On September 2, 2026, LEGALBAND announced the "Client Choice: Top 15 Capital Markets Lawyers" list and the "Client Choice: Top 15 Compliance Lawyers" list for China 2026. Relying on their solid professional capabilities, outstanding performance and excellent client reputation, Llinks partner Mr. Baker Chen and Llinks contractual partner Ms. Susan Deng were respectively ranked in these lists.
Baker Chen
Llinks partner Mr. Baker Chen graduated from Anhui University with a major in English and Fudan University with a major in international law, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Master of Laws degree, respectively. He joined Llinks Law Offices in 2007. He currently serves as a member of the Sci-Tech Innovation Board Business Research Committee of the Shanghai Bar Association.
Llinks partner Mr. Baker Chen has extensive experience in securities issuance, investment, M&A and restructuring, and the healthcare sector.
In the field of securities issuance, Llinks partner Mr. Baker Chen has provided legal services to numerous large state-owned enterprises, private enterprises and foreign-invested enterprises for their successful initial public offerings and listings (including A-share and H-share listings), bond issuances, public or non-public stock issuances, rights issues, backdoor listings and asset restructurings.
In the fields of M&A/asset restructuring and private equity/venture capital, Llinks partner Mr. Baker Chen has provided legal services for the acquisition and restructuring of many domestic and foreign enterprises, and advised numerous domestic and foreign investment institutions and listed companies on their M&A, investment and restructuring projects both in China and abroad.
In the healthcare sector, Llinks partner Mr. Baker Chen has rich experience providing legal services to various types of biomedical, medical service and medical device enterprises for their investment and financing, equity incentives and domestic and overseas listings.
LEGALBAND's Remark
Llinks partner Mr. Baker Chen has been deeply engaged in the securities and capital markets field for many years, specializing in handling major and complex legal matters such as securities issuance, M&A and restructuring of listed companies, and private equity investment and financing. In recent years, he has led his team in providing specialized and high-quality capital market legal services to numerous leading enterprises in industries such as healthcare and life sciences, new energy, automotive and semiconductors. The benchmark projects he has hosted include the ChiNext listing of CATL, the SSE Main Board listing of Yousheng, the issuance of A-shares to specific targets by Chipscreen Biosciences and the STAR Market listing of United Imaging Healthcare, accumulating impressive business performance and an outstanding reputation. He can fully balance laws and regulations, regulatory policies and corporate development needs, assisting enterprises in efficiently resolving legal risks and thorny issues at various critical nodes of projects. His rigorous and meticulous legal thinking and keen commercial insight have left a deep impression on clients. In addition, he actively organizes and participates in professional forums related to capital markets and the medical and pharmaceutical industries and is invited to give lectures, continuously outputting his professional knowledge and frontline practical experience to empower corporate capital operations and industry development.
Client's Testimonial
"Llinks partner Mr. Baker Chen has a solid professional foundation, is proficient in the legal rules, regulatory requirements and practical operations of the capital markets field, and possesses accurate project judgment, clear logic and meticulous thinking. He excels at sorting out complex legal relationships, and the legal opinions, plans and documents he issues are rigorous, standardized and implementable. Faced with difficult problems, he can quickly analyze and propose effective solutions, demonstrating outstanding processing efficiency and quality. During our cooperation, he communicated proactively and smoothly, responded promptly, and was adept at putting himself in others' shoes to fully understand our demands. Concurrently, he is meticulous and responsible in his work, proactively following up on project progress and providing comprehensive and in-place risk warnings. He is a trustworthy capital market lawyer with excellent professional skills."
Susan Deng
Llinks contractual partner Ms. Susan Deng graduated from East China University of Political Science and Law with a Bachelor of Laws degree, and subsequently graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science, majoring in international commercial law and receiving a Master of Laws degree. She holds the PRC legal professional qualification, has passed the CIPP/E (Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe) exam, holds the PIPCA Personal Information Protection Compliance Auditor qualification, and participated as a drafter in drafting the group standard "Guidelines for Compliance Application of Generative AI Data." She joined Llinks Law Offices in March 2017.
