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Felix Cheung | Hill Dickinson

Felix Cheung

Felix is a senior associate in our Hong Kong office specialising in dispute resolution.
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Felix specialises in dispute resolution. He handles all aspects of complex commercial and shipping litigation from the Court of First Instance up to the Court of Final Appeal. Felix also has experience conducting HKIAC, ICC, SIAC, LMAA and ad hoc arbitration.

Felix works closely with clients of multinational profiles, including leading banks, conglomerates, insurers and high net-worth individuals. He often advises clients on cross-border asset and debt recovery, shareholders’ dispute, liquidation, regulatory, employment and trust issues.

Felix has published in various authoritative textbooks and journals. He is a co-author of Chapter 17 ‘Enforcement of Maritime Claim’ in Maritime Law and Practice in Hong Kong (Sweet & Maxwell, 2nd edn 2019), a contributing author to Hong Kong Tort Law: Texts, Cases and Ordinances (LexisNexis 2014), the author of Chapter 9 ‘Improbable Real Sale of Virtual Goods’ in Commercial Transactions in the Virtual World: Issues and Opportunities (City University of Hong Kong Press 2014), and a co-author of The Consumer Insurance (Disclosure and Representations) Act 2012 – Not a Model for Hong Kong published in The Asian Business Lawyer Vol 18.

Felix obtained his LLB (first class honour) from City University of Hong Kong, and the PCLL and LLM (arbitration and dispute resolution) both from the University of Hong Kong. During his academic pursuit, Felix was awarded over 20 scholarships and prizes.

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  • Experience

    • SIAC arbitration: acted for an insurance broker in a joint venture dispute involving claim and counterclaim totalling $7 million
    • Cross-border fraud: assisting a European bank to recover fraudulently dissipated funds involving $50 million across multiple corporate layers and different jurisdictions
    • Marine incidents: assisted clubs and insurers in taking urgent crew statements (on board and on shore) and conducting site visit in relation to marine and personal injury incident
    • Investment product dispute: acting for directors of HK and BVI manufacturing companies in relation to investment product disputes which involved more than 20 accumulator transactions and $8 million equivalent of investment
    • Shareholder dispute: advised minority shareholders of an island resort on the strategies of overturning majority shareholders’ oppression and possible eviction from the board
    • Insolvency dispute: advised shareholders and directors of a veterinary service provider on corporate restructuring strategy and conducted negotiation with the liquidators leading to a global settlement of various insolvency disputes
    • Debt recovery: project managed various debt recovery projects in China and other Southeast Asia jurisdictions
  • Affiliations

    • Member of the Law Society of Hong Kong
    • Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb)
    • Accredited mediator of the Hong Kong Mediation and Arbitration Centre
    • Associate of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects (AssocRINA)
  • Languages

    • Cantonese (native)
    • Mandarin (fluent)

Felix Cheung's Expertise