On September 24, 2025, renowned legal directory Legal Hall of Fame announced its "Compliance & Regulatory Lawyers Rankings 2025". The list aims to select and recognize outstanding lawyers who demonstrate exceptional professional skills, forward-thinking abilities, and exceptional client value in the face of complex compliance challenges and regulatory requirements. Han Kun's Michelle Gon was named among the ESG list based on her superb professional skills and remarkable service achievements.
Michelle Gon is a senior attorney with more than three decades of experience in the Greater China markets. She helps multinational clients deal with knotty and challenging legal issues, having developed a highly-regarded practice focused on cross-border compliance and regulatory matters. Michelle has been recognized as an outstanding compliance lawyer for 12 consecutive years by the world's leading legal directories such as Chambers and Partners.
Michelle focuses her practice on representing clients in complicated and challenging compliance and regulatory matters, including export control and sanctions, trade secret protection, anti-corruption, anti-dumping, anti-subsidy, anti-unfair competition, anti-monopoly, anti-fraud, export control and trade sanction areas. She is well respected for her ability to provide clients with her personal devotion and offering practical advice on solving complex legal issues. Most of Michelle's clients are leading MNCs who do business in China, or large, China-based MNCs doing business globally, across a wide range of sectors, including pharmaceuticals, medical devices, life sciences, healthcare, agriculture, food-related products, wine and spirits, hospitality, cruise lines, manufacturing, IT, and high tech.
The selections for the list were based on four core dimensions: a combination of peer and client recommendations, platform data research, lawyer applications and law firm nominations, and a comprehensive and multi-dimensional evaluation system. The list is intended to identify and commend outstanding lawyers who have performed remarkably in serving corporate clients and have won extensive recognition.
