On August 7, 2024, IFLR1000, a leading legal services publisher, announced its annual guide of IFLR1000 Women Leaders for 2024. Han Kun partners Shu Wang and Rong Fang are recognized in the guide. The guide selects honorees based upon their accomplishments, client feedback, and peer reviews, identifying an exclusive group of female lawyers with outstanding reputations within their markets and practices.
Ms. Shu Wang is a principal partner of Han Kun's banking and finance team. She provides full-scope legal services in various kinds of banking and finance deals including private and corporate banking business, commercial loans, syndicated loans, project financing, trade financing, export credit, debt restructuring, and other structured products. Known as an aviation finance expert, Ms. Wang has advised numerous domestic and foreign aircraft leasing companies, commercial banks, and domestic airlines in their leasing and financing of aircraft and aviation equipment. Ms. Wang has been consistently honored as a leading lawyer in the fields of banking and finance, especially aviation finance, by Chambers and Partners, Who's Who Legal, IFLR 1000, The Legal 500, Asialaw Profiles, and other authoritative international legal directories. This is the fifth consecutive year for Ms. Wang to be recognized and honored as an IFLR1000 Women Leader.
Ms. Rong Fang's practice focuses on investment and financing in real estate and infrastructure, including relevant mergers and acquisitions (M&A), real estate investment trusts (REITs), asset-backed securitization (ABS), and debt restructuring. She has advised on many domestic and overseas REIT listings, quasi-REIT issuances, and pre-REIT transactions, many of which are notable firsts, featuring groundbreaking deal structures. Ms. Fang is also an expert in the infrastructure and public-private partnership (PPP) industries such as power, water services, area development, rail transit, highways, IDC, warehouse logistics, and waste disposal with investment structure covering greenfield investment, M&A, and franchise. Ms. Fang has also provided legal services to debt restructuring in real estate and infrastructure in recent years. She has been consistently rated as a leading lawyer in the real estate and construction fields by The Legal 500 and China Law & Practice, while also being recognized both as a noted practitioner in the field of financial derivatives by Chambers and Partners and as a highly regarded lawyer in capital markets: structured finance & securitization by IFLR1000. This is the third consecutive year for Ms. Fang to be recognized as an IFLR1000 Women Leader.
Han Kun is proud to have leading female lawyers actively engaged in a variety of practice areas including investment and financing transactions, compliance and regulatory work, banking and finance, asset management, dispute resolution, and intellectual property, with nearly 50% of our partners today being female. Han Kun always attaches great importance to equality, offering full support to female lawyers to ensure growth and success throughout their careers.
