Signature Litigation LLP

Litigation, International Arbitration

Josh is a highly experienced commercial and corporate litigation and international arbitration lawyer, with a particular focus on professional negligence cases, international joint venture disputes, asset tracing and enforcement actions that involve multiple jurisdictions. He also has a successful record in toxic tort/industrial disease cases, and a strong public procurement and judicial review practice.

Josh acts for a broad range of clients, including organisations active in China and South East Asia, utilising his in-depth knowledge and experience of practicing in both China and Hong Kong. He regularly acts for clients in the financial services, energy and extractive, insurance, manufacturing and retail sectors.

He has extensive expertise representing clients in ad hoc arbitrations and arbitrations under the ICC, LCIA, SCC and UNCITRAL rules, and also specialises in security, asset tracing and enforcement actions involving the CIS, India, China and offshore jurisdictions such as BVI, Cayman and Belize.

Josh is native Chinese and regularly speaks on issues relating to China at events organised by the China Britain Business Council, UK Trade and Investment and China Britain Law Institute.

Associate, Herbert Smith Freehills, 2004; Senior Associate, Herbert Smith Freehills, 2006; Partner, DLA Piper, 2010; Partner, Signature Litigation, 2017.

Fluent in English and Cantonese and professional Mandarin.

Chair of the Northern Chapter of the Hong Kong UK Business Reform.

University of Warwick; Nottingham Law School.