Practice Areas and Experience
Ms. Lu is a licensed attorney in New York State and Washington, D.C.. She primarily practices in cross-border legal services, M&A litigation, regulatory compliance, and general corporate matters.
【Practice Overview】
Ms. Lu has served as either lead counsel or a key member of the legal team in over 20 complex cross-border and U.S. based commercial litigations involving claims in excess of tens of millions RMB. Ms. Lu has represented major domestic private enterprises, global leading foreign-invested companies, and financial institutions in commercial disputes involving technology contracts, investment disagreements, enforcement of repurchase clauses, tort liability, and labor-related claims, with particular experience in real estate disputes and cross-border contract enforcement.
She has acted on behalf of hedge funds, sovereign and pension funds, venture capital firms, and high-net-worth individuals in initiating financial disputes before both state and federal courts, as well as mediation and arbitration bodies in New York, California, Delaware, and Washington.
Ms. Lu also regularly advise clients in connection with recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments involving domestic assets and offshore equity disputes linked to Chinese parties.
Ms. Lu has served as an expert witness in Chinese corporate law, having been engaged by Chinese courts to issue legal opinions as an expert in the field.
【Regulatory Compliance and Corporate Advisory】
Ms. Lu also provides specialized legal advice on data compliance and common law equity structuring for financial institutions and banking clients. Her compliance work also includes issuing legal opinions on special regulatory matters, data compliance training, development of internal risk-control systems, internal investigations, and litigation-coordinated response protocols. Ms. Lu has exposure on regulatory proceedings involving the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA).
【Prior Experience】
Prior to joining Tsinglaw, Mr. Lu worked at the New York office of a Chambers-ranked leading U.S. litigation law firm, which has been ranked Tier 1 in shareholder and securities litigation by Benchmark Litigation.
Social Activities & Accolades
Ms. Lu previously served as a mediation assistant at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. She also worked as a long-term assistant in the Criminal Division of the Queens County District Attorney’s Office in New York City. She is also an honorary member of Fordham Law School’s Moot Court Society.
Academic Achievements
Ms. Lu is the co-author of the article Voting Rights and the Electoral Process: Resolving Representation Issues Due to Felony Disenfranchisement and Prison Gerrymandering, published in the 2023 volume of the Fordham Journal of Elections and Democracy. She also previously served as Managing-Editor of the Fordham Environmental Law Review.
Education
Columbia University, B.A., cum laude
Fordham University School of Law, J.D.