Yamin Liu – Senior Counsel
5 New Street Square
London EC4A 3TW
United Kingdom
DX 41 London
Tel. +44 (0) 20 7300 7000
Fax. +44 (0) 20 7300 7100
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Yamin is Head of the China Group in the UK. She specialises in Chinese-related inward investment work and has, for the past 16 years, been advising Chinese corporations in establishing themselves and operating in the UK.
Yamin has been seconded to Bank of China International (UK) Ltd. as their in-house counsel and has advised Chinese clients in relation to banking, corporate, finance, employment, immigration, intellectual property, real estate and dispute resolution. She has acted for many Chinese national import and export corporations, state-owned commercial banks, provincial government offices and corporations and private individuals. She has been invited on numerous occasions by UKTI, RDAs, and the commercial section of the Chinese Embassy in the UK to give presentations on legal issues concerning inward investment at seminars organised by UKTI in Beijing, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Nanjing, Shanghai Xiamen and Shenzhen.
Recent cases/transactions:
- advised a Chinese Telecommunication Equipment Manufacturer in their investment related Joint Venture project in the UK;
- advised a Chinese State Owned enterprise in their investment project in the UK and help to solve the dispute with their UK partner;
- advised a Chinese bank in relation to the Financial Service Act and regulations and their application for obtaining a deposit taking license;
- advised a UK subsidiary of one of the top five Chinese State Owned enterprises in their cross-border acquisitions; and
- advised a UK PLC of a Chinese group company in their forthcoming application to be listed on AIM.
Yamin graduated from Shanghai Fudan University in 1988 with a BA in English Literature. She qualified as a solicitor in 1999. She can communicate in fluent Mandarin and understand Cantonese and Shanghai dialects.
