محامون متخصصون في Commercial Litigation

Helene Hechtkopf

Helene Hechtkopf focuses her practice on a wide range of litigation, in particular, commercial, employment, and construction. She has a long and impressive record of wins in matters at the intersection of transportation and employment law. She has defended employment cases under a variety of state and federal statutes, including Title VII, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Federal Railroad Safety Act, and the Federal Employers Liability Act. Her expertise spans race and gender discrimination, disability discrimination, and whistleblower laws. As a first-chair litigator, she has become an advocate of choice for New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority, North America’s largest transportation network, as well as other public entities facing discrimination and retaliation claims. Helene represented Metro-North in a precedent-setting case, holding that employees must have a good faith belief that they would encounter a hazardous situation to refuse to work under the federal whistleblower laws. Helene’s civil rights and discrimination defense experience also encompasses class actions: she is currently defending New York City Transit and the MTA in a long-running class action alleging that frequent elevator outages violate the ADA, and in another class action alleging that New York City Transit Authority’s Transit Adjudication Bureau violated the civil rights of individuals who are issued summonses for violation of the subway rules by collecting their tax refunds when they fail to pay their fines. Helene’s work extends well beyond transportation clients. For example, she defended the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in a federal lawsuit alleging disability discrimination. She also successfully led several confidential internal investigations for a state entity into employee allegations of sexual harassment by a coworker, gender discrimination, sexual orientation discrimination, and age discrimination. Helene has been recognized as a Rising Star (New York Law Journal), shortlisted for a Rising Star Award for Best in Litigation: General Commercial (Euromoney Legal Media Group), and named a Woman Worth Watching (Profiles in Leadership Journal). She has been named to Lawdragon’s Leading Corporate Employment Lawyers list in 2025, a New York Super Lawyer several times and has been recognized by Benchmark Litigation on the 40 & Under List since 2020, and as a Future Star.

Hoguet Newman Regal & Kenney, LLP

Henriette Gernaa

Henriette Gernaa is head of the firm's Dispute Resolution practice and Insurance sector group. She is also a member of the firm's off-shore and professional services cross-practice groups. Henriette has wide experience in international arbitration as counsel and arbitrator as well as in commercial litigation.

Gorrissen Federspiel

Henry Holland

Special Counsel

Mills Oakley

Henry Ma

Partner

Haldanes

Henry Rees

Henry Rees is an associate in the Middle East Construction and Dispute Resolution practice. He has more than eight years’ experience with Dentons, working as a paralegal before training in our Doha, Abu Dhabi and London offices and then qualifying as a solicitor in 2021. Henry has experience working on a wide range of contentious and non-contentious construction and engineering, energy and commercial litigation matters. His contentious experience includes representing clients under major arbitration rules including the ICC, QICCA, DIAC and LCIA rules, as well as mediation and expert determination. Henry assists clients in high-value and complex arbitrations relating to defective design and/or workmanship, delay and disruption, variations, loss and expense, payment disputes, debt claims and contract interpretation. He also represents clients in relation to Qatar court and QFC court litigation. Henry also has experience in all phases of the construction project life cycle including the initial planning stages of a project. He has assisted several large developers in the Middle East, advising on the application and impact of existing laws and regulations on new developments. Henry also has experience of drafting and negotiating FIDIC Red Book, Yellow Book and Green Book contracts.

Dentons

Hikmat Maleh

Partner, Co-Head of Investigations

Lenz & Staehelin

Hilla Peleg

Hilla Peleg is a partner in our Litigation department and focuses her practice on class actionsn antitrust and competition litigation with specific expertise in the telecoms, energy and consumer goods sectors. She brings clients a wealth of experience in antitrust litigation, acting for clients in all criminal proceedings and hearings before the Israel Antitrust Authority. Having joined Agmon in 2008, Hilla's clients include some of Israel’s largest communications, energy and industrial corporations, as well as banks and financial holding companies. In recent years, Hilla has been involved in some of the complex and innovative cases in her field, some of which have set a precedent in Israel, such as representing a leading Israeli bank in an appeal on the Antitrust Commissioner ruling regarding information exchange between banks.

