The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2025 highly recommends multiple Han Kun lawyers and practice areas
November, 2024 - Beijing, Mainland China
On November 20, 2024, The Legal 500, the world's renowned legal directory, released its 2025 rankings of PRC law firms. The rankings honor Han Kun by highly recommending 98 of the firm's lawyers (with 139 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
- Antitrust and competition
- TMT
- Data protection
- Fintech
Twelve recommended practice areas:
- Banking and finance
- Life sciences and healthcare
- Intellectual property: non-contentious
- Intellectual property: contentious
- Regulatory/compliance
- Real estate and construction
- Dispute resolution: Litigation
- Dispute resolution: Arbitration
- Tax
- Labor and employment
- Projects and energy
- PRC firms in Hong Kong
98 ranked/highly recommended lawyers (with 139 honors in total) (in alphabetical order by surname):
Private equity
Yinshi Cao, Yijun Chao, Cheng Chen, Dafei Chen, Chao (Kelvin) Gao, Chaoying (Charles) Li, Wei (David) Li, Sheng Li, Yipu Li, Yunge (Paula) Liu, Zaiguang Lu, Jicong (Vincent) Song, Bing Xue, Ying (Gloria) Xu, Ying Yang
Corporate and M&A
Yijun Chao, Cheng Chen, Chaoying (Charles) Li, Yipu Li, Yunge (Paula) Liu, Zaiguang Lu, Shuting Qi, Zhihua (David) Tang, Xiaoxue (Dana) Wu, Ying (Gloria) Xu, Liming Yuan, Chengyao (Aaron) Zhou
Capital markets
Yijun Chao, Dafei Chen, Zhichao (Kevin) Duan, Chaoying (Charles) Li, Jianhui Li, Tao Li, Jin Wang, Zhe (Jason) Wang, Ping Xu, Bing Xue, Haoxiang Wang
Investment funds
Yao (Ally) Hu, Min Luo, Jin Qian, Lu Ran, Jicong (Vincent) Song, Li Yang, Lin Zhou, Xiao Ding, Chenchen Jiang, Pengxiang Zhang, Xi Chen, Zhihao Pei
TMT
Yijun Chao, Chao (Kelvin) Gao, Jun He, Wei (Vivian) He, Chaoying (Charles) Li, Wei (David) Li, Sheng Li, Yipu Li, Xiayi Liu, Zaiguang Lu, Qimin Zhu, Yanbing Zhang, Yuanjing Xu
Data protection
Zhichao (Kevin) Duan, Michelle Gon, Jun Li, Zhihua (David) Tang, Yan Wang, Min Zhu, Ying Huang
Fintech
Xun Li, Felix Miao, Wei Quan, TieCheng Yang, Jun Zhu
Antitrust and competition
Chen Ma, Da Shi, Shipo (Angus) Xie
Banking and finance
Yi Ding, Rong Fang, Yin Ge, Shu Wang, Tiecheng Yang, Jun Zhu
Life sciences and healthcare
Yinshi Cao, Aaron Gu, Chaoying (Charles) Li, Chengyao (Aaron) Zhou, Min Zhu
Intellectual property
Wei (Vivian) He, Rui Luo, Yan Wang, Lili Wu
Regulatory/compliance
Michelle Gon, Yang Han, Weiheng Jia, Chen Ma, Zhaojun (Sophie) Shi, Zhihua (David) Tang, Jolie Yan, Xinjie Li, Ying Huang
Real estate and construction
Zhen (Cody) Chen, Shiwen (Stephen) Dong, Rong Fang, Xiao Li, Yan Zhang
Dispute resolution: Litigation
Xiaoming Deng, Dong (Eric) Liu, Jing Liu, Wei (Vincent) Sun, Yang You, Yaxing Zhang, Qimin Zhu
Dispute resolution: Arbitration
Xianglin Chen, Dong (Eric) Liu, Jing Liu, Wei (Vincent) Sun, Ying Zeng, Bing San
Tax
Dongni (Ruby) Jiang, Jing (Gilbert) Shen, Shiye Yuan
Labor and employment
Wei (Will) Huang, Lifeng Lu, Xiu Pei
Projects & energy
Rong Fang, Tao Lan, Xin (Gloria) Wang, Chengyao (Aaron) Zhou
PRC firms in Hong Kong
Lu Chai, Tao Li, Rio Li, Ethle Tang, Felix Miao, Adrian Yip, Bonnie Yung, Allen Zhang, Jenny Li
