Simmons & Simmons

Financial Markets

Yongmei specialises in cross-border finance and financial regulatory work. She has more than 25 years’ experience of advising major international and local financial institutions, commercial corporations and equity investors on corporate finance, real estate finance, commodity and trade finance, project finance, acquisition and leverage finance, asset finance and restructuring.

Uniquely dual qualified in China and England and having practiced extensively in both jurisdictions, Yongmei is extremely knowledgeable and experienced in security on PRC assets and China foreign exchange regulatory issues. Her team is reputed in advising clients on China related cross-border transactions by combining its experience on international business standards with PRC local laws and regulations and practice.

Yongmei has also built up a leading PRC financial regulatory practice which focuses on providing international investors with cross border China financial markets regulatory advice. She also has been developing China related ESG advisory and transactional work. Recently she has been assisting Chinese fintech companies in their international expansions by providing regulatory advice, corporate structuring and transactional legal assistance.

Yongmei joined from an international law firm in China where she was a partner in their banking and finance team. She has also practiced as a finance lawyer at other leading law firms in London. She is uniquely both qualified in the PRC (1995) and England and Wales (2001), and practices extensively in both jurisdictions. Yongmei is proficient in both English and Chinese.