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Yang Kang (YK) Chan

YK is a partner who leads the firm’s equity capital markets (ECM) team in Hong Kong. He has extensive experience representing both investment banks and issuers on initial public offerings and secondary fundraising transactions in Hong Kong, including share placements and rights issues. YK also advises clients on mergers and acquisitions, public takeovers and privatisation, corporate restructuring and regulatory compliance, including matters concerning the securities laws and listing rules in Hong Kong, and other general corporate matters.

Antony is a partner of transactional practice in Hong Kong. Antony is a corporate, commercial and finance transactional lawyer, with a broad range of experience in mergers and acquisitions (M&A), joint ventures, shareholders’ agreements, share sale and purchases, sale and purchases of businesses/assets, equity capital markets work, hire purchase and financial leasing arrangements, ship/yacht sale and purchase agreements, ship/yacht new-build contracts, ship/yacht management agreements, chartering/pooling agreements, private equity investments, regulatory advisory and general commercial transactional work. Antony advises clients in a broad range of industries including financial services, technology, high-value luxury assets, yachting, marine/shipping, medical services and equipment, media and entertainment, food and beverage and manufacturing industries. Over the last 20 years, Antony has gained significant experience working in private practice with leading law firms, as well as in senior in-house roles with a prominent London-based ship broker and as head of legal and insurance with a leading ship management company in Hong Kong.

Kelly is a counsel in the dispute resolution team based in our Hong Kong office. Kelly practices a wide range of civil and commercial litigation and international arbitration. She regularly advises on the industry license requirements, joint venture/distributorship, employment matters, landlord-tenancy issues, personal injury and trust/matrimonial matters. For Korea-related transactions, she also advises banks and multinational investors in relation to a syndicated loan, bond/shares subscriptions, due diligence and general compliance matters. Her clients include government authorities, banks and major Korean companies in the various industries across hotel and resort, medical clinic, fashion retail, cosmetics, art galleries, education and food and beverage.

Richard is a Partner at Hill Dickinson Hong Kong and leads the Construction Team. Richard is a construction lawyer. He has previously had a career as a Chartered Civil Engineer working for Employers and Contractors for a period of 14 years in the UK and in Hong Kong. Richard’s legal career includes working for large international private practice law firms. He has also worked in-house as Head of Legal for a large contractor in the Middle East. His practice includes both contentious and non-contentious construction law. He has acted for clients on some of the largest and most high-profile projects in Hong Kong. Those clients include Hong Kong Government. Recently and most notably, he is advising a client on a major bridge project linking Hong Kong with Mainland China.

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Bryan has over 25 years’ of practice in Hong Kong working at leading international law firms. He has extensive experience in all aspects of dispute resolution including litigation, international arbitration and mediation. He acts primarily for the Boards of listed companies, financial services companies, financial institutions, turnaround management firms and court appointed liquidators and receivers and high net worth individuals. He handles challenging cross-border commercial and insolvency related disputes. He has managed numerous high profile disputes from the Court of First Instance through to the Court of Final Appeal. He has particular experience of loan defaults, insolvencies, receiverships, fraud (including social engineering fraud), breach of fiduciary duties by directors and officers and trustees, shareholder and joint venture disputes, professional negligence claims and sale of goods/commodity disputes. He has also acted for leading financial institutions defending investment product ‘misselling’ claims and the related regulatory/compliance investigations. Bryan often co-ordinates multi-jurisdictional litigation including PRC cross-border disputes and insolvencies and claims following a corporate collapse as a result of fraud by management. This often includes litigating in offshore jurisdictions such as Cayman, BVI and Samoa. He also regularly obtains urgent interim relief including asset freezing and disclosure orders.

Partner practising in commercial litigation, regulatory investigations and enforcement actions.