Han Kun Law Offices is pleased to announce that for year 2019 to 2020, the firm has promoted a number of new partners and senior counsels, whose practice areas cover private equity, mergers and acquisitions, domestic and overseas securities issuances and listings, investment funds / asset management, antitrust, banking finance, aircraft finance, foreign direct investment, corporate compliance, intellectual property, and dispute resolution, among others.
Han Kun has always been committed to providing young lawyers with opportunities for further development, encouraging them to give full play to their abilities and helping them to quickly excel by providing more opportunities for responsibility and leadership. Han Kun values the vitality of these young lawyers and expects they will contribute to the firm's development by consistently upholding Han Kun's spirit of always aiming high and adhering to our philosophy of professionalism. In 2020, let us join hands to face the new journey, tackle new challenges and fulfill new expectations!
Promoted partners
Zhiyi CAO
Mr. Cao's experience focuses on private equity and venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate restructuring matters. His legal services include designing transaction structures, due diligence investigations, drafting transactions documents, and assisting in closing formalities.
Zhichao (Kevin) DUAN
Zhichao Duan's practice areas include intellectual property and data protection. Mr. Duan has particular expertise in handling technology-related legal matters. He has abundant experience in representing industry-leading multinational companies, Internet companies and artificial intelligence companies in connection with intellectual property transactions, dispute resolution and data protection.
Before practicing law, Mr. Duan engaged in academic research for nearly 10 years, and has more than 10 peer-reviewed publications. He has expertise in multiple technical fields.
Lu RAN
Ms. Lu Ran has advised local and overseas clients in a variety of private equity-related transactions, including formation, management and operation of various types of fund entities, fund management entities and private equity investment. Her comprehensive legal services include the formation and operation of RMB and USD funds, QFLPs, QDIIs, QDLPs and QDIEs, insurance fund investments, etc.
Jicong (Vincent) SONG
Mr. Song specializes in venture capital and private equity financing, fund formation, mergers and acquisitions, and overseas listings. Mr. Song has advised on a great deal of complex private equity investment and acquisition and merger deals and has been deeply involved in the formation of many onshore and offshore private equity funds. Mr. Song has represented clients in a wide variety of industries, including Internet information technology, biomedicine, education, e-commerce, culture and entertainment, and Internet finance. In addition, Mr. Song has also represented issuers and underwriters in certain Chinese company initial public offerings on overseas stock exchanges.
Qimin (Rebecca) ZHU
Ms. Zhu has extensive experience in handling dispute resolution matters, especially commercial disputes. Ms. Zhu has represented many clients in handling a large number of commercial disputes, including commercial trade contract disputes, corporate control disputes, private equity investment disputes, real estate joint venture disputes
Cheng CHEN
Mr. Chen specializes in the areas of private equity financing, mergers and acquisitions, foreign direct investments, and capital markets. Mr. Chen has represented a number of funds and companies in investment and financing transactions in various industries, including new energy vehicles, online education, biomedicine, online games, e-commerce, TV series production and distribution, business jets, etc.
Yifan (Florine) GU
Ms. Gu's main practice areas cover venture capital and private equity, foreign investment, mergers and acquisitions, and offshore public offerings. Her legal services include designing deal structures, drafting, reviewing and revising legal documents, conducting legal due diligence, and general corporate matters. She has represented clients in industries including but not limited to e-commerce, social e-commerce, sharing economy, biotechnology, and pharmaceuticals.
Laixiang (Joseph) LI
Mr. Li has broad experience in cross-border investment and financing, IPOs, mergers and acquisitions, and joint ventures transactions. Mr. Li represents clients from industries including TMT, biomedicine, and education. He regularly represents clients in handling non-profit organization and charity matters, including establishing foundations (or PRC representative offices), setting up charitable trusts, making grants and handling daily compliance issues, etc.
Yipu LI
Ms. Li focuses her practice mainly on venture capital and private equity investment, mergers and acquisitions, capital market transactions, and general corporate matters. She has abundant experience representing issuers or underwriters in Chinese companies’ domestic and overseas M&A deals and public offerings on overseas exchanges. Ms. Li advises clients from industries including financial, consumer Internet, military-civilian integration, biomedicine, etc.
