Liu Yuxiang

Introduction

Liu Yuxiang is a partner at Haiwen & Partners with extensive experience in the areas of employment and labour, anti-corruption and compliance in his more than a decade of practising law. Liu joined Haiwen in 2019 as a partner, and before then was a partner at a boutique labor law firm, and head of its Beijing office.

Liu is the director of the International Law School Alumni Association of the China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL); a CUPL undergraduate practice tutor; an arbitrator for the Chinese Football Association Dispute Resolution Committee; and a distinguished research fellow at administrative prosecution research base in Zhejiang Provincial People’s Procuratorate. Liu has been invited as a columnist in international legal platforms such as LexisNexis and Wolters Kluwer, and presided over the writing of The Practical Handbook of Employment Management in the Financial Industry, and The Blue Book of Non-Competition Disputes.

Liu has received honours including: the “Employment Lawyer” of The Legal 500 Greater China 2026 rankings; nominated for “China Labour & Employment Lawyer” in 2024; and obtained the team leader of the Labour & Employment practice highlighted in The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific 2023 “Ones to Watch” for China; received awards in Employment & Labour Law category in 2025, and “Rising Star” in the 2024 edition of “The A-List” in China Business Law Journal; nominated as “Employment Lawyer of the Year 2022” at the China Law & Practice Awards; and ranked among LEGALBAND’s “Top 30 elite lawyers” for 2016.

Liu has provided compliance, anti-corruption and commercial bribery legal advice, labour law consulting services, and HR management training to a number of corporations, and also has extensive experience in handling senior management exit cases, non-competition restrictions, commercial corruption/compliance, class action litigation, and systematic employee replacement.

Liu received his LLB from the China University of Political Science and Law, and LLM from Washington University in St Louis, Missouri, US.