Wu Xiaoliang

Introduction

Wu Xiaoliang is the founder and managing partner of CM Law Firm. During its development, she recruited a group of senior professionals with excellent business skills and expertise as partners and senior consultants with her unique charisma and advanced management concepts. She has served a large number of state-owned enterprises, well-known private enterprises and investment funds, as well as more than a hundred startups, contributing to the development and sustainable growth of clients far beyond the comprehensive value of legal service.

With her excellent legal expertise and keen insight into business rules, Wu has won many awards from international authorities over the years. She has been selected as one of the recommended lawyers by Chambers Asia-Pacific. She has been awarded “Asian Transaction Lawyer of the Year”, “Asia-Pacific Transaction Lawyer”, “Client Choice Lawyer”, and “Best Female Lawyer in China” by Asian Legal Business. She was included in IFLR1000’s recommended lawyers in the capital markets (equity and investment funds) category, won the “Lawyer of the Year” in commercial law, and honoured as a “Leader of Insight” in business law.

Wu is a member of the Putuo district’s lawyers working committee, an external tutor at Peking University, an external instructor at Nankai University, a director at the administrative rule of law branch of the Chinese Society of Behavioral Law, and an expert member of the Chinese Society of Emergency Management’s legal committee. She has been actively involved in drafting and revising the laws and regulations of the capital field for the national comprehensive departments and regulatory departments, and has made suggestions on the regulations of China’s State Council on the

administration of overseas issuance and listing of securities by domestic enterprises. She has put forward original suggestions on regulations such as the State Council’s administrative provisions on the offshore issuance and listing of securities by domestic enterprises and the measures for the administration of online tourism.

Wu values the cultivation of young lawyers and promotes the development of the profession. She has set up scholarships to provide social internship funds for master’s degree students with good academic performance. She organises and funds research teams from top law schools in China to carry out academic research on topical legal issues. She has edited a number of monographs, including “A Research Report on China’s Securities Penalties”, “Algorithms: What Artificial Intelligence Thinks”, “Gaming and Co-operation: The Road of Regional Co-Governance”, and “The Governance of Modesty: Regulation of New Businesses in the Age of Science and Technology”, which have attracted wide attention and favourable comments in both academic and practice circles