Zihang Liu

Commercial Litigation

• Acting in a confidential, high value offshore commercial dispute (led by Jonathan Hilliard KC and James Goodwin).
• Advised on and acted as a sole counsel in a breach of warranty claim arising from the sale of a £24.5 million business, relating to share valuation and accounting misrepresentation.
• 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).
• 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).

Civil Fraud

• Acting in a claim concerning the tracing and recovery of misappropriated cryptoassets valued at over £100 million (led by Thomas Grant KC and Sam Goodman).
• 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 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).

International Arbitration

• Acting for the investor in a multi-billion investor-state arbitration under UNCITRAL rules against several European governments in relation to expropriation of assets (in a team led by Baiju Vasani).
• Assisted in an ICC arbitration concerning the formation and interpretation of a termination agreement in respect of a high-value commodities contract, raising issues such as issue estoppel and non-oral variation clause (in a team led by Gary Born, Rina See and Matteo Angelini).
• Assisted in a billion-dollar arbitration for the seller under ICC rules in respect of alleged breaches of a sale contract in the mining sector (in a team led by Gary Born, Rina See and Matteo Angelini).
• Assisted in an arbitration concerning LNG price renegotiation under a supply contract in the Asia-Pacific region.

Trusts 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).

Insolvency

• Reid-Roberts v Mei-Lin [2026] EWHC 49 (Ch): Acted pro bono (led by Thomas Robinson KC) for the former wife in a dispute concerning the sale of a matrimonial property, raising issues as regards the existence of exceptional circumstances under s.335A Insolvency Act 1986, the test for immediate disposition of a proprietary interest under s.53(1) Law of Property Act 1925, and whether the statutory formality requirements could be satisfied by WhatsApp messages.
• Acted as a sole counsel for a lender in resisting an application to set aside a statutory demand in respect of a £1.4 million debt.

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).