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Amy S.M. Cheung

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Amy Cheung specialises in commercial litigation, arbitration and contentious regulatory matters. She has extensive experience in advising and representing corporations and high-net-worth individuals, with a particular focus on representing Hong Kong listed companies in a wide range of cross-border commercial disputes, such as contractual disputes, commercial fraud and asset tracing, breach of directors’ fiduciary duties, shareholders disputes and property and probate disputes. She also has substantial experience in dealing with various regulators such as the Securities and Futures Commission and the Independent Commission Against Corruption.

Amy also has extensive experience handling debt restructuring and security enforcement including advising on schemes of arrangements in Hong Kong and in other offshore jurisdictions.

Prior to joining this Firm, Amy worked closely with her Corporate Finance colleagues to assist with all their related contentious issues including resumptions of trading, breach of fiduciary duties by current and former directors, shareholders’ disputes, S214 SFO disqualification orders by the Securities and Futures Commission and regularly used her litigation experience to help identify, mitigate and eliminate the risks of potential disputes.

Admissions and Memberships

Since 1995   Solicitor, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

Since 1997   Solicitor, England and Wales

Education

University of Nottingham

Bachelor of Laws (LLB)

Languages

English and Cantonese

Evelyne S.M. Yeung

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Evelyne is senior associate serving in the firm’s Intellectual Property Department. She was admitted as solicitor in Hong Kong in 2005 and joined us in 2013.

She has extensive experience on intellectual property matters including non-contentious matters, likes prosecution of trade marks (including collective trade mark, certification trade mark and defensive trade mark), designs and patent matters in Hong Kong, China and worldwide.  She also handles contentious intellectual properties matters, likes trade mark opposition, revocation and declaration of invalidation.

Evelyne has substantial experience in handling fleet clients’ trade mark portfolio in different industries including financial, hotel and catering, manufacturers of jewellery, automobile, sports equipment, healthcare products and amusement park in different countries worldwide.

In addition, she handles domain name registration as well as domain name dispute resolution matters for .hk and .cn domain name disputes filed through the International Arbitration Centre and Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre.

She served on the INTA Enforcement Committee for the term 2022 – 2023.

Admissions and Memberships

Since 2005  Solicitor, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

Since 2007 Member of the Hong Kong Federation of Women Lawyers

Education

The University of Hong Kong

Postgraduate Certificate in Laws (PCLL)

University of London (External Programme)

Bachelor of Laws (LLB)

External Publications

Evelyne is a co-contributor of the following titles:

  1. The Hong Kong Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents: Volume 19 – Intellectual Property: Patents and Trade Marks (2021); and
  2. The Hong Kong Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents: Volume 18 – Intellectual Property: Copyright (2022).  

Evelyne has written articles on IP issues which regularly posted on OLN website. Her article “EFFECTS ON USE OF A TRADEMARK AS OEM IN CHINA” (co-authored with Angel Luo) was published in January 2020 Edition of Legal Era Magazine (issued by LEGAL MEDIA GROUP), which can be seen from this link: https://www.legaleraonline.com/le_mag_pdf/Legal_Era_Magazine_Jan2020.pdf

Languages

English, Cantonese and Mandarin

Awards

Martin S.Y. Tse

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Martin joined OLN as an associate in September 2018.

His current practice focuses on commercial litigation. He has experience in handling various contentious matters involving international trade, commercial disputes, land disputes, personal injuries, probate matters, and winding-up proceedings.

Martin’s experience also comprises of advising Hong Kong-listed companies on a variety of compliance matters. In addition, he was familiar with SFC-related matters including licensing applications, regulatory investigations and search warrants.

Before commencing his legal career, Martin also worked briefly as a project assistant for the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data where he gained exposure to data privacy issues.

Experience
Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Experience

  • Representing the administrator of the estate of a high profile individual with a diverse portfolio of assets in multiple jurisdictions
  • Representing high-net-worth individual to handle disputed trust matters by restraining others’ disruption on the setting up and functioning of trust, and act as the Plaintiff in the High Court.
Admissions and Memberships

Since 2017  Solicitor, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

Since 2024  Solicitor, England and Wales

Education

The University of Hong Kong

Bachelor of Laws (LLB)

BBA (law)

Languages

English, Cantonese and Mandarin

Awards

Gon J. Yeung

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Gon joined OLN as a trainee solicitor in 2016. He has experience in various litigation matters including insolvency, shareholders disputes, commercial dispute, tortious claims and criminal proceedings and was involved in a number of high-profile cases in the Court of First Instance and the Court of Appeal. He also has extensive experience in various corporate and commercial matters including restructuring, due diligence, general commercial transactions involving the hospitality industry, trading and also cross-border property transactions.

Prior to joining OLN, Gon worked at a Big Four accounting firm focusing on international arbitration research and insolvency.

Tax Advisory Experience

Assisted a high-net-worth client to handle contentious trust matter and successfully reached settlement with fellow beneficiaries to resolve the dispute amicably, including the process on settlement negotiation, drafting of Deed of Family Arrangement and execution of settlement, so as to reinforce checks and balance among different trust entities and ensure the family trust is compliant with the Canadian Granny Trust structure.

