Senior Solicitor, Wellington
(Hong Kong Qualified)
Vivian Lau
Contact
- Wellington office
- DDI +64 4 462 0810
Profile
Vivian is a Hong Kong qualified lawyer specialising in commercial litigation, and restructuring and insolvency. Her experience includes contractual disputes, shareholders disputes and cross-border insolvency matters.
- Recommended lawyer for intellectual property - Legal 500 Asia Pacific
Experience
Sector / Expertise
Work highlights
Acting for a Bermuda Court appointed provisional liquidator
of a Hong Kong listed company in a foreign recognition application before the Hong Kong Court to recover assets in Hong Kong
Acting for a pilot
in a cross-border insolvency matter between Hong Kong and Australia. Succeeded in assisting the pilot to enter into an individual voluntary arrangement with creditors in Hong Kong to withhold the trustees from recovering assets in Australia
Acting for the UK's leading medical appliances manufacturer
on a massive cross border fraud
Acting for an Austrian banking group
in a contractual dispute which involved US$20m investment to become a substantial shareholder of a Hong Kong listed company
Advising a worldwide leading audit firm
in their capacity as the former administrators of the estate of a tycoon (valued at US$5b+) on potential negligence claim
Advising a company held by a tycoon
on the recovery of a substantial debt of around HK$730m owed by the major shareholder of a Hong Kong listed company
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