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Yifan Li
Partner
Beijing Dacheng Law Offices, LLP

Lawyer Li specializes in corporate M&A legal services, completing key projects and enhancing service experience, team management, and professional capabilities. She was awarded the "Future Star of Dacheng's Outstanding Young Lawyers in China (2024)" and her Beichen Century Center Asset Support project won two "Frontier Awards" in 2023 for outstanding CMBS/CMBN and legal advisor. She actively contributes to Dacheng's M&A expertise, leading to top rankings and awards, including ALB's M&A Deal of the Year and continuous inclusion in Legal500's M&A list. Her in-depth research and publications, such as "Guidelines for State-owned Shareholders to Increase Shares of Listed Companies", are widely recognized and included in databases like Wolters Kluwer, CNKI, and LexisNexis.

Li's high-quality work achievements also include promoting a boundaryless team concept, fostering a professional brand and contributing to its public account with content like a 100,000-word analysis of Corporate Law revisions, achieving over 10,000 views.

In the Zhuhai SASAC Law 117 billion assets transfer project, Li, as the host lawyer, organized 50 partners and lawyers from Beijing and Zhuhai to participate in the project work, orderly completing over 100 billion assets legal due diligence within 50 days, involving 101 enterprises. Strong project organization, high degree of project coordination and advanced tool use have greatly improved the work efficiency and service level of traditional lawyer service projects, and the work process and work results of the project have been highly recognized by the client government.

Li actively provides support for the growth of young lawyers. In the "Lunch Theme Salon" activity of the Youth Working Committee of Dacheng Beijing, she gave special lectures to young lawyers. In the “Supporting Hong Kong Mainland Legal Professional Internship Program 2023” organized by the International Youth Legal Exchange Association, Li acted as a mentor lawyer for Hong Kong interns. She supported the "Qingzhu Plan" for young lawyer development, establishing a 3+N training system covering professional quality, skills, and basics, plus key and international training programs, with over 1,000 participants. Her innovative initiatives are also built upon her innovative introduction on the advanced development platform "Feishu" and other AI tools for the team, conveniently integrating all training related resources to achieve all-round collaboration, interaction and sharing from instructors, trainees to course assistants. All contributions above achieve a full range of application requirements including note sharing, data sharing and other course management, interaction, and data precipitation, which is groundbreaking in the industry.