Dispute Resolution, Enforcement & Investigations

Our Dispute Resolution, Enforcement & Investigations ("DE&I") team adopts a practical approach to help you prevent and resolve disputes, and handling both internal and external investigations. 

Our lawyers will advise you on preventive measures which you can take to save you from potential lawsuits. In the event that you need to pursue any claims and/or demands against others or are subject to any claim, our lawyers will adopt a pragmatic approach to save your time and costs in the litigation or arbitration. 

Our lawyers have considerable experience in advising on complex and multi-jurisdictional disputes. Our clients include financial institutions, listed companies, multinational corporations and high net-worth individuals. 

We also have considerable experience in handling enquiries and investigations by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, the Securities and Futures Commission, the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong and the Independent Commission Against Corruption. In the event that you are subject to any unexpected raids by regulators, our lawyers will be fully geared to assist you in managing the raid and to protect your rights and interests in the investigation. 

We also assist corporate clients in undertaking internal investigations relating to any suspected violation of regulations including market misconduct in the securities market, whistleblower complaints and other employee misconduct such as fraud, harassment or breach of company policies. 

In addition, our lawyers will provide trainings to clients on regulatory investigations and internal investigations as part of the corporate governance for multinational corporations. Please see below for the wide range of work which our DE&I team handles:

• • Debt recovery, including bankruptcy and winding-up proceedings
• • Commercial and contractual disputes
• • Shareholder and partnership disputes
• • Banking-related disputes
• • Fraud and asset tracing and recovery
• • Trust and probate disputes
• • Employment disputes
• • Judicial review
• • Cybercrime
• • Market misconduct in the securities market
• • Anti-money laundering
• • Bribery and corruption
• • Raids
• • Investigations by regulators
• • Internal investigations