LIN 
Lin

 
Associate Professor

Academic Fellow

Dr. Lin Lin is an Associate Professor at NUS Law. She specializes in corporate law, corporate finance and Chinese corporate and securities law. She was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford Law School and the Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University (2012-2013), a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Harris Manchester College at University of Oxford (2019) and Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne (2020).

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Contact

(65) 6516-3576
FED-02-09

Education

PhD, LLM (NUS); LLB (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies)

Curriculum Vitae

Current Courses

Legal Systems of Asia (A)

Legal Systems of Asia (B)

Legal Systems of Asia (E)

Chinese Legal Tradition & Legal Chinese

Chinese Corporate and Securities Law

Dr. Lin Lin is an Associate Professor at NUS Law. She specializes in corporate law, corporate finance and Chinese corporate and securities law. She was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford Law School and the Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University (2012-2013), a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Harris Manchester College at University of Oxford (2019) and Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne (2020).

Lin has published in leading journals in her field, including such as Journal of Corporate Law Studies, European Business Organization Law Review, Journal of Business Law, Stanford Journal of Law, Business & Finance, Berkeley Business Law Journal and Columbia Journal of Asian Law. Her articles have been selected for presentation by the Stanford International Junior Faculty Forum and the Chicago-Tsinghua Junior Faculty Forum. Her sole-authored monograph Venture Capital Law in China (Cambridge University Press, 2021) was selected in the prestigious International Corporate Law and Financial Market Regulation series at Cambridge University Press.

She teaches Alternative Investments, Chinese Corporate and Securities Law, Private Equity and Venture Capital: Law and Practice, among others, at NUS Law. She has taught intensive courses at the University of Melbourne, Southwest University of Political Science and Law, East China University of Political Science and Law and National Chengchi University. She has provided executive training on corporate law and FinTech for officials and practitioners from China, India and Singapore. Lin has delivered public lectures at leading law schools including University of Oxford, Stanford University, Tsinghua University and Peking University. She is the recipient of several academic honours, including the President’s Graduate Fellowship. Lin has acted as peer reviewer in leading journals and publishers, such as the American Journal of Comparative Law and Cambridge University Press.

Prior to joining academia, Dr. Lin was a Legal Policy Officer at the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority of Singapore (ACRA). She has worked in the Corporate Finance Department of a leading law firm in Singapore. She has served as Assistant Counsel at the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) and the Special Counsel to the Steering Committee of the Taiwanese Company Law Reform. She currently sits on the editorial board of the Asian Journal of Comparative Law and Journal of Malaysian and Comparative Law. She has also served as a guest editor for the European Business Organization Law Review and Singapore Journal of Legal Studies. She is an arbitrator of the Hainan Court of International Arbitration, Guangzhou Arbitration Commission and an mediator of the Hainan International Commercial Mediation Centre.

Books
Lin Lin, Venture Capital Law in China (Cambridge University Press 2021)

Edited Books
Lin Lin et al. (ed), Venture Capital Investment Model Agreements (VIMA) Handbook (Singapore Academy of Law 2020)

Book Chapters
Lin Lin, 'Shareholder Engagement in East Asia' in Luca Enriques and Giovanni Strampelli (eds), Board-Shareholder Dialogue: Policy Debate, Legal Constraints and Best Practices (Cambridge University Press 2024) 426

Lin Lin, 'Venture Capital and Sustainable Investment' in Douglas Cumming and Benjamin Hammer (eds), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Private Equity (Palgrave Macmillan 2024)

Lin Lin, 'Private Equity and Venture Capital: A Critical Assessment of Their Growth and Self-Regulation' in Iris H.-Y. Chiu and Iain G. MacNeil (eds), Research Handbook on Global Capital Markets Law (Edward Elgar Publishing 2023) 58

Dan W. Puchniak and Lin Lin, 'Institutional Investors in China: An Autochthonous Mechanism Unrelated to UK-cum-Global Stewardship' in D. Katelouzou & D. Puchniak (ed), Global Shareholder Stewardship (Cambridge University Press 2022) 379

