Yingying Li

Practice Areas

Banking and Finance

Dispute Resolution

M&A

Criminal

Career

Senior Partner, Beijing Dacheng Law Offices, LLP, 2002-Present

Senior Foreign Lawyer, DACHENG WONG ALLIANCE LLP (Singapore), 2011-2015

Senior Foreign Lawyer, DACHENG CENTRAL CHAMBERS LLP (Singapore), 2008 - 2011

Prosecutorial staff, Shanghai People's Procuratorate System, 1999-2002

Professional Memberships

Admitted to Practice PRC Law (1996)

Singapore Registered Foreign Lawyer (2005-2015)

Personal

Li Yingying is now a senior partner at Dacheng Shanghai. She obtained the Chinese lawyer qualification in 1996. Over the past 28 years, Li deeply focused on banking and finance, dispute resolution, corporate mergers and acquisitions, and criminal cases, and she provided professional legal services to multiple well-known enterprises and large institutions, possessing extensive experience in these areas.

Li is well acknowledged as one of the top expert lawyers in these fields, enjoying a remarkable reputation in handling major and complicated projects and dispute resolution issues. Li displays great ability and sensibility to find out the crucial breakthroughs of cases, which largely depends on her comprehensive mastery of business pattern, project practice, laws and regulations, and judicial tendencies, to which field the cases belong.

Li also accumulated years of working experience in the procuratorate and has acquired profound professional knowledge in financial area. Based on rigorous, meticulous, and logically rigorous criminal experience, Li delves into the problems and manages to solve them in civil and commercial cases, providing clients with multi-dimensional, efficient, and pragmatic dispute resolution solutions.

Clients

Adhering to the fundamental principle of “Professionalism First, Quality First”, Attorney LI has been providing the best quality solutions to customers, advancing each business entity towards excellence, and consistently contributing to the realization of high-quality development. She has accumulated a number of loyal and high-quality customers, including but not limited:

Banks:

China Merchants Bank Co., Ltd.,

China Everbright Bank,

Edmond de Rothschild France SA,

Bank of Hangzhou Co., Ltd. etc.;

Well-known enterprises:

Haitong Innovation Securities Investment Co., Ltd.,

Ping An International Financial Leasing Co., Ltd.,

Goldman Sachs (Asia) Co., Ltd.,

Great Wall Guorui Securities Co., Ltd.,

Everbright Xinglong Trust Co., Ltd.,

BOC International Futures Co., Ltd.,

Shanghai Goldstate Brilliance Asset Management Co., Ltd.,

China Huarong Asset Management Co., Ltd. Shanghai Branch,

CMW Asset Management Co., Ltd.,

CreditEase Group;

Mining enterprises:

General Lithium (Jiujiang) Tech Corporation,

Inner Mongolia Mengshengtai Energy Co., Ltd. etc.;

Municipal investment corporations:

Xinyu Investment Holding Group Co., Ltd.,

Shanghai Xihongqiao Investment Management Co., Ltd.,

Shanghai Jinshan Urban Construction Investment Group Co., Ltd.,

Fuzhou Digital Economy Investment Group Co., Ltd. etc.

Work Highlights

Case of margin filling dispute between a certain bank and Everbright Capital: The judgment in this case provided guidance for the recognition principles of credit enhancement measures such as margin filling in private equity asset management business in practice, involving a total amount of 3.5 billion RMB approximately.

Case of equity acquisition dispute between a certain investor and a coal mining enterprise in Inner Mongolia: This case was a cross disciplinary case of civil dispute and criminal offense, highly concerned by the local government, involving a total amount of 5 billion RMB approximately.

Case of debt restructuring between an investor and a certain company: In this case where the actual controller of the debtor had already been involved in criminal proceedings, the rights and interests of investors were successfully protected by activating other assets, involving a total amount of 3.9 billion RMB approximately.

Two cases of a trust company v. Shimao for debt and equity repurchase: Through a detailed analysis of the legal relationships and evidence in the case, and a precise grasp of financial regulatory requirements such as the New Asset Management Regulations, a winning judgment was obtained, involving a total amount of 3.4 billion RMB approximately.

Case of financial loan dispute between a certain bank and a photovoltaic new energy power generation enterprise: Assisting the bank in directly filing a lawsuit on behalf of the priority and inferior beneficiaries of the trust plan, achieving comprehensive victory, involving a total amount of 2.4 billion RMB approximately.

Case of a dispute over a warehousing contract between an international commodity trader and Qingdao Decheng Mining: This case originated from a breach of financing in commodity trade. Decheng Mining fraudulently obtained payment from a bank using a false warehouse receipt, involving a total amount of 1.6 billion RMB approximately.

Case of a bank v. Hong Kong Lefeng Mobile, LeEco Holdings, Jia Yueting, etc. financial loan contracts: This case was the first case of financial institutions suing Jia Yueting and LeEco companies, successfully disposing of Jia Yueting's shares in Hong Kong listed company Coolpad Group and Jia Yueting's domestic assets, involving a total amount of 1.4 billion HKD approximately.

Case of equity dispute between a certain company and a lithium mining energy company: By comprehensively applying the provisions of the Company Law, Securities Law, and State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration, the core demand of customers to retain scarce resources was achieved, involving a total amount of 1.46 billion RMB approximately.

Case of control and clearance of a private equity fund and Yinyi Holdings Private Equity Investment Fund Project: The case involves the bankruptcy reorganization of 17 companies of Yinyi Group and listed company Yinyi Shares. The disposal plan took litigation, acquisition, and post-bankruptcy reorganization disposal strategies into account, involving a total amount of 1.1 billion RMB approximately.

Case of a bankruptcy reorganization project of an overseas company participating with a silicon industry enterprise: Assisting the overseas company as a restructuring investor to participate in the bankruptcy reorganization of the silicon industry limited company, involving a total amount of 1 billion RMB approximately.

Case of repurchase of private placement shares between a trust company and a major shareholder of a listed company: This case was of media and stock exchange concern. The debtor was a wholly-owned subsidiary of Zhuhai State owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, involving a total amount of 1 billion RMB approximately.

Industry Sector Expertise

Corporate Business

Banking and Finace

Resources and Mining

Government and Public Sector

Bankruptcy Reorganization

Expert in these Jurisdictions

China

Languages Spoken

Chinese, English

Experience

Attorney LI has made significant achievements in dispute resolution areas such as corporate business, banking and finance, mineral energy, and bankruptcy reorganization, especially in handling major and difficult dispute resolution cases.

In recent years, with firm legal professional skills, keen grasping of national financial regulatory policies and judicial tendencies, and profound understanding of the field, Attorney LI has successfully represented banks and other financial institutions in handling multiple cases with complex legal relationships but lacking legal norms and huge target amounts, providing favorable examples for national or regional judicial practice and triggering extensive learning and discussion in the industry.

In addition, with the deepening of the national mining administration reform in the past year, mining dispute cases have gradually become complex and diversified. Attorney LI closely follows the trends and actively explores the area. Based on years of work experience accumulated in the procuratorate, she provides comprehensive legal services and solutions that combine criminal and civil procedures which are multidimensional and efficient for clients in the mining industry. Attorney LI is confident that she will achieve excellent results in 2024 regarding multiple mining disputes she has represented in the past year.

Education

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