Recently, EqualOcean held the "EqualOcean 2024 GoGlobal Forum of 100 (GGF2024)", during which it announced the "EqualOcean 2024 GoGlobal Service Provider Top 30". Han Kun partner Mr. Kelvin Gao was named to the list.
Mr. Gao has practiced law for almost two decades and has extensive experience in a variety of fields and industries. His major practice areas include mergers and acquisitions, formation and deployment of private equity funds, securities offerings, and corporate restructurings. Mr. Gao has been legal counsel to numerous leading investment institutions, multinational companies, and unicorn companies, for whom he has provided a full range of legal services, from deal structuring and legal documentation to closing, for their various cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and financing projects in industries covering internet, computer software, entertainment media, education and training, consumer and retail, and healthcare services. Mr. Gao routinely serves as counsel to many leading institutional investors. Over the years, Mr. Gao has been actively involved in structuring and establishing onshore and offshore China-focused private equity funds for both foreign and domestic fund sponsors and investors and has represented many well-known institutional investors and industry investors in various private equity investments and M&A transactions. Mr. Gao has also advised issuers as well as underwriters in several high-profile overseas IPOs involving Chinese companies or operations.
Ms. Gao's honors and awards include:
Leading Lawyer in Private Equity (Chambers Greater China Region, 2024)
Recommended Lawyer in Private equity (Legal 500 Asia Pacific, 2021-2024)
Recommended Lawyer in TMT (Legal 500 Asia Pacific, 2021, 2023-2024)
Recommended Lawyer in Corporate and M&A (Legal 500 Asia Pacific, 2020)
Recommended Lawyer in Healthcare and life sciences (Legal 500 Asia Pacific, 2018-2019)
Recommended Lawyer in Investment funds (Legal 500 Asia Pacific, 2019)
Highly Regarded Lawyer in Private Equity (IFLR1000, 2022-2023)
Highly Regarded Lawyer in Private Equity (IFLR1000 China, 2022-2023)
Commended External Counsel of the Year (In-House Community, 2022-2023)
Notable Lawyer in Consumption (DAWKINS Capital Markets Guide, 2022)
2021 China Top 15 Lawyers – Consumer and Retail (Legalband, 2021)
Future Star in Private Equity & Venture Capital (Legalband, 2016)
EqualOcean is a thinktank and core networking platform for China's globalization that believes in a new globalization with the mission of connecting China and the world. The "EqualOcean 2024 GoGlobal Service Provider Top 30" list was selected from over 100 candidates and aims to praise and honor leaders from various circles who have made encouraging breakthroughs in outbound globalization in the past year, and commends leading figures in go-global services who have made outstanding contributions in various fields.
