Howse Williams

Dispute Resolution, Distressed Debt

Janie focuses her practice on international arbitration, complex commercial litigation and cross-border investigations with an emphasis on Asia. She represents clients in a range of contentious matters including those relating to cross-border fraud, enforcement of arbitral awards and judgments, insolvency, intellectual property rights, M&A deals, private equity investments, product liability, professional negligence and shareholders' disputes. She also counsels clients on regulatory compliance, bribery and/or corruption issues and assists with pre-acquisition due diligence. Most recently, she has been acting for liquidators in a US$11 billion restructuring of a China-state-linked group.

Janie has been recognised by Who’s Who Legal in the category of Litigation – Future Leaders – Partners in 2020 and 2021.  She is among the lawyers, in-house investigators, prosecutors and academics from the international investigations community profiled by Global Investigation Review in its “Women in Investigations 2021” survey.

2022 Howse Williams 2018 Addleshaw Goddard (Hong Kong) LLP 2016 Dechert LLP 2008 Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe 2004 Tanner De Witt

English, Cantonese, Mandarin

Law Society of Hong Kong

Hong Kong Law Society Arbitration Committee

2019 International Diploma in Governance Risk and Compliance, International Compliance Association (in association with the University of Manchester) 2004 Postgraduate Certificate in Laws, University of Hong Kong 2003 Bachelor of Laws, University of Hong Kong 2002 Bachelor of Business Administration (Law), University of Hong Kong 2001 Bachelor of Arts (Psychology), Queen’s University, Canada