Lei Niu

Practice Areas

Lei Niu's practice focuses on dispute resolution, intellectual property, compliance & risk control, debt restructuring & corporate liquidation/bankruptcy, shipping and real estate & construction.

Career

Lei Niu has represented many of the world’s leading multinational companies and international financial institutions before the Arbitration Court of International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), Singapore International Arbitration Center (SIAC), Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC), China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC), China Maritime Arbitration Commission (CMAC), Shanghai International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (SHIAC), Beijing Arbitration Commission (BAC), Shanghai Arbitration Commission, as well as various ad hoc arbitral tribunals in London, Hong Kong and other jurisdictions, with which he has built a solid practice record in international commercial arbitration.

Lei Niu is also a litigation lawyer and has represented clients in before China’s Supreme People’s Court (SPC) and various provincial high courts, intermediate courts, district courts, financial and maritime courts in different localities, involving disputes concerning corporate organizations, private equity and investment funds, real estate and construction, finance lease, insurance, intellectual property, shipping, among others. A retrial case instituted through the adjudicatory supervision procedure which Lei Niu won before the SPC was selected by the Court as one of the “Ten Model Cases of the Supreme People’s Court in 2016”.

As an arbitrator and mediator, Lei Niu sits on the panels of CIETAC, CMAC, HKIAC and SIMC (Singapore International Mediation Centre) and other institutes and was appointed as the presiding arbitrator/sole arbitrator/co-arbitrator in more than 300 arbitration cases.

Professional Memberships

Arbitrator of CIETAC (China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission)

Arbitrator of CMAC (China Maritime Arbitration Commission)

Arbitrator of HKIAC (Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre)

Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators

Arbitrator of AIAC (Asia International Arbitration Center in Malaysia)

Arbitrator of SCMA （Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration )

Specialist Mediator of SIMC (Singapore International Mediation Centre)

Mediator of CCPIT Mediation Center

Arbitrator of Nanjing Arbitration Commission

Arbitrator of Ningbo Arbitration Commission

Arbitrator of Qingdao Arbitration Commission

Arbitrator of Langfang Arbitration Commission

Publications

International Business Arbitration, (Co-author, Compiled by Shanghai Bar Association, Law Press)

A Comparative Study of London Maritime Arbitration System and China Maritime Arbitration System, 13 (3), 2006 of Journal of International Economic Law

Introduction to the 2004 Rules of CMAC, July 2005 of Asian Dispute Review