Xiaoyu Liu

Lawyer Liu specializes in litigation&arbitration, M&A, Banking&Finance. His clients include banks, financial institutions, state-owned and central enterprises, and listed companies.He has been awarded 2024 LEGALBAND  "Best of the Best" Top 30 Lawyers in China, 2023 LEGALBAND China Top 15 Recommended Lawyers, 2024 LEGALBAND  Client Choice: Top 15 Financial Lawyers, and "Dispute Resolution Lawyer of the Year 2025" by Asian Legal Business.

• Lawyer Liu was entrusted by a state-owned asset management company to handle disputes over a 7-billion-yuan non-performing legacy credit risk project involving Dongxu Group. This case is a major debt restructuring case of listed companies in Hebei Province, and also a debt restructuring achieved through collaboration among local governments, courts, and multiple financial institution creditors. The debtor, Dongxu Group Co., Ltd., faced debt liabilities amounting to hundreds of billions of yuan, and achieving debt restructuring is crucial to its survival. Additionally, the legal relationships involved in this case encompassed diverse transaction models, including entrusted bank loans, equity repurchases, and collective fund trust loans. While vigorously promoting the litigation, arbitration, and enforcement procedures of the case, Lawyer Liu conducted a comprehensive analysis of the feasibility and compliance of the debt restructuring, and ultimately helped the client achieve phased debt restructuring. Instead of relying on traditional court mediation, litigation, or arbitration procedures, the parties signed a debt restructuring agreement outside of court facilitation. This innovative model not only resolved the dispute efficiently but also helped the client accomplish the goal of phased risk resolution.
• Lawyer Liu represented a well-known educational brand in an authorization dispute.
  Based on the core legal principle of privity of contract and focusing on the key issue of achieving the contractual purpose, Lawyer Liu resolutely filed a counterclaim for the client. This strategic move not only minimized the losses suffered by the client but also effectively safeguarded their legitimate rights and interests. The educational brand held by the client wields extensive and far-reaching influence. The case has become a benchmark case in education-related brand authorization disputes, highlighting the critical and non-negligible role of industry policies and government planning in market transactions.
• Lawyer Liu represented a listed company in a dispute over an active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) procurement contract.
  The client, a highly influential leader in the pharmaceutical technology industry, purchased heparin sodium API worth up to 1 billion RMB from its partner. The enormous transaction volume and substantial amount involved drew significant attention from both within and outside the industry from the outset.
  With his profound legal expertise accumulated over years of practice and excellent leadership and decision-making abilities, Lawyer Liu overcame numerous challenges in judicial proceedings, including cross-border service of documents, default judgment, and jurisdiction disputes, ultimately securing a favorable judgment for the client. The case outcome has provided valuable experience for enterprise in transaction compliance and risk management.

• Appellate
• Civil litigation
• Commercial and transactions
• Commercial arbitration
• Corporate governance
• Financial services regulatory: Contentious
• Healthcare
• Insolvency
• International arbitration
• Litigation
• Personal injury
• Privacy and data protection
• Product liability and recall
• Trusts and estates
• White-collar crime

• Agriculture
• Automotive
• Banking
• Construction and materials
• Consumer goods and services
• Energy
• Financial services
• Fisheries and aquaculture
• Food and beverage
• Forestry
• Gaming
• Government and public policy
• Healthcare
• Industrials
• Insurance
• Investment management
• Media
• Mining
• Natural resources
• Oil and gas
• Pharma and life sciences
• Real estate
• Social infrastructure
• Tech and telecoms
• Tourism
• Transport
• Utilities

• Vice Chairman of the Expert Committee of China Association of Trade in Services
• Arbitrator of Hainan International Arbitration Court
• Mediator of the Arbitration and Mediation Center of Guangzhou Asset Management Association

• EMBA, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (2022)
• LLM, Temple University, USA (2009)
• JM, China University of Political Science and Law (2006)
• Bachelor of Laws, China University of Political Science and Law (September 1998–July 2002)