Greater China Region
Practice Areas
Dispute Resolution
Debt Restructuring & Corporate Liquidation/Bankruptcy
Outbound Investment
Environment, Social & Governance (ESG)
Insurance
Career
Tim Yimin Liu, FCIArb, mainly works on China domestic and cross-border dispute resolution arising from corporate governance, shareholder rights, complex commercial, merger and acquisition, liquidation and bankruptcy, etc. Tim’s practices include parallel litigation, international commercial arbitration and mediation, seeking or rejecting recognition and enforcement of awards, setting aside awards before state courts. Tim is also involved in cross border bankruptcy and assets recovery in various jurisdictions.
His cases are from the jurisdictions such as several states of the USA, China, the UK, the UAE (DIFC and ADGM), the KSA, Qatar, Turkey, Egypt, Israel, Kazakhstan, ASEAN, India, Australia and New Zealand.
Tim works in the capacity as legal counsel advocating for client’s interest, as neutral professional assessing a case before formal proceedings, or as arbitrator, mediator or expert as appointed by the parties or nominated by the relevant institutions.
Industries related to Tim’s practices include insurance, defense and security, electric power projects, construction, life science, materials and manufacturing, the Internet and the Internet of Things, private investment funds and digital assets, etc.
Tim has been practicing law since 2002. He worked with Mori Hamada & Matsumoto, Morrison & Foerster LLP, Heller Ehrman LLP, Nixon Peabody LLP, Clifford Chance LLP, also with Accenture as in-house legal counsel / director on complex digital and capital deals.
Tim worked for Byte Dance, Goldman Sachs, Goldman Sachs Gao Hua, Nomura Securities, Invesco, Invesco Great Wall Fund Management, Soft Bank, Lenovo, Accenture, Nestlé, Shanghai Electric, China Continental Insurance, Amazon, UPS, State Grid, Mitsubishi Heavy Industry, All Ride, Jing Gong Steel International, etc.
Professional Memberships
Social Activities
Charted Institute of Arbitrators, East Asia Branch, Committee Member
ICC China Initiative on UN Model Law of Electronic Transferable Records, Expert Member
The 18th CIETAC Cup International Commercial Arbitration Moot Competition (Willem C. Vis China National Round), Arbitrator
The 2nd CIETAC Cup Investment Arbitration Moot Competition (Frankfurt Investment Arbitration Moot Court China National Round), Presiding Arbitrator
2021 Shenzhen FDI Moot, Arbitrator
NYU Shanghai, Mentor
Professional Memberships
Federal Bar Association, U.S.A.
Washington D.C. Bar Association, U.S.A.
New York State Bar Association, U.S.A.
New York City Lawyers Association, Committee on Asian Practice, U.S.A.
International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP)
Dubai International Arbitration Centre, DIAC 40
Shanghai Bar Association, Committee of Maritime Laws, China
Alumni Association of New York University, U.S.A.
Publications
Tim regularly writes commentaries for Lexology about litigation in China, which can be found by this Link.
Tim Yimin Liu, Does a Right to a Physical Hearing Exit in International Arbitration? – China Report, ICCA, March 2021
Tim Yimin Liu, Your BPO Supplier is About to Working from Home – Mediation in BPO Disputes Adaptive to post COVID-19 Era, Page 26, The ACICA Review, June 2020
Tim Yimin Liu, Will COVID-19 Impact Offtake Contract in Oil & Gas Industry? (in Chinese), 2020
Tim Yimin Liu, US Tariffs and Export Administration Regulations – Impacts on China (in Chinese), 2019
Tim Yimin Liu, You May Not Fly Your Drone as You Wish (in Chinese), 2019
Tim Yimin Liu, A New Start of Sino-US Relationship: understanding Office of Foreign Assets Control of US Department of Treasury (in Chinese), 2019
Tim Yimin Liu, Data: Assets More Than Compliance (in Chinese), August 2018
Member of Clifford Chance Investment Funds team, The Internationalization of the RMB: Boosting the Prosperity of Hong Kong’s RMB Market, October 2010
Member of Clifford Chance Investment Funds team, China for Hedge Fund Managers - A Regulatory and Tax Update, August 2010
Member of Tsinghua Law School research assistant team for the World Bank, Developing Institutional Investors in the People’s Republic of China, the World Bank 2003 Country Report, 2003
