Alex Yuan
Year qualified: 2010 Bar qualification of the People’s Republic of China
Mr. Alex Yuan began his career in international trade and related dispute resolution in his undergraduate years. Before becoming a licensed lawyer, he had been working in an international trade company for years and practiced in diverse sectors in export and import business.
As a lawyer, Alex focuses on arbitration and litigation, including international sales of goods, commodity trade, transportation, settlement, insurance, technology services, and emission reduction transaction. He has also helped clients dealing with legal issues arising from several cross-border governmental procurements. He has served clients from many jurisdictions and has handled a quite a number of international arbitration cases before ICC, SIAC, HKIAC, JAMS, CIETAC, BAC, SHIAC as well as ad hoc arbitrations seated outside Mainland China. He is particularly skilled in appearing before overseas tribunal and conducting cross-examination in English. He has extensive experience in handling matters where multi-jurisdictions are involved especially on jurisdictional issues in arbitration. Alex is a representative of ICC Young Arbitrator Forum North Asia region.
Practice Area
Panel
- Contributing Author
Experience
- AnJie Law Firm (2013 - 2021)
- Washington Trade Counsel LLC (2015 - 2016)
- Lantai Partners (2010 - 2013)
- Beijing Hejing Law Firm (2009 - 2010)
- Henan Dingde Law Firm (2008 - 2009)
- Henna Datong Export & Import Co., Ltd. (2005 - 2008)
Membership
- Reginal representative of North Asia Region - ICC Young Arbitrator Forum
Qualifications
- LL.M (2015)
- LL.B (2006)
- B. Ec (2005)
Education
- University of Southern California Gould School of Law (2015)
- Wuhan University (2006)
- Wuhan University of Technology (2005)
2 Contributions by Alex Yuan
PRACTICE NOTES
Interim measures in Mainland China arbitration: court-only relief, application routes and thresholds, enforcement, and Hong Kong/Macau mutual assistance (PRC Arbitration Law and Civil Procedure Law, 2025 amendments)
Interim measures in support of arbitration in China
This Practice Note reviews the availability of interim measures in aid of arbitration in China under the law of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The references to ‘China’ and ‘PRC’ denote Mainland China, excluding Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. It has been updated to reflect the 2025 amendments that take effect on 1 March 2026, and all citations to the Arbitration Law are to the law as amended. In China, arbitral tribunals have no authority to grant interim measures, irrespective of the arbitration rules selected. They are also barred from doing so even where the applicable rules expressly purport to confer such powers. Put simply, a party seeking interim measures must first submit its request to the arbitration institution, which will then transmit the application to the competent court. Arbitration institutions and tribunals are not permitted to consider the merits of an interim measures application. Under Article 104 of the Civil Procedure Law (‘Civil Procedure Law’, amended in 2023 and effective from 1 January 2024), a claimant in arbitration may apply for interim...
Arbitration
PRACTICE NOTES
Setting aside arbitral awards in Mainland China: jurisdiction, procedure, time limits, grounds, suspension of enforcement, and Prior Reporting under the 2023–2026 legal reforms
The National People’s Congress of the People’s of China
Under PRC law, a party to arbitration may petition a PRC court to challenge or set aside an arbitral award. In many jurisdictions, the set-aside is termed vacation or annulment. This Practice Note has been updated to account for the 2025 amendments, which come into force on 1 March 2026. All references to articles of the Arbitration Law are to the law as amended.
Jurisdiction of the PRC courts and general procedure
As a matter of statute, PRC courts may annul only those arbitration awards seated in Mainland China and issued by arbitration institutions in Mainland China (Article 72 of the Arbitration Law, as amended in 2025). The Arbitration Law has no binding effect on awards seated outside those territories. Consequently, PRC courts have no power to set aside awards seated in Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, or in foreign states. Accordingly, the Arbitration Law binds only Mainland-seated proceedings and Mainland institutions within the PRC...
Arbitration
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