Kim Boreham
Partner
Practice Areas:
Employment Law, Litigation and Dispute Resolution, Insolvency and Restructuring, Insurance Law
Jurisdictions:
New Zealand (1997), Hong Kong (2001), England and Wales (2002) (non-practising)
Kim has extensive experience advising clients on all aspects of commercial litigation, arbitration and dispute resolution. She advises on a broad range of contentious issues including claims for breach of contract, constructive trust, breach of fiduciary duty, financial mis-selling, professional negligence and shareholder disputes.
In the employment context, Kim regularly advises employers and employees on both contentious and non-contentious employment matters including:
- drafting and negotiation of employment contracts and handbooks
- termination disputes and entitlements
- structuring and negotiation of exit packages
- enforcement of post-termination restrictions and confidentiality obligations
- entitlements under bonus and share option schemes
- personal data privacy issues; and
- discrimination claims.
Kim has represented both plaintiffs and defendants in High Court actions involving enforcement of restrictive covenants and claims for injunctive relief in Hong Kong.
She also advises on insurance matters ranging from subrogated claims to advising on issues of policy interpretation, coverage and liability, material non-disclosure, fraud and double insurance.
- Advising and acting for a local Hong Kong company in proceedings commenced against a team of departing employees in which a springboard injunction was successfully obtained: Slik Hong Kong Ltd v Gerald Merlyn Rhoslyn Evans et al.
- Acting for corporate defendants in a trust action brought against it by a Plaintiff claiming beneficial title to assets including shares and properties with an original estimated value over HK$1 billion.
- Acting for individual claimant in proceedings brought against his insurance broker and financial adviser and an insurance company relating to losses arising from investment in a geared investment-linked insurance policy;
- Acting for shareholders of a group of related companies in defending s168A petitions and related litigation commenced in relation to related property-holding and business-operating companies.
Kim has extensive experience preparing and presenting both internal and external seminars on a range of legal topics related to practice areas. External seminars jointly presented in Hong Kong include:
- Practical Introduction to Civil Procedure
- Introduction to Insurance Law
- Defamation Law: Pre-publication issues and what to look out for in the Media
- To be or not to be an Expert Witness
- Contributing Editor to the Hong Kong White Book 2006 - 2008 (Hong Kong Civil Procedure (Hong Kong, Sweet & Maxwell, 2006-2008)(Hon Mr Justice Patrick Chan PJ (Ed. In Chief) & Martin Rogers (Gen. Ed.))
- Ch. 27 Fire and Property Insurance (Co-author) - Insurance Law and Practice in Hong Kong (Hong Kong, Sweet & Maxwell, 2003) (S.H. Goo (Gen. Ed))
- Ch. 4. Historical Overview of Arbitration in Hong Kong (Contributor) - Arbitration in Hong Kong: A Practical Guide (Hong Kong, Sweet & Maxwell, 2003) (Hon. Ma J (Ed. In Chief) & Kaplan, Neil (Gen. Ed.))
- Contributor to Property Insurance section of Halsbury's Laws of Hong Kong Volume 15(1) 2007 Reissue Insurance (Hong Kong, LexisNexis, Hong Kong, 2007)
- Law Society of Hong Kong
- Insolvency Interest Group
- International Women's Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation (Hong Kong Network)
- New Zealand Chamber of Commerce
- Valley Rugby Football Club


