On November 23, 2022, The Legal 500, the world's renowned legal directory, released its 2023 rankings of PRC law firms.  The rankings honor Han Kun by highly recommending 71 of the firm's lawyers (with 98 honors in total) and 18 practice areas, including seven areas recognized as "Tier 1", the highest designation.

Seven Tier 1 practice areas:

  • Private equity
  • Corporate and M&A
  • Capital markets
  • Investment funds
  • TMT
  • Data protection
  • Fintech

Eleven recommended practice areas:

  • Banking and finance
  • Antitrust and competition
  • Life sciences and healthcare
  • Intellectual property: non-contentious
  • Intellectual property: contentious
  • Regulatory/compliance
  • Dispute resolution: Litigation
  • Dispute resolution: Arbitration
  • Private wealth
  • Labor and employment
  • Real estate and construction

71 ranked/highly recommended lawyers (with 98 honors in total) (in alphabetical order by surname):

Private equity

Kevin Cao, Yijun Chao, Cheng Chen, Chao (Kelvin) Gao, Yifan Gu, Hong Huang, Chaoying (Charles) Li, Wei (David) Li, Sheng Li, Yipu Li, Yunge (Paula) Liu

Corporate and M&A

Yijun Chao, Cheng Chen, Chaoying (Charles) Li, Yunge (Paula) Liu, Zaiguang Lu, Shuting Qi, Qing (Nick) Shu, Zhihua (David) Tang, Chengyao (Aaron) Zhou

Capital markets

Yijun Chao, Dafei Chen, Chaoying (Charles) Li, Tao Li, Zaiguang Lu, Jin Wang, Zhe (Jason) Wang, Haoxiang Wang, Bing Xue

Investment funds

Huaying (Daisy) Qi, Lu Ran, Jicong (Vincent) Song, Jin Qian, Lin Zhou,

TMT

Yijun Chao, Dafei Chen, Chao (Kelvin) Gao, Chaoying (Charles) Li, Wei (David) Li, Sheng Li, Zaiguang Lu

Data protection

Kemeng Cai, Zhichao (Kevin) Duan, Michelle Gon, Zhihua (David) Tang, Yan Wang, Min Zhu

Fintech

Felix Miao, Wei Quan, Jun Zhu

Banking and finance

Yi Ding, Rong Fang, Yin Ge, Yaoyao (Sherry) Si, Shu Wang, Tiecheng Yang, Jun Zhu

Antitrust and competition

Chen Ma, Da Shi, Yan Wang, Shipo (Angus) Xie

Life sciences and healthcare

Yinshi Cao, Cheng Chen, Chaoying (Charles) Li, Lijuan Wang, Chengyao (Aaron) Zhou, Min Zhu

Intellectual property

Rong Chen, Yuanyuan Chu, Wei (Vivian) He, Haoran Jiang, Ying Li, Rui Luo, Qiwen Wang, Yan Wang, Lili Wu, Jian Zhang, Tao Zhang

Regulatory/compliance

Michelle Gon, Chen Ma, Zhihua (David) Tang, Jinli (Jolie) Yan

Dispute resolution: Litigation

Dong (Eric) Liu, Qiunan Sun, Yang You, Yaxing Zhang

Dispute resolution: Arbitration

Xianglin Chen, Liyu Jin, Dong (Eric) Liu, Yaxing Zhang, Yuxian Zhao

Private wealth

Han Chen

Labor and employment

Wei (Will) Huang, Lifeng Lu, Xiu Pei

Real estate and construction

Stephen (Shiwen) Dong, Rong Fang, Xiao Li