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The world's leading legal directory Chambers and Partners recently published Alternative Funds 2023 (the "Guide"), an integral part of the Chambers Global Practice Guides series. Han Kun exclusively contributed the China section of the Guide. The contributors include Lu Ran, Pei Zhao, Shiye Yuan, and Zhichao Duan ...

Han Kun is pleased to announce that Ms. Min Luo has recently rejoined the firm, further bolstering the firm's investment fund capabilities.Ms. Luo specializes in legal matters related to private fund formation and asset management. She has considerable experience in representing onshore and offshore fund managers in the formation of venture capital, private equity and other types of private funds denominated in both USD and RMB. Ms ...

On Nov. 15, 2023, Asian Legal Business (ALB) announced the finalists for its ALB China Regional Law Awards 2023: South China & Central China, which is open to "local" law firms headquartered in Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Henan, Hubei and Hunan, and "non-local" law firms headquartered in other regions with branches/offices in South China & East China ...

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 ...

On November 7, 202, renowned legal directory LEGALBAND announced its "2023 China Top 15 Lawyers – Consumer and Retail" to showcase the 15 most favored "Consumer and Retail Lawyers" in mainland China.Han Kun lawyer Cheng Chen and Vincent Song were named to the list.Cheng ChenReasons for selection:Mr. Chen has been active in recent years in the fields of private equity and venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, and foreign investment ...

Han Kun Law Offices and Han Kun Law Offices LLP ("Han Kun Hong Kong"), as PRC and Hong Kong legal advisors, represented Beijing UBOX Online Technology Corp. ("UBOX ONLINE", Stock Code: 2429) in connection with its initial public offering in Hong Kong and Regulation S offering of H shares. The H shares of UBOX ONLINE are listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Approximately 78 ...

On October 31, 2023, China Business Law Journal ("CBLJ") announced the winners of its China Business Law Awards 2023 Regional Awards, where Han Kun was honored in the following award categories:China Business Law Awards (Regional Awards)Best Overall Law Firms (Shanghai)Best Overall Law Firms (Hong Kong)To determine the winners, CBLJ's editorial team looked carefully at each firm's outstanding transactions, cases, and other notable achievements in the past year and also took into account recommen

Artificial Intelligence Generated Content ("AIGC") is a great leap forward in the development of Artificial Intelligence ("AI") technology. AIGC can generate a variety of content including articles, images, audio, video and so on according to the input conditions by training the model and learning a large number of data, and then solve the tasks of the real scene in different fields ...

On October 30, 2023, CLECSS announced the results of its "2023 Best ESG Law Firm Awards". Han Kun claimed CLECSS's "Best ESG Law Firm Award – Best ESG Practice" and Han Kun partner Wei Quan was honored with the "Best ESG Lawyer – Gold Award".The CLECSS Best ESG Law Firm Awards aim to raise ESG awareness (i.e ...

Han Kun Law Offices has advised and acted as PRC counsel to the joint sponsors in connection with the listing of J&T Global Express Limited ("J&T Express", Stock Code: 1519) on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.J&T Express is a global logistics service provider with an express delivery network coverage across 13 countries, including China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Cambodia, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Mexico, Brazil, and Egypt ...

On October 23, 2023, Asian Legal Business ("ALB") formally announced its "2023 ALB China Regional Ranking: Yangtze River Delta Firms". The ranking identifies leading law firms for their practices in regional markets and comprises two categories: law firms headquartered in the Yangtze River Delta region and those not headquartered there but which have branches/offices in the region ...

On October 20, 2023, Asian Legal Business ("ALB"), the world's leading legal magazine under Thomson Reuters, released its 2023 ranking of China's Top Female Lawyers. The list highlights 15 female lawyers in mainland China who have delivered high-quality work in their legal practices and earned accolades from their clients. Han Kun lawyer Ms. Paula Liu is among them ...

On October 16, 2023, LexisNexis announced its2023 "Under 40"list for mainland China. The list recognizes young legal professionals 40 years of age or or younger who show a tremendous potential to grow and the motivation to lead the development of the legal sector in mainland China.Han Kun partner Chunyan HE was named to the list, owing to her standout professional services.Ms ...

