Tim Yimin Liu
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Work Department
Tim Yimin LIU advises clients on complex corporate and commercial matters, mainly arising from “digital economy” or digital assets (such as data monetization, anti-unfair competition, collection, processing and sharing of data, cloud computing, XaaS, Internet platform, crypto assets, digital entertainment, e-Commerce, cyber security, etc.)
Position
On dispute resolution, Tim represents clients in litigations and arbitrations/mediation, both China seated and cross-border, in various capacities such as legal counsel advocating for client’s interest, or neutral professional assessing a case before formal proceedings, or as arbitrator, mediator or expert as appointed by the parties or nominated by the institutions.Recent Representative Cases
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