On October 21, 2024, Asian Legal Business ("ALB"), the world's leading legal magazine under Thomson Reuters, released its 2024 ranking of China's Top Female Lawyers. The list highlights 15 female lawyers in mainland China who have delivered high-quality work in their legal practices and earned accolades from their clients. Han Kun lawyer Ms. Gloria Xu is among them.
Specializing in navigating complex domestic and cross-border transactions, Ms. Xu possesses extensive expertise in private equity investments and financings, mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings, and IPOs. Her client portfolio spans diverse industries, including telecommunications, media, technology, healthcare, biotechnology, transportation, manufacturing, and retail.
Ms. Xu has successfully represented numerous private equity funds and companies in their domestic and cross-border investments, providing strategic counsel for start-ups, fast-growing enterprises, and well-established corporations during private equity financings. She possesses substantial experience in orchestrating cross-border and domestic M&A transactions, offering guidance to a multitude of multinational and domestic firms engaged in large-scale M&A activities. Additionally, Ms. Xu has played a pivotal role in representing several PRC companies in their IPOs on prominent securities exchanges in the United States and Hong Kong.
In recent years, the ALB China Top 15 Female Lawyers rankings have highlighted a number of outstanding female lawyers, showing the remarkable image and strength of women in the legal profession. These female lawyers adhere to their belief in professional excellence by providing quality and thorough services to clients with determination, patience, prudence and wisdom. The ALB ranking is a result of comprehensive consideration of various factors, including the lawyers' main achievements, engagement in significant transactions or cases, major assignments during the past 12 months, major clients, previous awards as well as remarks from clients and colleagues.