Llinks contractual partner Ms. Susan Deng's practice expertise encompasses compliance services such as cybersecurity and data compliance, anti-corruption, anti-commercial bribery and internal investigations, as well as antitrust and anti-unfair competition. She also has extensive experience in M&A and foreign investment. Her clients are mostly Fortune 500 companies, multinational corporations and large corporate groups across various industries including medical devices, pharmaceuticals and nutritional products, e-commerce, multimedia, mobile internet, fintech, hospitality, industrial manufacturing, FMCG, luxury goods, food, automotive, logistics parks and chemicals.
Since 2017, Llinks contractual partner Ms. Susan Deng has focused on the cybersecurity and data compliance field, accumulating rich specialized service experience, and possessing long-term observation and profound understanding of legal evolutions, regulatory trends and industry dynamics in the network and data sectors. Based on these practical experiences, she excels at providing clients with solutions that are both compliant with regulatory requirements and practical and economical. She is particularly adept at providing comprehensive legal services to traditional internet enterprises and clients in the pharmaceutical, e-commerce, manufacturing and consumer goods industries seeking digital transformation.
Llinks contractual partner Ms. Susan Deng also has rich experience in anti-corruption, anti-commercial bribery and compliance investigations. She has led numerous special compliance investigations, anti-corruption compliance system construction and improvement projects, white-collar crime investigations, labor dispute resolutions and crisis management cases involving industries such as finance, pharmaceuticals, medical and medical aesthetics, manufacturing, chemicals and automotive. She is especially skilled at discovering clues and finding key evidence amidst massive transaction orders and internal emails. She is familiar with domestic and foreign compliance systems such as the FCPA (Foreign Corrupt Practices Act), the UK Bribery Act and China's Anti-Unfair Competition Law. Maintaining close cooperative relationships with multiple forensic accounting service institutions, she excels at building full-chain solutions covering risk prevention, internal investigation and regulatory response.
LEGALBAND's Remark
Llinks contractual partner Ms. Susan Deng's practice expertise lies in compliance legal services such as cybersecurity and data compliance, anti-corruption, anti-commercial bribery and internal investigations, and antitrust and anti-unfair competition, and she has rich experience in M&A and foreign investment. The clients she serves are primarily Fortune 500 companies, multinational corporations and large corporate groups across multiple industries including medical devices, pharmaceuticals and nutritional products, e-commerce, multimedia, mobile internet, fintech, hospitality, industrial manufacturing, FMCG, luxury goods, food, automotive, logistics parks and chemicals. Recently, she led her team in providing specialized data compliance legal services for CATL's Hong Kong listing project and provided full-process compliance support for Mengniu's AIGC nutritional health project, from structural design to implementation. During the practical operation of multiple complex and cutting-edge compliance projects, she has been able to assist enterprises in comprehensively screening and analyzing overall project compliance risks and various pain points and bottlenecks. Empowering the realization of corporate business objectives with legal service plans that balance compliance requirements with corporate realities, she has demonstrated her accurate understanding and grasp of regulatory rules across different industries as well as corporate business models and compliance demands.
Client's Testimonial
"We have a long-term cooperation with Llinks contractual partner Ms. Susan Deng in the compliance field. She has a solid professional foundation and can quickly understand our operational models and compliance needs, especially regarding some emerging businesses and pain point issues that may lie in gray areas. During our cooperation, she is consistently serious, meticulous and responsible. When facing complex projects, she uses an analytical approach to sort out key points from tedious details, proposing solutions that possess both legal professionalism and commercial operability, thus helping us effectively avoid compliance risks."
For this selection, LEGALBAND primarily referenced recommendation materials from major law firms, self-recommendation materials from lawyers and client feedback information, while combining the long-term attention and insights into the compliance field of the LEGALBAND China resident research team, ultimately selecting 15 capital markets lawyers and compliance lawyers widely favored by clients in Chinese Mainland.
