On November 15, 2023, The Legal 500, the world's renowned legal directory, released its 2024 rankings of PRC law firms. The rankings honor Han Kun by highly recommending 93 of the firm's lawyers (with 123 honors in total) and 20 practice areas, including eight areas recognized as "Tier 1", the highest designation.
Eight Tier 1 practice areas:
- Private equity
- Corporate and M&A
- Capital markets
- Investment funds
- TMT
- Data protection
- Fintech
- Antitrust and competition
Twelve recommended practice areas:
- Banking and finance
- 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
- Projects and energy
- PRC firms in Hong Kong
93 ranked/highly recommended lawyers (with 123 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, Ying (Gloria) Xu, Chengyao (Aaron) Zhou
Capital markets
Dafei Chen, Chaoying (Charles) Li, Tao Li, Zhe (Jason) Wang, Haoxiang Wang, Bing Xue
Investment funds
Lu Ran, Jicong (Vincent) Song, Jin Qian, Lin Zhou, Pei Zhao, Li Yang, Yao (Ally) Hu, Xiao Ding, Chenchen Jiang, Xi Chen, Pengxiang Zhang
TMT
Yijun Chao, Dafei Chen, Chao (Kelvin) Gao, Chaoying (Charles) Li, Wei (David) Li, Sheng Li, Zaiguang Lu, Ying (Gloria) Xu
Data protection
Zhichao (Kevin) Duan, Michelle Gon, Zhihua (David) Tang, Yan Wang, Min Zhu
Fintech
Kanxi Liao, Felix Miao, Wei Quan, Tiecheng Yang, Jun Zhu
Antitrust and competition
Chen Ma, Da Shi, Yan Wang, Shipo (Angus) Xie
Banking and finance
Yi Ding, Rong Fang, Yin Ge, Yaoyao (Sherry) Si, Shu Wang, Tiecheng Yang, Jun Zhu
Life sciences and healthcare
Yinshi Cao, Yang (Aaron) Gu, Chengyao (Aaron) Zhou, Min Zhu
Intellectual property
Rong (Estella) Chen, Rui Luo, Haining Song, Yan Wang, Xiaowei Wei, Lili Wu, Jian Zhang, Tao Zhang
Regulatory/compliance
Michelle Gon, Chen Ma, Weiheng Jia, Zhihua (David) Tang, Zhaojun (Sophie) Shi, Jinli (Jolie) Yan
Real estate and construction
Zhen (Cody) Chen, Stephen (Shiwen) Dong, Rong Fang, Xiao Li, Yan Zhang
Dispute resolution: Litigation
Xianglin Chen, Baofu Li, Dong (Eric) Liu, Jing Liu, Qiunan Sun, Wei (Vincent) Sun, Feng Ye, Yang You, Yaxing Zhang, Zhihan Zhao, Qimin Zhu
Dispute resolution: Arbitration
Xianglin Chen, Liyu (Denning) Jin, Dong (Eric) Liu, Wei (Vincent) Sun, Yaxing Zhang, Chunyao Lin, Bing San
Private wealth
Han Chen, Dongni Jiang, Jing (Gilbert) Shen, Huiyi Song
Labor and employment
Wei (Will) Huang, Lifeng Lu, Xiu Pei
PRC firms in Hong Kong
Lu Chai, Ethle Tang, Tao Li, Felix Miao, Adrian Yip, Rio Li, Jenny Li