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Tel: (852) 2537 7000 |
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Position:
Associate Solicitor
Jurisdictions:
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Solicitor of the High Court of Hong Kong SAR (1996) |
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Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England & Wales (1997) (non-practising) |
Previous Firms:
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Deacons |
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Koo & Partners |
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Dibb Lupton Alsop |
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Hill Taylor Dickinson |
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Hampton Winter & Glynn |
Previous Work Experience:
Law enforcement officer (in the ranks of inspector/senior inspector/acting inspector) in the Royal Hong Kong Police Force for over 15 years. Awarded the Commissioner of Police’s Commendation for Leadership, Professional skills, Dedication and Devotion to Duty of an Exceptionally High order in 1985
Career Highlights:
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Acted for a major bank in a high profile and long drawn litigation with a group of companies leading to the winding-up of various companies within the group and bankruptcy of the directors and recovery of multi-billion assets (inclusive of a multi-million dollars barge) in favour of the bank |
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Acted for a major financial institution in a high profile contentious winding up proceedings against a company and its scheme of arrangement as part of S.E. Asia’s largest debt restructuring |
Professional Experience:
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Worked as assistant solicitor at the Hong Kong office of two major London Admiralty and insurance law firms as well as associate solicitor at two of Hong Kong’s largest law firms handling and actively involving in all aspects of litigation advice and procedures in commercial, shipping and insolvency litigation cases |
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Acted for a broad range of clients in contentious matters in the area of banking, insolvency and international trade advising on defaulting accounts, recovery strategies and enforcement of security/foreign judgments/arbitration awards in Hong Kong etc. |
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General non-contentious insolvency practice (e.g. members’ voluntary liquidation). |
Area of Practice:
Commercial and shipping litigation which include banking, insolvency, property, insurance and assets tracing/debt recovery litigation and international trade; disputes resolution
Languages:
Fluent English, Cantonese and Mandarin. Moderate French and German
Memberships:
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The Law Society of Hong Kong |
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The Law Society of England & Wales |
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The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators |
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The Restructuring and Insolvency Faculty of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants |
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Hong Kong Football Club |
Appointment:
Civil Celebrant of Marriages (23 October 2009)
Hobbies:
Reading; listening to classical music; playing sports, golf and tennis
Other Experience:
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Elected and served as a member of the General Committee of the Hong Kong Football Club (the “Club”) from 2002-2004. In 2002, became the first woman being elected as a member of the General Committee since the founding of the Club in 1886. |
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Represented Hong Kong as a Youth Ambassador in the 15th JC International Youth Voyage (from Yokohama to Hong Kong on M/V Coral Princess) organised by the Japan Junior Chamber of Commerce in 1985 |
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Participated in the International Tall Ship Festival, Osaka, Japan as one of the all-girl-crew members of the Hong Kong Outward Bound Brigantine “Ji Fung” having sailed 2,072 nautical miles from Hong Kong in 1983 |
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