On November 12, 2025, the "2025 Lexpress Luminary Lawyers 20: Insurance" was officially released, recognizing legal professionals who demonstrate outstanding expertise and comprehensive influence in the insurance field. Insurance lawyers must not only master traditional insurance law principles but also possess cross-disciplinary collaboration skills, embedding compliance considerations into product design from the early stages and helping prevent and mitigate systemic financial risks by handling legal matters such as insurance company governance, fund utilization, and solvency regulation, thereby maintaining financial market stability.
Han Kun partner Yuzhou Xu was named among the "2025 Lexpress Luminary Lawyers 20: Insurance" for his professional reputation, industry influence, and strong client feedback in the insurance sector.
Reasons for Selection: Mr. Yuzhou Xu, a partner at Han Kun Law Offices' Shanghai office, holds dual degrees in Law and Management. With 25 years of legal practice, he has deeply specialized in insurance legal services, building extensive experience and an outstanding reputation in core areas such as insurance fund utilization, establishment and investment of insurance asset management projects, and compliance framework development for insurance institutions. In 2025, he was prominently recommended in the Chambers Greater China Region Legal Guide, receiving international recognition for his exceptional expertise. He has established a comprehensive service matrix covering 'financial institutions + state-owned enterprises + major projects,' providing long-term advisory services to various financial institutions and large state-owned groups. His projects combine innovation and benchmark significance, enabling insurance funds to become a stable driver for industrial development. He led the first insurance asset management debt financing plan for the 'Blue Whale I' deep-sea drilling rig, pioneering the use of insurance capital in supporting high-end marine equipment. He also facilitated Shanghai's first RMB 1 billion ultra-short-term financing bond issuance by a local state-owned enterprise, helping optimize its financing structure. Mr. Xu consistently delivers professional value. Through the 'Compliance Manual for Insurance Fund Utilization,' he transforms practical experience into industry-wide knowledge, having been repeatedly commissioned by the Shanghai SASAC and Shanghai Bar Association to draft business guidelines and industry standards. Additionally, he has published numerous articles in platforms such as China Law & Practice, Shanghai Legal News, and Asia Legal. His professional approach—linking practical cases with rule development and knowledge sharing—not only creates value for clients but also advances specialization and refinement in the legal services sector for insurance asset management.
Lawyer Profile: Mr. Xu's areas of expertise in finance cover financial compliance and asset management, including the establishment of financial institutions and the issuance of financial products, bank financing, trust schemes, utilization of insurance funds, establishment of insurance asset management products, establishment and operation of private equity funds, all types of institutionalized financing, asset securitization, various structured financing and asset securitization projects, and various issuances of bonds and debt financing instruments, etc.
Mr. Xu provides legal services to various financial institutions, such as banks, trusts, brokerages, insurance companies, and fund and asset management institutions, including insurance asset management companies such as Ping An Asset & Management, Taiping Asset & Management, Ping An Real Estate, Ping An Annuity, Everbright, Aeon Asset Management, Taikang Asset Management, Huatai Asset Management, Sunshine Asset & Management, People's Pension, Minshengtonghui, Zhongyingyili, and other insurance asset management companies; a number of trust institutions such as Ping An Trust, Aijian Trust, Huabao Trust, Zhongrong Trust, Tianjin Trust, Everbright Trust, and CITIC Trust, etc.; and also a number of financial institutions such as CITIC Construction, CITIC Bank, Ping An Securities, etc. Mr. Xu has successfully undertaken projects that include the very first debt plan and financing project of insurance assets for "Blue Whale I", a major technical drilling rig equipment project; and the first issuance of super short-term financing bills in the amount of RMB 1 billion by a Shanghai SOE; the first official car reform project by the Fengxian District Government, Shanghai. Mr. Xu has extensive experience and a good reputation in the area of insurance fund use, insurance project establishment and asset management, and the establishment and compliance of insurance companies and insurance asset management companies.
Mr. Xu also has nearly 20 years of experience in the area of state-owned assets and enterprises. Mr. Xu's current long-term clients include Shanghai Huayi, Shanghai United Assets and Equity Exchange, Guangming Group, INESA, YRD Group, Real Estate Group, SHSIIC Group, Shenergy (Group), Jinjiang Group, and Shanghai International Group. and their affiliated companies, and he has industry-leading advantages in state-owned financial institution compliance matters and the establishment and operation of state-owned funds and the state-owned business of financial institutions.
Mr. Xu, upon invitation, has drafted the Guidelines and Codes of Practice for Shanghai State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, Shanghai Bar Association, LexisNexis, and so forth. In addition, Mr. Xu has published several specialized articles in Capital Shanghai, the most authoritative periodical on state owned assets, Asian Legal Business, and Shanghai Legal Daily.
