محامون متخصصون في Commercial Litigation

Floris Diepraam

Partner, head of the Commercial and Corporate Litigation Department

Pot Jonker Advocaten

Flávio Spaccaquerche

Partner

Mattos Filho

Fouad el Houzi

Partner

AKD

Frances Angelie Barroso

Junior Associate

Villaraza & Angangco (V&A Law)

Frances Coulson

Frances undertakes most areas of personal and corporate insolvency, specialising in contentious insolvency especially cases involving fraud, as well as provisional liquidations and injunctive work generally. She is a long serving member of the London Solicitors’ Litigation Association Panel of Supervising Solicitors with extensive experience of executing and supervising search orders and bankruptcy warrants. She was Head of Insolvency and Litigation at Moon Beever where she ran a substantial team of insolvency and litigation specialists and was a member of the disciplinary and admissions committees, then Chairman of the Appeal Committee at ACCA for ten years with good regulatory experience during and since that service. She is a member of Insol Europe (Council Member) and of Insol International, and the IBA. Frances is a regular speaker in the UK and abroad on insolvency, litigation and anti-fraud issues, and practice management. Frances was recently made an Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Credit Management. Frances has also managed significant debt contracts for the public and private sectors over the last 3 decades.

Wedlake Bell LLP

Frances Simm

I advise national and international businesses on a broad range of commercial disputes with a particular focus on those in the professional services sector. I work closely with clients to develop strategies to resolve disputes quickly and effectively. I support businesses, directors and shareholders on a range of complex contract disputes including claims arising out of corporate transactions and relating to conduct issues such as breach of fiduciary duties. I also frequently advise clients in relation to claims concerning allegations of professional negligence and misrepresentation. I advise a variety of businesses and individuals in different sectors on contentious matters arising in relation to limited liability partnerships (LLPs) and limited partnerships (LPs).

Lewis Silkin

Frances Wilburn

Principal, Practice Group Leader - Creditors' Rights, Reorganization and Bankruptcy

Offit Kurman

Francesca Ellis

Francesca is a Director of Practico and is regularly involved in some of the firm’s most significant undertakings. She is widely recognised for her expert handling of complex costs claims arising out of group, commercial and media litigation. Her highly active practice includes playing a key role in the Pan NOx Emissions Litigation, as well as advising RPC on a high-profile costs dispute arising from litigation brought by the Duke of Sussex. Francesca also led on strategy and was responsible for advising on the £36 billion mass tort claim, one of the largest claims in English legal history, which arises from the 2015 Fundão dam collapse in Brazil.

