Shirley Liu

+86 21 6086 0167
shirley.liu@shanghaipacificlegal.com

Shirley Liu is a compliance investigation and dispute resolution lawyer, specialising in conducting comprehensive investigations and providing whole course solutions for civil, criminal, labor, and other disputes.

Before joining, Shirley worked at a well-known law firm. She has extensive experience in the field of internal investigations, providing service on disputes relating to anti-fraud, anti-commercial bribery, anti-unfair competition, white-collar crime, and intellectual property rights protection. Her clients throughout various industries, including manufacturing, retail, finance, healthcare, and chemical industries.

Shirley also possesses a wealth of experience in the field of dispute resolution, primarily involving fund-related, trust-related, REITs, and public company information disclosure-related commercial litigation and arbitration, administrative penalty hearings, and criminal dispute resolution.

Additionally, Shirley also advises clients on general compliance with respect to anti-commercial bribery, data compliance, financial compliance, and corporate governance.

Practice

• Compliance and investigation
• Litigation and disputes
  
   

Key industry

• Manufacture
• Consumer markets
• Financial institution 
• Life sciences and healthcare
  
   

Representative experience

• Conducted an internal investigation and provided legal solutions for a Fortune 500 sportswear company regarding allegations of employee involvement in commercial bribery and embezzlement.
• Delivered anti-match-fixing, anti-corruption, and anti-commercial bribery training as well as routine internal investigations for over five clubs of a top gaming company.
• Conducted an internal investigation and advised on dispute resolutions for a Fortune 500 chemical company regarding trade secret infringement.
• Conducted an internal investigation for a Fortune 500 electrical company concerning conflicts of interest involving a subsidiary's general manager.
• Conducted an internal investigation for an international asset management company regarding allegations of commercial bribery involving a property manager.
• Conducted an internal investigation for an airport commercial management company regarding allegations of embezzlement involving a subsidiary's financial director.
• Represented the son of a high-ranking executive of a listed company in an insider trading administrative penalty case (The advice was adopted by following the decision of the China Securities Regulatory Commission).
• Provided legal services for cases involving illegal acceptance of public deposits by executives of a certain company, bribery involving non-governmental officials by executives of another company, and market manipulation by the actual controller of a listed company.
• Provided trustee with legal services with respect to contractual dispute cases (arbitration) with underlying asset default parties and warrantors; Provided trust companies with legal services with respect to contractual dispute cases with trust loan borrowers and warrantors.

Education

• Tongji University, LLM
• Tongji University, LLB

Admissions

• PRC

Language

• Chinese
• English