K Lesli Ligorner has more than 25 years of experience serving clients on a wide range of labor and employment matters, with more than 15 of those years spent on the ground in China. She leads the labor and employment practice in APAC and handles cross-border employment matters and internal investigations across the APAC region. She advises on global mobility and immigration, leaves of absence, wage and hour laws, IP protection, unionization, hiring and termination, and discrimination and harassment matters, and conducts workforce trainings.
Lesli’s practice further includes compliance counseling and training covering enforcement of company policies, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and local anticorruption compliance, export controls, and employment and anticorruption due diligence in mergers and acquisitions and related internal investigations.
Lesli has been recognized on the Visionaries A-List by China Business Law Journal, as one of the top 100 global female investigations lawyers by Global Investigations Review, on Band 1 in Chambers, on the Legal500 Hall of Fame for China Employment & Labor, and a Litigation Star in White Collar Crime in China by Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific, among other accolades. Lesli is admitted to practice in New York and New Jersey.
