Tim Yimin Liu

Tim Yimin Liu, FCIArb, mainly works on China domestic and cross-border dispute resolution arising from corporate governance, shareholder rights, complex commercial, merger and acquisition, liquidation and bankruptcy, etc. Tim’s practices include parallel litigation, international commercial arbitration and mediation, seeking or rejecting recognition and enforcement of awards, setting aside awards before state courts. Tim is also involved in cross border bankruptcy and assets recovery in various jurisdictions.

His cases are from the jurisdictions such as several states of the USA, China, the UK, the UAE (DIFC and ADGM), the KSA, Qatar, Turkey, Egypt, Israel, Kazakhstan, ASEAN, India, Australia and New Zealand.

Tim works in the capacity as legal counsel advocating for client’s interest, as neutral professional assessing a case before formal proceedings, or as arbitrator, mediator or expert as appointed by the parties or nominated by the relevant institutions.

Industries related to Tim’s practices include insurance, defense and security, electric power projects, construction, life science, materials and manufacturing, the Internet and the Internet of Things, private investment funds and digital assets, etc.

• Represented a defendant / supplier, a Chinese company in a foreign litigation, to structure a parallel litigation under China’s jurisdiction where it switches its position as plaintiff. These parallel litigations may contradict to each other nevertheless it would be in the interests of the client to certain extent
• Represented a defendant argued the issue about whether crypto currency would be a legitimate consideration of delivering certain on-job services and employment relationship under China’s legal regime
• Represented a defendant / land developer argued an over-limit inappropriate assets preservation order granted by a Chinese court pursuant to the petition by a claimant / contractor in a China seated arbitration
• Represented a defendant / supplier, as co-counsel with foreign counsels, to defend a case where the issue was about the validity of a letter of award and liabilities over an abandoned cross border equipment supply contract under a foreign governing law
• Represented a Chinese plaintiff / buyer against two foreign defendants / sellers with domiciles from different foreign jurisdictions in a Chinese court in absence of a written international supply contract
• Represented a claimant / plaintiff in a case started as arbitration but then leave for litigation in the Middle East; the disputes arose from construction steel structure international supply and erection contracts
• Represented a foreign plaintiff to claim remedies after a failure of a cross-border investment (criminal settlement, civil litigation, and domestic arbitration)
• Represented a plaintiff to claim remedies against a private investment fund manager, trustee bank (entrusted investment, negligence of the fund manager and trustee bank, warehouse receipt pledge)
• Assisted a client (an Internet of Things supplier to smart power grid) to optimize its corporate governance and alignment of interests among investors after the target company’s private equity financing
• Assisted foreign and Chinese partners to set up a joint venture in digital technology in China
• Assisted to mediate a data leak incident among a data controller, data processor and their ultimate client
• Arbitrated travel related disputes under the 1996 UK Arbitration Act

• Commercial arbitration
• Commercial and transactions
• Litigation
• Insolvency

• Financial services
• Insurance
• Real estate
• Utilities
• Pharma and life sciences

• People’s Republic of China
• Washington D.C., USA
• New York State, USA
• Astana International Financial Centre Court, the Republic of Kazakhstan, Lawyer, Full Right of Audience
• Dubai International Financial Centre Court, UAE, Legal Practitioner, Full Right of Audience
• Singapore International Commercial Court, Foreign Registered Lawyer, Full Registration

Accreditations

• Fellow (FCIArb): Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, U.K.
• Fellow (FPD): Prime Dispute, U.K.
• Fellow (FHKIArb): Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators
• Fellow (FAMINZ): Arbitrators’& Mediators’ Institute of New Zealand (2019~2021)
• Fellow (FMIArb): The Malaysian Institute of Arbitrators
• Fellow at Arbitration Practice (FAP-KFCRI): Kovise Foundation Conflict Resolution International, India
• Panel Admission
• Arbitrator: Shanghai Arbitration Commission
• Mediator: Shenzhen Qianhai Court
• Primary Panel of Arbitrator: Maldives International Arbitration Centre
• Panel of Arbitrators, Mediator, Commercial Negotiator: Prime Dispute, U.K.
• Panel of Arbitrator, Mediators: Saudi Center for Commercial Arbitration, Saudi Arabia
• Panel of Arbitrator: BVI International Arbitration Centre
• Prime Panel of Arbitrator: Maldives International Arbitration Center
• Panel of Arbitrators: Beihai Arbitration Commission, China
• Panel of Arbitrators: Beihai Court of International Arbitration, China

• MBA in Finance (F.MBA.): Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, Beijing / Hong Kong
• Master of Laws (LL.M.): New York University School of Law, U.S.A.
• Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.): Tsinghua University School of Law, China