Gallant

Intellectual Property, Litigation and Dispute Resolution, Insolvency and Restructuring

Head of Litigation and Dispute Resolution Department

Experience

• Handling a wide range of contentious intellectual property work such as instituting and defending trademark / copyright / patent / registered design infringement claims and applications for cancellation of existing registrations; advising on domain name dispute; handling claims against passing off; representing clients in their applications for interlocutory injunctions to protect their intellectual property rights
• Extensive experience in handling property disputes; representing clients in the Court of Appeal and the Court of Final Appeal in various property disputes involving arguments on land title and forfeiture of deposit
• Wide experience in banking litigation; acting for local and international banking corporations and advising on various aspects of banking practice; instituting proceedings and taking enforcement action to recover securities
• Handling a wide range of contractual disputes, including shareholders' disputes and international trade disputes
• Advising on enquiries and investigations by the Independent Commission Against Corruption and the Commercial Crime Bureau
• Handling bankruptcy and winding-up cases; advising creditors and liquidators on insolvency matters; acting as liquidator and trustee-in-bankruptcy

Solicitor of Hong Kong (1996) Solicitor of England and Wales (2007) (non-practising)

Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin) and English

Member of the Panel of Adjudicators of the Obscene Articles Tribunal (July 2011 - July 2017)

LL.B. (Hons.) City University of Hong Kong