Lai Chun Ho > Des Voeux Chambers > Hong Kong, Hong Kong > Lawyer Profile
Des Voeux Chambers Offices
38/F Gloucester Tower
The Landmark
Central, Hong Kong
Hong Kong
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Lai Chun Ho
Career
Chun Ho joined Chambers in 2017, after completing his pupillage with Mr. Anson Wong SC, Mr. Derek Chan SC, Mr. Jenkin Suen SC and Mr. Christopher Chain. He completed his degree in Philosophy (with Distinction) at Yale University and went on to obtain a Double First in law from the University of Cambridge in 2014. In the following year, he completed his BCL degree at the University of Oxford. He was awarded the Bar Scholarship in 2016.
He is developing a broad civil practice encompassing company and insolvency works, securities and regulatory matters, and a wide spectrum of other civil and commercial disputes, with particular experience in shareholders’ dispute, breach of fiduciary duties claims, civil fraud, asset recovery claims and defamation. He is regularly instructed to appear in court (including for interlocutory applications on an urgent ex partebasis) and arbitration proceedings as sole counsel.
He has been appointed as a part-time lecturer of law (non-clinical) in Equity and Trust and Contract Law at the University of Hong Kong.
Chun Ho is fluent in English, Mandarin and Cantonese.
Year of call
- 2017
Languages
English, Cantonese, Mandarin
Memberships
- Tutor, Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong
Education
- BCL, University Of Oxford
- BA, University Of Cambridge
- BA, Yale University
Lawyer Rankings
Hong Kong Bar > Commercial disputes
(Rising stars)Lai Chun Ho – Des Voeux Chambers ‘Lai is an outstanding barrister with a level of competence well beyond his years of call. He is always diligent with a firm grasp of the facts and in-depth knowledge of the law, and he is both commercially-minded and sensible, whilst being able to offer valuable and out of the box insights into cases.’