On October 20, 2025, Asian Legal Business ("ALB"), the world's leading legal magazine under Thomson Reuters, released its 2025 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. Yang You is among them.
Ms. You focuses her practice mainly on asset management-related litigation/arbitration and compliance services and has extensive experience in advising on legal issues involving real estate and general corporate matters, among others. Ms. You has served as general legal counsel for a well-known trust company for many years, and she has advised on dispute resolutions for many trust companies and companies engaged in a wide array of asset management services.
Ms. You has proven expertise in handling new and complex asset management-related disputes through litigation and arbitration procedures, achieving results satisfactory to her clients. Since 2011, Ms. You has represented clients, including trust companies, and securities companies, fund companies and their subsidiaries, in handling over 100 dispute resolution cases involving trusts, funds, and asset management and nested asset management products, involving amounts exceeding RMB 20 billion and subject matters covering trust loans, equity investments, stock and debt, specific asset income rights/repurchases of equity (stock) income rights, securities investment, and the application and implementation of compulsory execution for the satisfaction of debt claims, objections to execution, and lawsuits objecting to execution. Ms. You often provides professional trainings, business consulting services, and compliance trainings for well-known trust companies and companies engaged in asset management services.
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. The outstanding female lawyers on the list have demonstrated precise judgment in deconstructing complex projects and fortified compliance defenses with keen insight, embodying professionalism, trust, and value across multiple core practice areas.
