Natalie Lam

Biography

Natalie is a consultant in the Restructuring and Insolvency Practice, specialising in complex insolvency, liquidation, and bankruptcy matters. She advises on liquidator appointments, claims against directors, and stakeholder issues, collaborating with accounting firms and corporates on court applications. Experienced in commercial litigation, shareholder disputes, fraud investigations, and asset recovery, including cross-border and cryptocurrency cases, Natalie secures injunctions and disclosure orders. She has played key roles in high-profile cases such as Natural Dairy and Yes! E-Sports, demonstrating expertise in contentious insolvency, cross-border asset tracing, and regulatory compliance.

Natalie is fluent in both English and Cantonese, and proficient in Mandarin.

Biography

• Acting for the Provisional Liquidators appointed in the Cayman Islands over a Hong Kong-listed company that appears to have been the victim of a large-scale fraud.
• Acting for a US-based multinational technology conglomeration, which owns and operates a number of social media and social networking services, in various levels of Hong Kong courts in litigations involving Hong Kong parties and advising on various areas of Hong Kong law including defamation.
• Acting for a shareholder of a Hong Kong company in a complex shareholders’ dispute involving several sets of ongoing Court proceedings both in Hong Kong and elsewhere.
• Acting for a group of 136 investors who are victims of a fraudulent scheme was set up by two individuals who invited investors to lend money through their London-based wine brokerage to wealthy borrowers.
• Acting for a shareholder in a shareholder dispute where the parties have commenced a number of satellite litigations in relation to multiple issues. These include advising on mandatory injunctions in relation to the delivery up of books and records and valuable production lines and machinery based in the PRC as well as contempt proceedings.
• Acted for EY (BVI) as court-appointed liquidators in applications for recognition in Hong Kong. Thereafter, acted for the liquidators in various applications in Hong Kong to investigate the disposal of the company’s sole asset and proceeds tracing.
• Acted for a victim in an internet fraud whereby the fraudster set up an elaborate scheme to deceive the victim into investing in valuable artwork.
• Acted in a number of other asset tracing and recovery actions of varying values, including an action by an Indian bank on the tracing and recovery approximately US$2 million following payments arising out of CEO-imposter fraud.
• Acted regularly for insolvency practitioners in various court proceedings and applications. These include resisting applications by bankrupts for their removals, resisting appeals by creditors against rejections of proofs of debt and contempt proceedings against a bankrupt.
• Acted for the beneficial owners of property legally held by a bankrupt in proving their beneficial ownership in the property and resisting the Trustees’ claim over the proceeds of the sale of the property.

Biography

• General Member of Hong Kong Board, International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC)
• Turnaround Management Association (TMA)
• The Law Society of Hong Kong
• International Association of Restructuring, Insolvency & Bankruptcy Professionals (INSOL International)
• Restructuring and Insolvency Faculty (RIF)