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Directors’ and officers’ duties and liabilities – a comparison

23 Sep 2025

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Nancy Sun

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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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