On January 18, 2024, Chambers and Partners, the world's foremost legal media publisher, released its Chambers Greater China Region Guide 2024, highly recommending 16 Han Kun practice areas/categories and 33 Han Kun lawyers.
The 16 ranked practice areas/categories are:
Aviation: Finance
Corporate / M&A
Private Equity: Buyouts & Venture Capital Investment
Capital Markets: Hong Kong and Overseas Issuances
TMT: Equity Financing
TMT: Data Protection & Privacy
Investment Funds
Competition / Antitrust
Corporate Investigations / Anti-Corruption
Intellectual Property: Litigation
Healthcare
Real Estate
Banking & Finance
Capital Markets: Securitisation & Derivatives
Dispute Resolution
Corporate / Commercial: Shanghai
Han Kun received high praise from clients and in the legal profession for its professional and efficient services. Selected testimonials include:
"Han Kun are impressive and contribute to our work well. They are one of the top firms on my list."
"Han Kun shows excellent skills in handling complex problems and has a good reputation in the industry."
"Each team of the law firm is very professional, covering many emerging fields of business, and can provide clients with comprehensive solutions."
"In addition to professionalism and highly sophisticated skills, the team knows well about corporations' operation and their pain points."
"The response speed of the Han Kun team is very fast, and they can solve complex legal problems for us quickly and in a high-quality manner, while also being very flexible."
"Han Kun are strong, not only in providing careful legal analysis but also practical advice, taking into consideration the business environment and enforcement trends."
"All of our various legal needs were met with thoroughness and accuracy. Excellent practical and business advice have been provided."
"Han Kun's team not only can provide analysis and solutions from a professional point of view, but also can combine our business goals and demands to control and provide solutions as a whole."
The 33 highly recommended lawyers are: (in alphabetical order by surname)
Yijun Chao: Private Equity: Buyouts & Venture Capital Investment, TMT: Equity Financing, Capital Markets
Shiwen Dong: Real Estate
Yi Ding: Aviation: Finance
Zhichao Duan: TMT: Data Protection & Privacy
Rong Fang: Capital Markets: Securitisation & Derivatives
Chao Gao: Private Equity: Buyouts & Venture Capital Investment
Michelle Gon: Corporate Investigations/Anti-Corruption
Vivian He: TMT: Media & Entertainment
Will Huang: Employment
Denning Jin: Dispute Resolution: Litigation, Dispute Resolution: Arbitration
Charles Li: Private Equity: Buyouts & Venture Capital Investment, Corporate / M&A, Healthcare, TMT: Equity Financing
Wei Li: Private Equity: Buyouts & Venture Capital Investment
Zaiguang Lu: Private Equity: Buyouts & Venture Capital Investment, TMT: Equity Financing
Rui Luo: Intellectual Property: Litigation
Chen Ma: Competition / Antitrust
Lu Ran: Investment Funds
Da Shi: Competition / Antitrust
Sophie Shi: Corporate Investigations/Anti-Corruption
David Tang: Corporate / M&A
Jin Wang: Capital Markets: Debt & Equity
Shu Wang: Aviation: Finance
Yan Wang: Intellectual Property (Litigation)
Lili Wu: Intellectual Property (Non-Litigation)
Shipo Xie: Competition/Antitrust
Ping Xu: Capital Markets: Debt & Equity
Bing Xue: Corporate/Commercial: Guangdong: Non-contentious
Tiecheng Yang: Banking & Finance
Xinfeng Zhang: Aviation: Finance
Chengyao Zhou: Corporate / M&A, Healthcare
Lin Zhou: Investment Funds
Ying Zhou: TMT: Equity Financing
Jun Zhu: Aviation: Finance
Min Zhu: Healthcare
Chambers and Partners is an internationally recognized legal rankings directory headquartered in London, England. Since 1999, the Chambers Asia-Pacific guide has provided annual legal profession guides identifying leading lawyers and law firms in the Asia-Pacific region. The Chambers Greater China Region Guide (inaugurated in 2022) focuses on the legal market of the Greater China region. Based on extensive and in-depth research of all practice areas/industry sectors across the region during the preceding year, the guide brings together leading law firms and professionals in those areas.
