Des Voeux Chambers

Rachel’s practice primarily encompasses insolvency, restructuring, regulatory, company and commercial matters. She joined Des Voeux Chambers in 2006 after winning a series of scholarships and prizes for academic excellence. She is qualified in three jurisdictions – Hong Kong, England & Wales and New York State – and has enjoyed practising in Hong Kong. She is fluent in English and Chinese, primarily Cantonese but also conversational Mandarin.

Rachel has extensive experience in insolvency and restructuring matters, as well as company and commercial litigation. She acts regularly for liquidators and a wide range of companies. Her company and commercial litigation practice comprises commercial trust matters, corporate claims, derivative actions, and commercial injunctions. In connection with this, she has dealt with a number of corporate restructurings, schemes of arrangement, and privatisations, including amongst others, The Grande Holdings Limited, China Evergrande Group, Kaisa Group Holdings Ltd, and China Aoyuan Group Ltd.

Her regulatory and securities practice encompasses market misconduct and related disciplinary, compliance and contentious matters. She advises clients in relation to the multifarious issues which can crop up in an array of settings, and has acted both for and against the SFC in various High Court proceedings. Her regulatory practice has been given further depth by virtue of her memberships on various committees and boards in a plethora of statutory bodies, where she regularly works with those entities in non-contentious capacities.

In connection with these areas of practice, she regularly deals with complex issues of law and has advised and represented financial institutions, investors, listed companies and their directors, trustees, beneficiaries, regulators, and shareholders at all levels of court and in arbitral proceedings.

English, Cantonese, Putonghua

Judicial Appointment

Recorder of the Court of First Instance of the High Court, Hong Kong (1 Jan 2021 – 31 Dec 2027)

Prior Roles / Appointments

Chairperson, Insurance Appeals Tribunal Deputy Chairman, Administrative Appeals Board Member, Standing Committee on Company Law Reform Member, Disciplinary Chair Committee, Securities and Futures Commission Member, Competition Commission Member, Committee on Companies Law, Hong Kong Bar Association Member, Standing Committee on Discipline, Hong Kong Bar Association Adjudicator, Immigration Tribunal

M.A. (Oxon) L.L.M (Harvard) M.St. IHRL (Oxon)