Data protection
■ Fintech
Eleven recommended practice areas:
■ Banking and finance
■ Antitrust and competition
■ Life sciences and healthcare
■ Intellectual property: non-contentious
■ Intellectual property: contentious
■ Regulatory/compliance
■ Dispute resolution: Litigation
■ Dispute resolution: Arbitration
■ Private wealth
■ Labor and employment
■ Real estate and construction
71 ranked/highly recommended lawyers (with 98 honors in total) (in alphabetical order by surname):
Private equity
Kevin Cao, Yijun Chao, Cheng Chen, Chao (Kelvin) Gao, Yifan Gu, Hong Huang, Chaoying (Charles) Li, Wei (David) Li, Sheng Li, Yipu Li, Yunge (Paula) Liu
Corporate and M&A
Yijun Chao, Cheng Chen, Chaoying (Charles) Li, Yunge (Paula) Liu, Zaiguang Lu, Shuting Qi, Qing (Nick) Shu, Zhihua (David) Tang, Chengyao (Aaron) Zhou
Capital markets
Yijun Chao, Dafei Chen, Chaoying (Charles) Li, Tao Li, Zaiguang Lu, Jin Wang, Zhe (Jason) Wang, Haoxiang Wang, Bing Xue
Investment funds
Huaying (Daisy) Qi, Lu Ran, Jicong (Vincent) Song, Jin Qian, Lin Zhou
TMT
Yijun Chao, Dafei Chen, Chao (Kelvin) Gao, Chaoying (Charles) Li, Wei (David) Li, Sheng Li, Zaiguang Lu
Data protection
Kemeng Cai, Zhichao (Kevin) Duan, Michelle Gon, Zhihua (David) Tang, Yan Wang, Min Zhu
Fintech
Felix Miao, Wei Quan, Jun Zhu
Banking and finance
Yi Ding, Rong Fang, Yin Ge, Yaoyao (Sherry) Si, Shu Wang, Tiecheng Yang, Jun Zhu
Antitrust and competition
Chen Ma, Da Shi, Yan Wang, Shipo (Angus) Xie
Life sciences and healthcare
Yinshi Cao, Cheng Chen, Chaoying (Charles) Li, Lijuan Wang, Chengyao (Aaron) Zhou, Min Zhu
Intellectual property
Rong Chen, Yuanyuan Chu, Wei (Vivian) He, Haoran Jiang, Ying Li, Rui Luo, Qiwen Wang, Yan Wang, Lili Wu, Jian Zhang, Tao Zhang
Regulatory/compliance
Michelle Gon, Chen Ma, Zhihua (David) Tang, Jinli (Jolie) Yan
Dispute resolution: Litigation
Dong (Eric) Liu, Qiunan Sun, Yang You, Yaxing Zhang
Dispute resolution: Arbitration
Xianglin Chen, Liyu Jin, Dong (Eric) Liu, Yaxing Zhang, Yuxian Zhao
Private wealth
Han Chen
Labor and employment
Wei (Will) Huang, Lifeng Lu, Xiu Pei
Real estate and construction
Stephen (Shiwen) Dong, Rong Fang, Xiao Li