On January 22, 2025, renowned legal directory LegalOne announced its "Blue Ribbon 2024 (China): Highly Recommended 15 for Private Equity and Venture Capital" to recognize lawyers who have achieved outstanding success in key and prominent areas of the local legal services market over the past year. Han Kun partner Ms. Xiayi (Clara) Liu was named to the list.
Ms. Liu began her legal career in 2010 and is a partner at Han Kun. She focuses her practice on venture capital and private equity transactions, outbound investment, mergers and acquisitions, and capital markets, among other areas. Ms. Liu has represented comprehensive and diverse clients covering many investment funds and well-known companies as well as start-ups. She has accumulated rich experience in assisting clients to complete numerous complex transactions in many industries, including internet, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, insurance, consumer goods, and energy. Ms. Liu's honors and awards include: Recommended Lawyer in TMT (Legal 500 Asia Pacific, 2025), Top Ten Outstanding Young Lawyers (CLECSS, 2024) and Named by the Beijing Lawyers Association to its 2024 list of foreign-related legal case experts.
LegalOne is an independent global research company that provides evaluations and exclusive reviews of commercial deals, dispute cases, and intellectual property matters submitted by legal and business professionals worldwide, as well as honors individual experts based on their ability and experience in solving real-world problems. Adhering to LegalOne's philosophy of "focusing on the practical skills and experience of professionals," the selection process for this award involves a thorough assessment, which incorporates a range of factors based on the submission as well as the practical abilities demonstrated by the participating lawyers in real case scenarios.