Agmon with Tulchinsky Law Firm

Hind Habib

Partner

Schillings

Hisham Mohamed

Associate of the Firm’s Dispute Resolution Department, specializing in civil, commercial, and labor law. He assists in proceedings for annulment, enforcement and challenge of enforcement courts judgments.

Miras Legal

Hongjun (John) Tan

Associate Solicitor

Wildcat Law

Hope S. Freiwald

Dechert

Horace Pang

Senior Associate

CMS

Horace Wong SC

Horace Wong, S.C. has a broad civil practice, with a particular focus on commercial, banking and property disputes. He has extensive experience in substantial and complex litigation, having been involved in a number of long-running cases with multi-jurisdictional elements, including the ongoing dispute in Daimler AG v Leiduck. He also regularly acts for regulators and public bodies including the Securities and Futures Commission and the Employees Compensation Assistance Fund Board. Besides his practice in the courts, Horace Wong, S.C. frequently sits as an arbitrator (both in Hong Kong and abroad), being a panel member of various international arbitral institutions. He also mediates complex commercial disputes and is a specially appointed mediator of the Hong Kong Mediation Council in respect of the Investment Agreement under the Mainland and Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (CEPA). RECENT HIGHLIGHTS Fong Chak Kwan v Ascentic Ltd[2021] 6 HKC 401 (CA), [2022] HKCFA 4 – Acting for the Employees Compensation Assistance Fund Board in an appeal to set-aside leave for service-out involving proper interpretation of “damage limb” of the tort jurisdictional gateway Chen Yue Jia James v Chen Maria[2020] HKCFI 2410: 18-day trial concerning validity of 5 wills SFC v Yiu Hoi Ying Charles[2017] 3 HKLRD 157 (CA), (2018) 21 HKCFAR 475: Leading CFA decision on the interpretation of “innocent purpose” defence provided in s 271(3) of the Securities and Futures Ordinance. OTHER NOTABLE CASES Commercial & Banking Daimler AG v Leiduck[2012] 3 HKLRD 119 (CA), [2013] 2 HKLRD 822 (CA), [2014] 3 HKLRD 56 (CFI), [2018] 1 HKLRD 40 (CFI), [2018] 1 HKLRD 1188 (CFI), [2020] 3 HKLRD 579 (CFI), [2021] HKCA 328: Ongoing multi-jurisdictional dispute involving multiple issues of fraud, Mareva Injunction, settlement agreement, enforcement of undertaking, and issues of Russian law and psychiatric expert evidence, resulting in multiple leading decisions on various aspects of procedural and substantive law. Poben Consultants Ltd v Clearwater Bay Golf & Country Club(HCMP 2332/2016, 27 October 2017), [2019] 1 HKLRD 1110 (CA): Expungement of evidence on ground of “without prejudice” privilege in the context of dispute over private club debentures DBS Bank (Hong Kong) Ltd v Sit Pan Jit(HCA 382/2009, CACV 91/2015 & FAMV 45/2016): Leading case on contractual estoppel involving allegations of mis-selling by the bank Regulatory & Disciplinary SFC v Lu Ruifeng[2020] 4 HKLRD 786 (CFI), [2022] HKCA 326: Joinder application raising applicable limitation period for claims under s 213 of the Securities and Futures Ordinance Registrar of Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants v X (No. 3)[2017] 5 HKLRD 568 (CA): Appeal against determination of Disciplinary Committee of the HKICPA raising issues of procedural fairness Property & Probate Polyline Development Ltd v Ching Lin Chuen[2021] HKCFI 483: Strike-out application against multitude of claims made in respect of Ding House developments Sino Channel Holdings Ltd v Vast Faith Investment Ltd[2020] 2 HKLRD 1286 (CA): Dispute involving proper interpretation of deed of mutual covenant Chow Lily v Chow Wai Wai Violet(HCAP 22/2019): Probate action in relation to the estate of the late business tycoon Chow Yei Ching Personal Injuries & Employees’ Compensation Wo Chun Wah v Employees Compensation Assistance Fund Board[2019] 1 HKLRD 48 (CA): CA decision on proper approach to costs order against the Employees Compensation Assistance Fund Board Lo Siu Wa v Employees Compensation Assistance Fund Board[2017] 2 HKLRD 9 (CA), (2018) 21 HKCFAR 8: CFA decision on proper approach of interpreting employee compensation insurance policies Public Kazuo Okada v Registrar of Companies[2019] 1 HKLRD 483: Judicial review of registrar’s decision to withhold registration of documents pending resolution of underlying corporate disputes Waddington Ltd v SFC[2018] HKCFI 2544: Judicial review of SFC’s decision to refuse carrying out investigations and to take out petition under s 214 of the Securities and Futures Ordinance Chan Thao Phoumy v Secretary for Justice[2018] 3 HKLRD 310: Application to set aside registration of external confiscation order made under s 29(1) of the Drug Trafficking (Recovery of Proceeds) Ordinance DIRECTORY QUOTATIONS “An accomplished S.C.” (Legal 500 2022)