Yimeng LI
Mr. Li focuses his practice on IP litigation and IP-related dispute resolution. He represents clients in IP and competition-related civil lawsuits and administrative litigations in connection with disputes over patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, unfair competition, antitrust, etc. Mr. Li has substantial experience handling complex and difficult intellectual property cases, aiming to providing clients with comprehensive and practical solutions. Prior to joining Han Kun, Mr. Li previously served as an IP Judge in an Intermediate People's Court in Beijing. Based upon his more than 10 years of experience in IP trials, he is familiar with every aspect of trial practice in Chinese courts. When serving as a judge, Mr. Li heard well over 1,200 IP cases at either the trial or the appellate level.
Wei SONG
Ms. Song specializes in mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital investment, and general corporate matters.
Ms. Song has represented a large number of multinational companies and funds in connection with their investment and financing projects, and mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Song's legal services mainly include: due diligence, drafting and negotiating transaction documents, assisting in closing, advising on corporate establishment, corporate daily operation, domestic and overseas investment, etc.
Taoran WANG
Ms. Wang's main practice areas cover venture capital and private equity financings, mergers and acquisitions, foreign direct investment, and general corporate matters. In recent years, Ms. Wang has represented a great deal of investment funds and companies in their investment and financing transactions, covering industries including Internet, new energy vehicles, biomedicine, e-commerce, online education, etc. Recently, she has been deeply involved in several domestic and overseas merger and acquisition deals. She has experience advising clients on their U.S. initial public offerings and in their overseas bond issuances.
Li (Leigh) YANG
Ms. Yang practices primarily in the areas of investment fund formation and asset management. Ms. Yang has represented many well-known domestic and foreign asset management institutions and investment firms in the formation of RMB funds and/or USD funds.
Chuqi ZHANG
Ms. Zhang specializes in venture capital and private equity financing, mergers and acquisitions, and overseas listing restructurings. Ms. Zhang’s practice covers a variety of industries, including telecommunications, Internet, software, education, culture and entertainment, catering, biotechnology and healthcare. Ms. Zhang has assisted many PRC companies and funds in initial public offerings on domestic and offshore exchanges. Ms. Zhang also provides continuous legal services to many well-known enterprises from various industries in their daily operations and corporate governance.
Promoted Senior Counsels
Yuanyuan CHU
Patent applications, invalidations, litigation and consulting.
Ying CUI
Venture capital and private equity; mergers and acquisitions; general corporate matters; foreign direct investment.
Lin GUI
Venture capital and private equity; mergers and acquisitions; domestic and overseas listings and restructurings; general corporate matters.
Yao HU
Domestic and overseas investment fund establishment / asset management; private equity / venture capital investment.
Hong (Allison ) HUANG
Venture capital and private equity investment; mergers and acquisitions; overseas listings; foreign direct investment.
Rui HUANG
Foreign direct investment; mergers and acquisitions; venture capital and private equity financing; overseas listings.
Qing JING
Private equity fund establishment / asset management; venture capital / private equity investment; corporate mergers and acquisitions; foreign investment and overseas investment.
Jing LIU
Commercial dispute resolution.
Xiayi LIU
Venture capital and private equity investments; mergers and acquisitions; corporate financing.
Yina LIU
Commercial dispute resolution; labor law matters; general corporate matters.
Xiu PEI
Labor law; social insurance law; labor and employee dispute resolution.
Kuang SHENG
Asset securitization; bond issuances; cross-border and domestic loan transactions; financial institution compliance, and other general banking services.
Da SHI
Competition law / antitrust; mergers and acquisitions; capital markets; foreign investment.
Muran SUN
Intellectual property litigation; antitrust litigation.
Ye TAO
Mergers and acquisitions; overseas listings and restructurings; Hong Kong-listed company compliance; offshore loan financing; general corporate matters.
Chen (Allen) WANG
Foreign direct investment; mergers and acquisitions; venture capital and private equity financing; overseas listings.
Jialing WANG
Aircraft financing and leasing; aviation; banking and financing.
Qi WANG
Commercial dispute resolution; financial and asset management disputes.
Lulu WU
Overseas listings; mergers and acquisitions; venture capital and private equity investments; general corporate matters.
Chi ZHANG
Foreign investment; mergers and acquisitions; corporate compliance; general corporate matters.
Xinfeng ZHANG
Aviation finance; loan transactions; other banking and financing services.
Zhao ZHANG
Domestic listings; mergers and acquisitions; venture capital and private equity investments; real estate investment and financing.
Ting ZHENG
Financial supervision; cross-border investment and financing services; banking services; regulatory investigations.