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Des Voeux Chambers Offices
38/F Gloucester Tower
The Landmark
Central, Hong Kong
Hong Kong
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Tom NG
Career
Tom is developing a broad civil and commercial practice, with a particular focus on company and insolvency work, banking law, and trust and probate matters. Tom has appeared as sole trial counsel before the Court of First Instance, the District Court and Arbitral Tribunals, and as sole advocate before the Court of Appeal. He was a Marshall to Mr. Justice Reyes in 2009 and to Mr. Justice Harris in 2016. He appeared in the recent cross-border insolvency cases of Re China Huiyuan Juice Group Ltd [2021] 1 HKLRD 255 and FDG Electric Vehicles Ltd [2020] 5 HKLRD 701.
Tom has published more than 10 items in overseas and local peer-reviewed journals, including the Law Quarterly Review and the Cambridge Law Journal. His publications have been referred to by Chitty on Contracts and Clerk & Lindsell on Torts.
Year of call
- 2016
Memberships
- Part-time lecturer in equity and trusts, HKU
- FHKIArb
Education
- BCL (Dist.) (Oxon.)
- LLB & BBA (Law) (1st Class Hon.) (HKU)
- Bar Scholar (2015)
- Charles Ching Scholar (2016)
- FHKIArb
Lawyer Rankings
Hong Kong Bar > Commercial disputes
(Rising stars)With ‘plenty of very high-quality barristers’, Des Voeux Chambers ‘is regarded as one of the leading sets in commercial disputes’. At the senior end, insolvency experts José-Antonio Maurellet SC and Rachel Lam SC led on the landmark case of Citicorp International Limited v Tsinghua Unigroup Co., Ltd, which concerned the nature and extent of the obligations that keepwell providers have to bondholders, as well as novel issues of Greater China insolvency. Charles Sussex SC led Tom Ng in PT Asuransi Tugu v Citibank NA, which assessed bankers’ Quincecare duty, which dictates that a bank should not, in certain circumstances, take a payment from a customer’s account which is fraudulent. Catrina Lam‘s practice encompasses a wide range of contentious commercial matters, and she is also highly adept at handling domestic and international arbitrations, representing clients from the banking and finance, technology, real estate, media and entertainment, education, aviation, and gambling sectors. Benny Lo has also been increasingly active in international commercial arbitration proceedings, while a significant proportion of Frances Lok‘s practice involves acting for listed companies, their shareholders, and directors across a range of mandates, including winding up proceedings and unfair prejudice petition matters. Christopher Chain SC made Silk in the 2023 round.