Edward Lu

Anti-Corruption

China Arbitration

Commercial Litigation

Crisis Management

Intellectual Property

International Arbitration

Investigations

Labor & Employment

Edward is a Partner in DaHui Lawyers. With over a decade of practice, he focuses on complex commercial disputes, investigations, white collar defense, and employment cases, particularly specializing in cross-border matters. He has represented Chinese and foreign clients in over a hundred cases involving Chinese litigation and arbitration, international arbitration, cross-border litigation, government investigations, internal corporate investigations, crisis management, and labor disputes.

Edward’s dispute resolution capabilities have been tested in real combat. He has successfully represented clients in domestic and international arbitration cases conducted in London, Singapore, Hong Kong, Paris, Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and other seats. He has prevailed in litigation across various courts across China as a trial lawyer and has acted as a leading and coordinating lawyer in a number of cross-border litigations in the courts of Hong Kong, South Africa, the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States, Dubai, Kazakhstan, the Cayman Islands, and other jurisdictions.

In recent years, Edward has handled many high-profile cases, including representing a Chinese state-owned investment group in a series of corporate control disputes involving over RMB 2 billion in mainland China, Hong Kong, and the Cayman Islands, with more than 10 arbitration and litigation cases. He has successfully represented an American investment company in a series of post-acquisition Chinese litigation proceedings triggered by the scuttling of an RMB 600 million acquisition. Thanks to his profound understanding of Chinese law and practice, Edward has been invited on several occasions to provide expert opinions on Chinese law to court and arbitration proceedings outside China.

Government and internal investigations are also in Edward’s wheelhouse. He has extensive experience in assisting multinational corporations and Fortune 500 companies with complex government investigations, internal investigations, public incident response, and other crisis management, covering anti-fraud, commercial bribery, non-compliant related-party transactions and trade secret infringement, advertising compliance, labor, inter alia, enabling clients to avoid penalties and recover substantial losses.

In addition, Edward publishes articles on legal topics and is frequently invited to speak at events around the world.