On May 30, 2025, renowned legal directory LegalOne announced its "Blue Ribbon 2025 (China): Highly Recommended 15 for Labour and Employment" 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. Maling (Marinda) Liang was named to the list.
Ms. Liang has been practicing PRC law for more than 10 years and is well versed in M&A and restructuring, corporate law, and employment law. Ms. Liang can provide professional legal services in Japanese, English, and Chinese. She is equipped with extensive legal practice experience in the field of mergers and acquisitions. She has led and participated in numerous outbound or inbound investment projects of well-known foreign and domestic enterprises, providing a full array of professional legal services for clients in transaction proposal stage, due diligence, business negotiation, documents drafting, closing, post-transaction integration, and other processes. Meanwhile, Ms. Liang is acclaimed for her services in the field of labor and employment law. On top of providing practical legal advice on various employment issues for her client's daily operations, she also has extensive experience in handling employee matters, especially mass layoffs, senior management negotiations, employee dismissals, employment dispute resolution, cross-border secondments and assignments, formulation improvement, labor and employment compliance reviews, as well as employment matters during M&A or restructuring projects.
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.