Timothy Loh LLP

Gavin Cumming is a Partner of the firm. He is responsible for the firm’s non-contentious financial services practice. He is recognized by independent editorial publications, including the IFLR1000 and asialaw as a leading lawyer. Gavin has broad and deep experience in corporate, commercial and tax matters with a particular focus on representing asset managers, investment banks, private banks and other wealth managers, insurance companies, broker-dealers and electronic trading and clearing platform operators. He has extensive experience dealing with the Securities and Futures Commission (“SFC”), including the Licensing Department, Intermediaries Supervision, Investment Product, Supervision of Markets, Enforcement and Corporate Finance. He regularly advises clients on the authorization of automated trading services, the formation of private funds, including hedge funds and private equity funds, capital raising for funds, SFC authorization of unit trusts and mutual funds and investment linked assurance schemes for sale to the retail public, private equity portfolio transactions, change of control transactions involving regulated financial institutions including SFC regulated hedge fund managers and Insurance Authority (“IA”) regulated insurance companies, and ongoing compliance issues for SFC, IA and Hong Kong Monetary Authority (“HKMA”) regulated financial institutions.

Sally Lau

Sally Lau is a Managing Associate of the firm. She has a broad range of experience in both contentious and non-contentious financial services, including money lending, money laundering, sanctions compliance, SFC licensing and ongoing compliance, as well as in corporate law, employment law and white collar crime. Sally Lau has represented clients in enforcement matters involving investment services firms, including operators of digital asset exchanges and corporate finance advisers, and has substantial experience advising on blockchain and other distributed ledger technology (“DLT”), non-fungible tokens (“NFTs”), stablecoins, crypto currencies and crypto currency derivatives, with a particular focus on corporate and commercial law issues, securities regulation and anti-money laundering (“AML”) compliance. She has advised clients on employment arrangements, including preparing employment agreements, restrictive covenants and service company agreements, and represented clients in disputes between employers and employees. She has particular experience with internal investigations of employees, employment disputes involving employees who are licensed or registered or otherwise regulated by a regulatory agency, including the SFC and with regulatory issues, including licensing, registration and enforcement related matters, arising from termination of employment. She has advised extensively on creditor-debtor relationships, with a particular focus on secured lending transactions.

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