Event information
Agenda
| Asia Pacific Disputes Summit: Hong Kong 2021 | |
|---|---|
| 8.00am | Registrations |
| 8.30am | Opening remarks: Peter Tweedley + HKIAC |
| 8.45am | Panel I: What The Fraud!
Preserving evidence and assets and other strategies to combat commercial fraud. |
| 9.35am | Panel II |
| 10.30am | Coffee Break |
| 10.45am | Panel III: Interim Measures in aid of Hong Kong arbitration |
| 11.35am | Panel IV: Traps for the unwary – legal and regulatory pitfalls in cross-border litigation
An investigation of the main issues affecting litigation involving cross-border teams. The panel will discuss privilege, costs, conduct of litigation rules and recent trends which are changing the way law firms and in-house counsel view litigation. |
| 12.30pm | Lunch |
| 2.00pm | Panel V |
| 2.50pm | Panel VI |
| 3.40pm | Closing remarks |
| 3.50pm | Networking |
| 4.50pm | Event concludes |
Speakers
Noel Campbell, Global Head of Disputes, HFW
Noel specialises in commercial litigation with an emphasis on financial litigation, fraud and asset recovery, insolvency, company law matters and trusts. He has much experience of handling matters in offshore jurisdictions and of multi-jurisdictional disputes generally. He is a practising CEDR-Solve mediator and on the Court of Appeal panel. Noel is recommended for dispute resolution by both Chambers and Legal 500.
Terence Wong, Partner, Hong Kong and Shanghai, Winston & Strawn
Recently named a Best Lawyer in China for his work in Arbitration and Mediation, Terence focuses his practice on international arbitration, with more than 20 years of experience handling high-stake, multi-front disputes in Asia including a decade practicing in China. His experience spans a wide range of sectors including infrastructure, power and utilities, energy, healthcare, real estate, retail and technology. Terence is highly regarded by clients for providing “valuable legal diagnosis”.
Tim Meng, Managing Partner, GoldenGate Lawyers
Tim Meng is the Managing Partner and head of GoldenGate Lawyers’ Legal Department. He is recognized as one of the best commercial litigators in China. He specializes in representing foreign interests in Chinese courts at all levels and before the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (“CIETAC”).
Mr. Meng has represented clients in a number of landmark trials in China and international arbitrations in Europe. He is experienced in dealing with cases combining high monetary value and complex subject matters. Mr. Meng earned his LLB from Beijing University Law School in 1990, and his LLM from the American University in 1996. He was admitted to the Chinese National Bar in 1994 and to the New York Bar in 1998.
Mr. Meng has been heavily involved in complex commercial litigation/arbitration and IP-related matters. He has represented over 50 files before CIETAC, ICC, DIS, HKIAC and SIAC, and litigated in over 50 courts in different cities at all levels all over the country.
Kenix Yuen, Partner, Gall
Since joining Gall, Kenix specialises in cross border commercial litigation and international arbitrations (in particular, involving element(s) of the People’s Republic of China (“PRC”)) covering contractual disputes, shareholders’ disputes, directors’ duties, fraud and asset tracing, misrepresentation and mis-selling claims. She also has experience in advising on regulatory investigations conducted by the Securities and Futures Commission and a regulatory inquiry from the Insurance Agents Registration Board.
Chris Wong, Executive Partner, Gall
Chris is the firm’s practice leader of China related disputes under Hong Kong law.
Chris specialises in a broad range of corporate and commercial dispute work, with particular emphasis on complex multi-jurisdictional disputes, fraud and asset recovery, contentious insolvency and bankruptcy, receiverships, shareholders and joint venture disputes, gaming disputes, mis-selling of financial products, cybercrime, audit negligence claims, SFC and ICAC investigations, employment disputes, and judicial review. He has substantial experience in injunction applications, and discovery (including Norwich Pharmacal) applications, in aid of domestic/foreign arbitrations and Court proceedings. He acts for and against numerous mainland Chinese and foreign companies/individuals in their disputes.
Peter Tweedley, senior research analyst – in-house legal research team, The Legal 500
Before joining the Legal 500, Peter Tweedley graduated from the University of St Andrews with a joint honours masters in international relations and modern history before going on to do the GDL and LLM in Public International Law at City University of London. On the LLM Peter specialised in the land rights of indigenous peoples, comparative constitutional law and international economic law. He has previously worked as a Russian political analyst, journalist, and writer. Peter is the Senior Research Analyst at the Legal 500 and works closely with general counsel, law firms and market experts to develop though-leadership publications, events and online content.
