Litigation

• Acting for an investment company against a joinder and proprietary injunction application in a high-profile cryptocurrency dispute, successfully resisting the said application.
• Acting for the joint and several liquidators of China Metal Recycling (Holdings) Limited (In Compulsory Liquidation).
• Acting for a BVI company in obtaining a winding-up order in respect of a financial service provider for failure to satisfy a judgment debt pursuant to an arbitral award.
• Advising a Hong Kong statutory body in opposing a judicial review application challenging a decision to refuse HKDSE applications made by an education centre on behalf of private candidates.
• Acting for an American bank in the recovery of monies through spoofing-type fraud.
• Advising a Hong Kong listed company in relation to potential regulatory breaches.
• Advising a company in a claim against a former director for potential breaches of fiduciary duty and diversion of business.
• Acting for the liquidators of a major construction company in Hong Kong in the recovery of assets.
• Acting for construction companies in various applications in winding-up proceedings against a major Hong Kong construction company in liquidation.
• Acting for a construction company in obtaining a winding-up order in respect of a property management company for failure to satisfy a judgment debt pursuant to an arbitral award.

Arbitration

• Acting for a sub-contractor against a sub-sub-contractor in an arbitration in relation to the reclamation works for the Three Runway System Project in Hong Kong, involving a claim for approximately HK$300m, and a counterclaim for approximately HK$900m under the HKIAC 2014 Domestic Arbitration Rules. Proceedings involved an urgent ex-parte application for preliminary orders and interim measures to restrain the Shanghai-listed parent company of the sub-subcontractor from intimidating the client's potential witnesses, and an application for the determination of preliminary issues.
• Acting for a statutory body in an arbitration defending against its main contractor's claims for delay and variation works under a main contract for infrastructure works under modified HKIAC 2014 Domestic Arbitration Rules. Proceedings involved an application for the determination of preliminary issues.
• Acting for a construction company against a joint venture in an arbitration under modified HKIAC 2014 Domestic Arbitration Rules.

* Includes experience prior to joining W&C