Commercial Disputes 

• Advised Peking University Founder Group on a dispute relating to the enforcement of offshore keepwell bonds with claims around US$1.7 billion

• Advised Credit Suisse and a consortium of investment banks on their claims in the Luckin Coffee/Charles Lu dispute, involving cross-border bankruptcy, insolvency and enforcement actions in Hong Kong, the Cayman Islands, the BVI and Canada

• Advised China Life on a multi-jurisdictional, complex commercial litigation involving claims arising out of a pre-IPO investment. Won summary judgment in excess of US$150 million for China Life in the Hong Kong courts. Also successfully obtained worldwide freezing orders and injunctive relief in the Hong Kong and BVI courts

• Advised Deloitte on defending certain claims and successfully obtained a stay in favour of arbitration

• Advised the chairman of a leading social media app on his defence of claims arising out of a substantial commercial transaction, involving SIAC arbitration proceedings, Hong Kong injunction proceedings and ancillary proceedings in various US states

• Advised China Great Wall Asset Management in HKIAC arbitration proceedings involving substantial claims and obtained urgent injunctive and ancillary reliefs in the Hong Kong court in aid of arbitration

• Advised Sinovac Biotech on its dispute with dissident shareholders which involved multi-jurisdiction proceedings and applications for injunctive relief in Hong Kong

• Advised Sonangol Group on a shareholder dispute over the ownership and control of China Sonangol International Limited involving unfair prejudice claims and applications for injunctive relief in Hong Kong

• Advised a key defendant on a dispute over the control and ultimate ownership of Wind Energy Holding, a leading renewable energy company in Thailand. Successfully defended various injunction applications made by the plaintiff resulting in the withdrawal of all the plaintiff's claims in Hong Kong

• Advised Huishang Bank on a dispute with one of its substantial shareholders and successful defence of an interlocutory injunction application seeking to restrain the tabling of a resolution at an EGM.

• Advised a number of leading private equity funds in relation to their redemption right claims against distressed companies and investments

• Advised the co-executors of the estate of a billionaire on their defence of probate proceedings and challenges to the validity of the will, and various matters arising out of the estate

• Advised a key beneficiary of a substantial estate in contentious probate proceedings involving challenges to the validity of the will, family provision proceedings and defending trust claims made against her by the administrators pendente lite

Restructuring & Insolvency 

• Advised on China Evergrande Group's proposed restructuring of offshore liabilities exceeding US$23 billion and winding up proceedings in Hong Kong

• Advised HNA Aviation as the white knight investor in Hong Kong Airlines’ successful US$6.2 billion debt restructuring involving parallel restructuring processes via a Hong Kong scheme of arrangement and UK restructuring plan

• Advised Tsinghua Unigroup on claims and matters arising out of a proposed restructuring of the company's US$2.45 billion international bonds

• Advised Jiangsu Zhongnan Construction Group on the restructuring of its US$460 million NY-law governed offshore bonds and defending winding up proceedings against an offshore issuing vehicle.

• Advised Yango Group on the restructuring of various series of its offshore bonds amounting to over US$3 billion and winding up proceedings relating to its offshore issuing vehicles

• Advised Dongying Fongyuan Group on the restructuring of its bank debts amounting to approximately US$4 billion and defence of winding up proceedings brought against group companies in Hong Kong

• Advised the ad hoc group of noteholders of Logan Group on the restructuring of more than US$6 billion of offshore senior bonds and other offshore indebtedness

• Advised the ad hoc group of bondholders of Helenbergh China Holdings Ltd in relation to the debt restructuring of US$657 million notes issued by the company and related winding up proceedings

• Advised the ad hoc committee of bondholders of Hidili Industry International Development Ltd in relation to the debt restructuring of US$400 million notes issued by the company

• Advised the liquidators (from PricewaterhouseCoopers) of the Shanghai Huaxin Group in the overall conduct of the liquidation proceedings

• Advised the liquidators (from PricewaterhouseCoopers) of Wongs Investment Development Holdings Group Limited in the overall conduct of the liquidation proceedings

• Advised the liquidators (from Deloitte) of the China Huishan Dairy Group in the overall conduct of the liquidation proceedings

• Advised the receivers (from FTI Consulting) on enforcement actions and as the petitioning creditor in bankruptcy proceedings against Guy Lam in Hong Kong

• Advised BFAM Partners as the petitioning creditor in the winding up proceedings against REXLot Holdings Limited