I have broad experience in advising clients on a wide range of commercial disputes, including joint venture and shareholder disputes, contractual claims, investment disputes, fraud investigations (including asset tracing and recovery) and professional negligence claims against auditors.

I also have extensive experience in securities regulatory matters involving the Securities and Futures Commission and the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong. I regularly advise the Stock Exchange on the discharge of its regulatory functions. I am also the co-author of the second edition of SFC Investigations and Enforcement Proceedings (LexisNexis), the leading Hong Kong text on investigations and enforcement under the Securities and Futures Ordinance.

I often act in accounting regulatory matters and advise the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Accounting and Financial Reporting Council, the regulators of the accounting profession in Hong Kong, on the discharge of their regulatory functions. I have conducted numerous proceedings against accounting professionals in Hong Kong.

Career Highlights

Commercial litigation

• Real Estate and Finance Fund (in Liq) v Sun Cheuk Pak Alan [2025] HKCFI 2478 – Acting for two investment funds in a claim relating to the fraudulent misappropriation of fund assets by their former managers. The court awarded damages in excess of US$62 million at first instance.
• Zhang Hong Li v DBS Bank (Hong Kong) Ltd (2019) 22 HKCFAR 392 – Acting for a family trust in proceedings before the Court of Appeal and the Court of Final Appeal in a claim for damages in excess of US$60 million relating to the sale of financial derivatives by a bank.
• Acting for the investment vehicle of an ultra-high net worth individual in relation to a dispute over the sale of equity accumulator contracts by a bank.

Audit negligence

• Victory City International Holdings Limited (In Liquidation) v Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu [2025] HKCFI 5505 – Acting for a former listed company against Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu in a claim for damages for alleged negligence in the audit of the Group’s consolidated accounts.

Securities regulatory

• Acting for a prominent Mainland company in challenging the lawfulness of searches and seizures of the company’s premises, which were conducted by staff of the SFC for the purposes of an investigation under section 183 of the Securities and Futures Ordinance.
• Cai Zhengrong v The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited [2021] HKCA 1179 – Acting for the Stock Exchange in judicial review proceedings challenging the application of Rule 6.01A of the Listing Rules and the Exchange’s delisting process. The case confirmed the underlying lawfulness of the process.
• Target Insurance Holdings Limited v The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited [2025] HKCFI 4546 – Acting for the Stock Exchange in judicial review proceedings challenging the process adopted by the Listing Review Committee of the Stock Exchange in disciplinary proceedings, in a case which confirmed the permissibility of administrative assistance when drafting decisions.

Accounting regulatory

• JH CPA Alliance Limited v The Accounting and Financial Reporting Council AFFRT-1-2025 – Acting for the Accounting and Financial Reporting Council in disciplinary review proceedings before the Accounting and Financial Reporting Review Tribunal in relation to alleged auditing failures in relation to the audits of a listed company.
• Chiang Sham Lam Anthony v Accounting and Financial Reporting Council AFRRT-3-2024 – Acting for the Accounting and Financial Reporting Council in disciplinary review proceedings before the Accounting and Financial Reporting Review Tribunal in relation to breaches of independence requirements.
• Yip Kai Yin v The Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants AFRRT-1-2022 – Acting for the Institute in review proceedings before the Accounting and Financial Reporting Review Tribunal in relation to the imposition of conditions in relation to the registration of a PIE auditor.
• Registrar of Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants v KPMG D-16-1206F – Acting for the Institute in disciplinary proceedings against KPMG and two of its partners for audit failures in connection with China Forestry Holdings Company Limited, a listed company which collapsed after the discovery of widespread fraud.
• Registrar of Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants v Lin Ching Yee Daniel D-18-1372F and D-18-1407F – Acting for the Institute in disciplinary proceedings against two audit partners for audit failures in connection with E.Bon Holdings Limited, a listed company.
• Registrar of Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants v Disciplinary Committee of Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants [2020] 5 HKLRD 262 – Acting for the Institute in judicial review proceedings concerning the Disciplinary Committee’s power to order the non-publication of sanctions.
• Law Fei Shing v The Disciplinary Committee of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants [2019] 4 HKLRD 225 – Acting for the Institute in judicial review proceedings concerning the disclosure of materials to a respondent in disciplinary proceedings.
• The Registrar of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants v  X [2017] 3 HKLRD 541 – Acting for the Institute in an application brought by an audit firm and its partner before the Court of Appeal for a stay of publication of the Disciplinary Committee’s decision pending appeal.