Rede Chambers

Horacio Infante

Associate

Baker McKenzie Chile

Horacio Paredes Vázquez KC

Partner. For the last 10 years his practice has focused in constitutional, administrative, civil and commercial litigation and arbitration with a particular emphasis on energy and infraestructure. Mr. Paredes is ranked as one of the top experts in high profile energy litigation being ranked as a "highly recognised practioner”.

Malpica, Iturbe, Buj y Paredes, S.C.

Houssam Al Hakim

Middle East and Partners Law Firm

Howard Fischer

Partner

Moses Singer

Howard Shapiro

Partner

WilmerHale

Hugh Hitchcock

Hugh is a senior partner and shareholder, and a member of our Senior Leadership Team. He heads up the Acuity Litigation and Dispute Resolution department, comprising Commercial Litigation, Property Litigation and Construction Litigation. Before joining Acuity, Hugh gained a wealth of experience as a partner/director at a boutique law firm, and in the media litigation department at Frere Cholmeley Bischoff, where he acted for an array of notable clients including Elton John, Sting, and The Beatles’ record company. Hugh works both nationally and internationally with clients on a wide range of commercial litigation cases. He has vast experience in high-value contractual claims against large national firms, recovery claims and minority shareholder claims. He has also practised in the niche area of defamation and has had notable successes against several national newspapers. Hugh has consistently been noted in The Legal 500 as a tenacious litigator with successful reported results against national and international firms. Expertise: Commercial contract disputes Director and shareholder disputes Professional negligence Contentious insolvency and antecedent transaction claims Defamation, privacy and reputation management All types of injunction proceedings Intellectual property disputes

Acuity Law

Hugh Meighen

Partner

Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

Hugo Piguet

Hugo Piguet is a partner in the Litigation Department of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in Paris. Ranked as a Next Generation Partner by Legal 500 EMEA 2026, his practice includes international arbitration and commercial litigation across a broad range of sectors, with a particular focus on complex, cross-border disputes. Hugo also specializes in white-collar crime as well as corporate compliance and economic sanctions regulations. Hugo is also frequently involved in M&A and private equity transactions.

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

Hugo Plowman

Hugo is a Partner and Chair of the Dispute Resolution department. He sits on the Firm's Management Board and maintains an active caseload in our market-leading Civil Fraud group. Hugo is in his 20th year at the Firm and is a leading commercial litigator specialising in the field of complex fraud, asset-tracing and investigations, theft of confidential information and all forms of corporate dishonesty. His client base includes some of the world's most successful public companies, private equity investors, business owners and HNW individuals. Hugo has played a pioneering role in building the Firm's cyber security and investigations offering, ensuring that the Firm is enabled to advise in a globalised and accelerating online world. This has resulted in the creation of MDR Group business MDR Cyber. Hugo continues to develop strategies for combatting cyber-crime in a range of sectors, for example assisting insurers with innovative incident response and asset recovery techniques. Hugo also participated in the Firm's joint public-private sector initiatives to help combat fraud and corruption and deliver justice. Hugo is recognised as a leading practitioner in the legal directories for top-ranked lawyers. He was shortlisted for the Financial Times Innovative Lawyers: Innovative Practitioner award in recent years.

Mishcon de Reya LLP

Hugo Velásquez

Associate

Tactic Legal

Hugo van Weerd

Paralegal, at the Dispute resolution: Commercial litigation department

Stonewater