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Leung King Wai William
William KW Leung & Co · Hong Kong
William KW Leung & Co
International Trade · Hong Kong
William Leung is a solicitor advocate of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and also holds practising certificates in the United Kingdom, Australia and the British Virgin Islands.
He has been providing legal services of specified areas in insurance, international trade, shipping and transportation, intellectual property, corporate finance restructuring and initial public offering law and has gained solid, extensive experience in handling complex corporate, commercial and international trade litigation and corporate rescue operations for more than 30 years.
As the principle of a boutique firm, he believes his main strengths include his ability to provide flexible working arrangements and a high-level of quality professional work.
He has wide range of multi-national clients, handling disputes and cases from different parts of the world and resolving them in Hong Kong.
In a case of note in 2001, he acted for a private enterprise from city of Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province China and won against Jardine group company for misdelivery of cargo: Center Optical (Hong Kong) Limited -v- Jardine Transport Services (China) Limited which was reported in the reputable Lloyd’s Law Reports [2001] Vol 2. page 678 – 690.
In another significant case in 2005, he acted for a Hong Kong shipper and won against an international logistics service provider: Vastfame Camera Limited -v- Birkart Globistics Limited which was reported in three Law Reports of worldwide-fame: American Maritime Cases [2005] AMC page 2864 – 2879; European Transport Law [2006] Vol. XLI No.2 page 182 - 195 and Hong Kong Cases [2005] 4 HKC page 117 – 135.
His recent highlight cases in the area of Private International Law include:
• Dickson Valora Group (Holdings) Co. Limited v Fan Ji Qian [2019] 2 HKLRD 173 - “quasi-contractual” anti-suit injunction against a respondent who was not party to the relevant arbitration clause
• Dickson Holdings Enterprise Company Limited v Moravia CV [2019] 3 HKLRD 210 - application for striking out unfair prejudice petition on the ground of lack of locus standi; mandatory stay of the petition in favour of arbitration pursuant to an arbitration agreement
His recent publications include “Exercise Of Residual Discretion Under Article V Of The New York Convention By Enforcement Court When Award Is Alive Dead And Undead” published in January 2019 on China Legal Science, focusing on Arbitration.
Other contributions in the area of corporate finance include “Oxford Handbook of Asian Business Systems – Hong Kong: Hybrid Capitalism as Catalyst, by Professor Gordon Redding, Gilbert Wong and William Leung” published in 2014 on 2014 Oxford Handbook Of Asian Business System.
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