One EU WOFE (hereinafter called “Contractor” or “Client”) specializing in the internal decoration entered into an architectural decoration contract with a foreign-invested enterprise in China (hereinafter called “Principal”) to carry on the decoration work for the Principal’s plant in China. At the moment when the whole decoration project was nearly done, the Principal took advantage of the complicated contract clauses that were extremely to its own favor, unilaterally terminated the contract, and forced the Contractor out of the construction site, while refusing to pay the Contractor the large sum of project payment that should have been paid to the Contractor a few months ago, which caused heavy losses to the Contractor, and in particular made the Contractor’s normal continuation of business operation fairly difficult.

At this critical moment, a moment of great difficulties for the Contractor, Dr. Michael Liu, Attorney-at-Law & Partner, and together with his colleague Ms. Hua Lin, Attorney-at-Law & Partner, made up their mind to accept the Client’s engagement. Then, shouldering the Client’s heavy responsibility, they devoted themselves with heart and soul to the long campaign for the Client’s legitimate interests. Confronting the well-prepared architectural contract that was extremely unfavorable to the Client and the lack of enough proofs therefor, they put their heart into the case, digging deep into the case materials with dedication and concentration. As a result, they became completely familiar with case developments, deeply and completely grasped the case facts and the relevant proofs therefor, and with the close, active cooperation from the Client, made the complete, detailed commercial-legal action strategy.

Accordingly, they initiated the arbitration procedure in one international arbitration institution afterwards. Relying upon their solid, deep understanding of laws that they have acquired through many years of hard work in Germany and China, their complete and deep mastery of case facts, and their excellent command of English as arbitration language, furthermore, with the whole-hearted, full support from the Client, they spent numerous sleepless nights, continued digging out every details of the proofs that were favorable to them, and prepared a large amount of arbitration documentations, finally found and achieved two breakthroughs in and from the very unfavorable case materials, and decided to use one of them as the triumph card and carefully made the whole arbitration action plan for the arbitration oral hearings. Then, after three formal oral hearings by the arbitration tribunal that altogether lasted for five full working days, they defeated the various attempts by and from the respondent’s foreign arbitration agents, truly and completely presented the case facts to the arbitration tribunal, thus having laid the solid foundation for the fair and just award thereafter by the arbitration tribunal, also winning the due honors for Chinese lawyers on international legal arena. At last, through their long-time constant efforts, they helped the Client win the fair and just award from the international arbitration institution, and won the case completely, thus living up to the client’s expectations. Later on, they continued representing the client in communicating and negotiating with the respondent, having the arbitral award completely honored in a timely manner. Consequently, they were successful in recovering the total losses for the Client and helping the Client overcome the operation difficulties, thus becoming the indispensable, true, trustworthy partner for the Client’s business operation in China.

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