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Ronghua (Andy) Liao
andy.liao@hankunlaw.com
+86 21 6080 0990
Shanghai
Professionals Ronghua (Andy) Liao

Work experience

Andy is a partner at Han Kun's dispute resolution department.  His practice focuses on litigation and arbitration, cross-border dispute resolution, fraud and asset recovery, enforcement of foreign judgments, restructuring and insolvency.
In the field of international fraud and asset recovery, Andy is one of the few PRC lawyers widely recognized by the international legal community.  Over the years, he has represented Han Kun in authoring the China chapters for several international publications on fraud and asset recovery, including The Legal 500 Country Comparative Guide 2026 – Asset Tracing and Recovery, The Asset Tracing and Recovery Review, Chambers Global Practice Guides – International Fraud & Asset Tracing, CDR Essential Intelligence: Fraud, Asset Tracing & Recovery, and ICC FraudNet Global Annual Report 2025 – A Guide to Recovering Assets in Mainland China for Overseas Victims of Cross-Border E-Commerce Fraud.  Han Kun is the only law firm from China in these publications.
Andy has enormous knowledge and in-depth understanding in his specialized areas, and has represented a number of banks, companies and HNWIs from various jurisdictions and successfully traced and recovered huge amounts of defrauded funds.  He is the sole China member of ICC FraudNet, an international network under the auspices of ICC Commercial Crime Services and comprising leading civil asset recovery specialists and independent lawyers from more than 80 jurisdictions.
In international litigation matters involving China, Andy has been invited to assist courts in the United States, Canada, Singapore, Hong Kong, the BVI, the Cayman Islands and other jurisdictions in providing expert witness on PRC legal issues, covering areas including cross-border investment, foreign exchange regulation, VIE structures, cross-border evidence taking, cross-border insolvency, Keepwell Deeds, and state-owned asset supervision.
Andy currently serves as an arbitrator at the Shanghai International Arbitration Center and the Shanghai Arbitration Commission.  He frequently participates in the hearing and adjudication of commercial arbitration cases as an arbitrator, mainly handling disputes involving private equity funds and financial asset management, equity repurchase, company mergers and acquisitions, construction project contracts, goods sales contracts, franchise contracts, and technology transfer contracts.
Andy is currently a member of the International Bar Association, a member of the IBA Asset Recovery Committee, and a member of INSOL International.  He is frequently invited to attend and speak on relevant topics at international conferences in the field of fraud and asset recovery, such as C5 Fraud & Asset Tracing and Recovery, Offshore Alert, FIRE, the Asset Recovery Series, the IBA Asset Recovery Committee Annual Conference, and the ICC FraudNet Annual Conference.
Based on his distinguished performance in dispute resolution, Andy has been rated by The Legal 500 as a highly recommended dispute resolution lawyer in the Asia Pacific for 2019 and 2021.  He has also been repeatedly awarded the Thought Leader award by Mondaq under the Legal 500.

Educational background

Andy obtained his LL.B. and LL.M. degrees from East China University of Political Science and Law and Fudan University Law School, respectively.

Practice qualification

Member of the PRC Bar

Working language

Chinese,English

Professional field

Han Kun
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