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Experience
- Advises on shareholders and equity-related disputes, property-related litigation, libel litigation and media-related litigation work, litigation and arbitration in the PRC
- Represents banks and financial institutions, property developers and corporations as well as mainland enterprises on securities and equity-related disputes
- Acted as Arbitrator and Mediator in Shareholders and other disputes
- Acted as Deputy Judge at District Court for the period 18/11/2002-13/12/2002
- Acted as Temporary Deputy Registrar at High Court for the period 8/12/2003-10/1/2004
- China Appointed Attesting Officer (appointed by the Ministry of Justice of PRC)
Thomas is a partner of JSM.
Notable Engagements
- Shareholders' dispute - defending one of the leading securities firms in Hong Kong in a liquidation and shareholders' dispute suit.
- Breach of sale and purchase agreement - represented property developers in a high profile case that went to Court of Appeal involving arguments on the acceptable method of tender and available remedies to the winning party in lieu of a specific performance order.
- Arbitration - represented a listed company in a Hong Kong arbitration in which the other side is a PRC corporation involving a claim of over HK$400 million. Governing law of the Contract is PRC law.
- Represented a public utility institution in Hong Kong in a HKIAC arbitration related to joint venture disputes amounting to approximately RMB100 million.
- Prevention of bribery - represented a leading newspaper against the Government in relation to a prosecution laid under Section 23 of the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance. The case eventually went to Privy Council in London.
- PRC Litigation - advising one of the top Hong Kong financial institutions and managing its litigation portfolio in the Mainland covering Shanghai and Guangdong province.
Education
Tsinghua University Beijing, Doctor of Laws • The China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing, LLB • The University of Hong Kong, LLM • College of Law, Guildford • The University of Hull, LLB
Languages
- English
- Cantonese
- Putonghua
Admitted
- Singapore, 1993
- Australia (High Court), 1991
- Australia (ACT), 1991
- England & Wales, 1991
- Hong Kong, 1988
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