On December 27, 2022, renowned legal directory LEGALBAND announced its "2022 Special Issue: China Top 15 Lawyers – Digital Economy". The ranking spotlights 15 highly recommended digital economy lawyers in mainland China. Han Kun partners Wei Quan, Da Shi, and Yan Xia were named to the list.
Wei Quan
Reasons for selection: Mr. Quan is a devoted legal practitioner who keeps ahead in the field of digital finance and FinTech by contributing original, professional insights in leading-edge topics such as financial regulatory compliance, financial data and personal information protection, blockchain and metaverse, and ESG in finance. Mr. Quan has advised various FinTech companies and financial institutions on designing financial products related to consumer finance, supply chain finance, and payment services, on applying for financial licenses, and on compliance matters. He has participated in numerous equity and asset merger and acquisition deals, compliance rectification reforms, and overseas listings of FinTech companies. "Mr. Quan has been advising our company on issues related to Fintech, cybersecurity, and data compliance. With extensive experience in financial innovation business support and internal compliance and data compliance governance of financial institutions, he has assisted us in establishing and improving compliance systems in conformity to China's regulatory requirements for financial business, cybersecurity, and data protection, providing robust support to our financial business development as well as our global flows and commercialization of data."
Lawyer's Profile: Mr. Quan specializes in FinTech, financial regulatory compliance, and personal financial information protection. In the area of FinTech, Mr. Quan advises FinTech companies and financial institutions on designing financial products in relation to consumer finance, supply chain finance, and payment services, drafting legal documents, and applying for financial licenses. He has participated in numerous equity and asset merger and acquisition deals and initial public offerings of FinTech companies. In the area of financial regulatory compliance, Mr. Quan advises financial institutions (e.g., commercial banks, consumer finance companies, third-party payment institutions, and fund sales companies) on general regulatory issues, formulation of internal policies, and communication with regulatory authorities. In the area of personal financial information protection, Mr. Quan advises FinTech companies and financial institutions on compliance issues, formulation of relevant policies, and implementing personal information impact assessments.
Da Shi
Reasons for selection: Mr. Shi specializes in antitrust and anti-unfair competition and is a reputable expert in this area, owing to the stellar services he provides. Mr. Shi has advised many platform economy enterprises on competition law issues in their significant transactions and compliance practices and is an active legal service provider devoted to leading-edge projects in the digital economy. Mr. Shi is able to provide actionable, tailored legal advice to his clients and is sophisticated in dealing with complicated antitrust and anti-unfair competition cases regarding competition law compliance, merger filings, antitrust investigations, and antitrust litigation. He is also an active and influential contributor of wisdom on key subjects in the digital economy through his interactions with the media. Through years of practice, Mr. Shi has developed spot-on understanding of China's policy environment, as well as expertise across various subareas of antitrust and competition law, providing professional analysis and evaluations to meet the legal challenges clients face in their business ventures. "With solid legal knowledge and extensive practical experience, Mr. Shi is able to provide specialist solutions and advice with respect to merger filings, antitrust compliance, and responding to antitrust investigations. We are also impressed by his swift responses to our inquiries."
Lawyer's profile: Mr. Shi's practice focuses on antitrust compliance, merger filings, and antitrust litigation and investigations. He has been consistently recommended in the field of Antitrust/Competition by authoritative national and international legal directories, including The Legal 500 and LEGALBAND. He has been invited to comment on antitrust issues by authoritative national media including China Global Television Network, Legal Daily, and Caijing. Mr. Shi has been selected into Beijing AMR's antitrust expert pool as a member practitioner specializing high-tech, healthcare, and automobiles. He also contributed the antitrust compliance section of the textbooks for the 2023 Corporate Compliance Officer Examination.
Yan Xia
Reasons for selection: During years of legal practice, Mr. Xia has made prominent achievements in advising numerous corporate clients in industries concerning the Internet, blockchain, artificial intelligence, metaverse, cloud computing, and gaming and entertainment, and has acted as the lead partner in serving domestic and overseas investment and financing deals in the digital economy. Mr. Xia's long-term, profound study and service experience in various sectors of the digital economy has made him a trusted counsel to clients who is able to provide legal analysis of leading-edge issues related to metaverse, Web3.0, and NFT from overarching and unique perspectives. Also, with sophisticated legal expertise and a solid knowledge base, Mr. Xia is able to advise companies in cutting-edge and emerging industries in respect of private equity and venture capital, investment fund, foreign direct investment and outbound investment, mergers and acquisitions, compliance, shareholding structure design, etc. "Mr. Xia excels at designing various types of deal structure and transaction plans for our reference, supported by a great number of practical cases. He is a trustworthy legal advisor for us." "Mr. Xia's legal mind and global vision has brought strong support to the global expansion of our business." "Mr. Xia is a highly professional and responsible legal advisor who has provided solid analysis and demonstration for the compliance and feasibility of the innovative ventures of our company."
Lawyer's Profile: Mr. Xia has advised dozens of reputable RMB and USD funds on their investment, financing, and fund formation transactions. He has advised many business groups and listed companies in connection with their domestic and outbound investment and merger and acquisition transactions, and many start-up companies in their domestic and outbound restructurings, employee equity incentive plans, private equity financings, project financings, IPOs, compliance, and general legal matters.
Mr. Xia's practice focuses on Internet plus business, gaming and entertainment, metaverse, blockchain, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, new energy, smart manufacturing, and other new economy areas. Particularly, he has been deeply involved in the digital economy by advising on numerous digital economy projects with respect to domestic and outbound investments and financings, business compliance, shareholding structure design, employee equity incentive plans, etc.
Mr. Xia received his LL.B. and B.A. degrees from Southwest University of Political Science and Law in 2011, and received an LL.M. degree from China University of Political Science and Law and an LL.M. degree from Hamburg University in 2014.
