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Aldo Chan is a corporate lawyer based in Hong Kong. Aldo has been involved in a range of corporate finance matters, with particular focus on capital markets transactions and mergers and acquisitions. Aldo has also advised on joint ventures, acquisition financing and corporate restructuring, as well as advising listed companies on various legal and regulatory matters, including continuing compliance with Hong Kong regulations and guidelines, including the Listing Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited, the Securities and Futures Ordinance (Cap 571) and the Companies Ordinance (Cap 32).

Alvin Wong

Alvin Wong is a banking and finance lawyer based in Hong Kong. Alvin represents financial institutions, corporates and financial sponsors on highly structured cross-border financing transactions including acquisition financing, pre-IPO financing, take-private financing, real estate financing, structured financing and margin financing. Alvin frequently advises on sustainable lending, covering sectors spanning across pharmaceutical, life science, manufacturing and real estate. Alvin also has experience in non-contentious debt restructuring arrangements.

Becky Tai

Becky Tai is a shipping finance lawyer based in Hong Kong. She has advised on a wide range of cross-border and cross-disciplinary maritime and offshore structured financing transactions (including ECA-supported loan facilities and sale and leaseback transactions, JOLCOs, loan facilities with a flip-to-bond structure and sale and lease back transactions supported by unique investment structures) involving various types of assets (including conventional vessels, container boxes, LNG carriers, cruise ships, high-specification drilling rigs, FSRU and FLNG) with a focus on providing innovative solutions to address specific jurisdictional and structural risks.

Camille Jojo

Camille Jojo is a dispute resolution lawyer based in our Hong Kong office. He handles a wide range of complex finance disputes including credit and security disputes, general commercial disputes and arbitrations (including product liability, construction and engineering disputes), insolvency litigation and restructuring, trust and probate litigation and regulatory investigations. Camille has over 30 years of litigation and arbitration experience in Hong Kong and Asia and has been granted higher rights of audience enabling him to appear before the High Court and Court of Final Appeal in Hong Kong. He qualified as an arbitrator in 1997 and is currently a member of the Insolvency Law Reform Committee of the Law Society of Hong Kong.

Charles Bremner

Charles Bremner is a corporate lawyer based in Hong Kong. Charles has over 10 years' experience acting on a wide range of international cross-border M&A, joint ventures and investments across a number of sectors, but with a focus on the infrastructure, real estate, financial institutions and transport sectors. Charles also regularly acts for clients on complex multi-jurisdictional restructurings and general corporate advisory matters (including matters relating to governance, share capital and returns of value). He often acts on and coordinates transactions which require large multidisciplinary teams across a number of jurisdictions and timezones. Charles relocated to our Hong Kong office in October 2022, after practising for over 10 years in our London office. He has previously spent time in Asia on secondment to both our Hong Kong office and our Singapore office.

Charlton Lin

Charlton is a dispute resolution and litigation lawyer based in Hong Kong. His practise focuses on insurance related matters on behalf of insurers, advising on policy coverage and defending claims against the insured. Prior to joining Norton Rose Fulbright Hong Kong, Charlton's practice focuses on personal injuries, medical negligence, professional negligence and other insurance related matters. He was involved in a number of high profile industrial/marine accidents.

Daniel Ng

Daniel is a litigation and dispute resolution lawyer based in Hong Kong. He focuses on commercial litigation, with a particular focus on advising and representing banks, financial institutions and corporates on contentious matters. Daniel has considerable experience of advising on mis-selling cases, fraudulent and unauthorised trading claims, private equity disputes, corporate loan recovery, shareholders' disputes, trust disputes, large and complex contractual claims, cross-border disputes, as well as arbitration related court proceedings. Daniel has also acted in proceedings involving injunctive and interim measures. Daniel's experience also includes advising corporations and financial institutions on white collar and regulatory inquiries and investigations.

David Stannard

David Stannard is a corporate lawyer based in Hong Kong and became Senior Partner Asia in 2015. David has been involved in a significant number of prominent corporate finance transactions in his practice in Hong Kong. He regularly advises leading international and local investment banks and companies. These have included a wide variety of: listings/IPOs; public company takeover and merger transactions; rights issues and other secondary fundraisings; private company sales and purchases; joint ventures; private equity investments; bond issues, particularly of convertible or exchangeable bonds; and compliance issues under the Stock Exchange Listing Rules and the Codes on Takeovers and Mergers and Share Repurchases.

