William Chan

Strength

• Civil and Commercial Litigation

• Financial Services Regulatory and Litigation

Career

• Consultant – Philson Ho & Associates, Solicitors (7/2024 – present)

• Senior Associate – So, Lung & Associates (2/2022 – 7/2024)

Litigation Experience

• Advised a listed multinational corporate group on claims against its former directors for misappropriating company assets.
• Advised a large medical group on suing dentists for breach of shareholders’ agreement and employment agreements.
• Advised a private hospital on various compliance issues.
• Advised banks on enforcement proceedings and defending claims by purported third-party beneficial owners.
• Advised a bank on various compliance issues.
• Advised asset management companies on defending claims of fraudulent and unauthorized trading.
• Advised a Mainland Chinese lender on the registration and enforcement of a Mainland judgment in Hong Kong and obtaining Mareva injunction.
• Advised a listed freight forwarder on an international arbitration.
• Advised a shareholder of a listed company on defending a claim involving conspiracy to defraud.
• Advised trustees-in-bankruptcy on investigating concealment of substantial assets by the bankrupt in multiple jurisdictions.
• Advised trustees-in-bankruptcy on applying for orders for sale of bankrupts’ properties.
• Advised a high-net-worth divorcee on ancillary relief proceedings involving, inter alia, shares of a logistics company.
• Advised individuals and companies on defending criminal charges involving sexual offences, industrial summonses involving personal injury, etc.
• Advised clients on contentious probate, intellectual property, tenancy and employment disputes.

SFC Regulatory and Litigation Experience

• Acted for the former Chairman of a listed company in (i) opposing SFC’s petition to wind up the listed company under Section 212 of the SFO; and (ii) defending the provisional liquidators’ claims for loss and damages caused by alleged fictitious transactions.

• Acted for the former Chairman of a listed company in defending (i) an indictment for conspiracy to defraud the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong, the listed company and shareholders; and (ii) SFC disciplinary proceedings.

• Acted for an applicant in a judicial review of a decision of the Takeovers and Mergers Panel of the SFC.

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