On September 26, 2024, renowned legal directory LEGALBAND announced its "2024 Under 40: Top 20 Dispute Resolution Lawyers" to showcase the 20 most favored dispute resolution lawyers in mainland China. Han Kun partner Xiaoming Deng was named to the list.
Reasons for selection: Mr. Xiaoming Deng has an outstanding professional background and has profound experience and excellent service capability in finance and securities dispute resolution. Mr. Deng has worked for a well-known securities company in China, and has a long-term practice in the finance and securities industry, with abundant client resources and a good reputation. Since the start of his legal career, Mr. Deng has led his teams to advise dozens of domestic financial institutions regarding their disputes on securities false statement liability, material guarantees, equity and bond investments, and the liabilities of financial product managers and custodians, etc., with amounts in dispute totaling tens of billions of RMB. Many of the cases are highly typical and have extensive influence on the society. "Mr. Deng has worked in a securities company and kept close contact with the finance industry. He is a dispute resolution lawyer who really knows his business, and has a strong sense of foresight and creativity in dealing with new types of financial disputes. Coupled with the steady and stable working style of the team, he becomes our most reliable partner. "
Lawyer profile: Mr. Deng has been specializing in resolving major and difficult commercial disputes. He has represented many listed companies, financial institutions and private equity funds in handling disputes related to securities false statements, financial asset management, private equity and manager's liability, etc. He has successfully represented many cases in the Supreme People's Court, the higher people's courts of various provinces, and the Beijing and Shanghai Financial Courts. Some of his cases have been selected as exemplary or typical cases, cumulatively avoiding or recovering economic losses of tens of billions of yuan for his clients. Mr. Deng is admitted to practice law in China and New York State, USA, and serves as a director of the Beijing Trust Law Society, a distinguished researcher of Business Environment Law Research Center of Renmin University of China, and a lecturer of the Securities Association of China and the Association of Interbank Financial Market Institutional Investors. The subjects that Mr. Deng has been responsible for as the editor in chief, including bonds, liability of stock intermediaries and liability of custodians of private equity funds, have been awarded as outstanding key subjects three times by the Securities Association of China. In addition, Mr. Deng has also successfully co-authored the Research on Legal Issues in the Trial of Business Trust Dispute Cases, a key subject of the Supreme People's Court.
