Edward Lu

Introduction

Edward Lu is a partner at DaHui Lawyers’ Beijing office and the managing partner of its Wuhan office. With over a decade of practice, he focuses on complex commercial disputes and investigations, specialising in cross-border matters. He has represented Chinese and foreign clients in more than a hundred cases involving Chinese litigation and arbitration, international arbitration, cross-border litigation, government investigations, internal corporate investigations, crisis management and labour disputes. He has been praised by clients as “knowledgeable in international dispute resolution” and “experienced in all types of commercial disputes including real estate, construction and energy”.

Lu’s dispute resolution expertise has been tested in his successful representation of clients in domestic and international arbitration cases conducted in jurisdictions such as London, Singapore, Hong Kong, Paris, Washington, Los Angeles, Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen. He has prevailed in litigation cases in various courts across China as a trial lawyer and has acted as a lead and co-ordinating lawyer in a number of cross-border litigations before overseas courts. In recent years, Lu has handled many high-profile cases, including representing a Chinese state-owned investment group in a series of corporate control disputes involving more than RMB2 billion (USD275.8 million) in mainland China, Hong Kong and the Cayman Islands, with more than 10 arbitration and litigation cases.

Government and internal investigations are also in Lu’s wheelhouse. He has extensive experience in assisting multinational corporations and Fortune 500 companies with complex government and internal investigations, public incident response and other crisis management covering anti-fraud, commercial bribery, non-compliance related party transactions and trade secret infringement, advertising compliance, labour, inter alia, enabling clients to avoid penalties and recover substantial losses.

Lu was listed in The Legal 500’s inaugural “Arbitration Powerlist – China” in 2023, and was recommended in litigation, arbitration and labour/employment. He was recognised as one of the “Top 10 Outstanding Young Lawyers in China” by China Legal Education and Career Seminar Series, and selected as one of the top 30 lawyers in Legalband’s “30 Under 30 China” in 2020.