Jack Li

Jack Li, a partner in the Beijing office of Fangda Partners, has been named Cross-Border M&A Lawyer of the Year in China at the 2024 Corporate INTL Global Awards. The recognition reflects his standing as a mergers and acquisitions practitioner at one of China's most highly regarded commercial law firms and his work advising on transactions that connect the Chinese market with international capital and counterparties.

Fangda Partners was established in 1993 and has grown into an outstanding international law firm based in China, providing legal services across both mainland China and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The firm focuses on mergers and acquisitions, private equity, commercial litigation and arbitration, bankruptcy and the capital markets, and describes itself as being at the forefront of Chinese commercial law. Its reputation is reflected in a series of accolades, including recognition as China Law Firm of the Year and as a leading China law firm in successive years by respected industry awards.

Within this practice, Jack Li is part of the firm's private equity and mergers and acquisitions team, based in Beijing. His work centres on corporate transactions, and he is recognised among Fangda's practitioners in the private equity and M&A field, an area in which the firm is consistently ranked at the top of the Chinese market. Cross-border M&A sits at the heart of this offering, involving the acquisition and disposal of businesses across jurisdictions and the coordination of Chinese and international legal, regulatory and commercial considerations.

Advising on cross-border mergers and acquisitions in China calls for a combination of technical corporate skill and a practical understanding of how domestic regulation interacts with foreign investment. As a partner at a firm known for its strength in complex, high-value transactions, Jack Li helps clients structure and execute deals that move capital and control across borders, guiding them through the negotiation, documentation and completion of transactions that often involve multiple regulators and stakeholders.

Being named Cross-Border M&A Lawyer of the Year in China at the 2024 Corporate INTL Global Awards places Jack Li among the country's recognised transactional lawyers and affirms the standing he has built at Fangda Partners. It underlines the value that clients place on senior, market-leading counsel when pursuing acquisitions and disposals that bridge the Chinese and international markets.