Hill Dickinson’s Hong Kong Commercial and Insolvency Disputes team acted for the successful client in Guy Kwok-Hung Lam (respondent) -v- Tor Asia Credit Master Fund LP (appellant) Final Appeal No.13 of 2022 (on appeal from CACV No. 393 of 2021 [2023] HKCFA 9).
On 4 May 2023, the Court of Final Appeal (the highest appellate court in Hong Kong) delivered a landmark judgment with findings on, among other things, the important issue of the proper approach of the Hong Kong court to a bankruptcy petition where the parties had agreed to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of a specified foreign court for the purposes of legal proceedings arising out of or relating to their agreement. Read more
