Recently, Longan (Guangzhou) Law Firm in Beijing and Belgravia Law Firm in the UK jointly organized a special exchange meeting on cross-border legal services. The event was successfully held and achieved fruitful results. During the meeting, both parties discussed three key topics: sanctions compliance practices, cross-border case cooperation, and AI regulations. They exchanged opinions on practical experiences and cooperation directions, further clarifying future cooperation paths, thereby laying a solid foundation for high-quality coordinated development of cross-border legal services between China and the UK.
Lawyers Ou Yingshi and Pan Yetong from Longan (Guangzhou) Law Firm, who specialize in export controls and sanctions, as well as AI, along with the managing partner and senior lawyers from Belgravia Law Firm in the UK, attended the meeting. They discussed in detail the challenges and potential opportunities in cross-border legal services.
At the beginning of the meeting, lawyers Ou Yingshi and Pan Yetong shared their experiences in the Greater Bay Area, highlighting the real difficulties and compliance issues faced by Chinese enterprises in the fields of export controls and economic sanctions. They also introduced the core services and capabilities of Longan (Guangzhou) Law Firm in areas such as export control compliance, sanctions risk assessment, response to investigations, removal from sanctions lists, licensing applications, and cross-border dispute resolution. This matched the urgent needs of Chinese enterprises for cross-border legal services.
During the meeting, both parties discussed their practical experiences in the field of sanctions compliance, sharing professional practices and successful cases in this area. Longan (Guangzhou) Law Firm has successfully helped many clients remove them from the US, UK, and EU sanctions lists, handled cross-border licensing applications, and assisted companies in releasing over $100 million in funds, as well as releasing $25 million in frozen funds for a Swiss trust. These experiences demonstrate Longan (Guangzhou) Law Firm’s expertise in working with top international law firms to provide reliable and efficient cross-border sanctions legal services for Chinese and foreign clients.
Subsequently, both parties agreed on a collaborative model for cross-border case services and market expansion. They reached a consensus on localized implementation of cross-border sanctions cases and overall service processes, achieving mutual benefits. Both parties agreed to establish regular online seminars, inviting global legal experts to discuss topics of interest for Chinese enterprises, such as sanctions compliance and AI regulations, and sharing cutting-edge legal knowledge to provide professional cross-border legal guidance for clients in the Greater Bay Area and across China.
Belgravia Law Firm is a top-tier dispute resolution firm located in London. Its team consists of highly qualified lawyers who speak multiple languages and specialize in litigation, international arbitration, and sanctions-related matters. They often handle complex disputes involving cross-border elements.
This exchange meeting marks an important milestone in Longan (Guangzhou) Law Firm’s efforts to deepen international legal cooperation. It expands the scope of cross-border legal services and strengthens the firm’s expertise in cross-border compliance and AI regulations. In the future, Longan (Guangzhou) Law Firm will continue to focus on cross-border sanctions compliance and AI regulations, integrating high-quality legal resources from both China and abroad to optimize cross-border service processes. This will provide comprehensive, professional cross-border legal services for Chinese and foreign enterprises.
Lawyer Profile
Ou Yingshi
Ou Yingshi is a partner at Longan (Guangzhou) Law Firm in Beijing and the director of the Sanctions and Anti-Dumping Committee. She has extensive legal expertise in international matters. Ou has provided legal services to several large enterprises, especially in the automotive industry, including foreign investment, export controls and sanctions, anti-dumping, subsidies, international arbitration, litigation, and long-term legal counsel. Her services have been well received by clients.
Ou has been involved in managing several investment projects of well-known manufacturing companies in various countries, including Thailand, Mexico, Russia, and Singapore. She has also provided legal services for a well-known automotive company’s exports to ten ASEAN countries, including Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, and Cambodia. Ou is skilled in litigation and international arbitration. She has acted as counsel in several litigation and arbitration cases, protecting the rights of clients and achieving satisfactory results. So far, Ou has established close relationships with many renowned law firms and overseas institutions in over 30 countries, including Hong Kong, Macao, Southeast Asia, Middle East, Central Asia, Europe, South Asia, Australia, Africa, Latin America, and North America. Her clients come from industries such as intelligent connectivity, new energy, AI, drones, traditional manufacturing, and biomedical industries.
Pan Yetong
Pan Yetong is a lawyer at Longan (Guangzhou) Law Firm in Beijing. He is the deputy director and secretary-general of the Sanctions and Anti-Dumping Committee at Longan (Guangzhou) Law Firm. He is also a researcher at the Longan Bay ASEAN Law Research Center. He is a leading lawyer in Guangzhou for foreign-related legal services and a pioneer lawyer in Guangdong Province. He is listed in the “List of Specialized Lawyers in Guangzhou”.
Pan Yetong has extensive expertise in corporate governance, foreign-related compliance, intellectual property protection, and investment and mergers and acquisitions. He has provided legal services to several large enterprises, including foreign investment, export controls and sanctions, data compliance, international arbitration, litigation, and long-term legal counsel.
In terms of corporate compliance, he has helped several domestic enterprises with export control and data compliance, as well as intellectual property protection. In the field of investment and mergers and acquisitions, he has provided legal services for several investment and financing projects, helping enterprises complete mergers and equity transfers.