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Guangda Law Firm
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Yi LIU
Shanghai Office Head of the Restructuring and Insolvency Team,Head of Hong Kong Office Senior Partner

 
Yi LIU
Working Language:Chinese|English

Mr. Liu is a Grade II Lawyer and holds a master’s degree in Economic Law from East China University of Political Science and Law. He holds professional qualifications in the securities, futures and fund industries, as well as qualifications as an independent director and a licensed public relations professional.

Mr. Liu serves as an arbitrator with the Shanghai Arbitration Commission and an adjunct postgraduate supervisor at Tongji University. He is a Council Member of the Shanghai Association of Bankruptcy Administrators and Chair of its Cross-Border Insolvency Practice Research Committee; a Board Member and Deputy Director of the North Bund Enterprise Out-of-Court Restructuring Center; an inaugural mediator with both the North Bund Alternative Dispute Resolution Center and the Shanghai Eastern International Commercial Mediation Center; and an expert with the China Beijing Equity Exchange.

Mr. Liu led the firm in securing Class I enterprise bankruptcy administrator status recognized by the Shanghai High People’s Court. His team has extensive experience handling domestic and cross-border insolvency and restructuring matters.

He co-translated Property Management Laws in Major Contemporary Jurisdictions (Peking University Press, 2014), authored A Study on the Protection of Shareholders’ Rights (Peking University Press, 2016), contributed to Futures and Derivatives Compliance: Legal Practice and Analysis of Emerging Issues (Law Press China, 2024), and served as editor-in-chief of Practical Guide for Bankruptcy Administrators (Peking University Press, 2024).

Selected Matters

  • Advising Borrelli Walsh on the mainland China aspects of cross-border liquidation and restructuring matters involving Golden Hans, South Beauty, China Metal Recycling and other businesses
  • Advising FTI Consulting on the mainland China aspects of cross-border bankruptcy liquidation and restructuring matters
  • Liquidation of the offshore assets of China Fortune Land Development, acting for a PRC bank in recovering assets outside mainland China
  • Winding-up of Hong Kong-listed Titan Petrochemicals, acting for the offshore liquidator in relation to assets in mainland China
  • Bankruptcy liquidation of Haofan Haowan Catering (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., recognized by the Shanghai Bankruptcy Court as one of its 2020 Top Ten Cases of Outstanding Administrator Performance and by the Shanghai Association of Bankruptcy Administrators as one of its 2020 Top Ten Representative Cases in Bankruptcy Administrator Practice
  • Conversion of the bankruptcy liquidation of Shanghai Jingwen Metal Products Co., Ltd. into a reorganization, selected as a 2021 Typical Reorganization Case and a Representative Case Marking the Third Anniversary of the Shanghai Bankruptcy Court
  • Bankruptcy liquidation of Shanghai Longyi Construction (Group) Co., Ltd., recognized as one of the Shanghai Bankruptcy Court’s 2021 Top Ten Cases of Outstanding Administrator Performance
  • Acting as counsel in an ICC arbitration seated in Hong Kong concerning cross-border financial claims
  • Estate administration involving the de facto controller of a Yunnan-based group, in what was then the largest estate case by value before the Yunnan High People’s Court
  • A series of disputes involving a US-listed e-commerce platform, including China’s first case in which a merchant was ordered to pay tenfold compensation for selling counterfeit goods; the case was selected for the Supreme People’s Court’s inaugural Typical Cases of Internet Justice in 2019
  • A corporate resolution dispute concerning the validity of a shareholders’ resolution for a targeted capital reduction, recognized as an Outstanding Case of the National Court System in 2019

Representative Clients

  • FTI CONSULTING
  • Kroll
  • PwC Hong Kong
  • EY Hong Kong
  • Red & Orange Company
  • China Resources Pharmaceutical Group Limited (CR Pharma)
  • Eternal Asia Supply Chain Management Ltd.
  • Bolian Group
     
     

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