Lawyers in Hong Kong

Ruby Chan

Partner

Baker McKenzie

Ruonan Duan

Ruonan Duan advises clients doing business in Asia on corporate and finance transactions. Ruonan helps both borrowers and lenders, including Chinese and international private equity firms, private debt providers, corporates, banks, and funds on a wide range of banking and finance transactions, including: Leveraged finance Property finance Acquisition finance Syndicated corporate finance Restructuring and workouts She has particular experience with the infrastructure, consumer, healthcare, real estate, and technology sectors and with executing deals in jurisdictions across Asia, including China, Korea, India, and the Philippines. Ruonan draws on her Mandarin fluency and five years practicing in the Shanghai office of a magic circle law firm to provide clients insight on regional market practice. Ruonan is a member of the Young Leaders Committee of the Asia Pacific Loan Market Association. As an active member of the Hong Kong community, she provides pro bono support, including as a volunteer at Equal Justice in Hong Kong.

Latham & Watkins LLP

Rupen Shah

Special Counsel

GPS Legal LLP

Russell Bennett

Partner, Head of Employment

Tanner De Witt

Sally Hung

Partner

Baker McKenzie

Sally Lau

Sally Lau is a Managing Associate of the firm. She has a broad range of experience in both contentious and non-contentious financial services, including money lending, money laundering, sanctions compliance, SFC licensing and ongoing compliance, as well as in corporate law, employment law and white collar crime. Sally Lau has represented clients in enforcement matters involving investment services firms, including operators of digital asset exchanges and corporate finance advisers, and has substantial experience advising on blockchain and other distributed ledger technology (“DLT”), non-fungible tokens (“NFTs”), stablecoins, crypto currencies and crypto currency derivatives, with a particular focus on corporate and commercial law issues, securities regulation and anti-money laundering (“AML”) compliance. She has advised clients on employment arrangements, including preparing employment agreements, restrictive covenants and service company agreements, and represented clients in disputes between employers and employees. She has particular experience with internal investigations of employees, employment disputes involving employees who are licensed or registered or otherwise regulated by a regulatory agency, including the SFC and with regulatory issues, including licensing, registration and enforcement related matters, arising from termination of employment. She has advised extensively on creditor-debtor relationships, with a particular focus on secured lending transactions.

Timothy Loh LLP

Sally Law

DLA Piper

Sam Maxson

Sam Maxson advises clients across the fintech and payments ecosystem on their highest stakes strategic, regulatory and structuring matters. Drawing on over a decade of experience, Sam leverages a deep understanding of the global regulatory landscape and market insight to provide pragmatic advice to emerging and established companies, financial institutions, investors, and governmental authorities on: Digital assets/crypto, tokenization, Web3, and decentralized finance (DeFi) Payment services and systems Securities/derivatives laws Financial markets infrastructure Credit/lending Anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing Regulator advocacy and engagement Having advised on industry-leading blockchain and digital assets matters since 2016, he was an early adopter of a fintech-first approach. Sam has guided many of the world’s most prominent businesses in the fintech and payments sectors on complex legal and regulatory challenges, as well as central banks and regulators on designing and implementing fintech and payments regulatory frameworks. Sam also frequently provides specialist financial regulatory advice on fundraising, M&A, and capital markets matters involving fintech and financial services sector issuers and targets. Sam unlocks the resources of the firm’s robust global platform to coordinate advice from Latham colleagues and local counsel around the world for clients, facilitating seamless access to leading international advice for clients in Asia and around the world. A recognized leader at the firm, Sam is a member of the firm’s global Training and Career Enhancement Committee (TACE) and serves as the Deputy Money Laundering Reporting Officer for the Hong Kong office. Before joining Latham, he practiced in the London office of another global law firm. During this time, he worked in Tokyo and completed secondments at a global investment bank and a global insurer

Latham & Watkins LLP

Sam Tsui

Sam Tsui specalises in litigation and arbitration work in shipping, personal injuries and insurance areas. On the shipping side, he specialises in charterparties and bills of lading disputes, marine casualties and crew personal injuries, freight forwarding and terminal liabilities, all aspects of P&I and FD&D Club work and international trade disputes. For personal injuries matters, he advises extensively on employees compensation and its related common law claims, motor accidents, third party liability claims and general personal injuries litigation ranging from minor injuries to fatal cases. He also specialises in matters relating to general insurance, marine insurance and life insurance, including insurance policy disputes, subrogated and liability claims, and insurance policy drafting and review.

Tsui & Co

Sam Wu

Partner

YYC Legal LLP

Sam Zhang

Consultant

Nixon Peabody CWL

Samantha Chan

Associate

Tanner De Witt

Samantha Lau

Samantha graduated from the University of Hong Kong with double first-class degrees in law and government, before attending Harvard Law School for postgraduate studies, where she graduated with a top prize for her graduation thesis. She later served as a judicial assistant of the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong, before being awarded the Hong Kong Bar Scholarship. She is also called to the Bar in New York. Samantha has a wide civil practice with an emphasis on civil and commercial litigation and international arbitration. She has experience handling arbitration proceedings conducted in HKIAC, LCIA and SIAC. Samantha is able to provide legal advice and conduct hearings in English, Cantonese and Mandarin.