Admissions and Memberships

Since 2018  Solicitor, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

Education

The University of Hong Kong

Juris Doctor (JD)

University of British Columbia

Bachelor of Science in Environmental Sciences

Languages

English, Cantonese and Mandarin

Awards

Ivan Y.C. Lee

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Ivan joined Oldham, Li & Nie as a Trainee Solicitor at the firm’s Matrimonial and Family Law Department in September 2017, as an Associate since April 2020 and a Senior Associate since December 2022.  He has advised local and expatriate clients, both private and legally aided, in matters including divorce, nullity, children, ancillary relief and pre- and post-nuptial agreements.

Admissions and Memberships

Since 2020  Solicitor, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

Since 2017  Member of the Hong Kong Family Law Association

Education

University of Hong Kong

Postgraduate Certificate in Laws (PCLL)

London School of Economics and Political Science

Bachelor of Laws (LLB) (Hons)

Languages

English, Cantonese and Mandarin

Awards

Barbara P.Y. Kwong

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Barbara joined OLN as a trainee solicitor in 2017, and received training in both non-contentious commercial matters including company restructuring, due diligence, shareholders’ agreement drafting and general commercial matters (including but not limited to other commercial agreements drafting and matters on employment and data privacy), as well as contentious matters involving shareholders’ disputes, commercial disputes, employment disputes, probate matters, family matters and debt recovery.

Admissions and Memberships

Since 2019 Solicitor, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

Education

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Postgraduate Certificate in Laws (PCLL)

Juris Doctor (JD) with the graduation dean’s list award

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Bachelor of Business Administration degree (double majoring in Economics and Finance) with First Class Honours

Notable Cases
M&A Experience

  • Conduct legal due diligence in various mergers and acquisitions and provide legal advice and assistance on the relevant transactions, including targets conducting businesses in operation of chain restaurants, money lending, etc.
  • Provide legal advice and assistance in court-free amalgamation for various clients
  • Act for leading multinational banks (as the lead arranger), and provide legal advice and assistance (including drafting / reviewing the guarantee and security documents, advising on the procedures for perfecting and registering the securities, advising on the procedures and drafting the documents required for syndication of the loans etc.) in respect of secured syndicated loans in various leveraged buy-out
  • Provide legal assistance to mezzanine lenders in various leveraged buy-out
  • Act for a multinational education technology company group conducting businesses in various jurisdictions and provide legal advice and assistance on its restructuring and equity and debt financing
  • Act for a Hong Kong company engaged in carnival business, and provide legal advice and assistance on a regular basis for its carnivals and other related businesses in Hong Kong
  • Assisted a client with the acquisition of a minority equity stake in a blockchain company by conducting a full scope legal due diligence against the target company

Experience on Other Commercial Matters

  • Provide legal advice and assistance to multinational companies, including preparing terms and conditions, privacy policy, etc. for setting up of business or holding events in Hong Kong
  • Provide legal advice and assistance on drafting commercial documents to various clients including shareholders agreements, distribution agreements, licensing agreements, repo agreements, call option agreements, terms and conditions, non-disclosure agreements, privacy policies etc.

Employment-related Experience

  • Assist in the drafting of employment agreements, employment handbooks and consultancy agreements for various corporate clients
  • Provide legal advice and assistance to employers on employment-related enquiries including enforceability of restrictive covenants, termination entitlements of employees, termination arrangement, reporting requirements to government authorities, personal data privacy etc.
  • Provide advice to employees on employment-related enquiries including enforceability of restrictive covenants, termination entitlements, remedies in unreasonable and unlawful dismissal cases etc.
  • Provide advice to corporate clients on the setting up of their employee stock ownership plans
  • Provide legal advice and assistance on drafting / reviewing employment-related documents of corporate employers, including full-time and part-time employment agreements, employee handbooks, consultancy agreements, non-disclosure agreements, data privacy policies etc.
  • Advise various companies on issues of transfer of employees in merger and acquisition matters
  • Assist employers and employees in application for employment visa
  • Acted for a company engaged in SFC-licensed activities in preparing the service contract of one of its accredited licensed representative
  • Provided legal advice and assistance to an employee who has been dismissed by his employer to avoid bonus payment and successfully obtained judgment in favour of the employee for the relevant bonus
  • Acted for a corporate employer in a matter where one of its ex-employee has misappropriated the funds of the employer and successfully recovered the misappropriated funds from the already departed employee
  • Hu Yangyong v Alba Asia Ltd [2025] HKCFI 2484: successfully obtained a favourable Court of First Instance judgment (transferred from the Labour Tribunal) for the employee / plaintiff in a summary dismissal matter, securing approximately HKD5.4 million in damages.

Litigation Experience

  • Advise on a high profile white-collar crime case which attracts media attention
  • Represented a party to a big money divorce case and successfully obtained an injunction order against the other party restraining dissipation of assets

Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Experience

  • Represent the administrator of a high-profile estate with assets across the world which attracts media attention
  • Advise and assist high net worth individuals with assets across the world to set up trusts for their tax and estate planning
  • Successfully assisted clients in obtaining Grant Ad Colligenda Bona (i.e. temporary grant of letters of administration) for cases where administration of the estate is urgent
Languages

English, Cantonese and Mandarin

Awards