In April 2022, IFLR 1000 unveiled 2022 Women Leaders (the fifth edition). The ranking category annually recommends prominent women lawyers in APAC, EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa), Americas since 2018 to recognize their extraordinary performance in their respective practice areas in the past year. The 2022 Women Leaders (APAC) included outstanding female lawyers from 25 jurisdictions, including Australia, China, South Korea, Singapore, Japan, and so on, with only 28 mainland Chinese lawyers ranked among them.

With high-quality legal services, outstanding performance and expertise, Llinks partners Selena She and Elva Yu were recognized in the category.

Selena She, Partner

Ms. Selena She obtained her LL.B. and LL.M. degrees from Fudan University School and the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, and is qualified to practice law in China mainland, Hong Kong SAR, the State of California, and New York in the USA. Ms. She joined Llinks Law Offices in October 2012.

Ms. She specializes in the representation of domestic and foreign investors and financial institutions in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, foreign direct investment, private equity investment, corporate finance, cross-border transactions, and other complex transactions. She also has extensive practice experience in intellectual property, the transfer of technology, strategic investment and cross-border transactions, and so on. The clients she has represented spread over Fortune 500 companies, leading investment banks as well as domestic/foreign investment funds.

Ms. She is highly recognized and recommended for her outstanding performance and expertise in the practice area of private equity investment by various ranking institutions and directories in the legal industry, including Chambers Global & Asia-pacific Guide (2013-2022), IFLR1000 (2016-2021), IFLR1000 China (2021), AsiaLaw (2021-2021), The Legal 500 (2014, 2016-2020). In addition, Ms. She has also been named as one of China TOP 10 Lawyers in M&A by Asian Legal Business (2017), Best Corporate M&A Lawyer in Shanghai by IFLR1000 China Awards (2021) and Recommended Lawyer in M&A, Private Equity Investment, and Investment Fund in The Legal 500 Asia-pacific Guide (2022).

Ms. She is currently a member of the M&A and Restructuring Committee of the Shanghai Bar Association and has been invited by the China Securities Regulatory Commission and the China Fund Industry Association to participate in the compilation of special research topics, including co-authoring the fund industry association's 'The Compliance Manual Private Equity Investment Fund'.

Elva Yu, Partner

Ms. Elva Yu received an LLB from Fudan University School of Law and joined Llinks Law Offices in July 2005.

Ms. Yu has been engaged in the legal business of finance and generic asset management for a number of years. She frequently provides legal services to Chinese and foreign-funded banks (including commercial banks, insurance institutions, trust companies, securities companies, and fund management companies), factoring companies, financial leasing companies and various private fund managers. Ms. Yu has built up a wealth of experience in providing legal services in various financing projects, the establishment and investment of private equity funds and asset management products, ABS, the establishment and acquisition of financial institutions, non-performing asset restructuring and etc.

Ms. Yu has been recommended as a highly-regarded lawyer in the practice areas of Investment Fund, Banking and Finance, Corporate M&A, and Capital Markets by IFLR1000 (2019-2022), The LEGAL 500 (2020-2022), Asialaw Leading Lawyers (2016-2019) and LEGALBAND (2020-2022). Additionally, Ms. Yu has been named as one of China Top 10 Internet Finance Lawyers in 2016 and China Top 15 Female Lawyers in 2022 by LEGALBAND

IFLR1000 Women Leaders is an elite ranking category reserved for the most prominent women lawyers across the world working in the areas of law IFLR1000 researches. IFLR1000's research teams in Hong Kong, London, and New York collectively analyze thousands of research submissions, conduct thousands of interviews with law firm partners, and survey tens of thousands of clients to determine IFLR1000's Women Leaders.