Biography
Ling is an Associate in our Dispute Resolution Practice, focusing on civil and commercial disputes. Her practice encompasses both arbitration and litigation.
Ling regularly advises clients on cross-border disputes and possesses experience in managing complex multi-jurisdiction litigations as lead counsel, instructing, and collaborating with local and offshore law firms.
Ling represents clients on a number of high-stakes matters across industries including finance, shipping, pharmaceutical, insurance, manufacturing, and hospitality. Her clients range from multinational corporations, private and listed companies, financial institutions, liquidators, accounting firms, to high net worth individuals. Ling provides counsel on a wide spectrum of disputes, including shareholders’ and contractual disputes, sale of goods issues, contentious intellectual property matters, asset tracing and enforcement proceedings.
Ling holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Zhejiang University and a Master of Arts in Museum Studies / History of Contemporary Art from the San Francisco Art Institute. She read law at the University of Hong Kong, where she obtained her Juris Doctor and Postgraduate Certificate in Laws.
Prior to moving to Hong Kong to pursue her legal career, Ling worked closely with artists, filmmakers, museums, and non-profit organisations on contemporary art projects in the United States.
Ling speaks Mandarin and English.
Biography
- Acting as global coordinating counsel for clients defending proceedings in Hong Kong and multiple other jurisdictions (England and Wales, New York, Singapore, Jersey, British Virgin Islands) involving a multi-million US dollar claim brought in the names of a national government and state-owned entities arising out of an alleged corruption scheme.
- Represented an SFC-licensed financial institution – acting as a share custodian – in a multi-million US dollar dispute that involved both an HKIAC arbitration and an action in the High Court, between the client, the lender, and the borrowers, over shares in a Hong Kong listed company; the claim was based on alleged breaches of the Money Lenders Ordinance, and concerned a share custodian’s obligations with respect to shares deposited by borrowers as security for a loan.
- Acting for a British multinational pharmaceutical company in an HKIAC arbitration commenced by a PRC-based pharmaceutical distribution company involving a multi-million US dollar damages claim for breach of distribution contracts.
- Advising a NASDAQ-listed blockchain technology company in a multi-million dollar dispute against a supplier for semiconductors.
- Advised a major Asian shipping company in HKIAC arbitration proceedings in relation to disputes arising out of certain charter parties and related contractual documents, as well as advising the client in relation to enforcement of arbitration awards.
- Acting for a US-based biotechnology company in an action to recover funds from a corporate defendant’s Hong Kong bank account on the basis that the funds are beneficially owned by the individual defendant. A Chabra injunction was granted against the corporate defendant (non-cause of action defendant) and upheld by the Court of Appeal.
- Advising a leading Chinese online literature platform regarding website blocking injunction in connection with copyright infringement.
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- Annual Cross Border Investment and Litigation Summit (2023) held in Shanghai: co-presented (with River Stone) on Hong Kong’s civil litigation system
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