Vincent Mu

Mr. Vincent Mu received his LL.B. degree from Zhongnan University of Economics and Law; LL.M. degree and Ph.D. degree from Wuhan University.

Mr. Mu’s practice focuses on dispute resolution. He has extensive experience handling complex commercial disputes and is widely regarded as one of the leading PRC lawyers in cross-border dispute resolution.

As counsel, Mr. Mu has acted in numerous high-profile domestic and cross-border commercial disputes. He is among the very few PRC lawyers who have been consistently recommended by Chambers and Partners in both Litigation and Arbitration. Matters in which he has acted have been selected as Supreme People's Court Guiding Cases, providing important guidance to courts at all levels in comparable disputes, and his experience in commercial arbitration is likewise widely recognized by the market.

In recent years, Mr. Mu has acted as an expert witness on PRC law in dozens of overseas litigation and arbitration proceedings, providing legal opinions to courts and arbitral tribunals in jurisdictions including the United States, the United Kingdom, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands and Hong Kong on issues of PRC company law, contract law and arbitration law. He regularly works in English throughout all stages of such proceedings, including the preparation of written reports, depositions and cross-examinations.

Mr. Mu has been appointed as an arbitrator by the Shanghai International Arbitration Center (SHIAC), the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC), the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC), the China Maritime Arbitration Commission (CMAC), the Shanghai Arbitration Commission (SHAC) and the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration (SCIA). He is a member of the first cohort of experts in the Shanghai International Arbitration Expert Database and one of the first batch of neutral experts for the APEC Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) mechanism. Mr. Mu has also been invited by internationally recognized media outlets, including China Business Law Journal and China Law & Practice, to comment on commercial arbitration, and his commentary has been widely noted and cited in the field.

Mr. Mu was recognized as one of the "Shanghai Top 10 Outstanding Young Lawyers" from 2011 to 2013. Since his sixth year of practice in 2014, Mr. Mu has been consistently recommended by Chambers and Partners each year. and has also been recognized by The Legal 500 and Benchmark Litigation. In 2021, he was listed in LEGALBAND's "Top 15 Litigators". In 2022, he was named one of "ALB China Top 15 Litigators". In 2023, he was selected for China Business Law Journal's "The A-List: China's Elite Lawyers (2023)".