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Ryan was called to the Hong Kong Bar in 2018. He was also registered as a Foreign Lawyer (full registration) of the Singapore International Commercial Court in 2023. He is a Hardwicke Scholar of the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn, and a member of the Denning Society for scholars of the Inn. He holds fellowships with the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb) and the Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators (FHKIArb). He is ranked as a "leading junior" for regulatory, investigations, and crime in the Legal 500 guides to the Hong Kong Bar for 2025 and 2026.

Prior to joining the bar, Ryan obtained his LLB (First Class Honours, ranking first in his year) at the University of Manchester in 2015 and his MPhil in Criminology (First Class average, with Distinction) as a Manuel Lopez-Rey Scholar at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge in 2016. He then obtained his PCLL at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (with UGC Funding/Distinguished Scholarship) in 2017. He was awarded more than 10 academic scholarships and prizes along the way. He then assisted Mr. John McDonnell KC of Three Stone Chambers in numerous appeals which were heard in the UK Supreme Court, the Privy Council, and the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal.

While Ryan has an extensive practice profile spanning Hong Kong and beyond, he is recognized as an expert in regulatory/white-collar crime, company, chancery, professional negligence/misconduct, and arbitration matters. In his regulatory practice, he is regularly instructed as sole counsel or led junior in complex investigations and proceedings involving market misconduct, listed securities, and corruption. He is also experienced in representing directors and other officers of listed companies in proceedings brought by regulators, including petitions under section 214 of the Securities and Futures Ordinance (Cap. 571) and proceedings in the Securities and Futures Appeals Tribunal. As a chancery practitioner, he is often instructed in complex trust disputes, private client work (including offshore litigation), and asset recovery (including urgent injunctions). In the field of arbitration, he has been appointed as counsel, arbitrator, and tribunal secretary in various proceedings administered by the HKIAC and ICC.

Ryan has been instructed to provide expert evidence on Hong Kong law in foreign court and arbitration proceedings (including BVI, Cayman Islands, DIFC, Timor-Leste, CIETAC, SIAC etc).

Member of The Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn (2014)

Member of the Lord Denning Society (for Scholars of the Inn) at Lincoln’s Inn (2014)​

Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators (FHKIArb) (2019 - present)​

Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb) (2019 - present)​

Member of the Hong Kong Bar Association’s Practice Area Committee on Arbitration (2019 - 2022)​

Member of the Hong Kong Bar Association’s Practice Area Committee on Land, Trust and Probate (2020 - 2022)

Member of the Hong Kong Bar Association’s Practice Area Committee on Sports Law (2024 - present)

Member of the Hong Kong Bar Association’s Practice Area Committee on Financial and Securities Law (2024 - present)

LLB (1st Class Hons.), University of Manchester

MPhil in Criminology (Distinction), Queens' College, University of Cambridge

PCLL, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration, CIArb