Julie Lyu (Chinese: 吕卓) is a recognized cross-border-banking-finance lawyer in China and an equity partner at Jingsh (Beijing Jingsh Law Firm), where she leads the firm’s Cross-Border Financial Legal Affairs Department. With more than 18 years’ experience advising banks, policy lenders, state-owned enterprises and multinational corporates on cross-border financing, export-credit and sanctions/compliance matters, she is routinely instructed on high-value project financings and complex regulatory risk assessments for outbound investment.
Headquartered in Beijing, Jingsh Law Firm has over 6,000 practicing lawyers and a total workforce of 8,000, including lawyers and other professionals. It operates 58 domestic branches, 38 overseas branches, and maintains cooperation with more than 100 overseas law‑firm partners. Leveraging Jingsh’s extensive talent pool and global branch network, Julie gives full play to her professional strengths in cross‑border investment and financing to deliver specialized legal services for clients in China and abroad.
In her capacity as a leading practitioner in cross-border finance, Julie Lyu coordinates multi-jurisdictional teams to deliver sophisticated solutions across China and overseas. She specializes in project finance, export-credit structures, syndicated and bilateral lending, and the governance of cross-border financial institutions.
Julie also advises on foreign-investment governance, offshore structuring of leasing, and cross-border asset transfers, all within a robust regulatory framework.
Her practice integrates transactional excellence with stringent compliance oversight to support outbound investment and international collaborations.
Julie Lyu graduated from China University of Political Science and Law with a Bachelor of Laws (2005) and a Master of Laws (2008).
She began her banking & finance practice in 2008 and has served in the banking and financial teams of leading Chinese law firms, including Jun He and Zhong Lun, before joining Jingsh in 2025 as an equity partner.
Her career spans over 18 years, with continuous experience in cross-border finance, regulatory compliance and structured lending.
She is recognized as a senior partner responsible for cross-border banking and financial services and holds leadership roles within the firm’s international cooperation structures.
Julie’s practice covers the full spectrum of cross-border-banking-finance matters: project and export-credit financings, syndicated and bilateral lending, asset-backed and structured financing, financial institution establishment and governance, cross-border restructurings and non-performing asset resolution.
She also advises on aviation and maritime finance, the offshore structuring of leasing and ownership, and cross-border asset transfers.
In recent years Julie has developed specialized capabilities in international economic sanctions and export controls, helping Chinese banks, securities firms and state-owned clients assess multi-jurisdictional money laundering risk and sanctions risk, and design mitigation and compliance frameworks aligned with Wolfsberg, FATF and other international standards.
That combination of transactional depth and regulatory compliance makes her particularly sought after for deals where legal, political and sanctions risks converge.
Her approach integrates rigorous regulatory analysis with practical deal structuring, enabling clients to navigate PRC foreign-exchange rules, outbound investment reviews, export controls and sanctions compliance across jurisdictions.
Julie’s guidance supports effective collateral, enforcement mechanisms and governance arrangements that stand up under cross-border scrutiny. Her work routinely helps clients secure financing while mitigating political, regulatory and reputational risk.
Julie has acted on multiple headline cross-border mandates that illustrate the scale and complexity of her practice.
Her representative matters include leading roles on multi-jurisdictional mining and natural resources financings, strategic outbound investments by Chinese industrial groups, and large project financings for infrastructure and manufacturing investments overseas. Specific examples include joint development projects for major mining assets, advising a leading Chinese automaker’s investment and plant construction project in Brazil, supporting sovereign-backed and export-seller financings for overseas engineering and infrastructure projects, and advising domestic financial institutions on sensitive sanctions and export-control assessments.
Her handled transactions cumulatively exceed US$20 billion in underlying value.
Within Jingsh, Julie serves as the head of the Cross-Border Financial Legal Affairs Department and as a deputy director in the firm’s International Cooperation Committee, roles through which she helps coordinate multi-office cross-border teams and develop firm-wide product offerings for international finance and compliance.
Julie is regularly invited to speak at firm-led seminars and industry roundtables on cross-border compliance, export controls and project financing; Jingsh has featured her views in practice-focused profiles and client briefings addressing sanctions, outbound investment and financial governance. Where public speaking or article listings exist, she contributes perspectives on cross-border risk management and deal structuring.
Cross-border-banking-finance in China sits at the intersection of evolving domestic regulation, foreign-exchange and capital controls, global sanctions regimes, and the international standards that govern anti-money-laundering and institutional risk management. That landscape has become more complex as China deepens outbound investment and as global financial flows face new geopolitical stresses and regulatory scrutiny.
Key challenges for clients include reconciling PRC foreign-exchange and outbound investment review rules with lenders’ cross-border covenants, ensuring export-control and sanctions compliance for goods and technologies in multi-jurisdictional supply chains, and structuring collateral and enforcement mechanisms that are effective across legal systems.
Specialist legal counsel that couples transactional drafting experience with regulatory and compliance expertise is therefore essential.
Clients value Julie for marrying technical structuring skills with practical regulatory judgement.
She brings hands-on experience from major Chinese firms and a track record advising policy and commercial banks, lease finance companies and state-owned contractors on the kinds of deals that involve multi-layered political, credit and trade risks.
Her practice is notable for proactive compliance design: she works with internal legal and compliance teams to implement AML assessments, FATF-responsive policies and bespoke export-control procedures, and she integrates those controls into deal documents and governance arrangements to reduce execution and post-closing regulatory exposures.
Julie represents corporates, financial institutions and state-backed entities engaged in outbound M&A, project and export finance, or in transactions where sanctions, export controls or complex cross-border enforcement issues arise.
Her clients typically require counsel that can coordinate counsel across jurisdictions, manage sensitive regulatory risk and deliver practical, enforceable transaction documentation.
As a senior partner and head of Jingsh’s cross-border finance practice, Julie Lyu combines deep transactional experience, regulatory insight and leadership within one of China’s national firms. For businesses and financial institutions navigating the legal complexities of cross-border lending, structured export and project finance, or sanctions-sensitive transactions, she provides an integrated, practice-led capability that aligns deal execution with robust compliance and governance.
Julie Lyu is an equity partner at Jingsh (Beijing Jingsh Law Firm) and head of the Cross-Border Financial Legal Affairs Department, recognized as a leading cross-border banking and finance lawyer in China with over 17 years of experience.
She specializes in project finance, export-credit structures, syndicated and bilateral lending, asset-backed and structured financing, cross-border restructurings and non-performing asset resolution, aviation and maritime finance, offshore leasing structures, and cross-border asset transfers.
She holds a Bachelor of Laws (2005) and a Master of Laws (2008) from China University of Political Science and Law, began practicing banking and finance in 2008, and joined Jingsh as an equity partner in 2025.
Julie represents banks, policy lenders, state-owned enterprises, securities firms, leasing companies, multinational corporates and state-backed entities on outbound M&A, project and export finance, sovereign-backed financings, strategic investments and transactions involving sanctions, export controls or complex cross-border enforcement issues.
Her approach combines transactional structuring skills with rigorous regulatory and compliance judgment: she coordinates multi-jurisdictional teams, integrates AML/FATF-responsive policies, designs bespoke export-control procedures, and embeds compliance and governance measures into deal documents to mitigate legal, political and reputational risk.
She has led multi-jurisdictional mandates including mining and natural-resources financings, strategic outbound investments and large infrastructure and manufacturing project financings (including a Chinese automaker project in Brazil), sovereign-backed and export-seller financings, and sanctions/export-control assessments for domestic financial institutions, with transactions exceeding US$20 billion in value.
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