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Stephenson Harwood Offices
UNITS 901-2 & 910, BUILDING 1, KERRY CENTRE
1515 NANJING WEST ROAD, JINGAN DISTRICT
SHANGHAI 200040
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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
Hong Kong > Shipping
Hailed for its ‘commercially minded’ approach, Stephenson Harwood fields a team of ship finance specialists, who are well-equipped to act for commercial lenders, export credit agencies, and major operators. The firm shows strength in shipping disputes, including bill of lading claims, sale of goods contracts, and voyage charter cases, with Shanghai and Hong Kong-based head Evangeline Quek being an expert in complex arbitration proceedings. Elizabeth Sloane primarily represents shipowners and charterers, while Andrew Rigden Green provides an ‘excellent service’ in international trade matters. Jason Toms is a maritime litigator, and Hongkai Zhou is also cited as key.
China > Shipping: foreign firms
(Leading partners)With a strong track record of representing major international banks and commercial lenders, the ship finance specialist lawyers at Stephenson Harwood routinely cover bill of lading disputes and the sale and purchase of vessels. The practice frequently handles restructuring and enforcements of shipping finance transactions, with the head Evangeline Quek specialising in arbitration proceedings, international trade issues, and enforcement proceedings from her bases in Hong Kong and Shanghai. Since joining the firm as partner in October 2023, Paul Ho
focuses on offshore construction and cross-border claims, Shirley Li is an insurance and commercial litigation expert, and Simone Liu is also highlighted as key. All these lawyers are based in Shanghai.