Lawyers in Hong Kong

William Leung

As a prominent commercial litigator with more than 24 years solid experience, William with his team of lawyers specialise in the following: Commercial litigation William's commercial practice ranges from companies’/shareholder's disputes, joint venture disputes, winding up/bankruptcy, restructuring and corporate risk management issues. His clients would include from prominent liquidators and/or receivers, corporates, listed companies, directors/officers of listed companies, banks/lenders, investors, charitable organisations to private/corporate shareholders and bankrupts. Notably, William and his team have recently been involved in a number of large winding up/re-restructuring matters and acting for a well-known tycoon in appealing against the bankruptcy order. William also acts for both trustees and beneficiaries on contentious trust and probate matters, particularly for high net worth individuals on personal wealth matters. He also handles general debt recovery matters for listed companies, financial institutions and banks and is well known for his efficiency and costs effectiveness producing great results for clients. He has ample experience in acting for both Claimants and Recipients for funds internet fraud cases. Insurance litigation William acts for more than 10 large international/PRC insurers covering public liability, property, marine, travel and EC/PI insurance. He is also a leading advisor in dealing with industrial accidents with emphasis in fatal and serious injury cases. He has formed a specialist team in dealing with crisis management which would arrive at the accident scene (fatal and serious injury) quickly to deal with urgent compliance matters and enforcement authorities. William regularly gives talks and seminars on insurance matters due to his high acclaim within the industry. Transport litigation William acts for shipping companies, forwarders, international logistic companies, four of the largest container terminals in Hong Kong and leading warehouse operators along with their liability/property insurers. He has unrivalled experience in handling a wide range of contentious matters on bills of lading/air waybills, cargo claims, forwarding, warehousing, logistics disputes and non-contentious matters such as drafting of complex logistic services agreements. Particularly he is a leading figure in advising container terminals on their contracts with shipping lines, emergency casualty, employment, compliance matters, property damage and fire incidents and oil spillage cases. He has advised on transport related regulatory matters such as enforcement actions by Customs and Excise Department, Labour Department, Environmental Protection Department and ICAC. William is also on the Transportation and Logistics Committee of the Law Society of Hong Kong. “William Leung is a very good and experienced expert to deal with complex marine claims matters.” Legal 500 2022 Pleasure crafts William has vast experience on yacht matters including sale and purchase of super yachts (including escrow service), collision, casualty, fire and their related personal injury, insurance and litigation matters. Escrow agent / accounts William frequently advises on escrow agent / account agreements and their litigation risks to facilitate sale and purchase of high value yachts, club debentures offshore properties and high value antiques/ paintings etc. In appropriate cases, our firm will act as escrow agent or stakeholder. Arts/Paintings William also advises on sale and purchase of arts/paintings for a number of prominent collectors. Accreditation William has been consistently named as one of the leading lawyers in Hong Kong by various legal directories. He is admitted to practise law in both Hong Kong and England and Wales. William also holds a number of public posts with a view to rewarding the society.

Howse Williams

William Son

William Son is a Corporate Associate in the Firm’s Hong Kong office. He has focused on M&A and capital markets transactions. He has represented major financial institutions and corporate clients in a broad range of financing transactions, including leveraged and investment-grade acquisition financings, asset-based financings and debt restructurings.

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett Hong Kong

William Wong

William specialises in contentious regulatory work and financial services and commercial litigation. He represents both institutional and individual clients in investigations by regulatory authorities and law enforcement agencies in Hong Kong on a wide range of matters, including market misconduct, money-laundering, bribery and corruption, mis-selling, internal controls failure, fraud, employee whistleblowing and data breaches. As a litigator, he has almost 20 years of experience in advising financial institutions, listed and private companies, family offices and high net-worth individuals on high-stake commercial disputes (litigation and arbitration), from pre-action strategy and settlement negotiations, interim injunctive relief, commencement of proceedings and trial, to enforcement of judgments and arbitration awards. On the advisory side, leveraging his in-house experience William provides counsel on a broad range of regulatory and compliance issues concerning financial institutions and listed companies, including new business initiatives (the drafting of client agreements), licensing issues, internal controls enhancements, as well as emerging trends such as the use of Tech and virtual assets. William has been ranked by leading legal directories since 2018, including Legal 500 ("Next Generation Lawyer" for Disputes Resolution), IFLR1000 ("Rising Star Partner" in Financial Services Regulatory), Who's Who Legal ("Future Leader" in Investigations), LexisNexis ("40 Under 40") and China Business Law Journal ("20 Rising Stars in international firms").

