On January 18, 2024, renowned legal directory LEGALBAND announced its "2024 China Top 15 Lawyers – Commercial Crime & Criminal Compliance" to showcase the 15 most favored "Commercial Crime & Criminal Compliance Lawyers" in mainland China. Han Kun's partner, Ms. Yang Han was named to the list.
Reasons for selection: Yang Han is proficient in criminal compliance, defense and representation, intersection of civil and criminal law, corporate control battles, and crisis management and has achieved good results in commercial crimes and criminal compliance in recent years. She excels at analyzing and judging cases and provides criminal defense and litigation representations for many large-scale enterprises and entrepreneurs covering such fields as securities, finance, new energy, construction projects and foreign-related trade, and has deep practical experience in defense and agency of duty-related crimes, financial crimes, securities crimes, intellectual property crimes, tax crimes and environmental crimes in particular. Ms. Han is especially skilled in handling complex cases that overlap criminal, administrative, civil and commercial matters. She has extensive experience and outstanding ability in handling such cases. Ms. Han has provided litigation legal services for many large-scale financial institutions and listed companies, helped clients to recover tens of billions of yuan in losses, and won high recognition and praise from clients. "Over the past years, Ms. Han has demonstrated a very high professional level and profound legal knowledge in the areas of commercial crime and criminal compliance. I appreciate her attention to detail, passion and responsibility for her work."
Lawyer's profile: Ms. Yang Han has extensive practical experience in criminal defense and representations, administrative hearings, administrative and criminal reporting, handling of overlapping criminal, civil, and administrative cases, administrative and criminal compliance for corporate, family, and personal legal risks, enterprise control right disputes, and crisis response, among others.
Before joining Han Kun, Ms. Han's legal career spanned two decades and included work in the Beijing People's Procuratorate system and private legal practice with King & Wood Mallesons, where she became a partner. Ms. Han has the ability to manage comprehensive cases and is proficient in handling major, difficult, and complex matters relating to corporate and individual legal issues. Ms. Han provides a full range of criminal and legal compliance services for enterprises and individuals. She has extensive experience in crisis management, such as surprise investigations and suspected criminal matters, and has provided legal services to several Fortune 500 companies and entrepreneurs in connection with compliance reviews, response plans, and litigation derivative issues.
Ms. Han previously served as an invited expert for a ministerial department, a member of an expert thinktank and visiting professor at the China Behavioral Law Society, a senior seminar lecturer at Peking University Law School, and a part-time instructor at the China Academy of Social Sciences. Ms. Han is also a specialist in the third-party compliance mechanism for enterprises in Beijing and Hubei Province, in Huangshi City and Xiangyang City, in Hubei Province, and in Quzhou City, in Zhejiang Province; a certified enterprise compliance specialist for the China Small and Medium Enterprises Association; and a drafter of the standards for Effectiveness Evaluation for Enterprise Compliance Management Systems. She has been consistently honored by authoritative global legal directories such as "Next Generation Partner in Regulatory/Compliance" by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific (2020-2024) and "Top 15 Rising Lawyers" by ALB (2021).
