Pamela Mak

Pamela Mak was born in Hong Kong and she studied laws in Hong Kong, Australia and England. Pamela qualified as a solicitor in Hong Kong in 1998. She is an experienced commercial litigator.

Pamela joined Tanner De Witt in 2003 and was admitted to partnership in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Department in February 2010.

In the early stage of her practice and before she joined Tanner De Witt, Pamela acted for major banks in Hong Kong to enforce securities against parties in default.

She changed her focus to contentious insolvency between 2000 and 2003 and she mainly acted for liquidators in well known liquidations in both Hong Kong and the PRC.

Pamela has extensive commercial litigation experience in Hong Kong. She has acted for or against financial institutions, majority or minority shareholders in shareholders' disputes, licensed persons in intermediaries in assisting investigation or defending disciplinary actions by the SFC, and authorised insurance brokers and appointed insurance agents on compliance matters.

Pamela is fluent in Cantonese, Mandarin and English.

• Acting for several high net worth individuals from a family in Shanghai in claiming against two major local banks in Hong Kong for negligence and misrepresentation for losses suffered in the order of US$20 million relating to equity linked notes.
• Assisting several high net worth individuals from a family in the United States in claiming against a well known bank in Singapore for negligence and misrepresentation for losses suffered in the order of US$8 million relating to accumulator contracts and other structured products.
• Advising a high net worth individual in Indonesia to claim against an international bank in Hong Kong for negligence and misrepresentation for losses suffered in the order of US$250 million relating to accumulator contracts.
• Acting for a subsidiary of a company listed in Hong Kong in claiming against its fellow joint venture partner for breach of the joint venture agreement.
• Advising an authorized insurance broker in Hong Kong in complying with the respective requirements of the Office of Commissioner of Insurance and the Securities & Futures Commission.
• Acting for liquidators in well known liquidations against former auditors for audit negligence.

Obtaining, implementing and defending Mareva injunctions

Treatment of pension benefits upon members' bankruptcy