Litigation, Arbitration and Investigation
We have extensive experience resolving contentious matters, by litigation, arbitration and mediation. We advise our clients on a broad range of cases and aim to provide them with strategic, yet practical solutions to resolve their disputes and other potential issues arising from business transactions and dealings.
Scope of services:
- Commercial and contractual disputes
- Constructions and engineering disputes
- Criminal defense
- Domestic and international sale of goods disputes
- Employment disputes
- Enforcing international judgments and arbitration awards
- Financial products disputes
- High net-worth client family disputes
- Insolvency, including winding-up, bankruptcy petitions and receiverships
- Insurance related disputes
- Internet fraud
- Investigation by regulators
- Medical and professional negligence actions
- Personal injuries litigation
- Probate and succession litigation
- Product liability claims
- Shareholders disputes and derivative actions
- Trademark and patent disputes
- White collar crime
We work alongside our 17 other Zhong Lun offices to assist our clients with cross-border matters, and also work frequently with law firms from other countries.
Some of our representative cases include:
- acting for the shareholders and directors of a Hong Kong Company which in turn held a golf club in Guilin, PRC against their PRC fellow shareholder who fraudulently issued shares to control and take over the client’s golf club, and succeeding at first instance and also on appeal
- acting for an Italian-founded packaging business against its former joint venture partner involving breaches of restrictive covenants and fiduciary duties
- successfully discharging a Prohibition Order imposed upon our client who was sued for contempt of the Court by breaching a Mareva Injunction Order in aid of an international arbitration
- acting for an educational organization in defending challenges against its decision to summarily dismiss a teaching staff
- acting for the issues of a deceased businessman in a probate dispute against the opposite beneficiary involving assets in PRC, Hong Kong and Taiwan
- acting for a client in his recovery of a renounced tea house in country park in which the practice of land survey in the New Territories came under scrutiny
- acting for a client to challenge a provision in the Bankruptcy Ordinance on the ground that it unduly restricted the right to travel guaranteed by the Bills of Right and the Basic law
- handling adverse possession defences in land recovery cases
- prosecuting adverse possession cases
- acting for Tso Tong client in a land recovery case in which the underlying contract is illegal as against the Government’s Small House Policy and hence not to be relied upon to seek relief from Court
- acting for an investor in litigating with a bank on mis-selling of financial products, misrepresentation and breach of contract