Michelle Gon

Practice Areas

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)

Career

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.

Professional Memberships

Member of the Ilinois State Bar

Publications

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).

Personal

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.

Languages Spoken

Chinese, English

Awards

Education