Senior Statespeople
Provided by Allan Leung
Allan is a senior consultant in Dentons' Litigation & Dispute Resolution group, based in Hong Kong.
He has over 30 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 2024. Allan is ranked, among other directories, in Dispute Resolution: Litigation - International Firms (China/Hong Kong), Chambers Greater China 2022-2024, Chambers Asia Pacific 2008-2021, Chambers Global 2005-2024 and The Legal 500 Asia Pacific. Lexology Index 2024 has ranked Allan as a recommended lawyer 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 Thought Leaders in Commercial Litigation and 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 comments that Allan Leung is a “fantastic lawyer. He is commercially astute and also picks up subtle legal points early on that can make a difference in handling a case. He provides superb client service and is great to work with. His depth of commercial litigation experience is difficult to match.” Another client praises Allan for his professionalism, “Allan can grasp the full picture very quickly and provide very prompt and practical advice to limit our exposure.” 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.”
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.
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.
Allan was a contributing editor to the Hong Kong Civil Procedure published annually by Sweet & Maxwell and co-editor of Civil Litigation in Hong Kong also published by Sweet & Maxwell.
Admissions and Qualifications
• England and Wales, 1987
• Hong Kong, 1989
• Australian Capital Territory, 1990
• Singapore, 1993
• New South Wales, 1997
English, Mandarin and Cantonese
The University of Manchester
LLB (Hons)
1983
Provided by Chambers
Allan Leung is a longstanding market leader in Hong Kong on 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.
Provided by Chambers
Allan has been an adviser to me for years. His advice is always practical, robust and very commercial.
Allan knows what the client needs and delivers the advice in a timely manner.
He is one of my most trusted lawyers.
Allan has been an adviser to me for years. His advice is always practical, robust and very commercial.
Allan knows what the client needs and delivers the advice in a timely manner.
He is one of my most trusted lawyers.
