Press Release

On March 7, 2022, well-known legal directory LEGALBAND named Han Kun partner Ying (Gloria) Xu as one of its "2022 Client Choice: Top 15 Female Lawyers".

Reasons for selection: Ms. Xu has shown standout expertise and in-depth experience in handling domestic and cross-border transactions in private equity investments and financings, mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings, and IPOs, and is adept in advising on complicated investment, financing, and M&A transactions. In recent years, Ms. Xu has led her team in handling a number of high-profile projects, including the equity financing of Xiaodu Technology, spin-off financing of JD Industry, Series A and Series B financings of Ziroom, the strategic cooperation transaction between China Resources Group and Heineken, and the asset acquisition of Smartisan. In these challenging deals, Ms. Xu met her clients' needs in all respects by considering both the projects at hand and her clients' long-term prospects. "Ms. Xu is able to think ahead on every front from personnel deployment, progress control, to predicting future development of projects. We are assured of her professionalism by her trustworthy efforts in handling each project well and bringing an effective solution to every problem. While working with Ms. Xu, we were deeply impressed by her solid professional expertise, in-depth industrial knowledge, efficient project management, and excellent coordination and communication skills, which enabled us to strike a spot-on balance between legal risk control and realization of our business goals."

Lawyer's profile: Ms. Xu has extensive experience in handling domestic and cross-border transactions in private equity investments and financings, mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings, and IPOs. The clients she represents cover a wide range of industries, including telecommunications, media, technology, healthcare, biotechnology, transportation, and retail. Ms. Xu has represented numerous institutional investors in their domestic and cross-border private equity investments and has assisted many start-ups, fast-growing, and well-established companies in their financings. Ms. Xu has considerable experience in handling domestic and cross-border M&A transactions and has advised a large number of multinational and domestic companies on many large-scale M&A transactions. Ms. Xu has also represented a number of PRC companies in their IPOs on securities exchanges in the United States and Hong Kong.

Over the years, Chinese female lawyers have come to play an increasingly important role in the legal services market on the strength of their solid professional skills, extensive experience, and assiduous work attitudes. They actively explore the trends of commercial and societal development, continuously improve their professional skills and provide legal services centered around clients' needs. They are able to provide high-quality legal services in a professional, insightful, and patient manner and are highly praised by clients, radiating unique glamour in the commercial legal services market.

LEGALBAND developed the 2022 list by referencing factors such as recommendation and self-recommendation submissions by major law firms and lawyers, client feedback, as well as long-term observations of Chinese female lawyer groups by LEGALBAND's research office in China.