East Asia - Hong Kong

Norton Rose Fulbright

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Norton Rose Fulbright handles a broad span of big-ticket litigation for high calibre regional and global financial institutions, as well as a steady stream of complex family and probate disputes and construction related matters. The practice is also particularly strong regarding contentious regulatory and white collar work, active across all stages including investigations, enforcement proceedings and prosecutions by regulatory bodies. Practice head Camille Jojo brings extensive experience across the spectrum of banking, shareholder and general commercial disputes. Alfred Wu is also a key contact and highly regarded for his corporate dispute expertise, advising clients on a range of M&A, JV and finance matters. Daniel Ng is sought-after by banks, financial institutions and corporates to advise on contentious commercial matters.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘Norton Rose Fulbright is very much a full-service firm, with the capabilities to handle all aspects of a client's legal needs. Such an ability means a high degree of synergy created between different practice areas. Further, its global network is vast, which means that clients' cross-border legal needs can be fully taken care of.’

  • 'The litigation team under Camille Jojo is first class. He is an inspiring leader with enormous experience and tactical nous.'

  • ‘Camille Jojo stands out for his rich experience in handling private client, trusts and estates matters.’

  • ‘They are very reliable and provide professional advice. They always provide strong support for the client's best interest. And also, they are very responsive to handle matters. All our cases handled by NRF are steadily progressed.’

  • ‘Kevin Hong is brilliant. We always appreciate his strong support to achieve the best for our clients. We could understand the whole picture of the case and arguments easily from his comments. Our colleague also appreciates him very much for his professional skills and achievements.’

  • ‘They are very collaborative on multi-disciplinary project. Above all, they have mutual respect for each other's specialist area of practice.’

  • ‘Alfred Wu is extremely pleasant to deal with.’

  • ‘Kevin Hong is an experienced litigation partner with strong commercial sense and legal acumen. He is good at giving balanced and practical advice.’

Key clients

  • A former independent non-executive director of Freeman FinTech Corporation Limited
  • LAE Technologies Hong Kong Limited
  • Harbour Plaza 8 Degrees Limited|Harbour Plaza Hotel Management Limited
  • A senior executive of JP Morgan Chase Bank
  • JSP International S.R.O.
  • Paloma Company Limited

Work highlights

  • Advised the executor on the Fok Estate dispute.
  • Advised JSP International S.R.O. on Hong Kong proceedings to trace and recover money transferred into bank accounts in Hong Kong pursuant to a cyber fraud.
  • Acted for Paloma in enforcing a Japan Commercial Arbitration Association award of over HK$270m against a company listed on the main board of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited.

Lawyers

Leading individuals

Camille Jojo

Norton Rose Fulbright

Camille Jojo is a dispute resolution lawyer based in our Hong Kong office. He handles a wide range of complex finance disputes including credit and security disputes, general commercial disputes and arbitrations (including product liability, construction and engineering disputes), insolvency litigation and restructuring, trust and probate litigation and regulatory investigations. Camille has over 30 years of litigation and arbitration experience in Hong Kong and Asia and has been granted higher rights of audience enabling him to appear before the High Court and Court of Final Appeal in Hong Kong. He qualified as an arbitrator in 1997 and is currently a member of the Insolvency Law Reform Committee of the Law Society of Hong Kong.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Camille Jojo

Other key lawyers

Alfred Wu, Kevin Hong, Daniel Ng