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Jason Lin

Jason Lin

YYC Legal LLP, Hong Kong

Work Department

Corporate and Commercial, Mergers and Acquisitions, Private Wealth, Succession Planning & Trusts, Wills & Probate, Immigration (Canada)

Position

Registered Foreign Lawyer (British Columbia, Canada)

Career

Jason obtained a Chinese lawyer’s license in 1995 and has a total of 26 years of work experience in law firms in Mainland China, Canada and Singapore. Before joining East & Concord Partners, Jason served as the Asia Pacific Legal Leader of one of the “Four Big Accounting Firms” in the field of Family Enterprise Consulting. Jason is also a licensed lawyer in the Province of BC, Canada.

Jason has been focusing on cross-border legal planning for private wealth, family trusts, cross border legal structure design and construction, cross-border investment and M&A, infrastructure investment and project financing etc.. Jason is skilled in integrating legal resources of various jurisdictions, designing and building cross-border legal structure for Chinese enterprises, and providing cross-border legal planning for Chinese high-net-worth families, helping clients achieve global distribution of family assets.

Jason is particularly skilled in designing and building cross-border legal structure by utilising legal mechanisms that have a positive impact on Chinese enterprises and wealth families in jurisdictions such as resident countries, investment host countries, Hong Kong, Singapore, Cayman and BVI. In recent years, Jason has provided cross-border legal services to more than 80 enterprises and Chinese high-net-worth families, with most of his clients being located in North America, Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong, and several family businesses/wealth families having been listed at the top of Forbes’ rankings. Jason’s clients benefit from his legal planning knowledge with a global perspective rooted in China and rich practical experience.

Jason is recognised as Chambers Greater China Region Band 1 Top Ranked Leading Individual in Private Client/Wealth Management (PRC Firms) (2024) and LEGALBAND Band 1 China Top Ranked Lawyer in Private Wealth Management (2024).

Languages

English and Mandarin

Memberships

Solicitor, People's Republic of China

Solicitor, Supreme Court of British Columbia, Canada

Arbitrator, South China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission

Education

Queen’s University of Canada, LL.M

Sun Yat-sen University in China, LL.M

Sun Yat-sen University in China, LL.B