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Dr. Michael Liu |
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- Dr. Michael Liu
- Dr. jur. (Münster), LL.M.(Münster), Attorney-at-Law, Founding Partner &
- Vice Director for German Law Institute of Harbin University of Technology
- ■He has been mainly concentrating on International Investment (Equity JV, Cooperative JV, WOFE & Overseas Investment), International Arbitration, M&A, International Trade, International Maritime Affairs, International IPR Litigation and other international commercial legal affairs in these years, having provided his professional legal services to the clients from the U.S.A., U.K., Germany, Japan, Singapore, Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, South Korea, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, Brazil, Portugal, African countries, etc., and to those from the regions Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau. With the professional morals of “competence, persistence & excellence” and “integrity, dedication & devotion to the clients’ interests” that are the most important, he has been providing his clients with high-quality cost-effective professional services, having won the due true recognition and respect from them. In particular, with the mastery of German and Chinese laws as well as the excellent command of German and English, he and his team have been providing more and more German-speaking clients with high-ranking legal services with which they are fully satisfied. As a result, BRIGHT & RIGHT, where he is one of the founding partners, has been listed on the websites of US Embassy, German Embassy and German Chamber of Commerce as one of the law firms recommended therein for international clients, while many other foreign Embassies often let their citizens or companies choose their legal representations in the same lists.
- ■He acts as general legal counsel for many foreign enterprises from EU and USA; he has respectively represented the Chinese and foreign parties in the whole process of several large joint venture incorporations, including negotiations, the drafting, revising and signing of legal documents and the like; he has represented foreign parties in many international arbitration cases; he once acted as the general legal counsel for a high-tech zone, offering legal services to the foreign and domestic enterprises therein; he has advised a few large Chinese private company on their investment activities in Germany and other EU countries; he has also advised several American investment companies on their acquisitions of state-owned shares in China.
- ■In one international maritime case – XXX v. XXX Shipping Co., Ltd. (a Sino-foreign Joint Venture company) regarding the bodily injury in the harbor – that he has concentrated upon for more than two (2) years and finally won, the amount of compensation for the client was so far the highest at that time in China, and the case has been selected by the People’s Supreme Court in the Selection of Cases of People’s Court (see the National Law Database with its law classification code 115811998001).
- ■He has once represented one client – an EU WOFE – and recovered the complete losses for the client through an international arbitration process in the field of project management despite the most disadvantageous circumstances at the very beginning. The client was engaged to do the internal decoration for the plant of another WOFE in China (hereinafter called “principal”). At the moment of the whole project being nearly done, the principal took advantage of the complicated contractual clauses that were extremely to its own favor, unilaterally terminated the contract, and forced the client out of the construction site, while refusing to pay the client the large sum of project payment due, which made the client’s normal business operation fairly difficult. At this critical moment, he resolutely made up his mind to accept the engagement from the client, and together with his colleague Ms Hua Lin, Attorney-at-Law & Partner, confronted the well-prepared contractual clauses that were extremely unfavorable to the client and the lack of sufficient proof therefor on the client's side, and they put their heart into the case, digging deep into the case materials with dedication and concentration, and deeply and completely grasped the case facts and gathered the relevant evidential documentations therefor, and finally made the complete detailed commercial legal action strategy to secure the best legitimate interests of the client. Relying upon their solid, deep legal foundation that they acquired through many years of hard learning of German law in Germany, their complete and deep mastery of case facts, and their excellent command of English as the arbitration language, furthermore, with the whole-hearted full support from the client, they spent numerous sleepless nights and days before the official hearing, digged out each and every detail of the evidential documentations that were favorable to the client, and prepared an extremely large amount of evidential documentations, finally found and achieved two (2) breakthroughs from the very unfavorable case materials. Then, after three (3) formal hearings, which altogether lasted for five (5) full working days, by the international arbitration tribunal, they defeated the various attempts by the principal’s foreign arbitration agents, truly and completely presented the case facts to the arbitration tribunal, and finally won the fair and just award with the full victory for the client. Later on, they continued representing the client in communicating and negotiating with the principal, having the arbitral award completely honored in a timely manner, consequently having recovered the client’s total losses and helped the client overcome the operation difficulties, thus becoming the indispensable, true and trustworthy partner for the client’s business operation in China.
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