Born and educated in Hong Kong, our principal consultant is a solicitor admitted in Australia, Hong Kong and England & Wales. He started off his legal career by practising as a commercial litigator in Hong Kong, handling primarily cross-border commercial disputes involving companies investing in Mainland China, disputes over landed properties and legal proceedings relating to corporate insolvency and restructuring.
After that, he went in-house and worked with such prominent listed companies as China Everbright Holding Ltd., Phoenix Satellite TV, Hong Kong TV in different roles of counsel, head of legal and/or company secretary etc. In the last 10 years, he has been mainly focused on the law and commercial practice relating to cross-border M&A, corporate finance and listing compliance while helping Chinese enterprises acquire strategic assets overseas. Recently, he also served as the legal and executive director of an ASX listed gold mining company based in Perth.
In recent years, his interests extend to highly complex Australia immigration cases, particularly those involving high net worth individuals and families from China applying for business and investment visas to Australia. He has leveraged on his wealth of legal experience and expertise to guide these applicants through the minefield of immigration requirements, and incidentally, assisting them to make international fund/asset transfer, relocation and restructuring, investing and setting up businesses in Australia, acquiring substantial assets in Australia.
He derives tremendous satisfaction in handling complex immigration cases from not only monetary rewards but also seeing his clients moving to and settling in two of the most vibrant places in the world, where he has grown up, been educated and developed his career in.
He holds a Bachelor of Law (Hon) and a Postgraduate Certificate in Law from the University of Hong Kong, a Postgraduate Certificate in Dispute Resolution from the University of Technology, Sydney, and a Master of Law (Corporate & Commercial Law) from the University of New South Wales.
He is fully bilingual in English and Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese) and is capable of providing advice and drafting commercial documents in both languages. He is currently a consultant to a Hong Kong law firm and the principal solicitor with an Australia legal practice.