Declan McDaid

Declan McDaid is an insurance partner based in Hong Kong. Declan has over 20 years’ experience working in insurance practices in Hong Kong and London. His practice focuses on contentious non-marine insurance, acting on behalf of insurers, both Lloyds’ syndicates and corporate insurers, in insurance-related matters and providing advice on policy and coverage issues. Throughout his career, Declan has litigated and mediated on behalf of local and international clients throughout many Asian jurisdictions.

Doris Ng

Doris Ng is a corporate lawyer based in Hong Kong. Doris has more than 18 years experience in HK capital markets. She focuses on IPOs, corporate and commercial law, mergers and acquisitions, reverse takeovers, joint ventures, corporate restructurings, and regulatory investigations relating to companies listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Doris had worked in the listing division of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange during which she was mainly responsible for reviewing and approving listing applications and has gained extensive experience on dealing with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and relevant listing issues.

Etelka Bogardi

Etelka Bogardi is a financial services regulatory lawyer, splitting her time between Hong Kong and Singapore. She leads the FinTech practice in North Asia and is the Asia lead of the our global payments practice. Etelka has been based in Asia for over 16 years and focuses on advising international financial institutions, investment funds, intermediaries, asset managers, insurers and FinTech companies on compliance with regulatory laws. Given her previous experience as Senior Counsel to the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Etelka is particularly familiar with financial services and products regulation, licensing and authorization issues, banking and intermediaries supervision and conduct matters, markets infrastructure, compliance and cross-border regulatory issues. Etelka frequently advises on regulatory matters related to innovative technologies in the financial markets, as well as payments regulation. Etelka currently sits on the FinTech working group of the Asia Securities Industry & Financial Markets Association (ASIFMA) and provides frequent commentary to the press on regulatory issues. She is currently serving as a Hong Kong ambassador to the Global Blockchain Business Council, the leading industry association for the blockchain technology ecosystem.

Ethan Chen

Ethan Chen is a partner based in Hong Kong. He focuses his practice on capital markets and other corporate matters, including representation of issuers and underwriters in initial public offerings in the United States (including SPACs) and Hong Kong, other U.S. registered equity and debt offerings and Rule 144A/Regulation S equity and debt offerings, and dual-primary/secondary listing in Hong Kong. Ethan has extensive experience in industrials, new energy, TMT, consumer, real estate and other industry sectors. He also advises private and public companies and financial institutions in pre/post-IPO matters such as mergers and acquisitions, financing, corporate structure, option plans and shareholder relationships, SEC compliance and corporate governance matters.

Harold Tin

Harold Tin is a corporate lawyer based in Hong Kong and leads the firm's US securities practice in Asia. His practice includes capital markets, M&A and venture capital matters, with a particular focus on crypto and other FinTech clients. Harold is US and Hong Kong-qualified and is experienced in advising on equity and debt capital markets transactions, including Rule 144A/Regulation S and SEC-registered offerings and listings of ordinary and global/American depositary shares, as well as notes and MTN programs, on stock exchanges in Hong Kong, Singapore, the US and Luxembourg. He also regularly advises venture capital funds and asset managers on a wide variety of investment and corporate matters. Harold is a core member of the firm's global FinTech practice. He advises leading FinTech innovators and financial investors on token sales, NFTs, DeFi products, crypto exchange investments and joint ventures, and DAO sponsorship and governance. Harold also works closely with the firm's global FinTech team to advise on regulatory and compliance matters for crypto exchanges and other FinTech players in a host of jurisdictions worldwide. Harold’s leadership has been pivotal to the firm’s highly regarded rankings and awards in the FinTech space, notably the inaugural FinTech and Digital Assets Firm of the Year at the Asia Legal Awards 2023 and the inaugural FinTech Law Firm of the Year at the ALB Hong Kong Law Awards 2023. Harold joined the firm in 2014 and prior to that worked at a leading Wall Street law firm. Harold graduated from Harvard Law School and Yale University.

Justin Davidson

Justin Davidson is a technology lawyer based in Hong Kong and heads the intellectual property team in Asia. Justin has extensive experience in intellectual property law and has a strong record advising both multinational and Asian businesses for more than 25 years on a wide range of contentious and non-contentious intellectual property and technology law issues across Asia. He regularly assists clients in protecting and exploiting their IP portfolios and is particularly active advising on complex IP litigation and managing multijurisdictional patent disputes. His practice includes advising on all aspects of IP from prosecution and litigation to licensing and the monetizing of IP. Justin has regularly been acknowledged as a leading IP lawyer by all the legal directories in the area of Intellectual Property and Life Sciences.

