Press Release

On November 19, 2025, The Legal 500, the world's renowned legal directory, released its 2026 rankings of PRC law firms.  The rankings honor Han Kun by highly recommending the firm's lawyers (with 180 honors in total) and 23 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

• TMT

• Data protection

• Fintech

• Intellectual property: contentious

Fifteen recommended practice areas:

• Antitrust and competition

• Banking and finance

• Life sciences and healthcare

• Intellectual property: non-contentious

• Regulatory/compliance

• Real estate and construction

• Dispute resolution: Litigation

• Dispute resolution: Arbitration

• Tax

• Labor and employment

• - Projects and energy

• Private Wealth

• Restructuring and insolvency

• PRC firms in Hong Kong

• Hong Kong: Capital markets (equity)

Ranked/highly recommended lawyers (with 180 honors in total) (in alphabetical order by surname):

Private equity

Yijun Chao, Cheng Chen, Chao (Kelvin) Gao, Chaoying (Charles) Li, Wei (David) Li, Sheng Li, Yipu Li, Yunge (Paula) Liu, Zaiguang Lu, Jicong (Vincent) Song

Corporate and M&A

Chaoying (Charles) Li, Yunge (Paula) Liu, Zaiguang Lu, Shuting Qi, Zhihua (David) Tang, Ying (Gloria) Xu, Chengyao (Aaron) Zhou, Robin Zhang, Hua Zhong, Yifan Ding

Capital markets

Yijun Chao, Dafei Chen, Chaoying (Charles) Li, Jianhui Li, Tao Li, Jiaxin Liu, Jin Wang, Zhe (Jason) Wang, Ping Xu, Bing Xue, Haoxiang Wang, Hanmeng Li, Keye Chen

Investment funds

Min Luo, Jin Qian, Lu Ran, Jicong (Vincent) Song, Lin Zhou, Xiao Ding, Zhehao Li,  Zhihao Pei, Pengxiang Zhang,

TMT

Yijun Chao, Chao (Kelvin) Gao, Wei (Vivian) He, Chaoying (Charles) Li, Wei (David) Li, Sheng Li, Zaiguang Lu, Zhichao (Kevin) Duan, Danmin Hong

Data protection

Zhichao (Kevin) Duan, Michelle Gon, Zhihua (David) Tang, Yan Wang, Min Zhu, Yuting Wang

Fintech

Xun Li, Wei Quan, Jun Zhu, Yingyu Xia

Antitrust and competition

Chen Ma, Da Shi, Shipo (Angus) Xie, Xiao Guo

Banking and finance

Yi Ding, Rong Fang, Yin Ge, Shu Wang, Tiecheng Yang, Jun Zhu

Life sciences and healthcare

Yinshi Cao, Aaron Gu, Chengyao (Aaron) Zhou, Liming Yuan, Min Zhu, Shuhan Luo

Intellectual property: Non-contentious

Wei (Vivian) He, Rui Luo, Yan Wang, Lili Wu

Intellectual property: Contentious

Wei (Vivian) He, Rui Luo, Yan Wang, Lili Wu

Regulatory/compliance

Michelle Gon, Weiheng Jia, Chen Ma, Zhaojun (Sophie) Shi, Zhihua (David) Tang, Jolie Yan, Xinjie Li, Ying Huang

Real estate and construction

Shiwen (Stephen) Dong, Rong Fang

Dispute resolution: Litigation

Xiaoming Deng, Will Huang, Bofu Li, Dong (Eric) Liu, Wei (Vincent) Sun, Yang You, Yaxing Zhang, Ying Zeng

Dispute resolution: Arbitration

Xianglin Chen, Dong (Eric) Liu, Wei (Vincent) Sun, Adrian Yip 

Tax

Dongni (Ruby) Jiang, Jing (Gilbert) Shen, Shiye Yuan

Labor and employment

Wei (Will) Huang, Weiheng Jia, Lifeng Lu, Marinda Liang, Xiu Pei, Tingji Zhou

Projects & energy

Rong Fang, Tao Lan, Xiao Li, Xiaodi Nie, Xin (Gloria) Wang, Chengyao (Aaron) Zhou, Jessie Dong

Private Wealth

Dongni Jiang, Huiyi Song

Hong Kong: Capital markets (equity)

Steve Lin, Tao Li, Felix Miao

Hong Kong: Capital markets (debt)

Alex Tao

PRC firms in Hong Kong

Ethle Tang, Tao Li, Felix Miao, Alex Tao, Allen Zhang, Jenny Li