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Jurisdiction:

Shanghai

Practice area:

Government and regulatory


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 focuses her practice on representing clients in complicated and challenging compliance and regulatory matters, including anti-corruption, unfair competition, anti-monopoly, anti-fraud, export control and trade sanction areas. 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 doing 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. Before joining Han Kun, Michelle held senior roles at other leading international law firms. She also formerly served as the Chief Legal Officer/Vice President of Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (“SMIC”), and an International Attorney for McDonald’s Corporation, headquartered in Illinois.

Michelle was appointed by China’s Intellectual Property Office (“SIPO”) to complete a booklet advising Chinese companies on how to protect and utilize intellectual property rights when they do business abroad.

  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • General corporate
  • Antitrust/competition
  • Corporate compliance
  • Life sciences and healthcare
  • Real estate and infrastructure
  • Data protection
  • Intellectual property

  • Case Western Reserve University, J.D., 1985; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, MCL, 1982; National Taiwan University, LL.B., 1976.

  • Member of the Illinois State Bar

  • Featured as highly recommended lawyer for Corporate Investigation/Anti-Bribery in Greater China Region by Chambers in 2022
  • Ranked as a leading lawyer for Regulatory in China by Asialaw Profiles in 2021
  • Featured in the Spotlight Table of “Corporate Investigation / Anti-Corruption” Foreign Legal Consultants by Chambers Asia-Pacific in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021
  • Selected as a bencher of society by her alma mater, Case Western Reserve University School of law, in 2019
  • Ranked as a leading lawyer for “Corporate Investigation / Anti-bribery” in China by Chambers Asia Pacific 2017
  • Ranked as a leading lawyer in the life sciences sector in China by Chambers Asia Pacific in 2012 to 2015
  • Named as one of the Top 30 Attorneys in China and one of the Top 100 Attorneys in the Asia Pacific region, by Asian Legal Business in 2004
  • Listed as a member of American Bar Association and the Illinois State Bar Association

  • Lectured at the renowned Tsing Hua University for its international EMBA programs of "Doing Business in China" and “Business and Commercial Laws” for several years.

  • Life Sciences 2022 - China: Trends & Developments (Chambers, 2022, Co-author and coordinator)
  • Doing Business in China: Law & Practice (Chambers, 2019, 2020, and 2021, Co-author and coordinator)
  • Global Practice Guide: Shareholders' Rights 2020 - Q&A - China (Chambers, 2021, Co-author and coordinator)