Stephenson Harwood

Litigation

Office managing partner Greater China

Evangeline is the managing partner of Stephenson Harwood's Greater China offices. She specialises in commercial dispute resolution, with particular focus on complex marine and international trade matters. Her practice covers all stages of dispute resolution from obtaining security to running court or arbitration proceedings and enforcement.

Evangeline has significant and deep cross-border experience having practiced in three key commercial hubs in Asia over the past fifteen years – Singapore, Hong Kong and Shanghai. She is now based in Hong Kong and spends part of her time in Shanghai. She has appeared on behalf of clients in the Singapore and Hong Kong Courts and managed disputes for her clients in Singapore, Mainland China, Taiwan, India, Bangladesh, Holland, England and the United States. She advise and represents clients in international arbitrations applying institutional rules of the SIAC, HKIAC, CIETAC and ICC and ad hoc arbitrations applying the LMAA Rules and the UNCITRAL Model Law.

For contentious shipping matters, her expertise extends to all types of charterparty, cargo defence, shipbuilding, bunkering and ship financing disputes. She is instructed on a regular basis by international group P&I Clubs, shipowners, charterers, operators, banks and finance leasing institutions in Hong Kong, Taiwan and the PRC.

She has also acted for debtors and creditors in shipping and non-shipping restructuring and insolvency matters arising from and relating to Hong Kong insolvency proceedings, Japanese rehabilitation proceedings, Korean rehabilitation proceedings and the Indian Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code that came into force in 2016.

In the past four years, Evangeline has developed a transactional practice where she has acted for financial leasing institutions and owners in negotiating and drafting suites of bespoke operational leasing documents for her clients.

Evangeline is qualified in Singapore (non-practicing), England and Wales and Hong Kong. In addition to English, she speaks fluent Chinese and conversational Cantonese.

English, Mandarin, Cantonese