Fang (Helen) Liu

Ms. Fang (Helen) Liu is the Director of International Practice Group of Beijing Tiantai Law Firm. She is licensed to practice law both in China (PRC) and in the United States (New York, California, Michigan and Washington D.C.).

Ms. Liu received her LL.B. degree from Peking University Law School in 1999; her J.D., magna cum laude (top 1%, 2 out of 438, with 19 book awards), from Western Michigan University Cooley Law School in 2013; and her LL.M. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law in 2014, with Certificate of Specialization in Business Law.

Ms. Liu is specialized in Corporate Law, Cross-border M&A, Private Equity, IP Licensing, and Foreign-related dispute resolutions. She is the legal counsel for many traditional and high-tech enterprises and provides foreign-related legal services for many domestic and international clients. Ms. Liu has successfully helped many clients on numerous cross-border transactions.

While Ms. Liu practiced law in China before 2009, she was the General Counsel of Stellar MegaMedia Group and a Corporate Attorney at Tiantai Law Firm. While she was in the United States between 2009 and 2017, she interned with Honorable Justice Stephen Markman at the Michigan Supreme Court, with Honorable Judge Christopher Yates at the 17 Circuit Business Court in Michigan, and worked at Dickinson Wright PLLC, where she was the only attorney who was qualified to practice law both in China and in the United States.

Ms. Liu returned to China in 2018. Soon she was honored the “2020 Asialaw Leading Lawyer in the field of Corporate and M&A,” the “2021 Deal Maker Award” by Finance Monthly, the “Lawyer of the Year 2021” in the field of Corporate Law by Lawyer Monthly, and the “Global Law Expert on Corporate and M&A,” among many others.

Ms. Liu is also a Senior Research Fellow of UC Berkeley Center for Law & Technology (BCLT), co-authored the famous book IP Strategy For Business with Prof. Robert Merges at UC Berkeley law school.