Press Release

On November 15, 2023, The Legal 500, the world's renowned legal directory, released its 2024 rankings of PRC law firms. The rankings honor Han Kun by highly recommending 93 of the firm's lawyers (with 123 honors in total) and 20 practice areas, including eight areas recognized as "Tier 1", the highest designation.

Eight Tier 1 practice areas:

- Private equity

- Corporate and M&A

- Capital markets

- Investment funds

- TMT

- Data protection

- Fintech

- Antitrust and competition

Twelve recommended practice areas:

- Banking and finance

- Life sciences and healthcare

- Intellectual property: non-contentious

- Intellectual property: contentious

- Regulatory/compliance

- Dispute resolution: Litigation

- Dispute resolution: Arbitration

- Private wealth

- Labor and employment

- Real estate and construction

- Projects and energy

- PRC firms in Hong Kong

93 ranked/highly recommended lawyers (with 123 honors in total) (in alphabetical order by surname):

Private equity

Kevin Cao, Yijun Chao, Cheng Chen, Chao (Kelvin) Gao, Yifan Gu, Hong Huang, Chaoying (Charles) Li, Wei (David) Li, Sheng Li, Yipu Li, Yunge (Paula) Liu

Corporate and M&A

Yijun Chao, Cheng Chen, Chaoying (Charles) Li, Yunge (Paula) Liu, Zaiguang Lu, Shuting Qi, Qing (Nick) Shu, Zhihua (David) Tang, Ying (Gloria) Xu, Chengyao (Aaron) Zhou

Capital markets

Dafei Chen, Chaoying (Charles) Li, Tao Li, Zhe (Jason) Wang, Haoxiang Wang, Bing Xue

Investment funds

Lu Ran, Jicong (Vincent) Song, Jin Qian, Lin Zhou, Pei Zhao, Li Yang, Yao (Ally) Hu, Xiao Ding, Chenchen Jiang, Xi Chen, Pengxiang Zhang

TMT

Yijun Chao, Dafei Chen, Chao (Kelvin) Gao, Chaoying (Charles) Li, Wei (David) Li, Sheng Li, Zaiguang Lu, Ying (Gloria) Xu

Data protection

Zhichao (Kevin) Duan, Michelle Gon, Zhihua (David) Tang, Yan Wang, Min Zhu

Fintech

Kanxi Liao, Felix Miao, Wei Quan, Tiecheng Yang, Jun Zhu

Antitrust and competition

Chen Ma, Da Shi, Yan Wang, Shipo (Angus) Xie

Banking and finance

Yi Ding, Rong Fang, Yin Ge, Yaoyao (Sherry) Si, Shu Wang, Tiecheng Yang, Jun Zhu

Life sciences and healthcare

Yinshi Cao, Yang (Aaron) Gu, Chengyao (Aaron) Zhou, Min Zhu

Intellectual property

Rong (Estella) Chen, Rui Luo, Haining Song, Yan Wang, Xiaowei Wei, Lili Wu, Jian Zhang, Tao Zhang

Regulatory/compliance

Michelle Gon, Chen Ma, Weiheng Jia, Zhihua (David) Tang, Zhaojun (Sophie) Shi, Jinli (Jolie) Yan

Real estate and construction

Zhen (Cody) Chen, Stephen (Shiwen) Dong, Rong Fang, Xiao Li, Yan Zhang

Dispute resolution: Litigation

Xianglin Chen, Baofu Li, Dong (Eric) Liu, Jing Liu, Qiunan Sun, Wei (Vincent) Sun, Feng Ye, Yang You, Yaxing Zhang, Zhihan Zhao, Qimin Zhu

Dispute resolution: Arbitration

Xianglin Chen, Liyu (Denning) Jin, Dong (Eric) Liu, Wei (Vincent) Sun, Yaxing Zhang, Chunyao Lin, Bing San

Private wealth

Han Chen, Dongni Jiang, Jing (Gilbert) Shen, Huiyi Song

Labor and employment

Wei (Will) Huang, Lifeng Lu, Xiu Pei

PRC firms in Hong Kong

Lu Chai, Ethle Tang, Tao Li, Felix Miao, Adrian Yip, Rio Li, Jenny Li