Liu Hui

Liu Hui is a Senior Counsel in our Disputes and Investigations Group. Her experience includes advising FTSE 100 companies, multinational corporates, financial institutions (including funds) and trustees on their most significant contentious matters. She advises on a broad range of contentious issues, including civil fraud, bribery and corruption disputes, economic torts and climate litigation. 

Liu Hui has broad experience acting in large scale multi-jurisdictional litigation and arbitration, investigations (both internal and regulatory) as well as in contentious restructuring. 

Highlights include advising:

• Credit Suisse in complex, multiparty litigation in the English High Court arising out of the US$2bn financing of state tuna fishery and maritime security projects in the Republic of Mozambique between 2013 and 2016. Following settlements reported in October and November 2023, the litigation was successfully resolved so far as concerns Credit Suisse.
• Shell plc and its Board of Directors on a threatened derivative action brought by ClientEarth, a minority shareholder, based on allegations of breaches of directors’ duties in respect of the Board’s management of Shell’s climate change related risks and response.
• The Football Association Premier League Limited in respect of various high-profile and complex matters arising out of the application of the Premier League Rules.
• Novitas Loans Limited, a subsidiary of Close Brothers, in relation to two claims brought in the Commercial Court by Novitas against two separate after-the-event insurers for breach of contract in relation to a failed litigation funding scheme.
• Standard Life Aberdeen (SLA) group in an arbitration with Lloyds Banking Group in respect of the termination of a long term investment management contract. The arbitral tribunal ruled in SLA’s favour in March 2019.
• A major aerospace manufacturer in respect of a claim for up to US$500m under a new and untested type of cover for certain liabilities arising from the grounding of aircraft.
• Mercuria Energy Europe Trading in claims brought against it and its co-defendant, The Royal Bank of Scotland, arising out of missing trader vat in the carbon emissions market (“carousel fraud”).
• Deutsche Bank in relation to extensive regulatory investigations into the setting of various interbank benchmark rates – including LIBOR – over a number of years across multiple jurisdictions, including the US, UK and Germany, and on the subsequent coordinated settlements.
• British American Tobacco plc in connection with the SFO’s investigation of suspicions of corruption which was concluded in 2021.
• Premier Oil plc on the successful sanction of its contested schemes of arrangement in 2020