Press Release

On August 10, 2023, renowned legal directory LEGALBAND announced its "2023 Client Choice: Top 15 Rising Partners" with the aim of presenting the top 15 most favored rising partners in mainland China. Han Kun's partner, Mr. Cheng Chen, was named to the list.

Reasons for selection: Mr. Chen has accumulated over ten years of practical experience in the areas of private equity and venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, healthcare, and life sciences, and has outstanding practice results and is a commensurate communicator and negotiator. The landmark projects the Mr. Chen has participated in include: the spin-off financing project of a brain science company, the GEM listing project of a child king, the multi-billion USD multi-round equity financing project of a community e-commerce company, the multi-billion USD multi-round financing deal of Hexai Tech Company and NetEase Music on behalf of clients, and the multi-round financing project of an autopilot company that has attracted hundreds of millions of USD. Mr. Chen and his team proactively understand and understand the business situations of enterprises, utilize their professional negotiation skills to communicate with all parties involved, and issue precise, efficient and innovative solutions and legal advice to protect their clients' interests to the greatest extent. "Mr. Chen has been working with us for many years and has devoted himself to helping us deal with many legal issues. The solutions he provides are pragmatic, practical, and many of them are innovative. Mr. Chen often completes projects in a timely and outstanding manner under great time pressure. He is our long-term and reliable partner. "

Lawyer's profile: Mr. Chen focuses on private equity and venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, domestic and international IPOs, as well as restructurings. He has served numerous private equity funds, start-ups, high-growth enterprises and public companies in such industries as new energy, travel, biomedicine, medical devices, consumption, e-commerce, semiconductors and online games. Mr. Chen has participated in several overseas restructuring, red chip restructuring and related financing transactions, IPOs and NEEQ listing projects, corporate split and restructuring projects.

Mr. Chen has designed innovative transaction structures for complex investment and financing transactions and has represented clients in numerous domestic and foreign IPOs as well as SPAC projects. He has developed innovative transaction structures for clients' complex investment and financing transactions. He also often provides legal services to companies and their boards of directors with respect to daily operations compliance and internal governance. In recent years, Mr. Chen has also worked with numerous high-profile start-up funds and helped them set up their internal processes and rules.