On August 21, 2025, Asian Legal Business (ALB), a Thomson Reuters publication, officially released its highly anticipated "2025 ALB Client Choice Lawyers " list. Llinks partner Mr. Colin Shi was included in this prestigious list in recognition of his extensive experience in corporate M&A, private equity investments, and private fund matters, along with his outstanding client service and strong industry reputation.
Colin Shi
Mr. Shi specializes in providing legal services for private equity investments and financing, M＆A, overseas capital markets, fund formation, and other complex transactions. With a deep understanding of industry policies and commercial practices, Mr. Shi excels at designing innovative deal structures and delivering strategic capital operation solutions.
Mr. Shi has long served leading domestic and international investment institutions, listed companies, industry leaders, and unicorn enterprises. His expertise spans strategic emerging sectors such as technology and innovation, artificial intelligence, advanced manufacturing, new energy, healthcare, and consumer industries, where he has led numerous high-profile, industry-defining investment and M&A transactions.
Mr. Shi's professional excellence has been widely recognized by international legal rating agencies. He has been consistently ranked by Chambers and Partners, Asian Legal Business (ALB), asialaw Profiles, IFLR1000, The Legal 500, LEGALBAND, China Business Law Journal, and other prestigious directories. He is also a repeat honoree in the Lexology Index (formerly Who's Who Legal) Global Guide.
Asian Legal Business (ALB), a professional legal magazine under Thomson Reuters, aims to provide clients and readers with cutting-edge legal and business information as well as law firm and in-house legal rankings. In the legal service industry, "Client Choice" not only represents trust in a lawyer's professional abilities but also an acknowledgment of their service-oriented spirit. With the increasing complexity of the market environment and the diversification of client needs, lawyers who can consistently earn client trust are those who master the balance between expertise and service. They are also those who can keenly capture industry changes and dynamically adjust their positioning. This year, 1,856 in-house counsels and business professionals participated in ALB's survey, providing objective and sincere evaluations of their external legal counsel from multiple perspectives to select the 20 lawyers of their choice.
