Norman Nip SC

Norman Nip, S.C. has a broad civil practice with an emphasis on commercial and securities litigation. He has been described as “incredibly clever and hard-working” (Chambers & Partners 2023), “at the top of his game” (The Legal 500 2024), and “a star and a go-to commercial silk” (The Legal 500 2025).

He has acted for the Securities and Futures Commission and parties under investigation in a number of cases before the courts and the specialist tribunals (Market Misconduct Tribunal and Securities and Futures Appeals Tribunal). He is “regularly singled out for his expertise in securities-related cases” (Chambers & Partners 2025) and is considered “the go-to person in a complex regulatory and banking dispute” (The Legal 500 2025). He has also testified as an expert witness on securities laws in offshore proceedings. He is currently serving as the Chairman of the Committee on Financial and Securities Law of the Hong Kong Bar Association.

His expertise also spans other practice areas, including banking, company and shareholder disputes, competition, insurance, professional liability, land, trusts and estates, employment, matrimonial, bankruptcy, PRC and international cross-border disputes, public law as well as white-collar crime.

In the arbitration sphere, Norman is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a member of the HKIAC List of Arbitrators and has sat as an arbitrator in a number of commercial disputes administered by the HKIAC, ICC and the Swiss Arbitration Centre. As counsel, Norman has acted in a number of complex and high value international commercial disputes. He has also acted in court proceedings in aid of arbitration proceedings as well as applications to set aside the enforcement of arbitral awards.

As a mediator, Norman has conducted a number of mediations involving a wide variety of civil disputes (using English, Cantonese and/or Mandarin). He qualified as a CEDR accredited mediator in 2010.

Norman has also been serving as a Deputy High Court Judge in Hong Kong since 2023.

Prior to joining the Bar, Norman had served as the tipstaff to the Honourable Justice Sperling of the New South Wales Supreme Court and practised as a solicitor with Clayton Utz in Sydney and Linklaters in Hong Kong.