In September 2021, IFLR officially launched its IFLR Asia Best Lawyers 2021 List, which includes top lawyers from 19 countries and regions from the APAC area such as Australia, China, Hong Kong SAR of China, India, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Thailand and etc. With outstanding performance, Llinks partner Sandra Lu is honored to have been selected in the List..
Sandra Lu
Practice Areas: Retail Funds, Private Funds, Asset Management and Financial Institutions
Sandra has extensive experience in security investment funds and other types of products including the private funds and hedge funds. In funds area, Sandra has successively provided legal services for the general operations for about a hundred domestic and foreign security investment fund companies. She has represented domestic and foreign financial institutions in the establishment and M&A of dozens of security investment fund companies. Meanwhile, she has served as a legal counsel for nearly 500 open-end funds in China, including various types of equity funds, hybrid funds, bond funds, money market funds, ETFs and many innovative funds. In addition, she serves as a legal counsel for dozens of QDII funds in China, presenting domestic QDII funds in cooperation with well-known overseas banks and asset management institutions. She also has extensive experience in the operation of QFII and RQFII. She is good at representing overseas institutions in applying for QFII and RQFII qualifications and providing legal support for their compliance operations in China.
In recent years, Sandra has represented dozens of well-known foreign asset management institutions in the establishment of WFOE, QDLP WFOE and PFM WFOE in China. She has also provided legal services in terms of fund issuance and general legal compliance in China.
Since April, 2020, Sandra has also provided comprehensive legal services for well-known foreign asset management institutions to establish wholly foreign-owned public offering of fund companies in China. She also provides professional legal services for enterprise annuity funds, social security funds, and personalized asset management services.