Alex Ye
Special Counsel
Lawyers
Alex Chung
Partner
Anisha Ramanathan
Partner
Billy Ko
Partner
Daniel Tang
Partner
Deirdre Fu
Partner
Gary Leung
Special Counsel
Joanna Lazarus
Joanna is a senior associate in the divorce and family team.
She works on all areas of family law, including divorce and civil partnership dissolution, cohabitation, pre and post nuptial agreements, children, and complex financial disputes.
Jocelyn Tsao
Partner
Joseph Chu
Partner
Katie Graves
Partner
Libby Payne
Libby is a partner in the employment team.
A former competitive fencer, she is now an equally enthusiastic employment and sports lawyer. She acts for both employers and senior executives and also for sports clubs' agents and athletes.
Having a real passion for the law, she enjoys coming up with creative and practical solutions to even the most novel issues. She has been praised by barristers for her 'cogent and coherent counter arguments'.
Whether acting for employer or employee, or on either side of a commercial transaction, she is able to establish quickly the client's ideal outcome and formulate an appropriate strategy.
Complementary to her employment practice, she is also instructed on a range of sports law matters involving both employment and regulatory advice. Her clients include a professional football club, motorsport brand and several top level sports coaches, agents and managers. She has previously been a board director of British Fencing, with a particular responsibility for equality issues.
She is a member of Withers' dedicated luxury brands team and a number of her clients (both employee and employer) are from the design or fashion sectors.
Libby enjoys writing articles on novel or developing areas of law and practice and has been published on a number of occasions covering both employment and sports law matters. A confident public speaker, Libby enjoys delivering engaging and practical training on a variety of employment and sports law topics.
Mabel Lui
Head of Greater China Commercial
Michael Chik
Partner
Mike Suen
Consultant
Mimi Hutton
Of Counsel
Pauline Sandler
Paulina works as special counsel in the divorce and family team.
She works in all areas of family law, including divorce, cohabitation, children, pre-nuptial agreements and complex financial disputes.
Polly Chu
Partner
Richard Walker
Richard is a consultant in the trust, estate and inheritance disputes team.
He advises on domestic and international disputes (or on how to minimise the risk of disputes) relating to trusts, wills, probate and inheritance, gifts for charities, shared ownership of property, informal promises of property, professional and non-professional fiduciary services (including individual and corporate trustees, executors, attorneys and deputies), the property and financial affairs of vulnerable adults and charitable status.
Richard's training at Withers means he also has experience advising clients on their wealth and estate planning and tax positions, contentious and non-contentious employment and workplace relationships, their philanthropic and not-for-profit aspirations and their positions as trustees of large (often corporate) charities.
Prior to joining Withers, Richard interned at the United Nations in Geneva, assisting with the periodic appraisal of member states by the Human Rights Council. He also worked as a Legal Advisor for a leading international commercial property developer, with particular responsibility for retail assets in England and Northern Ireland. Richard has also taught the law of trusts at King's College London, University College London and the School of Oriental and African Studies.
Samantha Gershon
Partner
Sherlin Tung
Partner