Hannah C L Ha

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Hannah Ha is the Commercial Managing Partner of JSM. She is a partner of the Corporate & Securities practice based in Hong Kong and the Leader of the Corporate & Securities practice. Clients turn to Hannah Ha for advice on mergers and acquisitions, leveraging her extensive experience in foreign direct investment in China, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions and general corporate and commercial matters. Hannah's practice also covers competition law, and she co-heads the firm's award winning Antitrust & Competition Team.

Hannah advises a wide range of clients, including sovereign wealth funds, blue-chip companies, multi-national corporations and mainland Chinese companies. Her industry experience is wide-ranging, including aviation, chemicals, construction, consumer products, pharmaceuticals, transport, financial services and real estate.

She is consistently recognised by independent commentators. Clients told IFLR1000 2020 that “Ms Hannah Ha, who we've worked very closely with for years is exceptionally professional, she is always able to provide extremely commercially sensible legal advice to the group topped with great wisdom. We are thankful to have wise and helpful lawyers like her to work hand-in-hand with us”. Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2020 also described Hannah as “well-positioned to guide local clients through investigations initiated by the Competition Commission, while on the non-contentious side, as well as her regular involvement in merger clearance work, Ha also assists multinational corporations to implement compliance programmes for antitrust and anti-corruption in Asia”.

Hannah is a China-Appointed Attesting Officer (appointed by the Ministry of Justice of PRC) and a Notary Public in Hong Kong. She speaks English, Cantonese and Mandarin.