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Directors’ and officers’ duties and liabilities – a comparison
23 Sep 2025
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Nancy Sun
Biography
Nancy qualified as a Chinese lawyer in 2000. Prior to joining Dentons Shanghai, Nancy worked as an in-house counsel of an HKSE listed company and one of Australia's top law firm's Shanghai office. She specializes in cross border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, setting up new businesses, carbon trade and climate change, ESG, labour relation and corporate governance, etc. In addition, Nancy has a deep knowledge of Energy and Nature resource in connection with plenty of project experience, as the Head of Dentons China Energy Practice & Sector. The representative clients and projects for which Nancy and her team have provided service include BASF, Air Liquide, Shell, Total, Shandong Energy Group Co., Ltd., Sinopec, China Coal, AUX Group, EGA, COFCO Group, and many other companies. Nancy's strength is in negotiating and implementing client-driven solutions to complex legal problems. Her approach is to gain a full understanding of the client's legal and business objectives and provide value-added advice to achieve the desired outcome. Her premium services have gained wide compliments by clients. Nancy and the projects she worked on won the following awards  Chambers Global Guide 2025- Energy & Natural Resources: Leading Lawyers  Chambers and Partners—Energy & Natural Resources Leading Lawyer 2025、2024、2023、2022、2021、2020、2017、2015 Asia-Pacific and Worldwide  Chambers and Partners—Corporate & Commercial lawyer2021、2020、2019、2018 Asia-Pacific Guide  The Legal 500 - 2025 Corporate and M&A Lawyer, Project and Energy Lawyer – China  Lexology Index – Energy Recommended Lawyer in 2024 Mainland China, Hong Kong SAR and Macao SAR  Legal Vision - 2024 Brand Stars in Energy, Environment & Natural Resources: Leading Lawyers  Asialaw Profiles – 2024 Notable Practitioner  LEGALBAND – 2024 China Top 15 Lawyers Going Global  IFLR1000 – 2024 Notable Practitioner  Asian Legal Business - Shortlisted for the Energy & Resources Deal of the Year 2024: East China  Asialaw - Shortlisted for the China Female Lawyer of the Year 2024  Legal Band 2023 Client Choice – Top 15 M&A Lawyers  Asialaw Profiles - 2023 Leading Energy Lawyer  Asia Legal Business - Energy & Resources Deal of the 2022 Year: East China  IFLR1000 - Women leaders 2022, 2023 ,2024 for the most prominent women lawyers across the world  The Legal 500—Corporate and M&A lawyer 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022,2023 Asia-Pacific  The Legal 500—Real Estate and Construction lawyer 2021, 2022,2023 Asia-Pacific  The Legal 500—Energy and Natural Resources lawyer 2019, 2022, 2023 Asia-Pacific  Best Lawyer—2020 named Lawyer in PRC Corporate law  Asia Legal Business—Top Chinese Female Lawyers 2016  Financial Times—Shortlisted for the Company Law Innovative Deal of the Year 2015  China Business Law Journal—The Deal of the Year 2015  China Law and Practice—Energy Resources Deal of the Year 2013
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Directors’ and officers’ duties and liabilities – a comparison
Tuesday 23 September (1301 - 1359)
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