Professional Experience

Jay (Jie) Yu is a partner at Merits & Tree. Before joining Merits & Tree, he was a partner at Guantao Law Firm. He also worked at an international law firm in its New York office, and as a visiting lawyer at Monckton Chambers in London. 

Mr. Yu has extensive experience in representing clients in litigations and arbitrations, and has successfully advocated in many complex cases involving finance, corporate, commercial, intellectual property rights (“IPR”), competition matters, etc. 

Mr. Yu specializes in financial, securities investment, asset-management disputes, shareholders’ disputes, derivative suits, dissolution lawsuits etc. In terms of IPR disputes, he is an expert in software, online copyright, and new-type anti-competition disputes. One of the cases he represented was selected by Shanghai High People’s Court as a top-ten guiding IPR case. 

Education

LL.B., Shanghai International Studies University

LL.M., Georgetown University, with Distinction

Qualifications

Mr. Yu has been admitted to practice in the People’s Republic of China and the State of New York, United States.

Working language

Chinese and English