Practice Areas
Allan is a senior consultant in Dentons' Litigation & Dispute Resolution group, based in Hong Kong.
He has over 35 years of experience dealing in a broad range of dispute work, including corporate, commercial and shareholder disputes, financial services and regulatory investigations, judicial review, white collar crime, environmental disputes, product liability, cross-border contentious insolvency, fraud and asset recovery, and employment actions.
He is widely recognized and named in a number of legal directories as an outstanding litigator, including as one of the “Senior Statespeople” by Chambers and Partners 2026. Allan is ranked, among other directories, in Dispute Resolution: Litigation - International Firms (China/Hong Kong), Chambers Greater China 2022-2025, Chambers Asia Pacific 2008-2021, Chambers Global 2005-2024 and The Legal 500 Asia Pacific. Lexology Index 2025 has ranked Allan as a Thought Leader for Commercial Litigation and Product Liability Defence in its Mainland China, Hong Kong SAR and Macao SAR report and selected him as one of the Global Elite Thought Leaders for Client Choice: Product Liability Defence. Allan was named as Dispute Resolution Lawyer of the Year at The Asian Legal Business Hong Kong Law Awards 2019.
In the new edition of Chambers Greater China guide, a client remarks, “I am 100% satisfied with the work involving Allan.” Another client praises Allan for his professionalism, noting that “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.” In the 2025 edition of Legal 500 Asia Pacific, a client described Allan as “very knowledgeable and experienced at a broad spectrum of litigation issues faced by statutory bodies including judicial review, statutory interpretation, and is good at explaining the interplay between different statutory regimes that may impact on the problems faced by statutory bodies.”
Career
Prior to joining Dentons Hong Kong LLP, Allan was a partner in the dispute resolution practice of another international law firm in Hong Kong and had been the Senior and Office Managing Partner for a number of years.
Professional Memberships
He has held a number of public and professional offices, including serving as chairman of the Hong Kong Law Society's Working Party on Civil Justice Reform (2000-2004) and as a member of the Hong Kong Law Society's Working Party on Limited Liability Partnership. He was a member of the Law Reform Commission from March 2015 to February 2021, and the Chairman of its Cybercrime Subcommittee until January 2023. He is an accredited mediator, and has served as a Deputy High Court Judge.