On October 17, 2023, renowned legal directory LEGALBAND announced its "2023 Under 40: Top 20 New Economy Lawyers" to showcase the 20most favored new economy lawyers in mainland China under 40 years of age. Han Kun lawyer Sheldon Chen and Daniel Xu were named to the list.Sheldon ChenReasons for selection:Mr ...

On October 17, 2023, renowned legal directory LEGALBAND announced its "2023Under 40: Top 20 Dispute Resolution Lawyers" to showcase the 20 most favored dispute resolution lawyers in mainland China under 40 years of age. Han Kun partner Jing Liu was named to the list.Reasons for selection: Ms. Liu focuses on commercial dispute resolution and is particularly skilled and outstanding in handling disputes over corporate control, investment and financing, and private fund dispute resolution ...

The world's leading legal directory Chambers and Partners recently published Private Equity 2023 (the "Guide"), an integral part of the Chambers Global Practice Guides series. Han Kun exclusively contributed the China section of the Guide. The contributors include Jing Li, Shuting Qi, Lin Gui, and Lu Ran.The Guide features 37 jurisdictions and aims to provide legal expertise in private equity sectors in major jurisdictions around the world ...

Han Kun Law Offices and Han Kun Law Offices LLP ("Han Kun Hong Kong"), as PRC and Hong Kong legal advisors, represented Luyuan Group Holding (Cayman) Limited ("Luyuan Group Holding", Stock Code: 2451) in connection with its initial public offering in Hong Kong and Regulation S offering of an aggregate of 106,667,000 ordinary shares. The ordinary shares of Luyuan Group Holding are listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange ...

The world's leading legal directory Chambers and Partners recently published Healthcare: Medical Devices 2023 (the "Guide"), a part of the Chambers Global Practice Guides series. Han Kun exclusively contributed the ChinaTrends & Developments section. The contributors includeYang (Aaron) Gu,Pengfei You,Duzhiyun Zheng, andFengqi Yu ...

As PRC counsel to the issuer, Han Kun Law Offices represented Adlai Nortye Ltd. ("Adlai Nortye", NASDAQ: ANL) in relation to the initial public offering of its American depositary shares in the United States and the listing of its American depositary shares on the Nasdaq Global Market ...

Han Kun Law Offices LLP advised Shaanxi Xixian New Area Fengxi Development Group Co., Ltd. on its issuance of credit enhanced bonds as its international legal advisor. The listing of the bonds with the benefit of an irrevocable standby letter of credit issued by Bank of Xi'an Co., Ltd. on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (stock code: 84455) and Chongwa (Macau) Financial Assets Exchange Co. Ltd commenced on 29 September 2023 ...

On September 27, 2023, the winners of the IFLR1000 China Awards 2023 were officially announced ...

On September 26, 2023, Asialaw officially announced the winners of the Asialaw Awards 2023 at an awards ceremony held in Singapore. Han Kun won three awards at the ceremony, owing to the firm's outstanding performance and comprehensive professional strengths over the past year ...

The well-known London-based legal publisher Law Business Research recently published its twelfth edition of The Asset Management Review. Han Kun financial regulatory partners Ms. Lin Zhou and Ms. Yao (Ally) Hu authored the China chapter. Han Kun was invited to author the China chapter of the book for the fourth consecutive year and has contributed to many topics in The Law Reviews in the past. Other Han Kun contributors to this year's China chapter included John D ...

On September 20, 2023, Asian Legal Business (ALB), a legal directory under Thomson Reuters, released the ALB M&A Rankings 2023. Han Kun was again recognized as a Tier 1 PRC Law Firm, owing to the firm’s exceptional M&A services. This marks the tenth consecutive year for Han Kun to be rated Tier 1 in ALB's annual M&A Rankings ...

The well-known London-based legal publisher Law Business Research recently published its sixth edition of The Virtual Currency Regulation Review (The Virtual Currency Regulation Review: 6th edition). As the only invited PRC law firm, Han Kun has authored the Virtual Currency Regulation Review for two consecutive years. Han Kun's financial services and asset management partner Mr. TieCheng Yang, counsel Mr. Meng (Raymond) Yan and associate Ms. Wenli (Ivy) Xu co-authored the China Chapter ...