Anna Chan

Anna heads OLN’s Tax Advisory & Private Client Departments. She regularly advises on tax issues ranging from tax compliance, planning for tax efficiency and transactional tax structuring. Apart from her tax practice, Anna is also a Dispute Resolution Partner. Her dual qualification in both law and accounting, coupled with her solid financial and banking background, makes her a perfect litigator for complex commercial disputes especially those requiring forensic accounting and understanding of financials. She has acted in connection with a number of high profile and landmark cases in the High Court and Court of Appeal, involving shareholders’ disputes, debt recovery, civil fraud, derivative actions, contentious regulatory matters, intellectual property disputes and complex probate matters.

Anna is fluent in English, Cantonese and Mandarin.

Tax Advisory Experience

• Advised multi-national insurance broker and hotel chain on group structure to achieve tax-efficiency
• Advised on tax optimization and compliance issue of a merger and acquisition involving issues of China Land Appreciation Tax, Corporate Income Tax and Circular 698  ​

Commercial Litigation Experience

• Successfully defended application for stay of proceedings based on forum non conveniens in the Court of Appeal case, Waxman & anor v Li Fei Yu & anor [2016] HKEC 956
• Successfully obtained costs variation in favour of client in the precedent-setting case of Waxman & anor v Li Fei Yu & anor [2013] HKEC 1425
• Successfully obtained Winding Up Order in contested liquidation involving cross claim in different jurisdiction RE AWP GROUP LTD [2021] HKCFI352
• Successfully obtained summary judgment, receivership, garnishee, charging order and other enforcement orders for clients in various debt recovery matters
• Successfully obtained Wallersteiner Order in the landmark case of Waxman v Li Fei Yu & anor [2017] HKEC 561
• Successfully obtained Mareva/ Proprietary injunctions, disclosure orders and default judgment in cyber-fraud cases TAIHEI DENGYO KAISHA, LTD v. BOK JOENG HONG KONG CO LTD AND OTHERS [2022] HKCFI 2377
• Advising on high profile white-collar crime case

Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Experience

• Representing administrator of a high-profile estate in contentious probate matters (with intensive media attention)
• Successfully obtained Letters of Administration Ad Colligenda Bona and Beddo Orders
• Acted for applicants in Mental Health Ordinance related proceedings
• Structured and set up US foreign grantor trust for client

Authorship

• Coping with frustration: does a commercial tenant have a legal justification to not pay rent in the “new normal”?, by Anna Chan (Partner) & Martin Tse (Associate), LexisNexis®️ The New Normal Law Guide 2020
• Businesses: Start up Sale & Purchase by Anna Chan (Partner, Oldham Li & Nie), Victor Ng (Partner, Oldham Li & Nie), Jonathan Chu (Partner, Horton & Wise LLP), Hong Kong Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents, LexisNexis, Second Edition, 2020 Reissue

Awards