
Min Li
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Li Min is a Hong Kong-based commercial disputes lawyer. A partner at Reed Smith, he focuses on all aspects of dispute resolution including shipping, insurance, international trade and commodities litigation and arbitration. He has represented clients in a wide variety of high-profile cases. He has a significant London, Hong Kong and Singapore arbitration practice and regularly conducts arbitration under LMAA, LCIA, ICC, SIAC, SCMA, HKIAC, CMAC, and CIETAC rules. He has lived and worked in Mainland China, Hong Kong and London, and applies his international outlook and local experience in providing long-term and practical solutions to clients.
Li Min has a wide range of experience in advising shipowners, charterers and their P&I Clubs, financial institutions, commercial insurance companies, and Chinese state-owned enterprises on various issues including charterparty, bills of lading, international sales of goods, letters of credit, ship sales and purchases, ship arrest, shipbuilding, and ship finance matters. He also has particular experience in handling high value shareholder and equity related disputes, multi-jurisdictional commercial disputes and worldwide enforcement of judgments and arbitration awards. He also has solid experience in contentious matters involving allegations of commercial frauds.
Li Min is a native speaker of Chinese Mandarin and is fluent in English.
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Li Min is sought out by shipbuilding, oil and gas, and shipping companies for contentious matters relating to contractual payments, charterparties and ship arrests.
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Provided by Chambers
"Li Min is also an invaluable asset to Reed Smith Richards Butler. Min is very keen to provide thoughtful and commercially-minded advice to protect his clients' best interests. His legal knowledge is also impressive, but it is his ability to identify the key issues of a case and offer sensible solutions at short notice without compromising on quality that sets him apart in the shipping world. This ability, combined with his meticulousness in every case he handles, makes him our go-to lawyer."
"Li Min has a broad practice on a range of shipping matters and is highlighted for his deep expertise in arbitration."
"Li Min is also an invaluable asset to Reed Smith Richards Butler. Min is very keen to provide thoughtful and commercially-minded advice to protect his clients' best interests. His legal knowledge is also impressive, but it is his ability to identify the key issues of a case and offer sensible solutions at short notice without compromising on quality that sets him apart in the shipping world. This ability, combined with his meticulousness in every case he handles, makes him our go-to lawyer."
"Li Min has a broad practice on a range of shipping matters and is highlighted for his deep expertise in arbitration."
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