Personal Profile
Educational background: bachelor of law
Qualification: passed the national bar examination in 2008, and was admitted to practice law in 2010
Title at the Firm: partner, attorney
Other titles: member of the All-China Lawyer Association, member of Shanghai Bar Association
Major practice areas:
Foreign direct investment, merger, acquisition, international trade, construction, intellectual property rights, dispute resolution and other areas.
Representative experiences:
Attorney Liu is currently serving as a perennial counsel of a number of subsidiaries of a US-listed company, counseling them in litigations or non-litigation issues of investment in China, labor and employment, supply chain and construction engineering etc; counseled a number of foreign investors in their merger or acquisition of domestic enterprises on non-litigation issues, including due diligence, drafting and review of contracts, obtaining approvals/filings with the commerce commission, change of industrial and commercial registration etc. Before joining this Firm, he served as a counsel on Chinese laws at the Shanghai Office of a European law firm, assisting a number of European companies in handling Chinese law issues in the conduct of Chinese business. Attorney Liu is well-versed in legal English and has translated documents of more than 6 million words, including those related to banking, insurance, funds, international engineering, international trade, intellectual property rights and other areas, and he is able to counsel our domestic as well as foreign clients in both Chinese and English. He represented an insurance company in the handling of more than a hundred of insurance claim disputes. He also represented our client in an arbitration over a complex construction engineering dispute involving a Shanhaiguan Old Town Reformation Project. He participated in the bankruptcy and restructuring of a number of enterprises in his capacity as a staff member of the receiver.
Working language: Chinese, English