Practico

Francis Chung

Francis has a broad civil practice, with particular emphasis on securities and regulatory, insurance, land, trust and probate, arbitration and commercial crime cases. Qualified as an associate of the Chartered Governance Institute, Francis has acted for both the Securities and Futures Commission and senior management of Hong Kong listed companies in securities and regulatory cases, and has appeared before courts and specialist tribunals including the Market Misconduct Tribunal. He is also a Fellow at the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and has experience in arbitration proceedings under the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules and the HKIAC Administered Arbitration Rules. He has also acted for multi-national insurers in different insurance litigation including public liability, personal injury and employees’ compensation cases. Besides his civil practice, Francis often acts for defence in different commercial crime cases. He also acts as a prosecutor on fiat for the Department of Justice in the District Court. RECENT HIGHLIGHTS Market Misconduct Tribunal Inquiry re China Forestry Holdings Company Limited (delisted): Acted for the CEO of a listed company engaged in forestry business for the alleged (i) insider dealing of HK$400 million and (ii) disclosure of false or misleading information inducing transactions. China Forestry Holdings Co Ltd (In Official Liquidation) v Top Wisdom Overseas Holdings Limited [2021] HKCFI 2761: Acted for the CEO of a listed company in striking out the proprietary claim in a sum of HK$400 million for the alleged breach of fiduciary duties to the company Wing Wo Lung Company Limited v Jam Moo Ching[2021] HKCA 472; [2021] HKCA 1734 :Successfully appealed for the landlord of a building on Des Voeux Road Central at the Court of Appeal against the defendant’s occupation of external wall. Sunbroad Holdings Limited v A80 Paris HK Limited (HCA 735/2020 & HCA 1174/2021):Acted for a company specialising in haircare products in defending a summary judgment application involving around HK$10 million arrears of rent on the grounds of (a) frustration and (b) the landlord’s failure to terminate the tenancy agreement in the outbreak of COVID-19. HKSAR v Fung Ping Fai [2021] HKDC 1578 :Successfully defended for the founder and managing director of a Hong Kong tourist agency in relation to the charges of (i) theft of HK$4 million and (ii) publication of false statements by company directors. OTHER NOTABLE CASES Securities and Regulatory Securities and Futures Commission v Superb Summit International Group Limited (HCMP 2305/2020): Acted for two company secretaries in a listed company engaged in forestry business in section 214 proceedings involving claims of over HK$200 million. Re a Listed Company under Suspension of Trading of Shares under section 9 of the Securities and Futures (Stock Market Listing) Rules (Cap. 571V): Acted for the Securities and Futures Commission in the application by a listed company to resume trading of its shares. Arbitration Arbitration under the HKIAC Administered Arbitration Rules Acted for a Hong Kong company in a cross-border sale of goods dispute involving a sum of US$7 million. Acted for a PRC company in a cross-border intellectual property dispute involving licensing of online games in Asian countries. Acted for a Hong Kong listed company in a debt claim of US$2 million. Insurance, Public Liability, Personal Injury and Employees’ Compensation Chan Ping Wah v Cayley Property Management Ltd [2020] HKCFI 3010: Acted for a multi-national public liability insurer in a case concerning a novel issue of applicability of the Control of Exemption Clauses Ordinance (Cap. 71) to the deed of mutual covenant. Leung Hong Wah Andy v Shum Wang Chiu and The Prudential Assurance Co Ltd [2021] HKCFI 997.Acted for the employee of a multi-national insurer in the application for (i) release of implied undertaking and (ii) amendment of pleadings in an employment case. Naseem Abbas v Rising Aerial Platform Co Ltd;Mahmood Ansar v Rising Aerial Platform Co Ltd [2021] HKDC 387: Acted for the principal contractor on the compensation assessment under the Employees’ Compensation Ordinance (Cap. 282). Land, Trust and Probate Wong Kit Chee, the Executrix of the Estate of Tse Lai Ying, the Deceased v Wong Shiu Kwong [2019] HKCFI 1000:Acted for the son in resisting the executrix’s claim for constructive trust on a ground floor shop amounting to HK$30 million. Wong Ho Ching v Appeal Tribunal (Buildings Ordinance) [2020] HKCFI 2738; Re Appeal against the Building Authority’s Order before the Appeal Tribunal (Buildings Ordinance)(BA 150/2019): Acted for the applicants in the leave application for judicial review against a series of procedural decisions on discovery made by the Appeal Tribunal (Buildings Ordinance). Sin Chan Kam v The Incorporated Owners of Wai Sun Building [2019] HKLdT 32:Acted for the registered owner of a ground floor shop against the incorporated owners for the latter’s breach of deed of mutual covenant. PUBLICATIONS Legal Publications Halsbury’s Laws of Hong Kong, Vol 42, New Territories Annotated Ordinance of Hong Kong – Smoking (Public Health) Ordinance (Cap 371) Annotated Ordinance of Hong Kong – Clubs (Safety of Premises) Ordinance (Cap 376) Seminars “Acting for Specified Persons in the Market Misconduct Tribunal: Procedure and Practice” (Nov 2021) “(Quasi-)Easements Litigation: Some Examples in the New Territories and Multi-storey Buildings” (Oct 2019)

Rede Chambers

Francis Xavier, SC, PBM, FCIArb, C.Arb

Regional Head, Dispute Resolution Partner, International Arbitration; Treaty Arbitration; Commercial Litigation; Banking & Finance Disputes; Energy & Resources; Aviation

Rajah & Tann Asia

Francisco A. Ojeda

Litigation Attorney

Estrella LLC

Francisco Astolfi

Francisco M. Astolfi has been a Partner at O'Farrell since 2013 and leads the Civil and Commercial Litigation Department.

