On December 11, 2021, LPL All-Star Weekend grandly took place in Haikou, China. TJ Sports-related leaders, well-known E-Sports players, club representatives, E-Sports industry participants, sports stars including Yaping Deng, Fangyu Zhu, and Xiaoting Pan were invited to attend the feast. Mr David Wu and Mr Roy Chu from Llinks Law Offices were invited to participate in this event as long-term legal consultants of League of Legends games.
As EDG won the S11 League of Legends global finals, E-Sports once again became the centre of attention of the whole society. To this end, TJ Sports, as the organiser of LPL, has determined to further improve the management of club managers and practitioners to ensure the healthy and stable development of E-Sports. With the booming of the E-Sports industry, LPL has already become a phenomenal pro-league of E-Sports. In the process of professionalisation and commercialisation of the league, TJ Sports has gradually established the governance mechanism of the league so to ensure the healthy and sustainable development of the E-Sports industry.
In this All-Star Weekend, Llinks won the 2021 LPL Support Contribution Award. Mr David Wu accepted the award on behalf of Llinks Law Offices and then delivered a speech. Llinks lawyers have worked closely with the League of Legends for a long time and spare no effort in providing LOL with professional legal service. They leverage their professional E-Sports legal knowledge, rich practice experience in the traditional sports and entertainment industry, and its leading position in the legal industry, to propose professional suggestions to the structural development of League of Legends, thus aiming to build LPL into a more professional sports league. In addition, Llinks lawyers also advocate sports-legal knowledge in scenarios such as player conferences, anti-match-fixing and -gambling training conferences, club management certification training conferences, etc., helping the LPL league to advance in becoming a role model in the E-Sports industry.
The Sports and Entertainment Law team of Llinks Law Offices have long been committed to providing professional services for international and domestic sports and entertainment institutions and practitioners. It is also one of the first in the industry to incorporate the knowledge of traditional sports with E-Sports, sparing no effort in supporting the rise and expansion of the E-Sports and external entertainment industries. Furthermore, Mr David Wu was awarded as one of the Top 10 lawyers in the E-Sports industry by 2019 LEGALBAND China Lawyers. Llinks will continue to keep up with the trend of the global E-Sports industry and help create an optimised culture of E-Sports.
