On April 20, 2026, Asian Legal Business (ALB) officially published its list of 2026 ALB China Top 15 Litigators, recognizing China's top litigation lawyers over the past 12 months. Han Kun partner Qimin Zhu was named to the list for her outstanding performance.
Ms. Zhu focuses on commercial dispute resolution and legal risk management and specializes in handling a variety of commercial disputes, including assisting in preliminary business negotiations of potential disputes and handling subsequent litigation and arbitration proceedings. Ms. Zhu is skilled in handling various types of disputes, including commercial contract disputes and corporate-related litigations. Based on her years of experience in dispute resolution, Ms. Zhu has expertise in corporate governance structures and related legal risk management. Ms. Zhu serves clients ranging from large state-owned enterprises and well-known foreign enterprises to fast-growing small and medium-sized private enterprises. She has extensive experience representing clients in successfully recovering losses in numerous cases before PRC courts at all levels, i.e. the Supreme People's Court, higher, intermediate and basic-level people's courts, as well as arbitration commissions such as the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission and the Beijing Arbitration Commission. Notably, Ms. Zhu has in recent years participated and accumulated experience in handling several major cases involving disputes over corporate control that drew considerable public interest in the Chinese market.
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. Its 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.
Within China's legal services landscape, litigators remain at the forefront — confronting conflicts and resolving disputes at the sharp end of commercial life. As the economy restructures and cross-border activity grows, corporate disputes have become more complex. Battles for corporate control, cross-border debt enforcement, and mass securities litigations now routinely involve claims worth hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars, engage multiple stakeholders, and carry overlapping legal and commercial risk. The elite litigator is no longer simply a courtroom specialist. The role increasingly demands industry knowledge, the ability to coordinate across jurisdictions, and the judgment to manage risk where legal and business pressures meet. ALB developed this list in reference to candidates' representative cases, major cases on which they advised over the past 12 months, clients' recommendations, and market feedback.
