Los Angeles
SERVICE FOCUS
Bar Admission
California
Language
English
Mandarin Chinese
Academic
• LL.M., University of California, Los Angeles
• LL.B., Peking University
Becky Li
Associate
Becky Li focuses her practice on corporate and transactional matters, with an emphasis on cross-border transactions, mergers and acquisitions, venture financings, capital markets, and corporate governance.
Before joining ILS, Becky built a broad transactional foundation at two leading Chinese law firms, Tian Yuan Law Firm and Jingtian & Gongcheng, working on significant cross-border and capital markets transactions spanning venture and private equity investments, M&A, Hong Kong IPOs, offshore debt offerings, corporate restructurings, and Cayman Islands investment funds.
Becky brings a practical understanding of the legal, commercial, and cultural considerations that shape cross-border transactions. Fluent in English and Mandarin Chinese, she is well positioned to work with clients and counsel across U.S. and Chinese business environments. Her approach emphasizes meticulous, detail-driven execution, informed by her experience working on complex capital markets and M&A transactions.
Representative Matters
• Represented a leading Chinese life sciences technology company in a Series B financing of over US$1 billion, co-led by prominent global investment firms and involving a consortium of institutional investors.
• Represented a Hong Kong-listed conglomerate in a series of strategic acquisitions involving businesses across the agricultural commodities, industrial e-commerce, and technology sectors.
• Represented sponsors in the formation and structuring of multiple Cayman Islands private investment funds utilizing SPC and ELP structures, with investment portfolios spanning technology, fintech, healthcare, and consumer internet companies.
• Represented issuers and other transaction parties in multiple Hong Kong Stock Exchange IPOs and pre-IPO restructurings across the real estate, industrial manufacturing, and environmental sectors, including transactions involving PRC corporate reorganizations and cross-border listing structures.
• Represented Chinese issuers and other transaction parties in multiple offshore U.S. dollar and euro bond offerings, including offerings listed on the Hong Kong and Singapore stock exchanges and transactions involving guarantee and standby letter of credit structures.