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Hong Kong Court Declares Crypto Arbitration Settlement Agreement Null And Void Due To Signatory's Lack Of Authority

Settlement agreement and procedural order terminating HKIAC arbitration could not be set aside as awards, but court was able to grant relief pursuant to supervisory jurisdiction and exclusive jurisdiction clause.

Hong Kong Litigation

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Hong Kong Court Winds Up Cayman-incorporated Hong Kong-listed Property Developer

In a recent decision, the Hong Kong Court ordered the winding up of Jingrui Holdings Limited (the "Company"), a Hong Kong-listed Chinese property developer incorporated in the Cayman Islands.

Hong Kong Litigation

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Updated PRC Arbitration Law Comes Into Effect

A revised version of the PRC Arbitration Law comes into effect today (1 March 2026), marking the most significant update to the legislation since it was originally enacted in 1995.

Worldwide Litigation

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

HKIAC Publishes 2025 Statistics

The HKIAC broke new records for the total amount in dispute and the number of new administered arbitrations in 2025, according to the institution's statistical report for 2025 (published on 12 February 2026).

Hong Kong Litigation

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Litigation And Arbitration: New Rules On Governing Law And Arbitration Seat For Hong Kong And Macau Investors In The Greater Bay Area

Hong Kong Litigation

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Hauzen

HKIAC Publishes Significant Report On Arbitrator Hourly Rates

Hong Kong Litigation

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

HKIAC Expands Expedited Procedure, Updates Registration Fee And Increases Arbitrator Hourly Rate Cap

Hong Kong Litigation

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Anti-suit Injunctions

Hong Kong Litigation

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Timothy Loh LLP

Bypassing Arbitration Clauses – To Injunct Or To Not Injunct?

Hong Kong Litigation

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Hauzen

Hong Kong Court Dismisses Challenge To Arbitral Award Alleging Arbitrator's Sleeping And Hostility

Hong Kong Litigation

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ONC Lawyers

Hong Kong Arbitration Ordinance Review Begins

Hong Kong Litigation

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

When Arbitration Meets Insolvency: Are Hong Kong Courts Rebalancing The Framework In Cross-Border Cases?

Hong Kong Litigation

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Hauzen

Novel Anti-Suit Injunction Application Fails: Hong Kong Courts Decline To Halt Cayman Liquidation Proceedings In Favour Of Arbitration, But The Court Of Appeal Leaves The Door Open In Future

Hong Kong Litigation

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Appleby

HK Court Safeguards Multi-billion Assets Amid Ultra-high Net Worth Family Dispute

Hong Kong Wealth Mgt

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ONC Lawyers

貨品買賣法律的現代化：英國與內地模式如何應對消費者的交貨風險

Hong Kong Consumer

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Haldanes

Hong Kong Trade Marks Registry Begins Electronic Filing For Evidence, Hearings

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Rouse

Venture Pulse Q4'25

Hong Kong Commercial

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KPMG

募集资金"项目制 VS 用途制"的对决-A股与港股关于IPO募集资金管理理念差异之初步比较

Hong Kong Finance

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Beijing Jincheng Tongda & Neal Law Firm

Hong Kong's New SFC Virtual Asset Platform Rules – How To Stay Compliant?

Hong Kong Technology

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Hauzen

Hong Kong Arbitration Week 2025: Asian Disputes, Asian Opportunities

AlixPartners' Asia Risk Advisory team rounds up the trends, imperatives, and real-world challenges that dominated the conversation this year, onstage and off.

Hong Kong Litigation

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AlixPartners

Would Hong Kong Courts Restrain Foreign Winding-Up Proceedings In Favour Of Arbitration?

The Court of First Instance decision in Hyalroute Communication Group Limited v Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (Asia) Limited [2025] HKCFI 2417 marks a precedent-setting moment for Hong Kong law.

Hong Kong Litigation

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ONC Lawyers

Opt-in Regime For Appeals On Questions Of Law Covers (Some) Questions Of Foreign Law, Hong Kong Court Rules

Appeals on questions of law pursuant to the statutory "opt-in" regime are not necessarily restricted to questions of Hong Kong law and are also possible in the case of some...

Hong Kong Litigation

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Hong Kong Court Of Appeal To Consider Validity Of Service Of Notice Of Arbitration By SMS

Leave to appeal against decision refusing challenge to enforcement of Hong Kong Arbitration Society award granted on basis that service by SMS raised issues of public interest

Hong Kong Litigation

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Letting Other People Use Your Bank Account Could Put You In Jail

Hong Kong Criminal

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ONC Lawyers

Hong Kong In Focus: A Review Of Recent Arbitration-related Court Decisions

Hong Kong Litigation

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Hong Kong To Consider Updating Arbitration Legislation

Hong Kong Litigation

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Hong Kong Court's Approach To Charging Orders In Context Of Foreign Insolvency Proceedings

