On July 29, 2025, renowned legal directory LegalOne announced its "LegalOne Elite 100: Corporate and Commercial 2025" to recognize lawyers who have achieved outstanding success in corporate and commercial practice areas. Three Han Kun partners were named to the list, Mr. Cheng Chen, Mr. Lifeng Lu, and Mr. Adrian Lv.
Mr. Cheng Chen specializes in mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital, foreign direct investment. onshore and offshore public offerings and restructuring. He has served numerous private equity funds, start-ups, high-growth enterprises, and listed companies across industries such as new energy, mobility, biopharmaceuticals, medical devices, consumer goods, e-commerce, semiconductors, and gaming. Mr. Chen has led cross-border restructuring, financing transactions, IPOs, M&A, spin-offs, and reverse merger and NewCo projects. Mr. Chen has designed innovative deal structures in complicated investment and financing as well as M&A transactions. He also provides strategic suggestions to companies and the boards of directors on difficult issues arising during corporate management.
Mr. Lifeng Lu's practice focuses on commercial litigation and arbitration, labor law matters, and corporate compliance matters. He has extensive experience in commercial litigation and arbitration and has handled various types of cases covering areas such as investment and financing, international trade, real estate and construction, intellectual property, shareholders' rights and interests, product liability, and letters of guarantee. Mr. Lu is also adept in advising clients on labor law matters relating to employee benefits, layoffs, the employment of foreign nationals in China, non-competition, etc., and is experienced in resolving various types of labor disputes. Mr. Lu is experienced in the life sciences and healthcare industries and represents clients in various employee compliance investigation, arbitration, and litigation cases, which include anti-corruption investigations, trade secret infringement cases, and non-competition and term of service-related employment cases.
Mr. Adrian Lv specializes in mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and private equity, capital market transactions, foreign direct investment, offshore investment, ESOPs, and general corporate matters. During his over 16 years of practice, Mr. Lv has been delivering quality legal services to his clients, having developed extensive experience and specialist insights, particularly in the new economy sectors. He has provided a wide range of legal services for various large- and medium-scale state-owned/private enterprises, listed companies, multinational corporations, institutional investors, etc., covering industries such as TMT, finance, hi-tech, biomedicine, energy, electricity, logistics, real estate, construction, education, retail, apparel, agricultural products, food, and chemicals. Mr. Lv has also represented numerous well-known domestic and overseas companies as their long-term external legal counsel and has accumulated extensive experience in handling corporate matters.
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. LegalOne Elite 100 is a personal award that focuses on outstanding lawyers from different regions. This award is divided into business areas for selection, with a focus on the practical abilities demonstrated by the applying lawyers in specific projects. The selection is based on the application materials submitted by lawyers, with detailed information reflecting practical abilities as an important basis for the selection.
