Profile

Tracy was admitted as a solicitor of Hong Kong in 2004 and joined OLN in 2009. She was promoted as a Senior Associate at OLN in 2009 and as a Partner in 2014 and now leading OLN’s Corporate Commercial and China Practice Department.

With Tracy’s solid, extensive and professional legal knowledge coupled with her proactive and practical approach in dealing with legal issues and handling transactions, including but not limited to mergers and acquisitions, foreign investment, banking, project financing, and all other sale and purchase and commercial matters, Tracy has developed a strong and dynamic legal practice and has all along been highly regarded by a lot of corporate and individual clients, ranging from Banks and Financial Institutions, Listed Companies in Hong Kong, China, Japan, United States and all over the world and also Multinational Corporate Groups to Small-Medium Sized Enterprises and Sole-Proprietors.

Tracy’s legal professionalism but yet practical approach in conducting transactions and providing legal and strategic advice has received continuous recognition, throughout her extensive years of practice.

Chambers Greater China ranks Tracy as a “Leading lawyer in Corporate/M&A”, and Asialaw Profiles has recognised Tracy over the years as a “Leading Lawyer in Corporate and Commercial Practice” and most recently as a “Distinguished Practitioner in Corporate/M&A”.
Tracy has also been invited by the University of Hong Kong to act as a Part-Time Tutor in Employment Law under the Postgraduate Certificate in Laws (PCLL) program in light of her substantive experience in advising on employment law issues for her corporate clients as well as individuals.

---

Admissions and Memberships

---

Education

The University of Hong Kong

Postgraduate Certificate in Laws (PCLL)

Bachelor of Laws (LLB)

---

What Others Say

Notable Cases

CORPORATE AND COMMERCIAL EXPERIENCE

• Structured/ syndicated financing and securities
• Mergers and acquisitions, convertible notes and bonds, shareholders/investment agreements
• Cross-border transactions/ investments
• Franchising, distributorship, sale and purchase of goods, service, consultancy agreements

REAL ESTATE SECTOR EXPERIENCE

• Acting as lead counsel in several acquisitions involving the acquisition of holding companies with real estate holdings in China, Hong Kong and other jurisdictions across the region.
• Representation of corporate clients as tenants in connection to leases of commercial properties, licences and sub-leasing their respective premises to sub-tenants.
• Conveyancing matters.

---

Languages

English, Cantonese, Mandarin

---

Awards

Profile

Pamy qualified as a solicitor in Hong Kong in 2003 and have always been passionate about Family and Matrimonial Law.

Pamy joined one of the most well-established family and matrimonial law firms in Hong Kong as a Trainee Solicitor and was then retained as an Associate Solicitor after her traineeship, where she began her specialisation in Family and Matrimonial Law. In 2006, Pamy joined the Family Law Department at OLN as an Associate Solicitor and was made a Partner in 2015. Pamy is a Fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers (“IAFL”). IAFL is a worldwide association of practising lawyers who are recognised by their peers as the most experienced and skilled family law specialists in their respective countries.

Pamy was educated in Hong Kong and the UK. With her trilingual language abilities, dedication in Family and Matrimonial Law and vast experience and knowledge in dealing with wide range of family disputes involving multiple jurisdictions, divorce, children, finances and trusts, Pamy has attracted clients from local, mainland China and overseas.

Pamy has particular expertise in handling jurisdictional cases which involve complex corporate and financial structures and trusts. Pamy was the handling solicitor for the leading reported jurisdictional cases as set out below in her notable cases.

Pamy also focuses on matters involving children, not only on custody, care and control issues but also on relocation of them. Pamy has a real passion in cases concerning children for both married family as well as for children born out of wedlock such as one of her notable cases set out below.

Pamy also has particular expertise in cases involving pre- and post-nuptial agreements as well as separation agreements which often involve high net worth individuals with their trust arrangements and assets located in multiple jurisdictions.

Primary Practice Areas:

• Children disputes
• Divorce and separation
• Financial applications and settlements
• Guardianship and Wardship proceedings
• Hague Convention proceedings
• Jurisdiction and forum disputes
• Pre-nuptial agreements
• Post-nuptial agreements
• Separation agreements

---

Admissions and Memberships

Education

---

Notable Cases

TO also known as TT v KO (Jurisdiction; Habitual Residence) [2021] HKFLR 554

Pamy, as the handling Partner, successfully represented the Respondent Husband in the first instance and on appeal, in a big-money divorce to dismiss the Hong Kong divorce proceedings for lack of jurisdiction as Hong Kong was not either party’s habitual residence.  Both parties are Japanese.  The Respondent Husband has a very successful casino business in the Philippines.  He set up a corporate structure in Hong Kong to manage the business and his art collections.  The family moved to and lived in Hong Kong for 8 years.  The Court of Appeal dismissed the Petitioner Wife’s appeal given at the time of the Petition for Divorce, the Respondent Husband was spending 2/3 of his time in the Philippines and the remaining 1/3 time equally between Hong Kong and Japan, whilst the Petitioner Wife had spent increasingly more time in Japan than Hong Kong during the three years prior to the Petition despite obtaining HKPR.  There was therefore insufficient degree of continuity in the purpose of living in Hong Kong for it to be described as settled.

