Wan Li

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Wan Li is a multinational legal practitioner with good sense of different cultures, markets, and laws. He assists Chinese and foreign high-profile entrepreneurs and their family businesses in a broad range of cross-border corporate transactions, as well as investment, estate planning, employment, and dispute resolution matters.


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With his rich legal experience and more than two decades of studying and working in the UK, Australia, Hong Kong, and Mainland China, Wan Li has good insight on different cultures, and expansive knowledge of best practices of doing business in various legal jurisdictions. Wan Li has successfully helped many domestic and foreign investors by bridging the gap between different cultures and knowledge of doing business in China and overseas, and by advising a diverse range of clients on legal matters in estate planning, cross-border investments, labor and employment, dispute resolution, mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property, real estate, corporate governance, and compliance.

Wan Li’s practice primarily focuses on sophisticated planning of trusts and estates, family business, tax and succession planning, and trust and probate administrations. He also represents corporate, institutional, and individual clients in disputes related to wills, trusts, estates, and fiduciary issues. He successfully incorporates his knowledge of various practice areas in his services to clients, ensures effective communication, and offers one-stop solutions to cost effectively meet their continuing and emerging needs.

In addition to his trusts and estates practices, Wan Li has assisted many foreign companies with direct investments into China and represented many Chinese companies in relation to multinational transactions, including acquisition of equity and assets of telecommunication, internet, high-tech, energy and resources, medicine, and dairy products companies.

Wan Li responds to clients' inquiries within 24 hours and delivers seamless services supported by strong team resources located worldwide. Thanks to Seyfarth’s advanced technology tools, he offers creative information and solutions that may not be acquired through traditional ways of practicing law.

Wan Li appreciates the international collegiality and the efficiency of the partners and team in Seyfarth’s international offices. The close cooperation and knowledge they share benefit clients by providing them with high-quality legal services and superior legal resources throughout the world.


Seyfarth’s Hong Kong office is a local law firm registered with The Law Society of Hong Kong, with lawyers licensed to practise in multiple jurisdictions including Hong Kong, Mainland China, Australia, Scotland, Ireland, England & Wales, and Italy.

  • LLM, University of New South Wales
    Law
  • LLM, Fudan University
    Law
  • BA, East China Normal University
  • Australia
  • China
  • Hong Kong
  • Solicitor, England and Wales