Shanghai, China

liy@sraslaw.com

Global areas of practice

Digital Transformation, Cross-border Finance and Regulatory Compliance

Languages

English, Mandarin and Japanese

Practice focus

With more than 10 years of experience in financial services, Ms. Li currently focuses on Digital Transformation, Cross-border Finance and Asset Management, including: digital transformation of financial businesses and services, cross-border financial transactions, the establishment, M&A and restructuring of multinational financial institutions, asset and wealth management, as well as other related non-litigation and litigation services in financial area.

Before joining the firm, Lucca Li served as the associate of leading international and PRC firms, and had been working for multinational banks, and securities company, and providing professional advices in various functions of legal, compliance, risk control and corporate governance. Since 2011, Ms. Li successively worked at Shanghai Office of Beijing Haiwen & Partners, Legal Department of Standard Chartered Bank (China) Co., Ltd., Legal Department of UBS Securities Co., Ltd. and Allbright Law Offices.

Representative clients, cases or matters

- Represented the large Chinese banks to provide legal and compliance advice on their digitalization projects of supply chain finance, global market business and online wealth management product sales, etc.

- Represented several overseas financial institutions to provide legal and compliance advice on their cross-border business activities.

- Advised the overseas financial institutions on legal and compliance issues related to the NFT and Metaverse projects in China.

- Represented several overseas financial institutions to provide legal and compliance advice on their regulatory license application and M&A in financial sector, covering the business of banking, securities, electronic payment, and consumer finance, etc.

- Represented the wealth management companies in China to provide legal and compliance advice on their establishment and opening, and cooperate governance, internal control and investment projects.

- Provided legal and compliance advice on personal information and data protection in China and cross-border transfer of a number of well-known overseas financial institutions.

- Provided legal and compliance advice on Anti-Money laundering for several well-known international financial companies.

- Represented an international technology enterprise to advise its block business expansion in China.

- Represented a well-known Exchange in China to provide advisory opinions on legal issues and regulatory requirements of multiple jurisdictions.

- Represented a global supply chain financing company to provide legal and compliance advice on the establishment of a payment company in China.

- Represented an electric manufacturing company to provide legal and compliance advice on the offshore direct investment.

- Represented a major European banking group to provide legal and compliance advice on the establishment of a consumer finance company in China.

- Represented a Hong Kong Virtual Bank to provide legal and compliance advice on the bank's cross-border business activities.

- Represented a big Chinese bank to provide legal and compliance advice on a fin-tech cooperation project between the bank and a financial technology company.

- Represented a big Chinese bank to provide legal and compliance advice on the bank's data exchange project with arbitration institutions.

- Represented a big Chinese bank to provide legal and compliance advice on the bank's ETC project.

- Represented a big Chinese bank to provide legal and compliance advice on the financing project of a Chinese state-own company to acquire an Israeli port.

- Represented a big Chinese bank to provide legal and compliance advice on several capital investment and banking loan synergy projects.

- Represented a big Chinese bank to provide legal and compliance advice on grassland mortgage loan project of a Chinese enterprise.

- Represented a big Chinese bank to provide legal and compliance advice on treasury bond pledge loan project of a financial leasing company.

- Represented a big Chinese bank to provide legal and compliance advice on cross-border M&A loan project of a Chinese group company.

- Provided legal and compliance advice related to exhibition industry and finance-related business in China for an international auction institution.

- Advised a Japanese bank on legal and compliance issues related to the NFT project.

- Provide legal and compliance advice on the cross-border financing project of an investment group company.

- Provide annual retainer legal service to the financial company of a group company.

- Provide legal advice to a real estate management company on its project of cross boarder syndicated loan.

- A Hong Kong Insurance company: investment in projects in Mainland China through the QFLP mechanism.

- IDG: asset management transaction and QDII project with amount exceeding hundreds millions of U.S. dollars.

- Shengrong International Leasing Company: multiple auto finance mergers and acquisitions projects.

- Shanghai Baofu Payment Company: the project of overseas licenses extension and application.

- Wemeta PTE.LTD.: the project of Singapore MPI license application. 

- A well-known international fund company: QFII investment project with amount of hundreds millions of U.S. dollars.

- China Bohai Bank: the digitalization project of supply chain finance.

- An international retail group: shareholder deposit projects in a consumer finance company.

- China International C Corporation: transaction of an asset management units with amount of hundreds millions RMB.

- Standard Chartered Bank (China) Co., Ltd.: asset-backed securities issuance.

- Standard Chartered Bank (China) Co., Ltd.: subordinated capital debts issuance.

- Lujiazui International Financial Assets Trading Company: founding project.

- Guotai Junan Securities Co., Ltd.: project of capital increase and stock expansion in 2012.

Education and admission

- Admitted to practice law in the People’s Republic of China (2019)

- Fudan University, Master of Law (2010)

- East China University of Political Science and Law, Bachelor of Law (2007)