Stephenson Harwood is well known for corporate, finance, insolvency, restructuring and trust-related disputes, along with shareholder conflicts, professional negligence, employment matters, fraud claims, and international disputes. Clients further benefit from the firm’s association with Guangzhou-based Wei Tu Law Firm. In Hong Kong, Ian Childs is an expert in civil litigation, fraud, asset recovery, and regulatory and criminal litigation; while Ivan Ng specialises in shareholder, contractual and letters of credit disputes.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘Collaboration and delivery. Flexible and knowledgeable.’

  • ‘Achieves great results for clients.’

  • ‘Very effective and experienced in cross-border matters.’

  • ‘The combination of being able to obtain PRC advice from Wei Tu via its association with Stephenson Harwood is particularly useful in cross-border claims.’

  • ‘Dorothy Siron is an expert in her field and super responsive. She and her team are a pleasure to work with.’

  • ‘Dorothy Siron is internationally recognised as an expert.’

  • ‘Dorothy Siron is hands on, responsive, and an absolute pleasure to work with. She is first class.’

  • ‘Andrew Rigden Green - a dab hand across shipping, international arbitration and cross-border litigation, and adroit at handling private wealth disputes.’

Key clients

  • Purple Surgical UK
  • Cotecna Inspection
  • PwC
  • Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (Asia)
  • O-Bank Co (Hong Kong Branch)
  • Deloittes
  • Futu Securities International (Hong Kong)
  • Formia

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Ian Childs

Other key lawyers

Ivan Ng, Jamie Stranger, Paul Ho, Andrew Rigden Green, Dorothy Siron, Alexander Tang, Evangeline Quek, Emily Li, Elizabeth Sloane