Practice overview

Zihang joined Chambers in October 2025 following the successful completion of his pupillage. During that time, he gained experience across Chambers’ core areas of work and is now developing a broad commercial chancery practice. He accepts instructions both as sole counsel and as part of a team.

Before coming to the Bar, Zihang worked at a leading international law firm as a legal consultant. He specialised in international commercial arbitration and has experience of high-value disputes under ICC, LCIA and UNCITRAL rules.

Zihang also taught Trusts and Land Law at several colleges at the University of Oxford. His academic writing has been published in leading journals including the Law Quarterly Review and Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly. His work was recently cited with approval by Lord Burrows (dissenting) in Stevens v Hotel Portfolio II UK Ltd [2025] UKSC 28. Before training as a lawyer, Zihang worked as a research intern at a leading policy think tank in Washington D.C..

Zihang read law at the University of Cambridge, graduating with a First Class degree and winning the Clifford Chance David Gottlieb Prize for best performance in his second year. He spent part of his undergraduate studies in the Netherlands reading Art History, before completing the BCL at the University of Oxford on a funded scholarship.

Born and raised in mainland China, he has a strong interest in the Chinese market and is a native Mandarin speaker.

Zihang's expertise

Commercial

  • Assisted in a dispute between family members resulting in multiple sets of proceedings including an unfair prejudice petition and disputes over the ownership of various assets including shares in valuable companies and properties (during pupillage, with James Goodwin).
  • Assisted in resisting an application to extend time for service of a claim form in California (during pupillage, with James Goodwin).
  • Assisted in advising on a dispute involving breach of a land option agreement, breach of confidentiality obligations, and conspiracy claims (during pupillage, with James Goodwin).
  • Assisted in advising on the termination of a conditional share purchase agreement (during pupillage, with Harriet Holmes).
  • Assisted in a multimillion-dollar dispute arising from a loan facility and arbitration award, involving claims of conspiracy, breach of trust, dishonest assistance, and knowing receipt (during pupillage, with James Walmsley).
  • Assisted in advising on compound interest issues in an IP infringement claim (during pupillage, with James Walmsley).
  • Assisted in an application to discharge a freezing injunction before the BVI High Court (during pupillage, with Tom Roscoe).
  • Assisted in an appeal concerning the BVI court’s jurisdiction in a dispute between shareholders of a family company (during pupillage, with Tom Roscoe).
  • Assisted in a dispute involving alleged breaches of duty by receivers in an offshore jurisdiction (during pupillage, with Thomas Robinson KC).

Trusts, Probate, and Private Wealth

  • Assisted in a multibillion-dollar commercial trusts dispute, concerning a contested distribution of the entirety of the trust assets to the settlor-beneficiary (during pupillage, with James Goodwin).
  • Assisted in a dispute concerning restructuring proposals for a Guernsey trust (during pupillage, with Tom Roscoe).

Property

  • Assisted in a dispute for the landlord and owner of the Centre Point site concerning a multimillion-pound façade replacement scheme for its residential flats (during pupillage, with Harriet Holmes).
  • Assisted in advising on the enforceability of a conditional covenant to transfer land (during pupillage, with Harriet Holmes).
  • Assisted in a dispute concerning recovery of rent under section 17 of the Landlord and Tenant (Covenants) Act 1995 (during pupillage, with Harriet Holmes).
  • Assisted in an appeal before the Privy Council concerning adverse possession in the Bahamas (during pupillage, with Harriet Holmes).

Zihang's Details

BSB/VAT information

Registered name: Zihang Liu
VAT number: XXXXXXXXX

Qualifications

  • BA Law, University of Cambridge (First Class)
  • BCL, University of Oxford

Publications

    • Equitable Set Off, Election, and Constructive Trusts [2024] Law Quarterly Review (with Matthew Frey)
    • Non-Assignment Clauses and Involuntary Transfers [2023] Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly (with Eliza Bond)
    • Squaring the Circle: The Account of Profits and the Equitable Allowance [2023] Trust & Trustees (with Eliza Bond)

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