Press Release

On March 8, 2021, well-known legal directory LEGALBAND named Han Kun partner Ge Yin as one of its "Client Choice: Top 15 Female Lawyers".

Ms. Ge obtained master's degrees in law successively from Wuhan University and Cornell University and is a member of the PRC and New York State bars. She previously practiced for many years with two British "Magic Circle" law firms. As a well-known legal expert in the field of cross-border asset management and financial services, Ms. Ge has been ranked by The Legal 500 as a recommended lawyer in the Asia-Pacific region for "investment funds" and "banking finance" practices. She has represented various world-renowned asset management institutions, financial groups, and financial infrastructures in their cross-border investment management and financial innovation projects, earning broad recognition from her clients. As an industry expert, Ms. Ge has also been deeply involved in legislative work and systems design related to domestic asset management and financial market opening-up, and has played a positive role in the development of the industry.

Ms. Ge has been actively involved in promoting the opening-up of China's financial and asset management markets on behalf of various overseas asset management institutions and financial institutions. In recent years, she has advised on many complex and ground-breaking cross-border financial and asset management deals and ensures projects progress smoothly due to the strength of her keen insights, deep understanding of financial management industry policies and regulations, and problem-solving-oriented workstyle, earning high praise from her clients. Ms. Ge has recently also represented clients in participating in the "Bond Connect" and "CIBM Direct Link" schemes to facilitate the opening up of the bond market and transaction model reform, which provide a convenient path for foreign investors to invest in China's inter-bank bond market, and is of great significance to the higher-quality opening of financial markets in China. "Ms. Ge not only excels at helping clients to grasp the substance of laws and regulations, but is also able to approach legal issues from a business perspective. She offers clients first-class legal compliance safeguards by providing effective solutions that balance legal concerns and business interests. We very much need such high-quality legal services, especially in the continuously developing legal and regulatory environment in China's asset management industry; it is legal professionalism and business sense that provide us with first-class legal compliance safeguards."

Over the years, Chinese female lawyers have come to play an increasingly important role in the legal services market on the strength of their solid professional skills, rich experiences, and assiduous work attitudes. They actively explore the laws of commercial and societal development, continuously improve their professional skills and provide legal services centered around clients' needs. They are able to provide high-quality legal services in a professional, reliable, and patient manner and are highly praised by clients and shine in the commercial legal services market.

LEGALBAND spent over one month conducting relevant surveys and research to develop the list. The list was developed by referencing factors such as recommendation materials of major law firms, lawyers' self-recommendation materials, and client feedback, as well as long-term observations of Chinese female lawyers groups by LEGALBAND's research office in China.