About

Li Han’s extensive private practice career gave her excellent legal expertise and provided her with the tools to become a financial services legal specialist. While working with Davis Polk & Wardwell and Sullivan & Cromwell in Hong Kong and New York respectively, Han undertook work with some of the most important investment banks in these two major financial centres. She advised on capital markets transactions, high yield bond offerings, equity and credit derivatives and various complex M&A transactions, making her an ideal candidate for an in-house role at Shanda Group in 2011. As the privately-held investment company’s group general counsel, Han covers a broad remit; along with legal work, she also undertakes compliance, corporate records and risk management duties. She is therefore a key member of the strategic element of the company’s management, and provides the benefit of her legal insight early on in projects to mitigate risk. In recognition of her considerable M&A expertise, Han is also involved in negotiating with target companies for Shanda’s active portfolio, which includes real estate, public and private securities, technology and healthcare. Given the company’s operations and the expanding regulatory environment it operates in, Han has made great efforts to ensure that the company’s compliance capabilities are of excellent quality, having originally set this team up when she began her role in 2011.