Professional Experience
Qian Li is a partner at Merits & Tree. Prior to joining Merits & Tree, Ms. Li was an attorney at Zhonglun Law Firm for many years.
Ms. Li’s practice areas are investment funds, banking and finance, family law and wealth management. In the area of investment funds, Ms. Li has served more than 30 private equity institutions such as CDB (Hubei) Investment, Fiberhome Singularity, East Lake Zero Degree, Chunxin Capital, Chuchang Fund, and Hongtai Tianrui, and represented many state-owned, listed companies, and private equity institutions with securities firm backgrounds in their outward investment matters, post-investment management matters, fund-related litigations, and other legal matters. Ms. Li has been invited several times by financial supervision departments, fund industry associations, and fund incubations that base in Hubei Province to serve as competition judges and expert consultants. Especially in fund compliance, Ms. Li has successively assisted several local financial bureaus in the supervision and management of private funds, represented several district government departments in their special operations on supervision and disposing of illegal private funds and pseudo-private funds. The total amount involved in the cases handled by Ms. Li exceeds 10 billion RMB and she has a thorough understanding of the basic principles and specific requirements of private fund supervision. In the area of Banking and Finance, Ms. Li has successively provided special legal services for policy banks in the financing of various infrastructure and industrial park construction projects. In the area of family services and wealth management, Ms. Li is good at providing comprehensive solutions for family disputes of high-net-worth individuals by applying knowledge of finance, insurance and capital market.
Honors & Awards
Ms. Li was the member of Wuhan Municipal People's Congress Supervision and Judicial Committee's work group for the evaluation of the case handling quality of Wuhan Intermediate People's Court, Wuhan Procuratorate, and Wuhan Public Security Bureau in 2020 and 2021
Ms. Li was the outstanding and advanced individual in Wuhan Lawyers of the front-line performance of epidemic prevention and control in 2020
Ms. Li was awarded the first batch of young leading talent lawyers in the "Double Hundred Program" for young lawyers in Wuhan
Ms. Li was awarded the third prize of the First Excellent Legal Documents of the Lawyers in Hubei Province
Ms. Li was awarded the second prize of Lawyers Forum of Six Central and Southern Provinces (Regions) in 2018
Ms. Li was the Wuhan Citizens Advanced Individuals in 2021
Ms. Li was the Outstanding Member of Wuhan Citizens' Participation in Politics and Deliberation in 2018 and 2019
Education
LL.B., Zhongnan University of Economics and Law
Qualifications
Ms. Li has been admitted to practice in the People's Republic of China
Member of the Financial Professional Committee of Wuhan Lawyers Association
Member of the Professional Committee of Government Legal Consultants of Wuhan Lawyers Association
Working Language
Chinese and English
