On December 21, 2023, Asian Legal Business ("ALB"), the world's leading source of intelligent information for business and legal professionals owned by Thomson Reuters, announced the ALB Dealmakers of Asia 2023. Han Kun partner Charles Li was named to the list for the fourth consecutive time since 2020.
The ranking spotlights outstanding lawyers who demonstrate comprehensive legal expertise, business acumen, and practical problem-solving skills. They have overcome tremendous market challenges over the past year to deliver deals for their clients.
Mr. Li has been working at Han Kun Law Offices since January 2005, where he specializes in public and private financings (equity and debt), mergers and acquisitions, incorporation and corporate restructuring, foreign direct investment, and intellectual property protection. He has represented many Chinese and international companies in a wide variety of cross-border transactions in different industries such as telecommunications, the Internet, information technology, energy, clean technology, consumer goods, healthcare, biotechnology, and pharmaceuticals. Mr. Li is knowledgeable of PRC industrial policies, corporate structure, capital operation, financial planning, and investment and project management.
Mr. Li has been consistently recognized by leading global legal directories such as Chambers, The Legal 500, IFLR, ALB, Asialaw Profiles, China Law and Practice and China Business Law Journal as a leading authority in China with respect to venture capital and private equity, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets transactions, TMT and healthcare. His awards and honors include:
Eminent Practitioner in Corporate/M&A, Private Equity: Buyouts & Venture Capital Investment, and TMT (Chambers Greater China Region, 2022-2023)
Eminent Practitioner in Corporate/M&A (Chambers Global, 2020- 2023)
Eminent Practitioner in Corporate/M&A (Chambers Asia-Pacific & Global, 2020- 2021)
Elite practitioner in Corporate/M&A and Private Equity (Asialaw Profiles, 2020-2023)
Elite practitioner in Technology and telecommunications (Asialaw Profiles, 2023)
Outstanding Practitioner: China (Asialaw Regional Awards, 2019)
Market leader in Private Equity and M&A (IFLR1000, 2019-2023)
Market Leader in Private Equity and M&A (IFLR1000 China, 2023)
IFLR Asia Best Lawyer (IFLR Asia, 2020-2022)
Dealmaker of the Year – China (ALB, 2020-2022)
ALB Power List of Top 10 Lawyers (ALB, 2015-2016)
China Dealmaker of the Year (China Law and Practice, 2018, 2021)
The A-List China's Elite Lawyers (China Business Law Journal, 2016-2018, 2020, 2022-2023)
Named by the PRC Ministry of Justice to its 2018 list of 1,000 foreign-related legal case experts