  The experimental information on b --> s l^+ l^- decays has grown enormously
during the last couple of years due to BaBar, Belle, CDF and LHCb. Especially,
exclusive modes B --> K^(*) l^+ l^-, which have the largest rate and are easily
accessible experimentally, provide a variety of observables which constrain
non-standard interactions that would affect these flavour-changing neutral
current decays beyond the Standard Model. Nowadays, theoretical predictions
focus on low- and high dilepton invariant mass regions, where expansions in
Lambda_QCD/m_b and form factor symmetries provide means to identify optimised
observables. The first experimental results of non-optimised observables have
stimulated first global analysis of b --> s l^+ l^- decays in combination with
b --> s photon and B_s --> mu^+ mu^-. Such global analysis are now ready to be
applied to include high-statistics results from LHCb and Super-Flavour
factories which are about to come within the next years.
