Janie Wong

Janie focuses her practice on international arbitration, complex commercial litigation and cross-border investigations with an emphasis on Asia. She represents clients in a range of contentious matters including those relating to cross-border fraud, enforcement of arbitral awards and judgments, insolvency, intellectual property rights, M&A deals, private equity investments, product liability, professional negligence and shareholders' disputes. She also counsels clients on regulatory compliance, bribery and/or corruption issues and assists with pre-acquisition due diligence. Most recently, she has been acting for liquidators in a US$11 billion restructuring of a China-state-linked group. Janie has been recognised by Who’s Who Legal in the category of Litigation – Future Leaders – Partners in 2020 and 2021. She is among the lawyers, in-house investigators, prosecutors and academics from the international investigations community profiled by Global Investigation Review in its “Women in Investigations 2021” survey. · Howse Williams

Hong KongInternational Arbitration, LitigationEnglish, Cantonese, Mandarin

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Janie focuses on international arbitration, complex commercial litigation and cross-border investigations across Asia, and represents clients in matters including cross-border fraud, enforcement of arbitral awards and judgments, insolvency, IP, M&A, private equity, product liability, professional negligence and shareholders' disputes. She counsels on regulatory compliance, bribery/corruption and pre-acquisition due diligence, has acted for liquidators in a US$11 billion restructuring of a China-state-linked group, and has been recognised by Who’s Who Legal (Litigation – Future Leaders – Partners, 2020–2021) and profiled by Global Investigation Review (Women in Investigations 2021).

Practice areas

International ArbitrationLitigationInvestigationsInsolvency & RestructuringIntellectual PropertyCorporate / M&ARegulatory & ComplianceDistressed Debt

Office

Hong Kong

Howse Williams · Janie focuses her practice on international arbitration, complex commercial litigation and cross-border investigations with an emphasis on Asia. She represents clients in a range of contentious matters including those relating to cross-border fraud, enforcement of arbitral awards and judgments, insolvency, intellectual property rights, M&A deals, private equity investments, product liability, professional negligence and shareholders' disputes. She also counsels clients on regulatory compliance, bribery and/or corruption issues and assists with pre-acquisition due diligence. Most recently, she has been acting for liquidators in a US$11 billion restructuring of a China-state-linked group. Janie has been recognised by Who’s Who Legal in the category of Litigation – Future Leaders – Partners in 2020 and 2021. She is among the lawyers, in-house investigators, prosecutors and academics from the international investigations community profiled by Global Investigation Review in its “Women in Investigations 2021” survey.

Hong Kong

Expertise

Asia-focused cross-border disputesCross-border fraudEnforcement of arbitral awards and judgmentsInsolvency & large-scale restructuring (including China-linked matters)Private equity and M&A due diligenceBribery & corruption and internal investigationsShareholders' disputes

Education

2019 International Diploma in Governance Risk and Compliance, International Compliance Association (in association with the University of Manchester)
2004 Postgraduate Certificate in Laws, University of Hong Kong
2003 Bachelor of Laws, University of Hong Kong
2002 Bachelor of Business Administration (Law), University of Hong Kong
2001 Bachelor of Arts (Psychology), Queen’s University, Canada

Languages

EnglishCantoneseMandarin