Jiaqi Yu

Practice Areas

Asset Management, ABS, Financial Institutions, Private Equity Venture Capital, Mergers and Acquisitions, Corporate and Commercial

Career

Ms. Elva Yu received an LLB from Fudan University School of Law and joined Llinks Law Offices in July 2005.

Experience

Ms. Yu has been engaged in the legal business of finance and generic asset management for a number of years. She frequently provides legal services to Chinese and foreign-funded banks (including private banks), securities companies and their subsidiaries, insurance companies and insurance asset management companies, trust companies, fund management companies and their subsidiaries and other financial institutions as well as factoring companies, financial leasing companies and various private fund managers. Ms. Yu has built up a wealth of experience in providing legal services in various financing projects, the establishment and investment of asset management products, ABS, the establishment and acquisition of financial institutions, non-performing asset restructuring and etc.

Ms. Yu also has extensive experience in cross-border asset management business. She has been providing various legal services under PRC law for multiple well-known overseas financial institutions and asset management companies, including for various QFII / RQFII / QDII / QDLP / QDIE projects, the registration of foreign-owned private fund managers and the raising and operation of private equity funds.

Ms. Elva Yu is recognized by IFLR1000 in the elite category of Women Leaders in 2022 and has been consecutively recommended as a highly-regarded lawyer in investment funds by IFLR1000’s Financial and Corporate Guide in 2020, 2021, and 2022; named as a highly-recommended lawyer in Investment Funds in the Legal 500 Asia-Pacific Rankings in 2020 and 2021; recommended as a leading practitioner in Corporate/M&A and Capital Markets by Asialaw Leading Lawyers in 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019, as well as by Asialaw Profiles in 2019; recognized as one of China TOP 15 Rising Lawyers by Asian Legal Business in 2018; named as one of the China Top 10 Internet Finance Lawyers by LEGALBAND in 2016. Ms. Yu is currently the external expert to the Asset Support Program of Zhongbaodeng and also participated in the preparation of the Guide for Foreign Investors in China’s Banking and Insurance Sectors (2019) led by the Insurance Asset Management Association of China.

Languages Spoken

Mandarin and English

Work Highlights

• Assisting with Italian Lombarda Bank in establishing Zhong Ou Asset Management Co., Ltd.

• Representing Intesa SanPaulo and Rothschild to invest in the Bank of Qingdao

• Providing legal services to Cathay Fortune Corp acquiring 75% of equity of Sino-French Life Co., Ltd

• Providing legal services to Xiamen ITG in acquiring of China Industrial International Trust Ltd. and becoming its second largest shareholder

• Providing legal services in the establishment of an RMB2.5 billion health investment fund managed by Alibaba Helath and Huatai Zijin

• Representing Admaster in its “C” round financing from BlueFocus

• Providing legal services for Wanhua Group to acquire the largest chemical company of Hungary

• Providing legal services in multiple investments by CICC Genesis Fund and CICC Qirong FOF

• Providing legal services for multiple ABS and ABN projects by JD Finance (Baitiao)

• Providing legal services for multiple ABS and ABN projects by JD Finance (supply chain factoring)

• Providing legal services for the real estate supply chain receivables ABS project by China Merchants Securities and Red Star Macalline

• Providing legal services for the first issuance of CMBN by Guangdajiabao