Greater China Region
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 15 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 Fund Committee of Shanghai Bar 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.
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.
Work Highlights
Representing Funlive Capital, providing legal services including reviewing, modifying project documents, and participating in negotiations on the property management services involved in the property projects held by Funlive in China.
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 Atlas Pte. Ltd. in relation to its convertible bond financing project and acquisition of equity interests in Ypsilon.Net AG.
Expert in these Jurisdictions
China
Languages Spoken
Chinese, English
Education
Shanxi University of Finance and Economics
BA,LLB
2001 - 2005
Dalian Maritime University
LLM
2005 - 2008
Awards
Leading Lawyer -Investment funds (Distinguished practitioner)
asialaw Profiles
2024
IFLR1000 China:Shanghai - M&A - Highly Regarded Lawyer
IFLR1000
2024
IFLR1000 Asia-Pacific: Highly Regarded Lawyer (Investment funds)
IFLR1000
2024
China Law & Practice Deals of the Year: Finance(nomination)
China Law & Practice
2022