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Dispute Resolution: Litigation (International Firms) - China
What the Team is Known For
Dentons boasts a deep Hong Kong-based bench with widespread coverage of the Greater China and wider Asia region. The team acts in a broad range of commercial disputes, including shareholder disputes, real estate litigation, insolvency disputes and professional indemnity cases. It also regularly handles matters relating to judicial review and interim measures, as well as misappropriation of funds and fraud recovery. The client roster includes SOEs, professional services firms and corporates in the manufacturing, retail, tech and pharmaceutical sectors.
Strengths
They have a very professional and yet personal and sensible approach. They have been always responsive and very timely. They are very up to date on international, regional and local business issues.
I appreciate their responsiveness, professionalism and communication skills. They managed our case well, with the right people in the team.
Dentons has a strong customer-focused approach, with solid knowledge of the client's business and business acumen.
Work Highlights
Dentons acted for Able Profit in defending a claim brought by GH Property in relation to the sale of shares in a Hong Kong company, Golden Horse Development.
Notable practitioners
Allan Leung is a longstanding market leader in Hong Kong in disputes ranging from commercial landlord-tenant disagreements to shareholder disputes to applications for judicial review. He is frequently sought out by clients in the financial services and professional services areas.
His approach is to ask his clients what their end goal is, and then he tries to adopt the strategies to try and reach the end goal. He focuses on the client's commercial objective.
I am 100% satisfied with the work involving Allan.
Keith Brandt is highly regarded for his exceptional expertise and leadership. Keith's ability to handle complex matters and his dedication to client care make him a standout figure.
Keith is a trusted partner to us, consistently providing excellent service and willing to invest time to understand clients' needs and concerns.
He's a great guy, very knowledgeable and great at dealing with multinational things and explaining the differences in different areas of law. He's also cost-effective and strategic.
He is practical, experienced and user-friendly. He is very likeable and calm, which is helpful when things get messy.
Richard has been excellent; extremely responsive and efficient.
Richard is an experienced litigator who can provide strategy and client-oriented solutions to achieve a favourable outcome for the client. He is very client-friendly and commercially minded.
Robert Rhoda has a broad disputes practice encompassing civil and criminal matters in the mining, pharmaceutical, and oil and gas sectors, among others. He acts on behalf of entities in a range of sectors such as technology, pharmaceuticals, mining and manufacturing.
He's very proactive, and if there is anything we need, he always provides a prompt reply.
Robert is a very good lawyer.
Alfred Wu has a broad Hong Kong-based commercial disputes practice, with notable strengths in the construction field, as well as in disputes stemming from property transactions, competition disputes and mis-selling claims.