Press Release

On March 7, 2024, renowned legal directory LEGALBAND announced its "2024 Client Choice: Top 15 Female Lawyers". The ranking celebrates 15 highly recommended female lawyers in mainland China. Han Kun partner Yipu Li was named to the list.

Reasons for selection:Ms. Li focuses on private equity and venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, and capital markets. Her clients include industrial funds, U.S. dollar funds, listed companies, advanced manufacturing start-ups, and securities companies. Her expertise and deep experience in the fields of advanced manufacturing, national defense, and military industry are highly appreciated by her clients. In recent years, Ms. Li has been deeply involved in a number of large transactions, and her team's comprehensive and efficient services have provided a solid guarantee for the smooth development and implementation of the projects.

"Ms. Yipu Li is good at solving cross-regional and cross-system legal problems. Faced with complex transaction structures, special historical backgrounds, and the constantly changing and challenging regulatory environment, she has shown flexibility, solid professionalism, and rigorous professional attitude. She advances forward-looking legal suggestions in a timely and efficient manner, which has indeed created value for us." "Ms. Li has high-level technical expertise, strong resilience, is very meticulous and responsible work, and has extensive experience in complex transactions. We have been very impressed with her since our first contact, and our cooperation with her has gone very smoothly and happily. "

Lawyer profile:Prior to joining Han Kun, Ms. Li worked at two top-tier U.S. investment banks and a U.S. law firm. Ms. Li mainly focuses on venture capital and private equity investment, overseas listings and public offerings, and mergers and acquisitions. She has represented a number of PRC-based companies in their initial public offerings on HKSE, NYSE, and NASDAQ, advised various international and domestic funds on their complex equity investments, mergers, and acquisitions and has served many companies to complete their domestic and overseas financing transactions. Ms. Li assists clients in designing transaction structures, drafting transaction documents, and negotiating and handling PRC law-related issues arising in the transactions. Her practice covers a broad range of industries, including advanced manufacturing, military-industry, fintech, human resources, internet, consumer goods, and telecommunications.

Ms. Li has been consistently recognized by renowned legal directories and well-known legal media outlets, including: "Next Generation Partner in Private equity (2023-2024)", "Rising star lawyer in Private equity (2020-2022)" and "Rising star lawyer in Corporate and M&A (2020-2021)" by Legal 500 Asia Pacific; as well as 2021 China Top 15 Lawyers – National Defense and Military Industry by Legalband.