On the evening of April 16, 2026, Asian Legal Business (ALB) unveiled the winners of the 23rd ALB China Law Awards at its grand 2026 awards ceremony held at the Park Hyatt Hotel in Beijing. Mr. Dong (Eric) Liu, member of Han Kun's Management Committee & Head of the Dispute Resolution Department won "Dispute Resolution Lawyer of the Year" for his outstanding performance.
Mr. Liu specializes in corporate governance-related matters, especially corporate control-related dispute resolution, and has successfully helped clients to regain corporate control in a number of significant, high-profile corporate control disputes. Mr. Liu is an expert in resolving complicated commercial disputes, particularly in designing highly feasible solutions for clients to achieve their business goals through legal means. Mr. Liu is also adept at designing and establishing efficient risk management systems for clients and possesses unique insights into how to reduce the clients' business risks by taking preventive measures and implementing effective management. In addition, Mr. Liu has extensive experience in helping clients across industries to resolve their legal disputes through non-litigation approaches.
Dispute resolution is one of Han Kun's core strengths. The team comprises more than 40 partners and over 100 lawyers, based across its offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Singapore, and New York. As one of the leading dispute resolution teams in the Chinese legal market, Han Kun enjoys an outstanding professional reputation and broad market recognition in handling major, complex, and cross-border disputes.
Han Kun's dispute resolution team has long represented domestic and international clients in a wide range of highly complex disputes. The team's practice covers domestic commercial litigation and arbitration, cross-border litigation and international arbitration, cross-border asset recovery, financial and securities litigation, securities regulatory enforcement and investigations, as well as criminal prosecution and defense. Team members possess educational and professional qualifications across multiple jurisdictions, including Mainland China, Hong Kong SAR, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and the United States, enabling efficient collaboration within multi-layered legal systems and cross-border regulatory frameworks.
Leveraging an extensive network of cooperation resources across major global jurisdictions and well-established cross-border collaboration mechanisms, Han Kun is able to provide clients with multi-jurisdictional, one-stop, end-to-end dispute resolution services, helping them effectively manage risks, protect their interests, and achieve strategic objectives in a complex and evolving legal and business environment.
The ALB China Law Awards aim to pay tribute to the outstanding performance of leading law firms and in-house legal teams, as well as the top deals and dealmakers over the preceding year. Inaugurated 23 years ago, it has become one of the most influential events in China's legal community. The final list of winners of the 2026 awards, determined by an independent panel and covering a wide range of legal practices, demonstrate the professional standards and performance levels of top-notch law firms and in-house legal teams in China.