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GoldenGate Lawyers was founded in 2007 by Mr. Tim Meng and Ms. Linda Zhao and focuses its business on general corporate, dispute resolutions, intellectual property, labor and employment, and family law. Starting with 6 lawyers, the firm has now expanded to over 20 professionals, who are able to work on the most comprehensive disputes and IP related matters. GoldenGate Lawyers endeavors to provide high quality services and practical solutions to its clients through the close cooperation among its lawyers and professionals with diversity expertise.
Nixon Peabody CWL is the Hong Kong arm of Nixon Peabody LLP, an international firm of lawyers. Nixon Peabody CWL comprises approximately 40 lawyers and legal professionals in Hong Kong. In addition to advising on a full spectrum of Hong Kong legal issues, the firm is a hub for Nixon Peabody clients throughout the Asia-Pacific region including mainland China, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia, Japan, Korea, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. The firm benefits from the combined resources of Nixon Peabody LLP’s 650+ lawyers operating in 17 offices in the US and around the world. In Hong Kong, Nixon Peabody CWL operates in association with JunZeJun Law Offices, a 400-lawyer firm based in mainland China.
As one of the world’s largest and most active disputes practices, dispute resolution is in our DNA.
At HFW, we have more than 350 specialist disputes lawyers in offices across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific, and frequently litigate on behalf of clients in courts around the world. Clients turn to us for help on the most complex, high-value, multi-party and multi-jurisdictional cases.
For seven consecutive years we are ranked as ‘approved’ law firm for international arbitration by GAR100 of Global Arbitration Review and The Lawyer named us “The Standout Firm For Commercial Litigation”.
More than two-thirds of our work globally is disputes. Our capabilities cover the following areas across various sectors:
- International Arbitration
- Commercial Litigation
- Corporate Litigation
- Class Action
- Cyber Litigation
- Financial services and banking litigation
- Fraud, asset recovery and enforcement
- Restructuring and insolvency
Mayer Brown’s Hong Kong office is home to one of the largest and longest-established law firms in Hong Kong. Conveniently located in Central, we have approximately 200 lawyers based in Hong Kong, specialising in various industries. We provide clients with a full and integrated range of legal services.
Mayer Brown provides pragmatic and commercial legal advice to Chinese and Asian companies looking to grow locally, regionally and internationally. We also assist clients in Europe, the Americas and the Middle East to invest in Asia.
In an era of globalization—in which major legal disputes often cross national borders—Mayer Brown’s Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice offers clients a truly global platform with extensive reach across four continents. As one of the largest litigation practices in the world—with more than 500 litigators worldwide—our team has the intellectual depth, creativity and geographic scope to successfully resolve virtually any type of legal dispute in the Americas, Asia and Europe.
Gall is a leading independent Hong Kong law firm focused primarily on dispute resolution and specialised in handling highly complex disputes, many of which involve multi-jurisdictional litigation.
Partners all come from international firms and have practiced in Hong Kong or overseas for many years. They have a wealth of experience in a wide variety of litigation, mediation and arbitration and use a partner led, team-based approach to complex litigation, drawing upon the legal and linguistic skills of solicitors with different areas of expertise.
Winston & Strawn is an international law firm with 1,000 attorneys across 16 offices in Hong Kong, Shanghai, London, Dubai, New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Brussels, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Moscow, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and Washington, D.C. For more than 160 years, Winston has served as a trusted adviser and advocate to Asian and international companies in a broad array of industries.
Winston enjoys a global reputation as a dispute resolution powerhouse with decades of experience representing clients in complex cross-border disputes. Clients trust us with their most critical disputes because of our strong track record of victories and our depth of expertise. Our Asia team consists of experience litigators based in Hong Kong and Shanghai and is the firm’s regional hub for coordinating major international disputes. We offer a full-service dispute resolution practice covering pre-emptive counselling, mediation, settlement negotiation, litigation, arbitration and enforcement matters, arising from virtually every type of dispute that could arise from investing or operating a business in Asia.