On December 12, 2023, after collecting a wide range of market feedback, China Business Law Journal announced The A-List 2023: Visionaries for China practice, which includes 100 lawyers practicing PRC law and 70 lawyers practicing in foreign law firms or overseas. Han Kun partners Charles Li was selected for his outstanding contributions to Chinese legal practice.
Charles Li
Mr. Li has been working at Han Kun Law Offices since January 2005, where he specializes in public and private financings (equity and debt), mergers and acquisitions, incorporation and corporate restructuring, foreign direct investment, and intellectual property protection. He has represented many Chinese and international companies in a wide variety of cross-border transactions in different industries such as telecommunications, the Internet, information technology, energy, clean technology, consumer goods, healthcare, biotechnology, and pharmaceuticals. Mr. Li is knowledgeable of PRC industry policies, corporate structure, capital operation, financial planning, and investment and project management.
Mr. Li has been consistently recognized by leading global legal directories such as Chambers, Legal 500, IFLR, ALB, Asialaw Profiles, China Law and Practice and China Business Law Journal as a leading authority in China on Venture Capital and Private Equity, Mergers and Acquisitions, Capital Markets Transactions, TMT and Healthcare. Mr. Li has been selected as Eminent Practitioner in Corporate/M&A by Chambers Asia-Pacific & Global (2020-2023), leading individual (2018-2024) by Legal 500, Best Lawyer (2020-2023) by IFLR, Dealmaker of the Year - China (2020-2022), Dealmakers of Asia (2020-2022) and Power List of Top 10 Lawyers (2015 and 2016) by ALB, Elite Practitioner in Corporate/M&A and Private Equity (2020-2023) by Asialaw, China Dealmaker of the Year (2018 and 2021) by China Law and Practice, one of the A-List China's Top 100 Lawyers by China Business Law Journal (2020-2021), and one of the top 1,000 lawyers specializing in foreign-related legal practices in 2018 by the PRC Ministry of Justice. Mr. Li has written numerous academic and professional articles that have been widely published internationally and in mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.
China Business Law Journal's A-List 2023: Visionaries acknowledges seasoned lawyers who hold key management positions in their firms and prominent public positions. They are excellent lawyers as well as founders, managing partners, or leading partners of certain practice areas, responsible for but not limited to plotting a course for their law firm's future growth, enabling it to stand out amid increasingly fierce competition. Outside the law firms, they take up key positions, legal or otherwise, at lawyers' associations, trade associations, arbitration institutions and universities, among other platforms, or take part in the drafting or review of laws and regulations, contributing to the overall advancement of the legal sector.
The final list is the aggregate result of market nominations, candidates' own submitted supportive information, and independent research conducted by the editorial team.
