Jill Wong

Practice Areas

Jill has extensive experience advising on banking and securities laws, data privacy, cybercrime and financial crime issues. She advises on both contentious (investigations, dawn raids, penalties, etc.) and non-contentious (business initiatives, licensing, client documents and disclosures, regulatory gap analysis) matters; and is eminently well-placed to advise clients from both perspectives.

She was Deputy General Counsel at the Hong Kong Monetary Authority and was in-house counsel at Credit Suisse. In addition, Jill has also worked in leading international law firms in Hong Kong. This combination of different legal roles allow her to provide constructive insights into the issues and challenges facing listed companies, financial institutions, their senior managers and professional advisers.

Jill has hands-on practical experience in liaising with regulators, advising on regulatory compliance and implementing changes to internal practices, conducting internal investigations and advising on corporate governance. Jill has represented clients, both institutions and individuals, in numerous regulatory investigations and disciplinary inquiries. In addition to the financial services regulators (SFC, HKMA, HKEX), she also deals with other authorities such as the police, ICAC, AFRC and Privacy Commissioner.

Jill is also active in advising clients on emerging regulatory issues such as ESG, virtual assets and NFTs.

Jill is one of the authors of "Securities and Futures Ordinance": Commentary and Annotations, published by Thomson Reuters (soon publishing its 5th edition) and the Multilaw Global Fintech Guide, available on LexisNexis. She speaks regularly at client events and industry conferences, such as the Hong Kong Securities and Investment Institute, The Law Society of Hong Kong and International Chamber of Commerce. She served on the Disciplinary Panel of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants for several years. Jill is currently the Chairman of the British Chamber of Commerce's Financial Markets Committee in Hong Kong, a Fellow of The Hong Kong Chartered Governance Institute and appointed to one of the Institute's disciplinary bodies, the Investigation Group. She is also appointed as Chair-elect of the Banking & Finance Group of Multilaw, a global network of law firms. She is on the Editorial Board of LexisNexis's Practical Guidance series and issues the SFC Enforcement Tracker for the series. She is regularly identified as a leading lawyer in legal directories.

Career

2013 Howse Williams

2011 King & Wood Mallesons

2007 Credit Suisse

2004 Clifford Chance

2001 Allen & Overy

1994 Hong Kong Monetary Authority

Professional Memberships

Member, Law Society of England and Wales

Member, Law Society of Hong Kong

Chairman, British Chamber of Commerce Financial Markets Committee