Complex commercial litigation in the United States demands experience, good judgment, legal finesse, procedural discipline, and courtroom skill. For Chinese individuals and businesses operating across borders, those demands can be compounded by language, cultural context, and the unfamiliar structure of U.S. litigation. As Mandarin-fluent U.S. trial lawyers handling complex commercial litigation, Mr. Angus Ni and partner Ms. Xinlin Li Morrow, occupy that intersection through their litigation boutique: Morrow Ni LLP.
A Practice Built on Rare Qualifications
Angus Ni is a co-founder of Morrow Ni LLP and one of a small number of U.S. trial lawyers who combine a sophisticated complex commercial litigation practice with Mandarin fluency.
Before establishing Morrow Ni LLP, Angus Ni worked as a litigator at Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossman LLP. In that role, the practice included prosecuting securities class actions against U.S.-listed corporations on behalf of hedge fund and pension fund investors. The matters involved multiple industries, federal jurisdictions, and both domestic and international discovery. That background gives Angus Ni and the team at Morrow Ni LLP a foundation in high stakes securities litigation grounded in extensive, institutional experience. .
From International Arbitration to Securities Class Actions
International Arbitration and Cross-Border Investigations
Mr. Ni’s earlier work at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP included international commercial arbitrations before ICC and ICSID Tribunals. That experience is also central to Mr. Ni’s current international arbitration practice, involving mult-jurisdictional arbitrations before tribunals seated in several different countries, and constituted before several arbitral institutions in the U.S. and Asia (including the AAA, JAMS in the U.S., as well as the Hong Kong and Singapore International Arbitration Centres). .
For clients moving between Chinese business contexts and U.S. or other English-speaking legal systems, Morrow Ni LLP’s cross-border experience matters. Counsel must be able to assess documents, facts, legal risk, and strategy across jurisdictions without losing precision. That is where the combination of Mandarin fluency and native U.S. litigation training becomes a massive advantage.
Securities Litigation Across Multiple Jurisdictions
Securities class actions require lawyers to manage large records, complex discovery, procedural challenges, and complex liability and damages theories tied to investor loss and corporate disclosure. They also require credibility with sophisticated courts that deal frequently with high damages, high complexity securities law issues.
That means experience matters. Mr. Angus Ni has personally litigated dozens of securities cases from both the plaintiff and defense side. Understanding how securities claims are built from the plaintiff side can help companies evaluate exposure before disputes escalate. Knowing how companies defend securities cases helps plaintiff-side clients negotiate earlier settlements and avoid unnecessary litigation.
The Pro Bono Record: United States v. Zhu Hailong
Litigation ability is often described in broad terms, but trial outcomes provide clearer evidence. In 2023, in United States v. Zhu Hailong, Angus Ni, representing the client pro bono, helped the Eastern District of Virginia’s Public Defender’s office secure a judgment of acquittal on behalf of Hailong Zhu following a federal criminal bank fraud trial. In particular, Mr. Ni’s cross-examination led to the arresting agent admitting on the stand that the charged criminal defendant Mr. Zhu was as much a victim as he was an accused. Mr. Ni also cross examined the government’s translator into conceding on the stand that, according to the text messages she translated, other defendants not present were the primary perpetrators of the crime alleged, who used and took advantage of the defendant Mr. Zhu.
Serving Chinese Clients in U.S. and Transnational Disputes
Morrow Ni LLP serves Chinese individuals and companies engaged in complex commercial disputes before U.S. courts. For this client base, Mandarin fluency is not a convenience. It is critical to affect how facts are gathered, how evidence is adduced, produced, and presented, how strategy is explained, and even more fundamentally, how clients participate in decisions that carry major consequences.
The representation provided by Angus Ni, one of the “go to” Chinese-speaking attorneys for transnational commercial disputes, reduces the communication gap that Chinese clients face when entering an unfamiliar legal system.
What Distinguishes the Practice
The profile is specific. Angus Ni is a securities class action specialist, an international arbitration litigator , and a trial lawyer with a federal criminal acquittal under the belt. The unique value he delivers is not in any one credential alone. It is in the combination.
About Angus Ni
Angus Ni is a trial lawyer and co-founder of Morrow Ni LLP, a U.S. law firm focused on complex commercial litigation and securities matters for Chinese-speaking clients engaged in transnational disputes.. Learn more about Mr. Angus Ni, his law partner Xinlin Li Morrow, and their colleagues, through Morrow Ni LLP’s official news page.
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