Practice areas

Intellectual property; Dispute resolution; Corporate and M&A; Technology, media and telecommunications

Introduction

Michael Liu is a senior partner at the Shanghai office of Dentons China. He is a senior lawyer, a senior economist, and has more than 26 years of experience in legal practice. Liu specialises in intellectual property, major commercial dispute resolution and corporate compliance, and is especially adept at handling difficult and complex legal issues and providing comprehensive legal services and value-added services for clients.

Liu has won the 2022/2021 Chambers and Partners Recommended Lawyer for Intellectual Property (Litigation) in the Asia Pacific; Outstanding Expert of civil and administrative prosecution of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate; 2022/2021/2020 The Legal 500 Recommended Lawyer for Intellectual Property in the Asia Pacific; 2020 ALB Top 15 Intellectual Property Lawyer in China; 2021/2020/2019 China Business Law Journal “A-List” Legal Elite in the China Market; 2022/ 2021 Asialaw Profiles Leading Lawyer; 2022 Benchmark Litigation “Dispute Star” in the field of intellectual property in China; 2020 APAC Insider Legal Awards the Most Trusted IP Professional in Greater China, etc. One of his cases was included in China Business Law Journal’s Deals of the Year 2020.

Liu is also currently a civil and administrative expert of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate, the director of the Intellectual Property Rights Commission, the deputy director of the Practice Dispute Mediation Commission and Disciplinary Commission of the Shanghai Bar Association, a mediator of the Shanghai Economic and Trade Commercial Mediation Centre, a director of the China (Shanghai) Free Trade Experimental Zone Intellectual Property Association, and has served as a member of the Expert Demonstration Commissions of the Shanghai High People’s Court numerous times. Meanwhile, he has served as an instructor for the East China University of Political Science, Tongji University and Shanghai Lawyers College.

Liu has served as a legal adviser and provided legal services for dozens of large state-owned enterprises, foreign enterprises and institutions. He used his familiarity with company operations to improve its corporate governance structures. Moreover, Liu has represented many influential companies in intellectual property, equity dispute and debt dispute cases, and has creatively completed litigations for clients.

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