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Provided by Douglas T Y Lam SC

Greater China Region

Languages Spoken

English, Putonghua, Cantonese

Career

Douglas Lam SC was a management consultant with the Hong Kong office of McKinsey & Company before he joined the Hong Kong Bar in 1999. He is fluent in Cantonese and Putonghua.

Mr Lam SC’s practice specialises in complex cross-border commercial litigation and arbitration and in high-value contentious trust and probate disputes. His clients include many of the largest institutions and investment funds in the world as well as prominent high-net-worth individuals and families across Hong Kong and Asia.

Mr Lam SC also advises and appears regularly as leading counsel and as arbitrator in complex shareholders, banking, securities, commodities and investment disputes.

In recent years, Mr Lam SC has also successfully led a number of high profile cases involving the enforcement and setting aside of international and Mainland Chinese arbitration awards in Hong Kong.

Douglas Lam SC was a management consultant with the Hong Kong office of McKinsey & Company before he joined the Hong Kong Bar in 1999. He is fluent in Cantonese and Putonghua.

Mr Lam SC’s practice specialises in complex cross-border commercial litigation and arbitration and in high-value contentious trust and probate disputes. His clients include many of the largest institutions and investment funds in the world as well as prominent high-net-worth individuals and families across Hong Kong and Asia.

Mr Lam SC also advises and appears regularly as leading counsel and as arbitrator in complex shareholders, banking, securities, commodities and investment disputes.

In recent years, Mr Lam SC has also successfully led a number of high profile cases involving the enforcement and setting aside of international and Mainland Chinese arbitration awards in Hong Kong.

For more information, please refer to https://www.dvc.hk/members/douglas-lam

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Commercial Dispute Resolution: The Bar - China
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Douglas Lam SC maintains a wide-ranging practice that is rich in experience both of company law and bankruptcy issues and of general commercial ones, including contractual breaches and professional negligence claims. He offers clients valuable experience gleaned from his time as a deputy judge in the High Court.

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