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Mr 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

Career

Tim has been practicing law since 2002.  He worked with Mori Hamada & Matsumoto, Morrison & Foerster LLP, Heller Ehrman LLP, Nixon Peabody LLP, Clifford Chance LLP, also with Accenture as in-house legal counsel / director on complex digital and capital deals. 

Tim worked for Byte Dance, Goldman Sachs, Goldman Sachs Gao Hua, Nomura Securities, Invesco, Invesco Great Wall Fund Management, Soft Bank, Lenovo, Accenture, Nestlé, Shanghai Electric, China Continental Insurance, Amazon, UPS, State Grid, Mitsubishi Heavy Industry, All Ride, Jing Gong Steel International, etc.

Languages

Chinese，English

Memberships

Social Activities

• Charted Institute of Arbitrators, East Asia Branch, Committee Member
• The 18th CIETAC Cup International Commercial Arbitration Moot Competition (Willem C. Vis China National Round), Arbitrator
• The 2nd CIETAC Cup Investment Arbitration Moot Competition (Frankfurt Investment Arbitration Moot Court China National Round), Presiding Arbitrator

Professional Memberships

• Federal Bar Association, U.S.A.
• Washington D.C. Bar Association, U.S.A.
• New York State Bar Association, U.S.A.
• New York City Lawyers Association, Committee on Asian Practice, U.S.A.
• International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP)
• Dubai International Arbitration Centre, DIAC 40
• Shanghai Bar Association, Committee of Maritime Laws, China
• Alumni Association of New York University, U.S.A.

Education

• 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