Han Kun Law Offices

Partner

Before joining Han Kun, Mr. Yang was a partner at Clifford Chance and head of itsFinancial Regulatory Group of China.Mr. Yang has over 20 years' experience advising clients on issues relating to financialservices in China, including but not limited to RMB internationalization, banking,bonds (Panda Bonds and Dim Sum Bonds), securities and insurance, derivatives,structured products, Bond Connect, Stock Connect, the Shanghai Free Trade Zone,investment funds (QFII/RQFII, QDII and RMB funds), US Foreign Account TaxCompliance Act, CRS, cybersecurity and Fintech. He has a particular focus on thedevelopment of financial market regulation in China, and has made significantcontributions over the years in this regard. His clients range from foreign assetmanagers and financial institutions to domestic players, including BlackRock, CitiBank,CME, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, UBS,Shanghai Futures Exchange, Dalian Commodities Exchange, China Construction Bank,Export-Import Bank of China, China Life, etc. He is also consulted by Chinese andforeign regulators. Mr. Yang is included on the CBLJ 2017 China's Top 100 LawyersList.Mr. Yang is a member of NAFMII's Legal Committee, NAFMII's Repo MasterAgreement Drafting Committee and IAMAC's Legal and Compliance Committee. Heis also a specially invited professor for the LLM program at Tsinghua University Schoolof Law and Schwarzman Scholars.

Mandarin Chinese (native) and English (fluent)

Member of the PRC Bar

Mr. Yang graduated from Peking University with a B.A. degree, and from the NewYork University School of Law with an LL.M. degree