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Stephenson Harwood Offices
UNITS 901-2 & 910, BUILDING 1, KERRY CENTRE
1515 NANJING WEST ROAD, JINGAN DISTRICT
SHANGHAI 200040
China
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Evangeline Quek
Work Department
Litigation
Position
Office managing partner Greater China
Career
Evangeline is the managing partner of Stephenson Harwood’s Greater China offices. She specialises in commercial dispute resolution, with particular focus on complex marine and international trade matters. Her practice covers all stages of dispute resolution from obtaining security to running court or arbitration proceedings and enforcement.
Evangeline has significant and deep cross-border experience having practiced in three key commercial hubs in Asia over the past fifteen years – Singapore, Hong Kong and Shanghai. She is now based in Hong Kong and spends part of her time in Shanghai. She has appeared on behalf of clients in the Singapore and Hong Kong Courts and managed disputes for her clients in Singapore, Mainland China, Taiwan, India, Bangladesh, Holland, England and the United States. She advise and represents clients in international arbitrations applying institutional rules of the SIAC, HKIAC, CIETAC and ICC and ad hoc arbitrations applying the LMAA Rules and the UNCITRAL Model Law.
For contentious shipping matters, her expertise extends to all types of charterparty, cargo defence, shipbuilding, bunkering and ship financing disputes. She is instructed on a regular basis by international group P&I Clubs, shipowners, charterers, operators, banks and finance leasing institutions in Hong Kong, Taiwan and the PRC.
She has also acted for debtors and creditors in shipping and non-shipping restructuring and insolvency matters arising from and relating to Hong Kong insolvency proceedings, Japanese rehabilitation proceedings, Korean rehabilitation proceedings and the Indian Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code that came into force in 2016.
In the past four years, Evangeline has developed a transactional practice where she has acted for financial leasing institutions and owners in negotiating and drafting suites of bespoke operational leasing documents for her clients.
Evangeline is qualified in Singapore (non-practicing), England and Wales and Hong Kong. In addition to English, she speaks fluent Chinese and conversational Cantonese.
Languages
English, Mandarin, Cantonese
Lawyer Rankings
China > Shipping: foreign firms
(Leading individuals)Stephenson Harwood is well-regarded in the fields of both shipping litigation and shipping finance and has further strengthened its offering with the hire of Paul Ho
and Shirley Li, both joined from Ince & Co in October 2023. Evangeline Quek is the key name in the China-focused arm of the firm’s maritime law offering. Based in Shanghai, Quek offers significant expertise in shipping arbitration and is well-placed to advise on cross-border matters, having previously managed shipping disputes concerning Singapore, Taiwan, India, England and the Netherlands. Shanghai-based ship financing expert Simone Liu is also key, regularly advising PRC state-owned enterprises.
China > Dispute resolution: Litigation: foreign firms
Delivering ‘creative and nimble solutions for complex disputes‘, Stephenson Harwood acts in a range of contentious matters, including corporate, finance, trust, and insolvency and restructuring matters. The team is also able to offer PRC legal advice through its Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (CEPA) with Guangzhou-based Wei Tu Law Firm. In Hong Kong, Ian Childs acts in complex civil litigation; Ivan Ng is an experienced commercial litigator; Jamie Stranger is another disputes expert; and Emily Li is ‘an excellent junior partner‘. Shanghai-based Evangeline Quek specialises in commercial dispute resolution.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading individuals China > Shipping: foreign firms
- Shipping: foreign firms China
- Dispute resolution: Litigation: foreign firms China