Kevin Hong

Kevin is a dispute resolution lawyer based in Hong Kong, with over a decade of experience in international arbitration and commercial litigation. Kevin advises local and multinational corporations across a broad range of industry sectors on commercial, M&A, technology, joint venture, sales of goods, construction, shipping and insurance disputes. He has particular experience in the commodities, infrastructure and construction sectors. He has advised and represented clients including government departments, developers, architects, contractors and subcontractors on a wide spectrum of contentious and non-contentious matters arising out of infrastructure and construction projects in a number of jurisdictions including Hong Kong, Macau, Shanghai, Beijing, Kazakhstan, Bangladesh, Australia and the United States. Kevin has a special focus on international arbitration and arbitration related court proceedings. He has acted as counsel in arbitral proceedings conducted under different institutional rules such as the HKIAC, UNCITRAL, SIAC, CIETAC and LMAA rules as well as ad hoc arbitral proceedings in a number of jurisdictions.

Maggie Chong

Maggie Chong is an intellectual property and technology lawyer based in Hong Kong. Maggie has years of experience in both contentious and non-contentious intellectual property matters. She assists clients with managing, protecting and commercialising their intellectual property portfolios across Asia and advises on assignment, licensing and franchising arrangements. Her experience covers trade marks, domain names, design rights, patents, copyright and confidential information.

Marc Waha

Marc Waha leads our Asia Antitrust and Competition Team. He is based in the Hong Kong and Tokyo offices. Marc advises international companies on antitrust regimes in East Asia, and Asian companies on global competition compliance issues, multi-jurisdictional merger filings and international cartel investigations, particularly in Europe and Asia. For more than 20 years he has represented clients active in a wide variety of industrial and services sectors, with a focus on advising Asian companies on global antitrust and competition law matters.

Nicolas Cassauba

Nicolas Cassauba is an antitrust and competition lawyer based in Hong Kong. His practice covers a broad range of competition law matters, including M&A transactions, regulatory investigations and legal compliance. Nicolas advises on antitrust regimes in Asia, global competition compliance issues, multi-jurisdictional merger filings, international cartel investigations, and other antitrust matters. He has significant experience in relation to merger control and has guided parties to complex transactions through merger approval procedures in Asia as well as before the European Commission and other competition authorities around the globe. Nicolas also frequently advises on abusive behaviour and cartel investigations in a multijurisdictional context. Nicolas has also assisted companies in the context of dawn raids conducted by the European Commission and other national competition authorities. His experience ranges across various industry sectors, including energy, air transport, telecommunications, construction, hospitality, insurance, shipping, fast moving consumer goods, life sciences and chemicals.

Peter Haslam

Peter Haslam heads the firm's Hong Kong banking and finance practice. He has more than three decades of experience and his area of practice covers a broad range of international banking activities, including syndicated loans, project finance, restructurings, acquisition finance and capital markets transactions.

Psyche Tai

Psyche Tai is a corporate lawyer and head of our Hong Kong office, with more than 20 years of Hong Kong capital market experience. Psyche has significant experience in all aspects of corporate and commercial law, including M&A, public company takeovers, IPOs, reverse takeovers, joint ventures, convertibles, corporate restructuring of Hong Kong and PRC corporations listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and the PRC stock exchanges. Her experience extends to compliance, regulatory, trust-related matters and intellectual property.

Rachel Chan

Rachel Chan is a corporate lawyer based in Hong Kong. She advises on mergers and acquisitions, takeovers and privatisations, initial public offerings and other equity capital market transactions.

Stanley Ng

Stanley Ng is an intellectual property and technology lawyer based in Hong Kong. He was admitted as a solicitor in Hong Kong in 2017. He also holds a PhD degree in chemistry from Oxford University and a Master of IP degree from the University of Technology, Sydney. Prior to practising law, he worked in a patent agency firm, drafting and prosecuting patent applications. Stanley's experience covers patent, design rights, copyright, confidential information, trade marks and domain names. He regularly assists client on registration and enforcement of their IP rights, particularly in the PRC.

Victor Sim

Victor Sim is a banking and finance lawyer based in Hong Kong. Victor advises on complex cross-border financing transactions including leveraged buy-out, acquisition financing, structured financing, real estate financing, margin financing and take-private financing. Victor has deep experience in representing financial institutions, private credit funds, sponsors and corporate borrowers in the most complex deals in Hong Kong and Greater China.

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.

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