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Llinks Law Offices Offices
18F, ONE LUJIAZUI
68 YIN CHENG ROAD MIDDLE
SHANGHAI 200120
China
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Ms Sandra Lu
Work Department
Banking and Financial Service Department
Position
Parter & Head of Banking and Financial Service Department
Career
Ms. Lu has extensive experience and expertise in securities investment funds which are highly regulated by the CSRC (the “Fund”) and other types of products including the private funds and hedge funds.
In Funds area, Ms. Lu represented a large number of Chinese financial institutions like the commercial bank, insurance company, securities firm and trust company to set up the fund management company (the “FMC”) in China. Ms. Lu also represented over 15 global asset managers to set up the JV FMC in China including helping them to understand the regulatory environment of China, participating commercial negotiation with their Chinese partners, drafting the shareholders agreement and articles of association of the proposed JV FMC and preparing all application documents for JV FMC establishment and submitting to the CSRC. Ms. Lu also advised a large number of domestic and foreign financial institutions to acquire the stake the Chinese FMC.
The PRC counsel shall issue the formal legal opinion for each of the Fund launch according to the PRC Securities Investment Law, which is a part of the application package to be submitted to the CSRC. Ms. Lu and her team have advised over 1,500 Funds for their application to obtain CSRC’s approval. All such Funds include equity funds, fixed funds, bond fund, money market fund, LOF and ETF.
Ms. Lu is highly involved in the innovative Funds products in the Chinese market including providing the legislative advice to the regulator and the legal advice to the fund houses. The innovative Funds Ms. Lu advised on include the cross boarder EFT, cross market ETF, gold EFT, commodity ETF, principal guaranteed product, the publicly offered REITs, the publicly offered PE investment fund and the publicly offered leveraged investment product, etc..
In the meanwhile, with the development of the global investment capability of the Chinese FMCs, Ms. Lu acts as the legal advisor for a majority of the QDII Funds offered in China. In addition, Ms. Lu is very active in QDLP and QDIE initiatives respectively launched by Shanghai and Shenzhen. QDLP and QDIE products provide the opportunity for the Chinese investors to get a broader global exposure, and also the opportunity for the global asset managers to set up onshore WFOE entity to raise money directly from the Chinese investors.
QFII and RQFII are the main practice area of Ms. Lu as well. Ms. Lu assist the QFII and RQFII to apply for the Chinese license and quota, support their ongoing legal and compliance requirement and review their offshore offering documents from the PRC perspective.
Recently, Ms. Lu has been advising a number of HK fund managers for their MRF application with the CSRC and providing the ongoing legal and compliance services under MRF scheme.
Ms. Lu is often invited by regulators and self-disciplined funds association to provide legislative advice.
Languages
Mandarin and English
Education
Ms. Lu has respectively obtained bachelor’s degree of Economic Law and Master Degree of International Economic Law and was PRC qualified in 2004.
Lawyer Rankings
China > Investment funds: PRC firms
(Leading individuals)Llinks Law Offices‘ asset management practice is regularly mandated by domestic fund management companies, private equity and venture capital funds, trust companies, insurance asset management companies, and several foreign fund management institutions. The team is led by securities investment fund specialist Sandra Lu. Among the firm’s other experienced practitioners, Elva Yu is an adviser on the establishment and investment of asset management products; Candice Du‘s experience covers fund raising, fund establishment work, investments, and exits; Daisy Ding acts for securities and insurance companies on mutual and private funds, along with asset management business; and Sue Sun focuses on securities investment funds and other asset management businesses. The associate to note is Bingfeng Zhang, whose practice also covers investment funds, private equity and venture capital.
China > Banking and finance: PRC firms
Llinks Law Offices handles both domestic and cross-border financial transactions, in addition to regulatory issues, benefitting from strong working relationships with the relevant government institutions. Recent areas of activity include project and real estate finance. Key names to note include pracrice head Sandra Lu , and Raymond Cai, who has experience in financing, investment and asset management, and financial disputes, Elva Yu, who has notable expertise in funds matters, and Michael Mei.
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- Leading individuals China > Investment funds: PRC firms
- Investment funds: PRC firms China
- Banking and finance: PRC firms China
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