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Desmond Lee

Desmond is one of our partners specialising in contentious regulatory and compliance matters as well as complex cross-border commercial and shareholders’ disputes. Desmond regularly advises and represents financial institutions, multinational corporations, state-owned enterprises, start-ups and private clients. In particular, Desmond is experienced in representing clients on complex investigations by law enforcement agencies and market regulators in Hong Kong and abroad, such as the SFC and ICAC. He also represents clients across a range of commercial litigations in court and arbitration including cross-border commercial / trade disputes, corporate restructuring/insolvency, debt and asset recovery, disputes relating to financial products, investors/shareholders’ disputes, and fraud/white-collar crimes. · Howse Williams

Hong KongRegulatory & Compliance, Dispute ResolutionEnglish, Cantonese, Mandarin
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Desmond Lee is a partner at Howse Williams who specialises in contentious regulatory and compliance matters and complex cross-border commercial and shareholders’ disputes. He advises and represents financial institutions, multinational corporations, state-owned enterprises, start-ups and private clients, and has experience handling investigations by regulators and law enforcement (including the SFC and ICAC) as well as commercial litigation and arbitration across restructuring/insolvency, debt and asset recovery, financial products, investor/shareholder disputes and fraud/white-collar crime matters.

Practice areas

Regulatory & ComplianceDispute ResolutionCommercial LitigationArbitrationRestructuring & InsolvencyDebt & Asset RecoveryFinancial ServicesShareholders' & Investors' Disputes

Office

Hong Kong

Howse Williams · Desmond is one of our partners specialising in contentious regulatory and compliance matters as well as complex cross-border commercial and shareholders’ disputes. Desmond regularly advises and represents financial institutions, multinational corporations, state-owned enterprises, start-ups and private clients. In particular, Desmond is experienced in representing clients on complex investigations by law enforcement agencies and market regulators in Hong Kong and abroad, such as the SFC and ICAC. He also represents clients across a range of commercial litigations in court and arbitration including cross-border commercial / trade disputes, corporate restructuring/insolvency, debt and asset recovery, disputes relating to financial products, investors/shareholders’ disputes, and fraud/white-collar crimes.

Hong Kong

Expertise

Financial institutionsMultinational corporationsState-owned enterprisesStart-upsPrivate clientsCross-border investigationsSFC and ICAC investigationsWhite-collar crime

Education

  • Postgraduate Certificate in Laws (PCLL), The University of Hong Kong (2007)
  • Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice (Merit), Monash University (2006)
  • LLB (2:1 Hons), Monash University (2005)
  • Bachelor of Business Systems, Monash University (1998)

Admissions

  • Member, Law Society of Hong Kong
  • Member, Law Society of England and Wales
  • Civil Celebrant of Marriages, Hong Kong

Languages

EnglishCantoneseMandarin