Chinese firm JunHe has hired capital markets partner Ye Yurong in Hong Kong from rival Han Kun Law Offices.

Ye focuses on initial public offerings, pre-IPO investments, acquisitions and investment in listed companies, regulatory compliance and general corporate transactions in Hong Kong. In 2016, she advised media production company China Digital Video Holdings Ltd. on a $38 million listing on the Hong Kong stock exchange's small-cap Growth Enterprise Market.

Ye joined Han Kun's Hong Kong association, Miao & Co., in January 2017 as a partner from King & Wood Mallesons, where she was counsel. Before that, she practised at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and Morrison & Foerster.