O’Farrell

Francisco Bañados G

Partner

Aguad Bañados Izquierdo Abogados (ABI Abogados)

Frank Flanagan

Partner

Mason Hayes & Curran LLP

Frank Kroes

Partner

Baker McKenzie

Frank Lowrey

Frank has over 30 years of experience representing plaintiffs and defendants in complex litigation at the trial and appellate level in state and federal courts. He has spent his career at the firm after clerking for the Honorable Stanley F. Birch, United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Frank handles a limited number of matters at a time so that he can be directly involved in all crucial phases of the litigation, from investigation and discovery to legal strategy and written advocacy, continuing through trial and appeal. On the plaintiff’s side, Frank has led teams to nine-figure judgments and settlements and served on core trial teams producing ten-figure verdicts. On the defense side, Frank has served as lead counsel for some of Georgia’s most well-respected corporate citizens facing large potential exposures in class actions and other high-risk disputes. Based on peer review and market data, Chambers and Partners ranks Bondurant as a “Band One” Georgia Firm for General Commercial Litigation and rates Frank as one of only two “Band One” commercial litigators in the state. Best Lawyers also selected him as the 2026 “Lawyer of the Year” for Bet-the-Company Litigation. Antitrust law is a particular area of focus, in which Frank has served as lead counsel in defending and prosecuting plaintiff’s class actions, pursuing single-plaintiff antitrust claims on behalf of large institutions, and defending merger challenges by the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice. Frank has been recommended for antitrust litigation by Chambers for over a decade, and Chambers currently ranks him as one of only five “Band One” antitrust litigators in Georgia, while also recognizing Bondurant as one of just four “Band One” antitrust litigation firms in the state. Best Lawyers in America recognized Frank as the 2016, 2019, 2020, and 2025 “Lawyer of the Year” for antitrust litigation. At the appellate level, Frank represents the firm’s clients in high-stakes appeals in the federal circuit courts and Georgia’s appellate courts. These include large-exposure appeals involving business torts, contract disputes, federal statutory claims (particularly antitrust, consumer class action, and RICO cases), catastrophic injury, and wrongful death. He is a founding member of Georgia’s State Bar Appellate Practice Section, a member of the Eleventh Circuit Historical Society, and a veteran invitee to appear in the annual demonstration argument presented at the Eleventh Circuit Appellate Practice Institute (ECAPI). He is one of only six Georgia members of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers — an invitation-only counterpart to the American College of Trial Lawyers — and he is proud to say that two of the other members practice alongside him at Bondurant. Best Lawyers recognized Frank as the 2018, 2024, and 2026 “Lawyer of the Year” for appellate practice.

Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore LLP

Frank McLaughlin

Frank’s practice focuses on the defence of pharmaceutical product liability class actions, medical malpractice claims and a range of commercial litigation cases. Frank is a leading trial lawyer in medical malpractice litigation, having successfully defended over 30 cases through trial, both jury and non-jury. Frank has many high-profile representative works, including acting as National lead counsel for a number of pharmaceutical innovator companies. Frank and his team have taken creative approaches to the defence of class actions and have defeated class certification motions on behalf of AstraZeneca, in Martin v. AstraZeneca (involving the atypical anti-psychotic medication Seroquel), and on behalf of Lundbeck in Price v. Lundbeck (involving the anti-depressant Celexa)(currently under appeal). Frank has been involved in many leading medical malpractice decisions and specializes in birth injury litigation. Frank is a frequent presenter at conferences on medical legal issues.

McCarthy Tétrault

Frank Roth

DLA Piper

Frank Schall

Moore & Van Allen, PLLC

Frank Starvaggi

Associate

DSA LAW

Franklin Hill

Partner

Platt Richmond

Franklyn Snitow

Principal

Offit Kurman

Frans Overkleeft

Partner

NautaDutilh

François Collot

Managing Partner, Partner in Real Estate & Construction, Leasing, Distribution law, Civil & Commercial litigation.

KLEYR GRASSO