On May 8, 2025, renowned legal directory LEGALBAND announced its "Client Choice: Top 15 M&A Lawyers 2025" list, spotlighting 15 exceptional M&A lawyers in mainland China. Han Kun lawyer Ms. Shuting Qi was named to the list.
Reasons for Selection: Ms. Qi's practice areas include mergers and acquisitions (M&A), private equity investments, venture capital, and outbound investments. The projects she has handled cover exceptionally broad industries including healthcare, advanced manufacturing, new energy, finance, retail, consumer goods, real estate, and logistics. Ms. Qi excels at handling various complex cross-border M&A and investment transactions. Leveraging her professional understanding of M&A and meticulous legal analysis skills, she provides clients with commercially viable, compliant, and practical solutions and business advice. She effectively balances clients' commercial objectives with the interests of all parties with respect to transaction structure and design, ensuring smooth progress and successful closing of deals. Ms. Qi serves as legal counsel to multiple private equity funds, strategic investors, and enterprises for major investment decisions, earning high praise and recognition from her clients.
"Ms. Qi demonstrated exceptional professionalism and a rigorous work style for our company's M&A project. Facing a strong counterparty, Ms. Qi secured highly favorable transaction terms for us through her expertise and well-balanced negotiation strategies. Her professionalism and dedication make her the best among the lawyers I have worked with."
Profile: Ms. Shuting Qi has practiced law for more than 15 years. She has extensive experience in representing private equity and strategic clients in a wide array of business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, buyouts, growth equity investments, divestitures, joint ventures, foreign direct investment and general corporate matters. Shuting has also represented Chinese companies in their outbound investments and other financing transactions outside China. Shuting represents clients across diverse industries, including TMT, healthcare, education, finance, industrial manufacturing, retail, consumables, real estate, and logistics.
