On May 8, 2025, the famous legal service rating agency LEGALBAND released its “2025 LEGALBAND Client Choice: Top 15 Foreign-related Lawyers”. Harvey Yan of Zhong Yin Law Firm has secured a position on this prestigious ranking by virtue of his exceptional practical expertise and outstanding client acclaim.

As Senior Partner of Zhong Yin Law Firm with ‌over 15 years‌ of dedicated legal practice, Mr. Yan specializes in cross-border Investment & International M&A‌, securities & capital markets and complex commercial litigation & arbitration‌. He is especially good at cross-border transaction structuring‌, ODI compliance, foreign exchange regulation, international engineering‌ and project financing, and multi-jurisdictional dispute resolution‌. His practice spans ‌Russia, Central & Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa, and the Americas‌. Mr. Yan has delivered high-caliber counsel to central enterprises, state-owned enterprises, publicly listed companies, private enterprises and multinational corporations.

Amid accelerating shifts in the global trade landscape, Mr. Yan steadfastly champions a practice philosophy of “Legal-Commercial Synergy with Global Deployment”. He has established innovative platforms‌ including the ‌Russia-China Desk, so as to deliver all-round support‌ for clients navigating complex overseas legal environments across investment implementation, M&A and dispute resolution. He always keeps an eye on industry trends and emerging risk vectors, and has maintained deep engagement in the Belt and Road initiative, international industrial capacity cooperation and emerging market operations, so as to architect resilient compliance frameworks and forward-looking strategic blueprints for clients’ cross-border investments and global operations.

[Ranking Rationale]

Harvey Yan, a lawyer with over a decade of dedicated experience in international business, has demonstrated exceptional professional expertise and sharp business acumen across key domains including cross-border investment and M&A, international engineering and project financing, domestic and overseas capital markets, and major dispute resolution. Leveraging his robust legal foundation, outstanding cross-cultural communication skills as well as profound understanding of Chinese and foreign laws, regulations and regulatory environments, he has guided overseas investment projects for numerous state-owned enterprises, central enterprises, listed companies, and multinational corporations -- spanning regions such as Europe, Russia, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, Latin America, and Africa -- to successfully help clients achieve stable, long-term growth on the global stage.

[Client Acclaim]

“Throughout our collaboration, Harvey Yan has consistently demonstrated exceptional professional caliber and distinguished international perspective. His rigorous pragmatism and agile thinking enabled him to deliver viable solutions in complex cross-border matters. Based on our highly productive partnership, I hold complete trust in both his professionalism and personal integrity, and I look forward to continuing our cooperation in the future.”

“Harvey Yan and his team demonstrate exceptional efficiency and professionalism, possessing mature, comprehensive methodologies and battle-tested experience in transaction architecture design, commercial negotiation strategy, risk prevention & control systems and compliance approval pathways ‌for cross-border transactions. They consistently exhibit prudent pragmatism and innovative thinking while navigating volatile international landscapes.”

2025 LEGALBAND Client Choice: Top 15 Foreign-related Lawyers

LEGALBAND’s research team meticulously reviews recommendation materials from major law firms, self-recommendation submissions from lawyers and client feedback information while integrating the long-term focus and insights of LEGALBAND’s China-based research team on the labor law field, and ultimately selects 15 of the most client-favored foreign-related lawyers in the Chinese Mainland.