Greater China Region
Practice Areas
Corporate/MA, Restructuring, PE/VC, Capital Markets, Real Estate and TMT
Career
David Yu is a founding partner of Llinks. David represents both international and domestic market leaders in their various cross-border transactions, and actively involves in many groundbreaking transactions. David earned his reputation as one of the leading lawyers by his practical and innovative legal solutions with his solid legal knowledge, good business sense and in-depth understanding of certain industries.
Mr. Yu is renowned for his in–depth legal knowledge and rich practicing experience with innovative and practical solutions. His practice areas include M&A, PE/VC, Corporate Finance, Restructuring/Insolvency/Bankruptcy, Real Estate and Dispute Resolution, etc.
Mr. Yu is consistently recommended as a leading lawyer by Chambers & Partners, IFLR1000, Legal 500, Asia Legal Business and other major legal publications. Mr. Yu was also selected to the ‘Thousands Foreign Lawyers Talent Pool’ by the Ministry of Justice. Mr. Yu has been awarded ‘National Outstanding Lawyer’, ‘Shanghai Leading Talents’, ‘Oriental Barrister’, ‘Shanghai Outstanding Lawyer’ and other honorary titles.
Professional Memberships
Mr. Yu currently is the president of Shanghai Arbitration Association, the director of Foreign Affairs Committee and the director of Foreign-related Legal Services Committee (All China Lawyers Association), an arbitrator of five domestic and foreign arbitration institutions including Shanghai International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission and WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center, and a mediator of JAMS and Shanghai Economic and Commercial Mediation Center. He also acts as the legal counsel of Shanghai Municipal Government, a member of the Administrative Review Committee of Shanghai Municipal People's Government, a member of the Legal Advisory Committee of China Overseas Chinese Association, a special advisor of Shanghai High People's Court, and a public interest lawyer of CSI Small and Medium Investors Service Center.
From April 2015 to March 2019, Mr. Yu served as the president of the Shanghai Bar Association.
Publications
International Commercial Arbitration: A Guide for Lawyers (2018),
Information Network and High-Tech Law Review, Vol.10 (2016)
Personal
Fudan University (LL.B),
China Europe International Business School (MBA),
Harvard Business School (SELP Certificate)
Languages Spoken
Mandarin, English.
