Qian Liu

Practice Areas

Private Equity,

Investment and Financing,

Fund-related Dispute Resolution,

Foreign Investment and Cross-border M&A.

Career

Echo Liu specializes in private equity, investment and financing, fund-related dispute resolution, foreign investment and cross-border M&A, and has accumulated rich case experience, receiving widespread praise from clients. Echo Liu has been practicing law for more than 16 years.

Echo Liu is qualified as an independent director by Shanghai Stock Exchange, a securities practitioner, a fund practitioner and a carbon trader.

Echo Liu serves as an arbitrator of the Shanghai Arbitration Commission and has heard numerous investment-related arbitration cases.

Professional Memberships

Arbitrator of the Shanghai Arbitration Commission,

Member of Shanghai Arbitration Association,

Member of Cross-border Bankruptcy Committee of Shanghai Bankruptcy Administrators Association,

Practical Tutor of the School of Law, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics,

Member of the Shanghai Association of Women Entrepreneurs,

Director of the Women's Federation of Financial Bund.

Publications

Commissioned by the Asset Management Association of China, conduct research on the Trial and Optimization Study of PE/VC Fund Share Transfer and produce a research report in 2023.

Provided professional support for the “Annual Report of the China Securities Investment Funds Industry (2019)”.

Served as a member of editorial board for the China Securities Investment Fund Industry Annual Report (2016) compiled by the Asset Management Association of China.

Served as a member of editorial board for the Lawyer's Practice in Private Fund compiled by the Shanghai Bar Association.

Expert in these Jurisdictions

China

Languages Spoken

Chinese and English

Work Highlights

Representing China Insurance Investment Co., Ltd.（AUM exceeding RMB 400 billion） in providing full-scope legal services regarding the drafting and negotiation of its special-purpose fund contracts, as well as the establishment of private equity investment partnerships, product filing, and subsequent investment management.

Representing Greystar, a top real estate fund focusing on rental apartment, providing legal services for daily legal affairs and fund investment and financing.

Providing legal services to Lasalle, a real estate investment management company of Jones Lang LaSalle (with a global management scale of approximately US$89 billion), on its business in China.

Providing legal services for Millburn, American hedge fund, including designing PRC investment structure, equity investment, cooperation with other entities, setting up subsidiaries and daily legal service.

Providing legal services to Shanghai SOE Reform and Development Phase III Private Investment Fund Partnership (Limited Partnership) with the fund manager Shanghai Guosheng Capital Management Co., Ltd. for all legal matters related to its strategy adjustment..

Awards

Education