Cathy Liu，General Counsel of China Agri-Industries Holdings Limited, arbitrator of CIETAC, SIAC (Singapore International Arbitration Center) and BIAC (Beijing International Arbitration Center); Member of “Global Policy Committee” of Gafta (Grain and Feed Trade Association)

Ms. Cathy Liu graduated from University of International Business and Economics and had her LLM degree in Northwestern University, School of Law in Chicago, USA. She has Chinese Bar as well as US bar. After years of practice, she has quite successful experiences including but not limited to negotiation and drafting of billion-dollar contracts, providing legal supports for corporate M&As and establishments of Greenfield Projects, winning multiple multi-million USD international arbitration and litigation cases, protecting corporate IPR rights both domestically and globally . As General Counsel of a Listed Company in Hong Kong, she is also quite familiar with the Listing rules of HKEX and its recent developments. She plays a key role in communications with HKEX on compliance issues of the company. After the Group Company COFCO’s recent acquisition of Noble Agri and Nidera, she has been also responsible for COFCO’s Group-wide integration of legal, compliance and policy-related issues, especially from international perspective. She is also the sole representative of COFCO Group for IGTC (International Grain Trade Coalition) and she successfully hosted “IGTC Beijing Forum” on behalf of COFCO.

Being an arbitrator of CIETAC, BIAC and SIAC, Ms. Cathy Liu in recent years has participated in over 30 arbitration cases as arbitrator and she acts as sole arbitrator or presiding arbitrator in most of the cases. Some of the cases concern foreign parties and her good mastery of English Language facilitates a lot when English is the arbitration language in those cases.