Han Kun partner Yuzhou Xu honored among LEGALBAND's 2024 Top 15 State-Invested and State-Owned Enterprises Lawyers
December, 2024 - Beijing, Mainland China
On December 26, 2024, renowned legal directory LEGALBAND announced its "China Top 15 Lawyers – State-Invested and State-Owned Enterprises 2024". The ranking spotlights 15 exceptional state-invested and state-owned enterprise lawyers in mainland China. Han Kun partner Yuzhou Xu was named to the list.
Reasons for selection: Mr. Xu has been practicing in the fields of SOE-related services, finance, and asset management for more than 20 years. He has extensive experience in compliance of state-owned assets, transfer and trading of state-owned assets, restructuring and reorganization of state-owned enterprises, and in establishing and investing in state-owned funds. Mr. Xu serves many leading large central state-owned enterprises, local SOEs, and financial institutions and has led teams involved in many milestone projects including state-owned assets transactions, SOE restructuring, state-owned infrastructure financing, and SOE structured financing. By virtue of his solid legal background and abundant industry experience, Mr. Xu has demonstrated an outstanding level of practice and service capability in SOE-related services.
"Mr. Xu has rich and solid experience in the area of SOE-related services, especially the comprehensive projects relating to the compliance of state-owned assets, investment and financing. We are very happy and at ease to entrust him to handle various complicated and professional issues."
Lawyer's profile: Mr. Xu's areas of expertise cover SOE-related services, financial compliance, asset management, investment, and financing. Mr. Xu has over 20 years of experience in SOE-related services and has long served various central state-owned enterprises, large local state-owned groups and their affiliated companies. Mr. Xu has a leading edge in the field of compliance of state-owned enterprises, state-owned assets transactions, state-owned enterprise restructuring, as well as the establishment and investment of state-owned funds. At the same time, Ms. Xu has provided legal services for various financial institutions including banks, insurance companies, trust companies and securities traders, which cover the issuance of various financial products, structured financing and asset securitization, the use of insurance funds, the establishment of insurance asset management products, the establishment and investment of private equity funds, the issuance of various debt financing instruments, etc.
Ms. Xu has been called upon to draft guidelines and industry standards on many occasions by Shanghai SASAC, the Shanghai Bar Association, and LexisNexis and various other legal media organizations. He served as vice director of the SOE-related Services Research Committee of Shanghai Bar Association, a member of Legal and Compliance Committee of China Insurance Asset Management Association, and a legal evaluation expert of the Shanghai Public Resources Center.
