managing
PARTNER
Timothy Loh
+852 2899 0179
Timothy Loh
+852 2899 0179
Timothy Loh is the Founder and Managing Partner. Since inception in 2004, he has been responsible for the firm's overall management and direction.
He is recognized by independent editorial publications, including Chambers & Partners, the Asia-Pacific Legal 500, Who’s Who Legal and asialaw as a leading lawyer in a number of practice areas, including financial markets regulation, investment funds, hedge funds, private equity, corporate law and mergers and acquisitions.
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+852 2899 0179
managing
PARTNER
Timothy Loh is the Founder and Managing Partner. Since inception in 2004, he has been responsible for the firm's overall management and direction.
He is recognized by independent editorial publications, including Chambers & Partners, the Asia-Pacific Legal 500, Who’s Who Legal and Asialaw Leading Lawyers, as a leading lawyer in a number of practice areas, including financial markets regulation, investment funds, hedge funds, private equity, corporate law and mergers and acquisitions.
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Timothy Loh has broad experience representing regulated financial institutions, private clients, senior executives and a wide range of businesses in a range of matters.
Since founding this firm, he has advised clients on mergers & acquisitions, the aggregate value that has exceeded US$30 billion. He has particular expertise involving regulated financial institutions and has acted on a number of instructions involving the purchase and sale of Securities and Futures Commission (“SFC”) licensed asset managers, wealth managers, brokerage firms, insurance companies and insurance brokers regulated by the Insurance Authority (“IA”).
He has represented clients in a wide range of white collar and regulatory enforcement matters, as well as commercial litigation and arbitration proceedings. He has particular experience advising on regulatory action undertaken by the SFC including enquiries, investigations, disciplinary action and Market Misconduct Tribunal proceedings. He has served as counsel to clients in respect of commercial disputes involving issues of breach of contract, fraud and asset recovery. He has taken a lead roles in representing clients at all levels of court in Hong Kong, including the Court of First Instance, the Court of Appeal and the Court of Final Appeal, in a number of seminal cases defining the ambit of the law governing financial markets and financial services in Hong Kong.
He has also appeared before the Legislative Council of Hong Kong a number of times to speak on proposed legislative changes to redefine the regulatory framework governing the financial markets in Hong Kong, including in relation to the regulation of over-the-counter (“OTC”) derivatives and anti-money laundering (“AML”).
He is active assisting high net worth and ultra high net worth individuals as well as senior executives and bankers in employment, trust, tax and immigration matters.
EDUCATION
Osgoode Hall School of Law (J.D.)
ADMISSIONS
Hong Kong SAR
England and Wales
British Columbia, Canada
LANGUAGES
English
Cantonese Chinese
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& REGULATORY ADVISORY
Gavin Cumming
+852 2899 0149
Gavin Cumming
+852 2899 0149
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.
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& REGULATORY ADVISORY
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.
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Gavin Cumming 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.
EDUCATION
Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University (LLB and LPC)
ADMISSIONS
Hong Kong SAR
England and Wales
LANGUAGES
English
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HONG KONG
Mary Lam
+852 2899 0127
Mary Lam
+852 2899 0127
Mary Lam is a Managing Associate. She is responsible for non-partner level legal professional staff in Hong Kong, including the recruitment and development of trainee solicitors, law student interns, legal executives and paralegals. She has a broad range of experience in both corporate, regulatory and dispute resolution matters.
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+852 2899 0127
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HONG KONG
Mary Lam is a Managing Associate. She is responsible for non-partner level legal professional staff in Hong Kong, including the recruitment and development of trainee solicitors, law student interns, legal executives and paralegals. She has a broad range of experience in both corporate, regulatory and dispute resolution matters.
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Mary Lam advises banks, private equity sponsors, private clients and businesses in a wide range of corporate, securities, commercial and insolvency matters on both a contentious and non-contentious basis. She has represented clients in the establishment of private equity funds, including Hong Kong limited partnership funds, and in M&A, including share sale and purchases and asset sale and purchases. She has significant experience with M&A involving regulated financial services firms and with M&A involving complex insolvency issues. She has advised on transactional and non-transactional regulatory and compliance issues and on debt restructurings, including through voluntary workouts and schemes of arrangement.
Mary Lam has represented clients in commercial disputes, asset recovery and regulatory enforcement action. Her experience includes advising on contractual disputes, including M&A related disputes, cross-border asset recovery in banking fraud, as well as recovery of funds lost in cyber fraud. Her experience spans both litigation before the Hong Kong courts as well as arbitral proceedings before the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC). She has advised clients in regulatory investigations and proceedings including those brought by the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC).
EDUCATION
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, JD (Gold Scholarship)
ADMISSIONS
Hong Kong SAR
LANGUAGES
English
Cantonese Chinese
Mandarin Chinese
managing
ASSOCIATE
Sally Lau
+852 2899 0407
Sally Lau
+852 2899 0407
Sally Lau is a Managing Associate of the firm. She has responsibility for client on-boarding. 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.
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+852 2899 0407
managing
ASSOCIATE
Sally Lau is a Managing Associate of the firm. She has responsibility for client on-boarding. 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.
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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.
EDUCATION
City University of Hong Kong (LLB); Dean’s List
ADMISSIONS
Hong Kong SAR
LANGUAGES
English
Cantonese Chinese
Mandarin Chinese