Yang & Lin Co Law Firm

Yang & Lin Co. Law Firm (Yang & Lin) is a comprehensive law firm dealing with maritime, admiralty, insurance, foreign-related affairs, finance, trade, real estate, corporate investment, intellectual property rights, criminals, administrative affairs, labor relations and overseas arbitration disputes and affairs.

In February 2016, Yang & Lin was elected as the “National Excellent Law Firm from 2011 to 2014” by All China Lawyers Association. Yang & Lin was the only law firm elected throughout the country as law firm specializing in maritime and admiralty and insurance affairs. There are 2000 more law firms in Guangdong and 500 more in Guangzhou. Yang & Lin was chosen mainly because it was recognized as a leading role model in the legal profession of maritime and admiralty, insurance and foreign-related affairs.As the most credible law firm dealing with maritime and admiralty, insurance and foreign-related affairs, it has been a leading role model in the legal profession. Yang & Lin obtains remarkable achievements in the industry. Over 20 cases it represented was published as typical cases on the Gazette of the Supreme People’s Court of the People’s Republic of China.

Yang & Lin was established in April, 2006. On 2014 Dec, the Shanghai branch, Yang & Lin (Shanghai) Co. Law Firm was set up. And on April 2023, the U.S. office was set up at New York in the name of Yang & Lin (USA) Consulting LLC. It also has offices in Xiamen and Fuzhou. Yang & Lin (branch and offices included) adopts a corporate-based and integrated management model and adheres to a development pattern of branding and professionalism. The firm establishes a very close cooperation relationship with law firms at Hong Kong, Tai Wan, Singapore, London, New York, etc, which enables Yang & Lin to provide professional high-quality services for clients around the globe. Over the years, Yang & Lin has handled numerous complicated maritime and admiralty, insurance and foreign-related affairs for many ship-owners, charterers, insurers, P&I clubs and cargo interests. Strong cohesiveness and team spirit endow Yang & Lin with outstanding achievement, most cases have obtained very good results and won their high praise.

Yang & Lin is staffed with a group of outstanding lawyers specialize in maritime and admiralty, insurance and foreign-related affairs.

Director Colin Y F Yang is the deputy director of the Maritime Committee of All China Lawyers Association, director of the Maritime Logistics Law Committee of Guangdong Lawyers Association, and the only lawyer representative among 9 deputy directors of the Marine Transportations Research Council of China Institute of Navigation, deputy director of the Maritime Committee of China Maritime Law Association. He is also the guest professor and senior consultant specialize in Maritime Law of many universities. And he also been employed as an expert to participate in conversaziones of Judicial Interpretation held by the Supreme Court many times. Deputy Director of the law firm, Ph.D Judy C Z Lin, was selected as “leading international lawyer” in the first “leading talent” selection by All China Lawyers Association and was dispatched to Germany for training in 2013 and to the USA for training in 2016.

From 2006 to 2021, many lawyers from Yang & Lin has published more than 20 academic articles in well-known magazines such as Annual of China Maritime Law, Newsletter of Maritime Law Association, Comment on the Law of the Sea, Guangdong Navigation, US-China Law Review and China Lawyer and Jurist etc. and has given lectures at the international seminars of Maritime Law or acted as a host of such seminars many times.