Howse Williams

Winnie Chan

Winnie Chan is a corporate lawyer based in Hong Kong. Winnie has extensive experience in both mergers and acquisitions and equity capital market transactions. She advises clients on listings, mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and corporate transactions and on regulatory issues in relation to the Listing Rules of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong and Takeovers Code.

Norton Rose Fulbright

Winnie Chiu

Partner

YYC Legal LLP

Winnie Lo

Winnie is a senior associate in our dispute resolution and insolvency team, and is based in Hong Kong. Her practice focuses on cross-border restructuring and insolvency, as well as commercial dispute resolution. She has acted for insolvency practitioners, commercial banking institutions, directors and shareholders. She also has experience advising on a wide range of high-value and complex commercial disputes including fraud, breaches of directors’ duties and shareholder disputes.

Carey Olsen Hong Kong LLP

Winnie Tai

Partner of Real Estate Department

Gallant

Wonsuk (Steve) Kang

Wonsuk Kang, Chair of Latham’s Korea Practice, helps Korean clients successfully navigate complex cross-border transactions. Wonsuk advises globally market-leading Korean companies on strategic corporate transactions and high-stakes disputes. A native Korean speaker, he draws on experience with capital markets and landmark multibillion dollar mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures in South Korea. Educated in Korea, the US, and the UK, and qualified in the UK and Hong Kong, Wonsuk brings a global perspective to his work. He pairs a highly analytical, efficient mindset with a complementary passion for assembling global teams of Latham colleagues to best serve Korean clients. Prior to his legal career, Wonsuk was an award-winning communications and journalism professor at the distinguished Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

Latham & Watkins LLP

Wundy Lee

DLA Piper

Xiao Jiang

Partner

Fangda Partners

Xinxing Chen

Registered Foreign Lawyer

Baker McKenzie

Yash Rana

Partner / Co-Chair, Private Equity

Goodwin

Yi Yang

Yi has a wide range of experience assisting in cross-border commercial litigation, including shareholder disputes, derivative actions, contentious insolvency and appraisal actions involving offshore companies.

Carey Olsen Hong Kong LLP

Yi-Shun Teoh

Partner

RPC

Yohei Nakagawa

Yohei Nakagawa advises Japanese and international clients on a wide range of complex cross-border M&A transactions. Yohei draws on extensive experience across diverse sectors, including technology, life sciences, and media, to guide clients on: Outbound and inbound mergers and acquisitions Strategic investments International joint ventures Fully bilingual in Japanese and English, he engages with clients and other parties seamlessly between both languages and brings a multicultural perspective to achieve commercial outcomes in complex cross-border M&A transactions. Prior to joining Latham, Yohei was a partner at a leading international law firm in Tokyo, and has also practiced in the New York and Miami offices of his previous firm. He is a member of the New York Bar and is a registered foreign lawyer (Gaikokuho-Jimu-Bengoshi) in Japan as a member of the Dai-Ni Tokyo Bar Association.

Latham & Watkins LLP

Yong Ren

Registered Foreign Lawyer (New York) Partner, Stephenson Harwood LLP

Stephenson Harwood

Yu Kew Leung

Partner

Haldanes

Yue Zhang

Partners

Fangda Partners

Yujing Liu

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Yuki Wong

Associate

Ince & Co

Yung Yung Katherine Hung

Partner

Tung & Co.

