Overview

Institutional clients, ranging from financial institutions to major listed companies, regularly rely on Raymond Chan’s extensive dispute resolution experience in civil litigation, arbitration, and other matters within Hong Kong and in cases involving other jurisdictions.

Private and corporate clients seek his counsel on various criminal and regulatory matters, including:

  • Investigations of the Police, the Independent Commission Against Corruption, the Securities and Futures Commission, the Customs and Excise Department, and other regulatory authorities
  • Recovering losses in major fraud incident cases
  • Inquests
  • Other inquiry proceedings arising out of major and high-profile incidents

Raymond speaks English, Cantonese, and Mandarin.

Experience

Advised:
  • A Hong Kong-listed client on the recovery of a bond investment in excess of a hundred million US dollars against multiple listed entities.
  • A major institutional client on the counterparty’s default in a multi-million US dollars investment project involving disputes in Mainland China, Hong Kong and offshore jurisdictions.
  • Clients in obtaining Hong Kong judgments and enforcing them against judgment debtors at overseas jurisdictions.
  • Major financial institutions in their defence in civil litigation, some of which are in excess of multi-million US dollars.

  • Financial institutions and other stake holders in high profile money laundering matters, including civil litigation work such as application for urgent injunction, Norwich Pharmacal applications and handling criminal investigation by the Police.
  • Major institutional clients in death inquests or other inquiry proceedings arising out of high-profile incidents.
  • Financial institutions in respect of investigation of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority.
  • Local and foreign institutional clients in the investigation of the Customs and Excise Department in relation to import/export licencing matters.
  • Clients in proceedings commenced by the Securities and Futures Commission in the Market Misconduct Tribunal.
  • On regulatory investigations by the Securities and Futures Commission, the Labour Department, Immigration Department, Electrical and Mechanical Services Department, Buildings Department, Home Affairs Department, Sales of First-hand Residential Properties Authority and also other regulatory authorities.
  • On criminal investigations of the ICAC, the Commercial Crime Bureau, the Customs and Excise Department ranging from dawn raids, attendance at cautioned interviews to court defence work.
  • On internal investigations of major multinational corporations on criminal and regulatory matters.

Qualifications

Education

  • The University of Hong Kong, PCLL
  • The University of Hong Kong, LLB
  • The University of Hong Kong, BEng, CivE-Law

Admissions

  • Hong Kong

Languages

  • English
  • Cantonese
  • Mandarin