ENG

ENG简体中文日本語한국어

  • Gilbert LEUNG

    Equity Partner / Hong Kong

  • Tel +852-2298-7125

    Email gilbertleung@zhonglun.com

  • Practices

    Litigation & Arbitration, Bankruptcy, Insolvency & Reorganization, Compliance & Investigation

CV

Gilbert LEUNG

Gilbert is a partner of the firm’s dispute resolution practice and he specializes in commercial litigation and dispute resolution. He has extensive experience in shareholders’ disputes, insolvency matters, commercial fraud, contentious banking matters, real estate disputes, regulatory and investigatory matters. Gilbert advises listed companies, developers, local and international banks and financial institutions, accounting firms, multijurisdictional corporations, and philanthropists. In addition to his litigation experience, Gilbert also focuses on antitrust law and has been advising corporate clients on issues arising from the Competition Ordinance.

Prior to joining Zhong Lun in 2015, Gilbert has worked with Deacons since 2001.

Representative Matters

  • Acted for a leading Chinese bank to successfully strike out a HKD 5 billion claim brought by the plaintiff on the grounds of issue estoppel, time limitation, absence of reasonable cause of action, and abuse of process

  • Acted for the world largest lithium chemical producer focusinf on the development, production, and sales of lithium chemical products in a dispute involving a USD 72 million acquisition of shares in a company in the lithium chemical industry

  • Acted for one of the two shareholders of a joint venture shipping company (with net assets exceeding USD 50 million) in a deadlock situation to lodge legal proceedings against the other shareholder, securing an inter-partes interlocutory injunction application for an order to restrain the other shareholder from relying on the invalid deadlock notice to trigger the buy-sell event under the Shareholders' Agreement pending determination of an arbitration, resulting in the two parties' agreement to resolve the dispute amicably, after which we advised our client on the sale and purchase of the JV shipping company

  • Acted for several companies founded by a late tycoon, philanthropist, and Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference of the PRC in a number of disputes and issues between his family members over his estate and interests in his entire business empire, where these disputes, characterized by their acrimonious nature and the futile attempts of a former Chief Executive and Secretary of Justice to seek a settlement between all stakeholders, attracted wide publicity in Hong Kong and China's mainland 

  • Act for the world's second-largest manufacturer of memory semiconductors for personal computers and smart phones to claim against various parties for, inter alia, breach of confidence and seeking injunction relief, damages and the account of profits, successfully securing both ex-parte and inter-partes interlocutory injunctions orders for the client, despite oppositions raised by the opposing parties

Honors and Awards

For Individual

Recommended lawyer in Dispute Resolution (Litigation), Legal 500 Asia Pacific, 2024

Recommended lawyer in Dispute Resolution (International Arbitration), Legal 500 Asia Pacific, 2022-2024

Recommended lawyer in Asia Pacific Regional International Arbitration, Legal 500 Asia Pacific, 2023-2024

Key lawyer in PRC Firms in Hong Kong, Legal 500 Asia Pacific, 2023-2024

Memberships & Affiliations

Hong Kong Red Cross Honorary Legal Advisor

Publications

“Hong Kong Statutory Demand for Debt Repayment Trilogy - Cases with Q&A”

“Force Majeure of Hong Kong Contract Law under the Outbreak of COVID-19”

“Hong Kong Statutory Demand for Debt Repayment Trilogy - Proceedings of Winding Up of Company”

“Hong Kong Statutory Demand for Debt Repayment Trilogy - Proceedings of Personal Bankruptcy”

“Guide to Hong Kong Civil Litigation and Arbitration in Hong Kong”

“Smoothing Out Disputes Arising from the Belt and Road Initiative”

“Does PRC China and Hong Kong Courts Support the Asset Preservation Application for Parties Involved in an Arbitration Proceeding?”

“The General Approach to Enforce PRC Awards in Hong Kong”

Related

  • Bar Admissions/Professional Qualifications

    Hong Kong (Solicitor)

  • Education

    LL.M., University of Hong Kong
    P.C.LL., University of Hong Kong
    LL.B., University of Hong Kong
    B.A. in Accounting, University of Kent at Canterbury, United Kingdom

  • Professional Experience

    Partner, Zhong Lun Law Firm, 2015 to present
    Associate, Deacons, 2001-2015

  • Languages

    Chinese
    English