I have a varied client base ranging from international financial institutions, regulator, local and international conglomerates, listed corporations, high net-worth families and individuals to investors and finance professionals. My particular experience in commercial disputes involve shareholder and boardroom disputes, contractual, stock-lending claims, and employment-related claims involving private equity and hedge funds. On the contentious regulatory front, I have acted in numerous investigations commenced by the Securities and Futures Commission, and regularly act for companies, directors and individuals identified as witnesses in such investigations. I have been involved in a number of raids carried out by the SFC and the ICAC and have both advised companies in devising policies for handling raids as well as provided training to company directors and management in the handling and response to dawn raids.

Career Highlights

• Acting in disputes involving banks, funds, institutional as well as high net-worth investors in relation to significant investment losses arising from complex financial products, including accumulator contracts and complex forex products.
• Acting in a number of court and arbitration proceedings arising from disputes concerning stock-secured financing agreements, allegations of fraud and multiple injunction applications.
• Acting in complex employment-related shareholders disputes involving investment funds.
• Acting in private equity investment disputes concerning allegations of breach of duties of employee / shareholders in a take-private transaction.
• Acting for a prominent US law firm in the defence of a claim brought by a Japanese conglomerate which provided minority financing in one part of a series of corporate and financing transactions relating to the acquisition of a well-known textiles manufacturer.
• Advising the administrators of an escrow fund established for the defence of certain executives and officers of a commodities corporation following its high-profile collapse in 2018 and providing strategic advice relating to investigations commenced by regulatory bodies.
• Acting in a high-stakes family / boardroom dispute which have manifested in multiple High Court actions and offshore court proceedings involving issues of historical mental capacity and the management of trusts established in multiple jurisdictions.
• Acting in a dispute against the Government concerning historical issues of user restrictions in respect of a prominent luxury residential development.
• Acting for executive directors of an airline in the successful discharge of injunction orders against them which limited the ability to perform their management duties in the context of a highly contested shareholders dispute.
• Acting for a global commodities trader in relation to a fraud insurance recovery claim under a fidelity insurance policy in an HKIAC arbitration.
• Advising a US law firm in defence of potential offshore and Hong Kong regulatory investigations relating to its role in certain offshore transactions and allegations of fraud.
• Acting for a regulator in a defamation claim involving an injunction against an ex-employee based in the PRC.
• Acting in multiple high value international commercial arbitrations under HKIAC, SIAC, CIETAC and ICC arbitration rules.
• Advising an investment fund in the revision and improvement of its share dealing policy.
• Acting in a dispute concerning a listed healthcare / medical group in a high court action and arbitration involving complex accounting claims and breach of profit guarantee claims.