Llinks Law Offices

ESTABLISHED IN 1998

Managing Partner: Christophe Han
Number of partners: 83
Number of associates: 240

Firm Overview

Llinks Law Offices, founded in 1998, is a leading Chinese law firm that focuses on legal services for businesses.

Empowering global connection
With business activities all over the world, Llinks can provide “one-stop and all-around” legal services to Chinese and overseas clients. As a top-notch practitioner in China’s legal services market, Llinks adheres to its commitment that it will always devote itself to down-to-earth practice in the local market, in-depth understanding of Chinese culture and unremitting pursuit of professional standards.

Many Llinks partners and lawyers have practiced or received education and professional training abroad (e.g. USA, UK, France, Japan, Australia, and
Hong Kong SAR). These backgrounds enable Llinks lawyers to have an international perspective on legal services and a deeper understanding of crossborder and transnational business activities.

Enhancing innovative development
Llinks adheres to its innovation spirit and actively devotes itself to the innovative development with strengths in professional services. It has helped numerous domestic and foreign leading enterprises, financial institutions and outstanding technological innovation teams to expand their innovative development businesses, and has successfully advised business partners to complete a series of landmark transactions that mark “firsts” in China and “onlys” in the legal market.

Llinks not only attaches great importance to the existing legal and regulatory framework, compliance requirements and market practices, but also specializes in forward-thinking. With rich experience accumulated over 25 years, we have become a trustworthy “partner” for many business partners in developing innovative businesses.

A highly-integrated law experts service platform
Llinks has set up offices in Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Hong Kong and London and established a highly integrated boutique platform to deliver law experts service. The professional, efficient and capable team, together with its clear, efficient and scientific organisational principles, enable it to integrate the wisdom, expertise and experience of all lawyers through a truly extensive platform to further achieve cross-practice areas and cross-regional resource exchange and sharing, Additionally, it enhances close collaboration and professional division of labour. Llinks is committed to providing global business partners with legal solutions aligned with the current business development trends, so as to solve legal and commercial problems in complex markets and help domestic and foreign business partners achieve their commercial value

Key Practice Areas

Antitrust and competition; Asset management; Banking and financial services; Capital market; Compliance; Corporate; Dispute resolution; Healthcare and life sciences; Intellectual property; Labour and employment; Mergers and acquisitions; Private equity/ venture capital; Real estate and construction; Restructuring, insolvency and bankruptcy; Sport law; Technology, media and telecom; Cybersecurity

Independent intelligence on this law firm

The following information is sourced directly from China Business Law Journal and/or Law.asia and is not part of the directory listing provided by the law firm.

Testimonials

Ma Teng, an in-house counsel with ICBC’s private banking department, says: “Llinks’ banking and finance team always maintains an attitude of excellence in its practice, and is able to offer professional legal analysis, explanation and advice on legal issues involved in specialised areas such as private banking, financial consumer protection, data compliance and investment in financial products. For new businesses we want to explore, Llinks is also able to provide proven analysis and insights based on our needs.”

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A client from a financial holding company commented: “[We are very satisfied with Llink’s services], in the previous cooperation, they provided tips for the legal risks which may be caused by business conditions.”

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The client recommends partner Colin Shi, saying that he is “highly professional and experienced in the field of equity investment and has a clear structure when preparing relevant investment documents”.

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A client from Huatai Securities Asset Management shared: “We are very satisfied and recognise the efforts made by the lawyers of Llinks, especially in the professional interpretation of the difficult legal issues in the asset management business involving non-standard investments. They provide professional advice to support the actual asset management business.”

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James Guo, director of the board and manager of the China office at American Securities, says, “[The legal services of Llinks are] professional, pragmatic, efficient and client-oriented,” He recommends Selena She and Collin Shi, partners of Llinks in Shanghai.

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James Guo, director of the board and manager of the China office at American Securities, says, “[The legal services of Llinks are] professional, pragmatic, efficient and client-oriented,” He recommends Selena She and Collin Shi, partners of Llinks in Shanghai.

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Li Yutong, legal counsel at Sinochem International, thinks that Shi is “an outstanding investment and M&A lawyer” and he is “very satisfied” with the firm’s services in a number of acquisition projects for the company. “Llinks is a professional, dedicated and innovative law firm that provides us with integrated commercial legal solutions and is a very reliable partner,” says Li.

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Zhang Jiarong, a partner at Summitview Capital, says: “[Llinks] has a very high degree of legal expertise and rich practical experience in private equity and venture capital. At the same time, they always think from the perspective of clients, and respond quickly.”

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“Llinks demonstrates tremendous legal professionalism,” is how one client in the medical technology industry assesses Llinks Law Offices. “Something else that really gratifies us is Llinks’ profound grasp of knowledge in the medical industry, not only serving for the current requirements of the enterprise’s project, but also actively assisting in the planning of subsequent relevant legal matters.”

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Another client of Llinks recommended Yang Xun, the firm’s partner in Shanghai, for his “solid knowledge and extensive experience”, adding, “he not only has a solid knowledge of the law itself but also a good understanding of the legislative trends. Additionally, what makes him distinctive is his understanding of the special features of our life science business.”

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A client of Llinks Law Offices considers that the law firm has great service and expertise on IT matters. “As [we are] a fund company, IT systems are of course very important and the cyber security law creates new rules for us,” says the client. “Their in-depth understanding towards the business and laws/regulations, as well as practical advice, turned out to be very helpful.”

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Notable Deals

Recognised by China Business Law Journal as Deals of the Year