On October 22, 2025, GRCD China announced the 2025 GRCD China Client Choice: Top 15 Cybersecurity & Data Compliance Lawyers list and the 2025 GRCD China Client Choice: Top 15 Corporate Insolvency Lawyers list. Based on their solid professional competence, excellent performance record, and outstanding client reputation, Llinks Partners David Pan and Amy Ren were successfully named to the respective lists.
David Pan
Dr. Pan obtained his LL.M. from Harvard Law School and his Doctor of Jurisprudence from Shanghai Jiao Tong University's KoGuan Law School. Dr. Pan is admitted to practice law in both China and New York State , USA.
Dr. Pan serves as an adjunct professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University Law School and Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance etc.,.He is also the director of the Data Compliance and Cybersecurity Professional Committee of the Shanghai Bar Association, an expert reviewer for the Shanghai United Assets and Equity Exchange, and a third-party evaluation expert for the Shanghai Free Trade Zone's Non-prosecution Compliance Pilot Program.
Dr. Pan has practiced law in both China and the U.S. for over 20 years and is well-versed in the business cultures and legal systems of both countries. He previously worked at two well-known Chinese law firms and served as General Counsel for a major multinational company. Dr. Pan handles complex transactions for Chinese and foreign investors and investment firms, including corporate mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, foreign direct investment, strategic alliances, cross-border transactions, technology licensing and franchising, and bulk commodity transactions. In addition to serving multinational corporations from Europe and the U.S., Dr. Pan's corporate clients also include state-owned and private enterprises at various stages—from startups to established companies—across a wide range of industries, including automotive, investment, energy, medical, chemical, pharmaceutical, food, manufacturing, culture and sports, retail, consumer goods, and real estate.
Based on his deep understanding of business operations, Dr. Pan is adept at providing efficient and practical legal services to companies on anti-commercial bribery, antitrust, and anti-unfair competition compliance in a cross-border business environment.
In addition to traditional compliance services, Dr. Pan was an early provider of legal services for issues such as offshore server setup, data logs, personal information collection and use, data integrity, and centralized data processing. Through many years of practice, Dr. Pan has accumulated extensive experience in the field of data privacy. He has helped over 100 companies in the automotive, tourism, e-commerce, internet, retail, education, service, finance, healthcare, large-scale manufacturing, sports, and entertainment industries establish or improve compliance systems for the entire data lifecycle—from collection, storage, and use to transfer and destruction. He also provides clients with services related to cybersecurity, digital transformation, data assets and transactions, and big data compliance.
Dr. Pan is recognized as a leading lawyer in corporate, compliance, antitrust and competition law, and cybersecurity and data by rating agencies such as ALB, Chambers and Partners, The Legal500, LEGALBAND, Who's Who Legal, The Asian Lawyer, asialaw Profiles, China Business Law Journal, and Legal Hall of Fame (Legal Guru Club).
Amy Ren
Ms. Ren graduated from Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, specialising in bankruptcy and restructuring services for nearly 16 years. She has provided comprehensive legal services for numerous bankruptcy and restructuring cases of commercial enterprises, and accumulated a good market reputation and rich practice experience in the field of large-scale corporate debt restructuring and asset restructuring.
Before joining Llinks, Ms. Ren worked in multiple well-known law firms in Beijing and Shenzhen as a lawyer, partner and head of the bankruptcy practice group in the Southern China region. Ms. Ren also served as a supervisor of the Shenzhen Bankruptcy Administrator Association.
Ms. Ren has served as the administrator or investor's legal counsel in a number of listed companies, has undertaken many enterprise restructuring cases for real estate enterprises, merger and restructuring cases for energy-related enterprises, and many companies listed in the National Equities Exchange And Quotations. Ms. Ren provides specialized legal services in a variety of industries, including steel, chemical, coal, real estate, shipbuilding, military industry, finance, science and technology and Internet communications. With her profundity and professionalism, Ms. Ren has won the trust and appraisal of many of her clients.
GRCD is a professional media platform under the Asia Pacific Media Foundation ("APMF") focusing on corporate governance, risk control, and compliance, which provides ratings and information services in the compliance field through extensive research and analysis. The aforementioned lists are designed to recognize outstanding lawyers who have been active in the fields of cybersecurity, data protection, and corporate insolvency in recent years. The selection for these lists was based on nominations from institutions and clients, supplemented by long-term tracking and research by the GRCD China team, ultimately selecting 15 exceptional lawyers for each category.