Rede Chambers

Sammi Cheung

Associate

Ince & Co

Sammy Fang

DLA Piper

Samuel Hung

Partner

RPC

Sandy Lin

Sandy Lin is a partner in the Corporate Department of the Firm’s Hong Kong office. Sandy’s practice is focused on complex cross-border transactions in the Asia-Pacific region, including mergers and acquisitions, cross-border joint ventures, emerging companies, venture capital financing, and energy project development.

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Sara Or

Clients regularly come to Sara Or for advice on: Banking, securities, and insurance regulations, including the regulatory regimes on stored value facilities, payment systems, e-payment initiatives, and money services; and on non-traditional investments such as cryptos Structuring/setting up/operating businesses Strategy Regulator enquiries/inspections/investigations Clients leverage her strong working relationships with both financial institutions and regulators (including the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, the Securities and Futures Commission, and the Insurance Authority), and 30+ years of deep experiential knowledge on market practice and supervisory philosophies of regulators. Sara speaks English, Cantonese and Mandarin.

Johnson Stokes & Master

Sarah Berkeley

Sarah is a partner in the firm’s Asia employment practice, based in London. She is admitted as a solicitor in both Hong Kong and England & Wales. Sarah operates the “Asia Desk” for the firm’s international employment practice, from London, supporting clients on their Hong Kong and Asia employment law needs. Sarah specialises in advising clients on their most sensitive employment law matters, with particular focus on the financial institution and asset management sectors. She advises on all aspects of the employment relationship, including drafting employment contracts and staff handbooks, bonus and remuneration arrangements, negotiated terminations, the employment aspects of internal and regulatory investigations, employment data privacy, strategic issues associated with reorganisations and restructuring, discrimination and harassment, and employment disputes. Sarah is ranked as a “Leading Individual” for Employment Law by Asia-Pacific Legal 500. She is recognised as “always very calm and provides very pragmatic advice” (Chambers Asia 2022). She is held in high esteem for her “very sensible, prompt and commercial” approach to employment law mandates (Chambers Asia 2021). She is described as a “stand out performer” (Legal 500 Asia 2021). Clients consider her advice “concise, pragmatic and easy to understand,” and describe her responsiveness as “extremely impressive, even within tight deadlines” (Chambers Asia 2019). Sarah is described as “a very seasoned employment lawyer” and provides “commercial and practical advice” to clients (Legal 500 Asia 2019). She is a trusted advisor when significant judgement calls are required or where a bespoke solution is needed. racts and staff handbooks, bonus and remuneration arrangements, negotiated terminations, the employment aspects of internal and regulatory investigations, employment data privacy, strategic issues associated with reorganisations and restructuring, discrimination and harassment, and employment disputes. Sarah is ranked as a “Leading Individual” for Employment Law by Asia-Pacific Legal 500. She is recognised as “always very calm and provides very pragmatic advice” (Chambers Asia 2022). She is held in high esteem for her “very sensible, prompt and commercial” approach to employment law mandates (Chambers Asia 2021). She is described as a “stand out performer” (Legal 500 Asia 2021). Clients consider her advice “concise, pragmatic and easy to understand,” and describe her responsiveness as “extremely impressive, even within tight deadlines” (Chambers Asia 2019). Sarah is described as “a very seasoned employment lawyer” and provides “commercial and practical advice” to clients (Legal 500 Asia 2019). She is a trusted advisor when significant judgement calls are required or where a bespoke solution is needed.

Simmons & Simmons

Satpal Gobindpuri

DLA Piper

Scott Bache

Scott Bache specialises in advising financial institutions, hedge funds, private equity funds, financial advisers and turnaround professionals on the full range of restructuring matters, including corporate restructuring, distressed mergers and acquisitions and special situations investing. He also advises clients on a broad range of insolvency issues, security enforcement and general banking litigation. He has over 20 years experience working in Greater China. Scott is widely recognised as a leading lawyer for Restructuring and Insolvency by independent legal directories, including The Legal 500 Asia Pacific, Chambers Asia-Pacific, IFLR1000 and Best Lawyers guide book.

Clifford Chance

Scott Peterman

Partner

K&L Gates

Sean Wu

Sean Wu advises global and Chinese companies on investigations and disputes. Sean helps clients navigate issues related to fraud, securities fraud, professional standards, FCPA, anti-corruption / anti-bribery, sanctions, and other trade compliance matters in China. Specifically he helps clients with: Internal and government investigations Compliance due diligence Compliance programs and training He also advises clients on litigation in China and in global jurisdictions with cross-border elements involving foreign parties. Sean is both US and PRC trained and fluent in both English and Mandarin. He helps clients bridge the gap between the two judicial systems and provides insight into cross-border, cross-cultural issues. Sean draws on experience advising clients in a range of industries, including online commence, data and technology, finance, professional services, pharmaceutical, medical, biochemical, automobile, manufacturing, shipping, and consulting. Prior to private practice, Sean interned in Chinese courts, including the PRC Supreme People’s Court.

Latham & Watkins LLP

See Wah (Mandy) Wong

Latham & Watkins LLP