Michelle Gon

Compliance & Investigation, Antitrust & Competition, Regulatory & Corporate Governance, Trade Secret Protection, Export Control and Sanctions, Data Compliance, Healthcare and Life Sciences, and Mergers & Acquisitions (focusing on compliance due diligence and ESG)

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, manufacturing, semi-conductor, high tech, automobiles and parts, agriculture, food-related products, hospitality, wine and spirits industries. Before joining Han Kun, Michelle was a senior partner 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.

Member of the Ilinois State Bar

1. The “Guide to Protecting Trade Secrets Abroad (U.S. Edition)” (2024, Co-author);

2. Business Crime 2024 - Q&A Chapter (China) (ICLG, 2023, Co-author and coordinator);

3. Global Practice Guide: Anti-Corruption: Trends & Development - China (Chambers, 2023, Co-author and coordinator);

4. Life Sciences 2022 - China: Trends & Developments (Chambers, 2022, Co-author and coordinator);

5. Co-author and coordinator in several “Doing Business in China: Law & Practice “series (Chambers, 2019, 2020 & 2021);

6. Global Practice Guide: Shareholders' Rights 2020-Q&A - China (Chambers, 2021);

7. 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 (2017).

Michelle was selected as a Bencher of Society by her alma mater, Case Western Reserve University School of law, in 2019. She also lectured at the renowned Tsinghua University for its international EMBA programs for several years. Ms. Gon has been recognized as a mentor for legal practitioners and role model for women in the law practice industry for decades.

Case Western Reserve University

J.D.

1983 - 1985

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

MCL

1981 - 1982

National Taiwan University

LL.B.

1973 - 1976

Corporate Investigations/Anti-Corruption: Band 1 Foreign Legal Consultants (PRC Firms)

Chambers Greater China Region

2025

Corporate Investigations/Anti-Corruption: Band 1 Foreign Legal Consultants (PRC Firms)

Chambers Global

2025

Voted by corporate counsels as the respected legal professional in compliance field

Legal Guru Club

2024

Spotlight Table of Corporate Investigations/Anti-Corruption: Foreign Legal Consultants (PRC Firms)

Chambers Global

2024

Spotlight Table of Corporate Investigations/Anti-Corruption: Foreign Legal Consultants (PRC Firms)

Chambers Greater China Region, 2022-2024

Spotlight Table of Corporate Investigations/Anti-Corruption: Foreign Legal Consultants (PRC Firms)

Chambers Asia-Pacific, 2017-2021

Leading Partner in Regulatory/compliance

The Legal 500 Asia Pacific, 2025-2026

Litigation Star in Government and regulatory

Benchmark Litigation China, 2023-2025

Shanghai Lawyer of the Year

Benchmark Litigation China Awards

2025

Recommended Lawyer in Mainland China, Hong Kong SAR and Macao SAR: Corporate Governance

Lexology Index, 2024-2025

Recommended Lawyer in Mainland China, Hong Kong SAR and Macao SAR: Business Crime Defence & Investigations

Lexology Index

2024

Leading Lawyer in Healthcare

Chambers Asia-Pacific, 2012-2017

Leading Lawyer in Regulatory

Asialaw Profiles, 2022-2025

Asia-Pacific Top 100 Lawyers

ALB

2004

China’s Top 30 Lawyers

ALB

2004