Yuval Tal

Yuval Tal is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department where he co-heads our internationally recognized Real Assets and Hospitality, Gaming & Leisure groups. Yuval also heads our Asia practice. Yuval is a general corporate and securities lawyer with diverse experience in cross-border mergers & acquisitions (public and private, debt and equity), long-term joint ventures, real assets and corporate and real estate finance. He advises clients on the full range of their activities including any form of financing, operational matters and commercial transactions. He advises sponsors and funds on the structuring, execution, entering into, restructuring and exiting of investments. Yuval has decades of experience representing clients on complex, first in kind transactions. His strength is providing original, workable and practical solutions that get the deal done. Qualified in New York, Hong Kong and Israel, Yuval has negotiated transactions in six continents and has experience representing clients on cross border transactions, including inbound to or outbound from Asia. Yuval regularly works with clients in various industries including real estate, hospitality, entertainment, sports, financial services, technology and life sciences. As an international M&A lawyer, Yuval has many years of experience dealing with complicated, non-customary transactions involving parties from different countries, cultures and legal systems. He has represented private equity and private credit funds, family offices, corporations and individuals in structuring, restructuring, managing and disposing of investments in Asia, Europe and the United States. He is typically called upon to strategize and structure complex transactions that do not follow a prescribed form or pattern. Yuval’s experience enables him to foresee future issues and clients have commented on his “ability to think seven moves ahead of the competition”. Yuval is also well known for his ability to broker deals between opposing parties in order to get the deal done, irrespective of the legal, business or practical obstacles. His efforts have earned him recognition by Legal 500, Chambers Asia Pacific and IFLR1000, where clients have referred to his “ability to play the honest broker to all parties involved, and to bridge the different cultures, legal systems and language barriers and to continually solve the unsolvable, is what allowed us to get this difficult deal done” and another stated “he was completely invested in the deal in a way lawyers seldom are, and his creativity and efforts allowed us to bridge considerable gaps between the parties and find common ground”. Yuval has worked in industries ranging from banking, real estate and industrials to fintech, biotech and hi-tech. As co-head of our Real Assets group, Yuval works with a team of over 75 lawyers from across the firm advising on real estate and in particular operating real estate related transactions. Yuval has worked on virtually any kind of transaction in the hospitality space, including mixed-use development and construction, acquisition and sale, restructuring and public offerings of real estate, hotel and casino companies. His experience covers traditional and more bespoke hospitality products such as hotels, casinos, branded residences, private clubs, nightclubs, restaurants and theme parks, as well as coin operated slot machines businesses. He has completed numerous high profile transactions involving the buying, selling and combining hotel operating companies and brands, including AccorHotels’ [EPA:AC] US$2.9 billion acquisition of Fairmont, Raffles and Swissôtel brands, its acquisition of Tribe, Australia’s first integrated modular hotel brand, Accor’s long-term alliance with Huazhu Hotels Group (also known as China Lodging Group [Nasdaq: HTHT]) and its strategic partnership with Singapore-based Banyan Tree Holdings [SGX:B58]. He also advised Formosa International Hotels’ sale and resulting joint venture with Intercontinental Hotels Group with respect to the Regent brand. Recent transactions include the acquisition of sbe and subsequent formation of Ennismore, a worldwide hospitality lifestyle platform which currently owns 14 brands and operates over 100 properties, and the subsequent sale of a 10.8% interest to a Qatari based consortium; a strategic agreement for the development of the Faena brand, the sale of the Mexico-based Hoteles City Express brand to Marriott for $100 million, the sale of interest and creation of a joint venture for the Delano and Auberge brands, the reorganization of the Sydell brand and Accor’s sale and long term license concerning the Accor Vacation Club. Yuval’s broader Real Assets experience includes working on specialty real estate such as the acquisition by Mori Building, a leading Japanese real estate company, of 11% of iconic One Vanderbilt office building; The Recording Academy’s (The Grammys) deal to develop Grammy Museums in China, a public/private deal to finance an office building in Delhi, India; acquisitions of hotels in Bangkok by a large Japanese institutional investor and a joint venture between a Hong Kong developer and an Asian based private equity fund for the acquisition and redevelopment of a property in Kowloon into a mixed use property including co-living and co-working properties. Yuval is a member of the Hospitality Development Council of ULI in both the United States and Asia and was a member of the Steering Committee of the Asian council; he was also a member of the Law 360 2020 Hospitality Editorial Board. He is a regular speaker at real estate and hospitality related conferences such as the Hotel Investment Conference Asia-Pacific in Hong Kong. Prior to rejoining Proskauer in 1999, Yuval practiced law in Israel, representing Israeli clients in transactions in Europe and the United States and European and U.S.-based clients in transactions in Israel. He handled transactions and other matters for major publicly traded Israeli companies such as Clal (Israel) Ltd., LifeWatch, Kitan Consolidated Ltd., Orckit Communications Ltd., ECI Telecom Ltd., Scitex Corporation Ltd., El-Al, Zim and Tecnomatix Technologies Ltd. Since joining Proskauer, Yuval has continued to represent Israeli clients on a wide range of Real Assets, corporate and securities matters.

Proskauer Rose LLP

Yvette Yu

Partner

Hill Dickinson LLP

Yvonne Kong

Partner

Oldham, Li & Nie