Lin Lin, 'Venture Capital, Angel Capital & Other Finance, IPOs and Acquisitions' in Xiaolan Fu, Jin Chen, and Bruce McKern (eds), The Oxford Handbook of China Innovation (Oxford University Press 2021)

Journal Articles
Lin Lin, 'C-REITs and Investor Protection' (2023) 39 (2) Banking & Finance Law Review 159

Lin Lin and Dan W. Puchniak, 'Institutional Investors in China: Corporate Governance and Policy Channeling in the Market Within the State' (2022) 35 (1) Columbia Journal of Asian Law 74

Lin Lin, 'Venture Capital in the Rise of Sustainable Investment' (2022) 23 (1) European Business Organization Law Review 187

Lin Lin and Hong Yanrong, 'Developing a Green Bonds Market: Lessons from China' (2022) 23 (1) European Business Organization Law Review 143

Iris H-Y Chiu, Lin Lin and David Rouch, 'Law and Regulation for Sustainable Finance' (2022) 23 (1) European Business Organization Law Review 1

Shaowei Lin and Lin Lin, 'Directors’ Duty of Care in China: Empirical and Comparative Perspective' (2021) 13 (2) Tsinghua China Law Review

Lin Lin and Umakanth Varottil, 'Venture Capital in China and India: Does Business Form Matter?' (2020) 53 (3) Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 949

Lin Lin, 'Contractual Innovation In China’s Venture Capital Market' (2020) 21 (1) European Business Organization Law Review 101 (presented at the Chicago-Tsinghua Junior Faculty Forum)

Lin Lin and Christopher Chen, 'The Promise and Perils of InsurTech' [2020] Singapore Journal of Legal Studies 115

Lin Lin, 'The Law of Venture Capital in Singapore' (2020) 1 (8) Business and Economic Law Review 41 (in Chinese)

Lin Lin, “Private Equity Investor Protection: Conceptualizing Duties of Partners in China” (2018) 15 (1) Berkeley Business Law Journal 43-91

Lin Lin, “Engineering a Venture Capital Market: Lessons from China” (2017) 30(1) Columbia Journal of Asian Law 160-220

Lin Lin, “Managing the Risks of Equity Crowdfunding: Lessons from China” (2017) 17(2) Journal of Corporate Law Studies 327-366 15.

Lin Lin, “Venture Capital Exits and the Structure of Stock Market: Lessons from China” (2017) 12(1) Asian Journal of Comparative Law 1-40

Lin Lin, “Regulating Executive Compensation in China: Problems and Solutions” (2014) 32(2) Journal of Law and Commerce 207-254

Lin Lin, “The Evolution of Partnerships in China from the Perspective of Asset Partitioning” (2013) 18(2) Stanford Journal of Law, Business and Finance 215-249

Lin Lin, “The Private Equity Limited Partnership in China: A Critical Evaluation of Active Limited Partners” (2013) 13(1) Journal of Corporate Law Studies 185-217

Lin Lin, “Limited Partners’ Derivative Action: Problem and Prospects in the Private Equity Market of China” (2011) 41(2) Hong Kong Law Journal 517-546

Edited Volumes

Iris Chiu and Lin Lin (eds), European Business Organization Law Review Vol. 23 (1)(Springer 2022)

Lin Lin and Hans Tjio (eds), European Business Organization Law Review Vol. 21 (Springer 2020)

Lin Lin and Dora Neo (eds) Singapore Journal of Legal Studies, March 2020

Contributed Reports
Transforming Paradigms: A Global AI in Financial Services Survey (Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance and World Economic Forum, 2020)

Early Lessons on Regulatory Innovations to Enable Inclusive FinTech: Innovation Offices, Regulatory Sandboxes, and RegTech (FinTech Working Group of the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Advocate (UNSGSA) for Inclusive Finance for Development and Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, 2019)

Global Cryptoasset Regulatory Landscape Study (Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, 2019)

The ASEAN Fintech Ecosystem Benchmarking Study (Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) & FinTechSpace, 2019)


  • Corporate Finance
  • Corporate Law
  • Alternative Investments
  • Venture Capital and Private Equity
  • Chinese Corporate and Securities Law
  • FinTech