Dr. Leon Lee (Yong Li)

Advisor, SINOTALKS^®
Founder & Managing Partner, Sequoia Smith Partners

Dr. Leon Lee founded Sequoia Smith Partners in Beijing in early 2020 and has since then been serving as the firm’s managing partner.  Sequoia Smith Partners provides international and domestic clients with various commercial legal services, including investment and financing in industrial fields, outbound and inbound bank financing, dispute resolution, compliance matters, and issues relating to white-collar and economic crime.

Prior to the founding of the law firm, Dr. Lee taught law at the Law School of the Central University of Finance and Economics (“CUFE”) beginning in 2006, when he graduated from Tsinghua University Law School’s Ph.D. program.  During his tenure at the CUFE, Dr. Lee founded the Case Law Research Center of the CUFE, with the support of Stanford Law School’s China Guiding Cases Project and the Supreme People’s Court of China’s Research Department.  He served as the executive director of the center until his resignation from the CUFE.  The center aims at providing studies of judicial cases so that courts and government agencies can refer to relevant practices and theories during their policy-making and legislative processes.  Since its founding, the center has promoted a series of research activities, including a major research project titled “Research on Tort Liability under the Shared Business Model”, which the Supreme People’s Court entrusted the center to undertake in 2018.  

At the CUFE, Dr. Lee primarily taught courses on company law, international economic law, and legal practice.  He has published more than 20 articles in various journals.

历咏博士

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司凯律师事务所创始人与管理合伙人

2020年之初，历咏博士于北京创办了司凯律师事务所，并担任该所管理合伙人。司凯律师事务所为不特定行业的境内外客户提供商事法律服务，其中包括产业领域的投融资、跨境银行融资、争议解决、合规、白领犯罪与经济犯罪等。

在创立司凯律师事务所之前，历咏博士于2006年自清华大学法学院获得博士学位起，一直在中央财经大学法学院任教。历咏博士在中央财经大学任教期间，在斯坦福法学院指导性案例项目和最高人民法院研究室的支持下创办了司法案例研究中心，并一直担任该中心的执行主任至其辞任教职。中心的设立旨在进行司法案例研究，为法院和政府机构在政策决策和立法过程中提供相关实务和理论以作参考。中心成立后，成功推动了一系列的研究活动，包括于2018年承担了最高人民法院所委托的题为《共享经营模式下的侵权责任研究》的重大研究项目。

历博士在中央财经大学期间主要教授公司法、国际经济法和法律实务等课程。他在各类期刊上发表逾20篇论文。