LIN 
Lin

 
Associate Professor

Academic Fellow

Lin Lin is an Associate Professor at NUS Law, specializing in corporate and finance law. While her work is broadly comparative, it focuses particularly on China and Singapore. Her research offers critical insights into the role of law in shaping venture capital, climate finance, and FinTech.

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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

Lin Lin is an Associate Professor at NUS Law, specializing in corporate and finance law. While her work is broadly comparative, it focuses particularly on China and Singapore. Her research offers critical insights into the role of law in shaping venture capital, climate finance, and FinTech.

Her scholarship has been published in leading academic journals and includes some of the most frequently cited articles in her field. Her sole-authored monograph, Venture Capital Law in China (Cambridge University Press, 2021), was published in the prestigious International Corporate Law and Financial Market Regulation series. Her work has been cited by judges of the Supreme Court of China and by policymakers, underscoring its influence on legal reform and policy development.

Professor Lin serves as Editor of the Asian Journal of Comparative Law and has guest-edited two special issues of the European Business Organization Law Review. She is a Research Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) and a Council Member of the China Commercial Law Society. Her academic contributions have led to visiting appointments at Stanford Law School and the University of Oxford. She has also taught intensive courses at top law schools in China, Australia, and New Zealand, as well as executive MBA courses for the NUS Business School.

Before entering academia, Dr. Lin worked as a Legal Policy Officer at the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority of Singapore (ACRA) and practiced corporate finance at a leading Singapore law firm.

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

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, '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

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

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

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 949-987

Lin Lin and Christopher Chen, “The Promise and Perils of InsurTech” (2020) 1 Singapore Journal Legal Studies 115-142

Lin Lin, “Regulating FinTech: The Case of Singapore” (2019) 35 Banking and Finance Law Review 94-119

Lin Lin and Dominika Nestarcova, “Venture Capital in the Rise of Crypto Economy” (2019) 16(2) Berkeley Business Law Journal 533-571

Lin Lin, “Venture Capital in Singapore: The Way Forward” (2019) 5 Journal of Business Law 363-387

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

Edited Volumes

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

Lin Lin and Hans Tjio (eds), Alternative Investments, Sustainability in the Digital Age,  European Business Organization Law Review Vol. 21 (Springer 2020)

Lin Lin and Dora Neo (eds), Alternative Investments in the Tech Era, Singapore Journal of Legal Studies, March 2020


  • Corporate Finance
  • Corporate Law
  • Climate Finance
  • FinTech
  • Chinese Corporate and Securities Law