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Stephenson Harwood

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Stephenson Harwood is recognised as one of Hong Kong’s leading contentious insolvency practices. The group is noted for its strength in transportation, trade, and cross-border insolvency matters. Team head Jamie Stranger has extensive experience advising liquidators, receivers, and bankruptcy trustees in formal insolvency proceedings. Alexander Tang is a seasoned litigator with a strong focus on corporate restructuring and insolvency disputes, while Simon Wong enhances the practice with niche expertise in airline defaults and insolvencies arising since the outbreak of COVID-19.
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Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • ‘Very strong players in the market with a multipartner team hugely experienced on contentious insolvency matters. ’

  • ‘Jamie Stranger is now a senior statesman of the sector and has seen it all before. ’

  • ‘Considerable experience in restructuring and insolvency.’

  • ‘The key individuals I work with are Jamie Stranger and Alexander Tang. Both are pleasant to deal with and go out of their way to get results.’

  • ‘Strong litigation practice - our go-to firm for certain niche area of litigation, especially when the funding is limited. Recent hire of Alvin Cheung would boost their restructuring and special situation space. ’

  • ‘Jamie Stranger is the main litigation partner I dealt with. He's very commercial and is willing to push back on ideas with justifications, yet he is willing to discuss with us on the commercial objectives and apply his legal analysis to achieve our commercial goals. ’

Key clients

  • CW Group
  • Pure Cypress
  • Days Inpex
  • Shanghai Huaxin
  • Cecep
  • EZ Land
  • Coastal Oil
  • Kaplink

Practice head

Jamie Stranger

Other key lawyers

Alexander Tang; Simon Wong; Ivan Ng; Dorothy Siron; Emily Li; Teresa Tsoi; Alvin Cheung