Mr. Li is a seasoned corporate lawyer with entrepreneurship spirit. In more than 30 years of practice, Mr. Li has transformed himself from a rising banking lawyer in Shanghai to a vanguard IPO lawyer in China, from an established cross-border M&A practitioner to a trusted legal advisor in US/China transactions. He regularly represents Fortune 500 companies investing in China and has been the lead lawyer in dozens of landmark deals involving automobile, hospitality, life insurance, manufacturing, ports, online retail, and etc. He counsels many more companies on corporate governance and compliance for their China operations.

In the past a decade, Mr. Li is more focused on advising entrepreneurs and corporations from China to invest and operate in the US, covering education, medical device, logistics and technology.

Early in his career, Mr. Li also acted as a lead counsel in more than 200 IPOs and bond offerings, listed in Shanghai, New York, Hong Kong, London and on other world’s leading stock exchanges, many were first of its kind, or largest IPO, either in the history of that stock exchange, or of the year globally.

Mr. Li has been consistently ranked as a leading corporate, capital market or M&A lawyer for more than two decades. In the past several years, he has been consecutively named as an Eminent Practitioner by Chambers & Partners, a Highly Regarded Lawyer by International Financial Law Review, included in Who’s Who Legal and entered the Hall of Fame by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific.  He was the key founding member of a “Red Circle” law firm based in Shanghai, and was named as one of the Ten Best Lawyers in China by the Ministry of Justice for being a pioneer in China capital market and Shanghai legal community.