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Gary Chow

Gary was admitted in Hong Kong in 2008 and specialises in casualty and insurance related litigation. He is a highly experienced and reliable practitioner with strong technical competence. He joins HW in 2022 to reinforce HW's insurance practice. Gary regularly acts for insurer clients in policy coverage disputes and advises on a multitude of complex policy issues. He has extensive experience in defending casualty and professional indemnity claims involving work accidents, traffic accidents, occupiers' liability, construction sites, container terminals, warehouses, retail sector, educational institutions, elderly homes, and healthcare professionals. He is expert in handling, investigating and defending highly suspicious claims. Gary has vast experience in dealing with industrial (construction, marine, aviation related), traffic offence and other departmental summonses (for example, Labour Department, Buildings Department, Social Welfare Department, Electrical and Mechanical Services Department, etc.) involving fatal and serious injury cases. He and his team are frequently instructed by clients to handle crisis management, attend urgent site inspection, and provide immediate on-site advice in dealing with enforcement authorities (such as police, Labour Department, etc.). Gary also has experience in advising on regulatory and compliance matters, contractual disputes, debt recovery, tenancy disputes, employment related matters, data privacy matters, arbitration and criminal matters. · Howse Williams

Hong KongInsurance, LitigationEnglish, Cantonese

About

Gary Chow is a Hong Kong-qualified lawyer (admitted 2008) who specialises in casualty and insurance-related litigation and joined Howse Williams in 2022 to reinforce its insurance practice. He regularly acts for insurers in policy coverage disputes and defends casualty and professional indemnity claims across a wide range of sectors, and also advises on regulatory, compliance, contractual, employment, data privacy, arbitration and criminal matters.

Practice areas

InsuranceLitigationDispute ResolutionRegulatory & ComplianceArbitrationProfessional Indemnity

Office

Hong Kong

Howse Williams · Gary was admitted in Hong Kong in 2008 and specialises in casualty and insurance related litigation. He is a highly experienced and reliable practitioner with strong technical competence. He joins HW in 2022 to reinforce HW's insurance practice. Gary regularly acts for insurer clients in policy coverage disputes and advises on a multitude of complex policy issues. He has extensive experience in defending casualty and professional indemnity claims involving work accidents, traffic accidents, occupiers' liability, construction sites, container terminals, warehouses, retail sector, educational institutions, elderly homes, and healthcare professionals. He is expert in handling, investigating and defending highly suspicious claims. Gary has vast experience in dealing with industrial (construction, marine, aviation related), traffic offence and other departmental summonses (for example, Labour Department, Buildings Department, Social Welfare Department, Electrical and Mechanical Services Department, etc.) involving fatal and serious injury cases. He and his team are frequently instructed by clients to handle crisis management, attend urgent site inspection, and provide immediate on-site advice in dealing with enforcement authorities (such as police, Labour Department, etc.). Gary also has experience in advising on regulatory and compliance matters, contractual disputes, debt recovery, tenancy disputes, employment related matters, data privacy matters, arbitration and criminal matters.

Hong Kong

Expertise

Work accidents / Occupational injuriesTraffic accidents and traffic offencesOccupiers' liabilityConstruction sites / Construction industryContainer terminals / Logistics / WarehousingRetail sectorEducational institutionsElderly homesHealthcare professionals / Medical negligenceMarine and aviation-related industrial incidentsCrisis management and on-site enforcement dealings

Education

  • Postgraduate Certificate in Laws, The University of Hong Kong (2006)
  • Bachelor of Laws, The University of Hong Kong (2005)

Admissions

  • Hong Kong (admitted 2008)
  • Member, Law Society of Hong Kong

Languages

EnglishCantonese