Z v Z (Substantial Connection and Forum [2012] HKFLR 346

Pamy successfully represented the Respondent Husband in this big-money divorce to dismiss the Hong Kong divorce proceedings for lack of jurisdiction or forum non conveniens.  The Petitioner Wife is Japanese and the Respondent Husband is American.  The parties were married in Japan but 7 years into the marriage, the Respondent Husband moved his base to New York due to work and would return to Japan to visit the Petitioner Wife and children on weekends.  At the time of the Petition, the Husband had already moved out from the family home in Japan and relocated to Shanghai.  The Hong Kong Court held that the Petitioner Wife did not establish that either party had a substantial connection to Hong Kong because notwithstanding the Respondent Husband’s substantial business interests in Hong Kong, he had led a nomadic lifestyle and his presence in Hong Kong was only transient, and the issues of children were best dealt with in Japan where the matrimonial life was conducted. 

RI v SSH (Forum and Costs) [2011] HKFLR 318

Pamy successfully represented the Petitioner Wife in a divorce and a GMO proceedings in the Hong Kong Court where the Respondent Husband filed parallel divorce in France and sought to stay the Hong Kong proceedings on the basis of forum non conveniens.  It was a typical expatriate family case where the Respondent Husband and the children were French and the Petitioner Wife was Indonesian.  The family had lived in many different countries due to work arrangements and at the time of Petition, they had only lived in Hong Kong for a few months.  The family sold their last matrimonial home in Belgium when they moved to Hong Kong and the children were then enrolled in schools here.  It was also the Respondent Husband’s intention to set up business in Hong Kong. At first instance, the Court found that France was not the more appropriate forum than Hong Kong as the parties had not lived their matrimonial life there notwithstanding there was a connection to France. The Court of Appeal dismissed the Respondent Husband’s appeal and upheld the lower Court decision that the parties had established a real and substantial connection to Hong Kong as it was the place where they were living their matrimonial life at the time of the Petition.

B v A (Substantial Connection) [2007] HKFLR 138

Pamy successfully represented the Petitioner Wife in a contested divorce where the Respondent Husband disputed the Hong Kong Court’s jurisdiction on the basis of the Petitioner Wife’s lack of substantial connection.  Both the Petitioner Wife and the Respondent Husband were expatriates from Argentina travelling extensively around the globe due to work arrangements. At the time of the Petition, the Petitioner Wife had been living in Hong Kong for 5 to 6 months with the children of the family who were enrolled in the international schools here, and had taken a 2-year lease on an apartment. Based on these facts, the Petitioner Wife was held to have established substantial connection to Hong Kong as the family had centred their lives in Hong Kong with the children being educated and the Respondent Husband running an office here, and there was therefore an intention to remain in Hong Kong for a fairly extended period of time.

Y, M v S, J [2022] HKFC 250

Pamy represents the Mother in a set of GMO proceedings to seek financial provisions from the Father for the benefits of a minor born out of wedlock.  The Father and Mother are both expats living and working in Hong Kong.  The Father comes from a well-off family which operates, through a Hong Kong listed company, a large business in Japan as well as a subsidiary aircraft leasing business with companies in Hong Kong and overseas in which the Father is a director. 

---

External Publications

Wondering about the benefits of a prenuptial agreement and why it might be right for you? with Little Steps – https://www.littlestepsasia.com/hong-kong/family-life/relationships/prenup-oldham-li-nie/ (March 2024)

---

What Others Say

---

Languages

English, Cantonese and Mandarin

---

Awards

Profile

Eunice is a partner with the firm’s Dispute Resolution Group and also heads the firm’s Corporate Social Responsibility Programme and the newly-established Elder Law Practice Group. She is qualified to practise in Hong Kong and Canada with extensive experience advising financial institutions, corporations and high net-worth individuals in multi-jurisdictional disputes including:

• bankruptcy and insolvency proceedings and related litigation arising from such proceedings
• shareholders’ disputes and disputes arising from the mismanagement of company affairs
• contractual disputes
• white collar crime including financial regulatory investigations and related judicial review proceedings
• internet fraud and money-laundering
• trademark disputes
• defamation and breach of privacy claims
• land disputes
• trust and estate disputes for private clients

Prior to joining OLN, Eunice was a member of the litigation teams of international and PRC-based law firms and a prosecutor for the Canadian government.

