For entrepreneurs, executives and high-net-worth families, many legal issues often have far-reaching implications, requiring comprehensive legal service solutions.
A marital or inheritance dispute may simultaneously affect family assets, corporate equity and corporate control; a senior executive's departure may further involve equity incentives, non-compete restrictions, trade secrets and even the stability of business operations. Faced with such complex issues, legal services require not only the accurate application of rules, but also an understanding of the balance among family relationships, commercial interests and long-term arrangements.
In October 2025,Lawyer Qu Xiaojun formally joined Mankun Law FirmWith more than sixteen years of legal practice experience and long-term practice in the fields of marriage and family, inheritance, labor disputes and complex litigation, Lawyer Qu will further strengthen Mankun's professional capabilities in comprehensive legal services for entrepreneurs and high-net-worth individuals.
Lawyer Profile
Qu Xiaojun
Senior Lawyer | Mankun Law Firm
Lawyer Qu Xiaojun graduated with a bachelor's degree fromXi'an Jiaotong University School of Law, and later studied atRenmin University of ChinaHold a Master of Laws degree. Sixteen years of litigation practice, focused on the complex legal needs of entrepreneurs, high-net-worth families and key talent.
Since entering the legal profession in 2010, she has served as the managing lawyer of a Shanghai law firm, a senior partner at a large law firm and a litigation expert at a nationwide law firm, and has also served as a part-time arbitrator of the Labor and Personnel Dispute Arbitration Commission of Chenghua District, Chengdu.
From a large volume of complex litigation matters in the early years to a gradual focus on marital and family affairs, inheritance and high-end talent labor disputes, Lawyer Qu has developed a professional pathbuilt on complex dispute resolution and extending to family wealth, business operations and key talent issuesthe professional pathway.
Over the course of her long-term practice, Lawyer Qu has served entrepreneurs, actual controllers of listed companies, senior executives, core technical personnel and high-net-worth families, handling matters that include divorce property division, cross-border inheritance and family wealth succession, as well as complex issues such as equity incentives, non-compete restrictions, executive departures and control of family businesses.
● Practice Areas ----------------
✅ Marital and Family Affairs and Inheritance
✅ Wealth Succession and Family Business Governance
✅ High-End Talent Labor Disputes
✅ Comprehensive Legal Services for Entrepreneurs
● Core Strengths ----------------
01 Complex Family and Inheritance Matters: Resolving Disputes While Addressing Asset and Control Arrangements
For high-net-worth families, marital and inheritance issues often not only concern how personal property is to be distributed, but may further affect corporate equity, family assets and company control.
Lawyer Qu has long handled complex divorce, inheritance and family wealth disputes, and has participated in multiple cases involving substantial assets, cross-border status and family business operations. In handling cases, she places particular emphasis on the integrated use of asset investigations, evidence organization, negotiation and litigation strategies to clarify complex asset relationships and to design resolution paths centered on the core interests that clients truly care about.
In cases involving entrepreneurs, Lawyer Qu also further examines the potential impact of marital and inheritance arrangements on the stability of business operations, equity structure and intergenerational succession, so that family law solutions connect with the enterprise's long-term arrangements.
02 High-End Talent Disputes: Understanding the Intersecting Issues of Equity, Non-Competition and Career Development
Lawyer Qu previously held a management position at a legal technology company and has long focused on labor disputes involving corporate executives, core technical talent and management personnel, accumulating extensive practical experience in areas such as equity incentives, non-competition restrictions, trade secrets, executive dismissal and departure placement.
Such disputes are often not simple labor contract disputes. For enterprises, core technology, commercial information and organizational stability need to be protected; for high-end talent, equity rights and interests, career development and personal reputation are simultaneously involved.
Drawing on long-term litigation, arbitration and negotiation experience, Lawyer Qu is able to make comprehensive judgments on dispute resolution paths based on the genuine interests of both enterprises and talent, and to advance problem resolution through litigation, arbitration and negotiation.
03 Litigation and Arbitration Experience: Valuing the Synergy Among Evidence, Strategy and Negotiation
Years of complex litigation practice, together with her experience as a part-time labor arbitrator, have given Lawyer Qu a deep understanding of evidence organization, adjudicative logic and procedural advancement in disputed cases.
She places particular emphasis on identifying the client's genuine demands at the early stage of a case, and on establishing a complete logic among evidence collection, legal relationship analysis, litigation plans and negotiation strategies.
In many family and corporate disputes, "winning the lawsuit" does not necessarily mean the problem is truly resolved. Rather than pursuing adjudicative outcomes alone, Lawyer Qu focuses more on how, through the coordination of litigation and negotiation, to safeguard clients' lawful rights and interests while preserving room for subsequent family relationships, corporate governance and career development.
04 Cross-Disciplinary Perspective: Serving the Long-Term Needs of Entrepreneurs and High-Net-Worth Families
An entrepreneur's personal life, family and business are often closely interconnected.
A change in marital circumstances may affect equity stability, succession arrangements may affect corporate control, and executive disputes may further develop into corporate governance and trade secret issues. In the face of such cross-cutting legal needs, a single practice area is often unable to provide a complete solution.
Drawing on her combined experience in family law, labor law and complex dispute resolution, Attorney Qu is able to approach issues frompersonal rights and interests, family wealth, talent relationships and corporate governancemultiple dimensions, providing entrepreneurs, executives and high-net-worth families with more systematic legal support.
● Selected Representative Cases ----------
In the fields of matrimonial and family law and wealth succession, Attorney Qu has handled multiple complex cases involving substantial assets, cross-border status and family businesses, including family succession and corporate transition following the death of the actual controller of a listed company, operational and governance issues arising from changes in the marital circumstances of a listed company's heir, and divorce and succession disputes involving Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and foreign elements.
In the field of labor disputes involving high-end talent, Attorney Qu has also represented parties in equity incentive, non-compete and trade secret disputes involving executives and core technical personnel of listed companies, seeking more reasonable solutions that balance the protection of core corporate assets with the safeguarding of the rights and interests of high-end talent.
These cases have also enabled Attorney Qu to gradually develop a dispute resolution approach that isgrounded in litigation capability, with negotiated settlement as an important tool and long-term interests as the objectivedispute resolution methods.
Professional strength continues to grow
The addition of Lawyer Qu Xiaojun will further enrich Mankun's professional strength inmarriage and family matters and inheritance, wealth succession, labor disputes involving high-end talent, and comprehensive legal services for entrepreneursand other fields, and will also enable Mankun to respond more systematically to the complex legal needs of entrepreneurs, senior executives and high-net-worth families that are intertwined among the individual, the family and the enterprise.
Mankun has consistently adhered to a development direction of professionalism and internationalization, continuously bringing together outstanding legal talent with both professional capability, industry understanding and an international perspective. Grounded in "deep roots in China, global reach", Mankun, while continuing to deepen its work in new economy fields such as artificial intelligence, Web3 and digital assets, technology finance and corporate globalization, is also continuously improving its comprehensive legal service capabilities covering entrepreneurs and the entire corporate life cycle.
