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Zihang Liu

Wilberforce Chambers
Zihang joined Wilberforce Chambers in October 2025 following the successful completion of his pupillage. During that time, he gained experience across Chambers’ core areas of work and is now developing a broad commercial chancery practice.
 
Before coming to the Bar, Zihang worked at a leading international law firm as a legal consultant. He specialised in international commercial arbitration and has experience of high-value disputes under ICC, LCIA and UNCITRAL rules. Zihang also taught Trusts and Land Law at several colleges at the University of Oxford. His academic writing has been published in leading journals including the Law Quarterly Review and Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly. His work was recently cited with approval by Lord Burrows (dissenting) in Stevens v Hotel Portfolio II UK Ltd [2025] UKSC 28.
 
Zihang read law at the University of Cambridge, graduating with a First Class degree and winning the Clifford Chance David Gottlieb Prize for best performance in his second year. He spent part of his undergraduate studies in the Netherlands reading Art History, before completing the BCL at the University of Oxford on a funded scholarship.

Practice Area

Panel

  • Contributing Author

Qualified Year

  • 2024

Experience

  • Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP (2022 - 2023)

Membership

  • COMBAR

Qualifications

  • BCL (2022)
  • BA (Law) (2021)

Education

  • University of Oxford (2021-2022)
  • University of Cambridge (2017-2021)

1 Contributions by Zihang Liu

Insolvency office-holders and adverse costs in litigation: personal liability, recoupment from the estate, discontinuance, priority of orders, and security for costs (England and Wales)
PRACTICE NOTES
Insolvency office-holders and adverse costs in litigation: personal liability, recoupment from the estate, discontinuance, priority of orders, and security for costs (England and Wales)
This Practice Note sets out the following facets and issues concerning an office-holder’s exposure to adverse costs in litigation: the overall position where an office-holder is a claimant or a defendant in proceedings the office-holder’s entitlement to reimbursement from the insolvent estate the possible costs implications of discontinuing a claim the potential ranking of any adverse costs order the personal exposure of office-holders for adverse costs security for costs The general position if an office-holder is a claimant or defendant in litigation If an office-holder issues proceedings in their own name, they proceed entirely at their own risk as to costs. Should a costs order be made against them, they are personally liable and cannot confine that liability to the extent of assets available in the insolvent estate (Re Wilson Lovatt & Sons). However, unless the court directs otherwise, they will have a right to reimburse the amount of any adverse costs order from the insolvent estate. That right is, of course, only of value to the extent the estate holds assets...
Restructuring & Insolvency
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