---

Admissions & Memberships

---

Education

The University of British Columbia

Doctor of Law (J.D.)

University of Toronto

Bachelor’s degree, Philosophy

---

External Publications

March 2022 – interview with Sing Tao Daily (星島日報) and Headline Daily (頭條日報). Eunice spoke about the challenges faced by Hong Kong businesses and employees during the latest Covid-19 outbreak and shared her experience in handling business closures.

Read the interview

---

What Others Say

---

Notable Cases

BANKRUPCY AND INSOLVENCY

• Acting for the liquidator and provisional liquidator in over 40 highly-contested winding up proceedings as part of a global insolvency and restructuring process of a multi-national fish trading conglomerate with worldwide operations and entities listed in HK and Singapore.
• Acting for a PRC-controlled company in setting aside an interim injunction and commencing proceedings for the appointment of a provisional liquidator in an offshore jurisdiction with a view to removing directors within the group on the basis of equitable winding up.
• Defending shareholders in a suit commenced by the trustees-in-bankruptcy of a previous shareholder (the bankrupt) alleging that the sale of shares through different layers should be declared void for lack of consideration.
• Representing an international private bank in bankruptcy proceedings against a guarantor with a high profile in Asia.

DISPUTE OVER SHARES AND THE MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY

• Acting for the respondent in a high-profile appeal to the UK Privy Council in a shareholder’s dispute involving a Macau casino license and land ownership rights.
• Acting for an agritech company in pursuing a share buy-out and the interim reconstitution of the board in unfair prejudice proceedings.
• Leading a series of judicial review and injunction proceedings for a funds house under investigation by the Securities and Futures Commission
• Acting for a high net-worth individual in seeking a declaration of constructive trust against the registered owner of multi-million properties located in Hong Kong and Canada.

WHITE-COLLAR CRIME / FRAUD, PRIVACY AND DEFAMATION

• Assisting corporate and individual victims of internet fraud in tracing monies transferred to accounts in the PRC and Hong Kong; defending a PRC citizen investigated by the police and the Commercial Crime Bureau for money laundering.
• Representing a company in obtaining interim injunctive relief in a defamation and breach of privacy suit against an individual.
• Acting for a statutory body in defending a suit against a vexatious litigant.

ARBITRATION

• Acting for a shipping port equipment manufacturer in arbitration proceedings to defend breach of contract and tort claims.
• Defending the shareholder of a securities company against a claim of breach of the share sale and purchase agreement in arbitration proceedings.
• Acting for a PRC JV partner in arbitration proceedings against a Korean JV partner in a shareholders’ dispute involving over 10 billion dollars.
• Acting for a PRC telecommunications hardware provider in arbitration proceedings against a Hong Kong base station manufacturer.

PRIVATE CLIENT / ELDER LAW

• Representing an estate beneficiary in coroner’s court proceedings.
• Estate planning including the preparation of Wills, Enduring Powers of Attorney, Powers of Attorney, Advance Care Planning, guardianship applications and applications under Part II of the Mental Health Ordinance

---

Languages

English, Cantonese and Putonghua

---

Awards

Profile

Simon joined OLN as a Partner in our Corporate Commercial Department in 2020.

Simon specialises in corporate finance, securities, M&A, joint ventures, compliance, corporate restructurings, and PRC-related transactions. He has handled IPOs of PRC and non-PRC companies on the Main Board of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong.

Simon has been involved in advising on pre-IPO private equity investments, post-IPO notifiable transactions, corporate reorganisations, compliance, and related transactions. Simon has also been involved in advising overseas investors in setting up PRC joint ventures.
Prior to joining OLN, Simon has previously worked in the Hong Kong office of two international law firms.

Simon was recognised as the “Next Generation Lawyer” in Corporate (including M&A), Hong Kong by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific in 2017 & 2018.

---

Admissions and Memberships

---

Education

University of Hong Kong

Master of Laws

University of Toronto

Bachelor of Arts (Hons)

---

External Publications

Lexology GTDT – Public M&A Hong Kong 2023 – https://oln-law.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/2023-Public-MA-Hong-Kong.pdf

---

What Others Say

---

Languages

English, Cantonese and Mandarin

---

Awards