Haiyi Liu

About Haiyi Liu

Haiyi is an Associate in our international arbitration group, currently based in Singapore. His practice focuses on complex cross-border commercial disputes and arbitration matters.

In addition to handling disputes, Haiyi has advised on a wide range of regulatory and transactional matters of strategic importance to clients, during his tenure at international law firms in Hong Kong and London.  The breadth of his experience continues to inform his disputes practice.

Haiyi’s diverse experience also includes studying on a full-ride Japanese government (Monbukagakusho) scholarship in Japan, and subsequently executing internal audit projects across Asia and Europe while based out of Tokyo. Haiyi is a native Mandarin Chinese speaker and speaks fluent Japanese.

Recent work

• Assisting a global energy company in enforcing a SIAC arbitration award in China.
• Assisting a multinational consumer goods company in analysing the enforceability of potential adverse judgments arising from mass claims in foreign jurisdictions.
• Representing a Chinese tech company in multiple HKIAC arbitrations arising from post-M&A disputes.*
• Representing a publicly traded Chinese industrial company in an HKIAC arbitration arising from its commercial disputes with a European manufacturer.*
• Acting for a UK subsidiary of a Japanese manufacturer in an ICC arbitration arising out of sale of goods contracts.*
• Assisting two US companies in enforcing an arbitration award against a company in Hong Kong.*
• Advising a European media company on an internal investigation of its Chinese portfolio company.*
• Advising liquidators of a global cryptocurrency trading platform on a cross-border liquidation process, including the resolution of actual and potential disputes.*
• Counselling multinational companies on antitrust and regulatory issues arising out of cross-border M&A transactions, and local and global operations.*

*Matters worked on before joining Freshfields.