On July 3, 2025, renowned legal directory LEGALBAND announced its "2025 Client Choice: Top 15 Regional Stars", with the aim of presenting the top 15 most-favored "Regional Stars" in mainland China. Han Kun partner Ms. Li Zhang was named to the list.
Reasons for selection: Ms. Zhang's practice areas include private equity and venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, overseas restructuring and listing, and foreign direct investment. She has also served well-known private equity funds, venture capital funds, innovative companies and start-up companies in the new economic sectors such as life sciences and healthcare, and TMT. In recent years, Ms. Zhang has carried out many investment and acquisition projects in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries. She accurately understands the needs of all parties and balances interests during the entire process of transaction structure design, transaction term negotiation, and project closing. Ms. Zhang’s clients think highly of her.
"As the core legal partner that has been with us since our inception, Ms. Zhang has always guided us by exceeding our clients' expectations by virtue of her profound experience in the life sciences field. From the strategic layout of intellectual property rights, the design of financing structure to the planning of cross-border cooperation, she not only accurately predicted the regulatory dynamics of the biomedical industry, but also creatively put forward customized solutions such as the 'dynamic compliance assessment model' to resolve issues, which helped us grasp the initiative in several rounds of financing. With her superb expertise, response and trusted professional ethics, Ms. Zhang perfectly illustrates the core value of a "client's first-choice lawyer".
Lawyer's profile: Ms. Zhang specializes in the private equity and venture capital investment, mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations, restructurings, public listings and offerings, foreign direct investment, and general corporate and has more than fifteen years of practice experience in those areas. She provides legal services to many private equity investors, venture capital and start-up companies, and specializes in designing transaction structures, dealing with and providing solutions for a variety of legal issues. Ms. Zhang practices in a number of industries, including manufacturing, new-energy vehicles, technology innovation, environmental protection, pharmaceuticals and medical devices, cross-border commerce, mobile Internet, education, and travel and hotels.
