Ms Amy Ngan > Kirkland & Ellis > Hong Kong, Hong Kong > Lawyer Profile

Kirkland & Ellis
26TH FLOOR, GLOUCESTER TOWER
THE LANDMARK, 15 QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL
HONG KONG
Hong Kong
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Work Department

Litigation

Position

Partner

Career

Amy Ngan is a partner in the litigation team in the Hong Kong office of Kirkland & Ellis. Amy has extensive experience on a number of complex commercial and insolvency related disputes across multiple jurisdictions including Hong Kong, China, North America, Singapore and the Caribbean. Amy also has particular experience with urgent injunction applications, asset recovery and tracing, enforcement of court judgments and arbitral awards, professional negligence, fund and shareholder disputes.

Languages

Cantonese, English, Mandarin

Education

University of Sydney, LL.B., 2009

University of Sydney, B.Com., Finance, 2007

Lawyer Rankings

China > Dispute resolution: Litigation: foreign firms

Kirkland & Ellis International LLP‘s team is routinely instructed by clients facing bet-the-company claims across Greater China. Cross-border dispute specialist Tiana Zhang, who has litigation experience in both the US and China, leads the Mainland China litigation practice from Shanghai, where Yue Qiu also acts in cross-border litigation. The Hong Kong practice is co-led by Paul Quinn, who focuses on professional negligence, cross-border claims, insolvency, fraud, directors’ duties, and shareholder disputes; financial disputes expert Amy Ngan, who is ‘always across the detail‘; and Fergus Saurin, a specialist in capital markets, M&A and shareholder disputes, as well as banking and international trade and investment cases. The other key figures are former practice co-head Kelly Naphtali, whose wide-ranging practice covers asset recovery, professional negligence, borrower default, and fund and shareholder disputes; Cori Lable, who leads the investigations and white-collar practice; and Jodi Wu, an expert in internal investigations, compliance and cross-border litigation.