Haohan Wang - Trainee Solicitor

Haohan is a trainee solicitor at CANDEY whose practice focuses on high-value international arbitration, cross-border commercial litigation, and complex white-collar crime investigations. He has passed the New York State Bar and is currently pending formal admission.

Before joining CANDEY, Haohan served in the Office of Legal Affairs at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. There, he supported the General Legal Division on a range of international law matters, including appeals before the UN Appeals Tribunal and commercial arbitrations involving UN contractors. He also advised on operational protocols for the staffing and provisioning of peacekeeping and humanitarian missions, and contributed position papers for UNCITRAL’s investor–state dispute settlement reform initiative.

Previously, Haohan worked as a legal extern in the litigation department of Paul Hastings in Washington DC. He trained with White & Case’s White-Collar group and Herbert Smith Freehills’ International Arbitration team in Beijing, working on ICC, LCIA, HKIAC, SIAC, and CIETAC arbitrations with an aggregate value exceeding USD 800 million, and assisting in dozens of multi-jurisdictional FCPA, OFAC, and anti-corruption investigations.

Haohan holds an LL.M. in International Legal Studies from Georgetown University Law Center, an LL.M. in Legal Practice from the University of Law, and an LL.B. in Politics, Philosophy and Law from King’s College London, where he was a Dickson Poon Scholar and King’s Entrepreneurship Award winner. During his undergraduate studies, he founded a legal-tech startup offering tokenised proof IP protection as an affordable alternative to traditional IP litigation.

He is a member of several professional organisations, including the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, the American Bar Association, the Westminster and Holborn Law Society, and Young ICCA.

Born in Beijing and educated in both the United Kingdom and the United States, Haohan is bilingual in Mandarin and English and brings an intuitive understanding of both civil-law and common-law business cultures.

Email: hwang@candey.com