On October 17, 2025, Asian Legal Business ("ALB") formally announced its "2025 ALB China Regional Ranking: Yangtze River Delta Firms". The ranking identifies leading law firms for their practices in regional markets and comprises two categories: law firms headquartered in the Yangtze River Delta region and those not headquartered there but which have branches/offices in the region. Han Kun was recognized in the ranking for the fifth time due to the firm's exceptional performance in the Yangtze River Delta region, and partner Mr. Cheng Chen was ranked among Rising Lawyers.
Han Kun attaches great importance to its regional market coverage and has geographical advantages in providing legal services for complex, large-scale, and cross-regional transactions. We are ready to offer timely, convenient, and high-quality legal services tailored to our clients' needs and transaction features by coordinating professional resources from all our branch offices. Han Kun's Shanghai office provides full-scope legal services to clients in all industry sectors, principally covering onshore and offshore investment and financing, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, foreign investment, and general corporate legal issues, compliance and supervision, fund and asset management, banking finance and fintech, intellectual property, labor issues, dispute resolution, etc. In recent years, Han Kun's Shanghai office has been engaged in multiple significant projects and influential transactions and has been highly recognized by clients for its prominent accomplishments and standout legal service capabilities.
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.
ALB is a leading legal magazine under Thomson Reuters and is one of the world's most influential legal media. The ranking is a result of months-long research, surveys, and selection by ALB, as well as comprehensive consideration of various factors, such as the law firms' basic information, major transactions or litigation completed in the past 12 months, key clients, market positioning, and development strategies. The ranking aims to recognize outstanding law firms with strong professional strengths, prominent accomplishments, and impressive performance in legal markets in the Yangtze River Delta region: Shanghai, Jiangsu Province, Zhejiang Province, and Anhui Province. It showcases the law firms' professional strength and development strategies in China's regional legal markets. Rising Lawyers recognize those individuals who are based in the Yangtze River Delta currently and are either not above the age of 40 or have no more than 15 years of legal professional experience. They were chosen based on factors including major achievements, major transactions or cases, major work in the past 12 months, major clients, awards, and client and peer evaluations.