Hong Kong Insolvency

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Hong Kong Commercial

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Timothy Loh LLP

The Unappealable Order: Interim Measures In Arbitration

Hong Kong Litigation

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ONC Lawyers

A First For Hong Kong: Court Dismisses Anti-suit Injunction Seeking To Restrain A Cayman Winding Up

Hong Kong Litigation

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Hong Kong Court Refuses To Grant Anti-Suit Injunction To Restrain A Party From Presenting Winding-Up Petition In Cayman Where There Is An Arbitration Agreement

Hong Kong Litigation

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Fangda Partners

HK Court Refuses Borrower's Challenge To Enforcement Of Arbitral Award In Favour Of Moneylender

Hong Kong Litigation

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Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

HK Security Of Payment Ordinance – New Rules Regarding Setting Aside And Enforcement Of Adjudication Determinations

Hong Kong Real Estate

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Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

A First For Hong Kong: Court Dismisses Anti-suit Injunction Seeking To Restrain A Cayman Winding Up

Since the landmark cases of Re Guy Lam and Sian Participation (see our blogposts here and here), there has been a clear divergence in how Hong Kong and English law approach the interaction between insolvency and arbitration.

Hong Kong Litigation

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Hong Kong Court Refuses To Grant Anti-Suit Injunction To Restrain A Party From Presenting Winding-Up Petition In Cayman Where There Is An Arbitration Agreement

In a recent case Hyalroute Communication Group Limited v Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (Asia) Limited [2025] HKCFI 2417, Recorder William Wong SC refused to grant...

Hong Kong Litigation

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Fangda Partners

HK Court Refuses Borrower's Challenge To Enforcement Of Arbitral Award In Favour Of Moneylender

In CCC v AAC [2025] HKCFI 2987, Sir William Blair, sitting as Deputy High Court Judge in the Hong Kong Court of First Instance ("Court"), rejected a borrower's challenge to the enforcement of an arbitral award...

Hong Kong Litigation

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Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

HK Security Of Payment Ordinance – New Rules Regarding Setting Aside And Enforcement Of Adjudication Determinations

On 11 July 2025, the Hong Kong Government gazetted the Construction Industry Security of Payment Rules ("Rules").

Hong Kong Real Estate

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Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

HK Court Confirms Jurisdiction Of Arbitral Tribunal In Cayman-related Dispute

Hong Kong Litigation

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Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Second Agreement Concerning Amendment To CEPA Agreement On Trade In Services To Be Implemented On 1 March 2025

In 2003, Mainland China and Hong Kong signed the "Mainland and Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement" ("CEPA") to open up the China market for Hong Kong goods and services.

Hong Kong Commercial

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Haldanes

How To Settle Civil Disputes: Is The Case As Strong As Initially Assessed?

As civil litigation is costly, time-consuming, unpredictable, and at times excruciating for the parties' peace of mind, it is not uncommon for parties to compromise and settle the civil dispute midway in the litigation proceedings.

Hong Kong Litigation

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Oldham, Li & Nie

How To Settle Civil Disputes: Use Of Mediation

Something must have gone wrong before parties commence civil litigation, whether the problem arises from breach of contract, unpaid invoices, or differing interpretations of terms of the contract.

Hong Kong Litigation

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Oldham, Li & Nie

How To Settle Civil Dispute: Human Cost At Stake

Something must have gone wrong before parties commence civil litigation, whether they arise from breach of contract, unpaid invoices, or differing interpretations of terms etc.

Hong Kong Litigation

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Oldham, Li & Nie

How To Settle Civil Dispute: Is The Case Worth Pursuing?

Hong Kong Litigation

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Oldham, Li & Nie

Going Digital: What The New Courts (Remote Hearing) Ordinance Means For Civil Cases In Hong Kong

Hong Kong Litigation

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ONC Lawyers

Freestanding Mareva Injunctions: A Powerful Strategy For Cross-border Disputes

Hong Kong Litigation

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Withers LLP

Haldanes Successfully Represented A Defendant In An Application For Stay Of Court Proceedings In Favour Of Arbitration

Hong Kong Litigation

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Haldanes

HK Court Grants Worldwide Mareva And Appoints Interim Receivers In Aid Of Enforcing Arbitral Awards

Hong Kong Litigation

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Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Fake Legal Authorities – AI Hallucination Or Professional Negligence?

Worldwide Technology

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Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

"Battle Of The Forms" In The Hong Kong Construction Industry

Hong Kong Real Estate

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Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Hong Kong Court Makes Security For Costs Order Against Mainland Parties With No Assets In Hong Kong

Hong Kong Litigation

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Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Overview Of Five Recent Arbitration Cases

Hong Kong Litigation

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Tanner De Witt

Hong Kong Technology

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Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

HK Court Relies On Deemed Service Clause To Dismiss A Setting-Aside Application To Enforce An Arbitral Award

Hong Kong Litigation

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Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

5 Impactful R&I Cases From 2024

Worldwide Insolvency

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Tanner De Witt

Legal Update – Launch Of The Immigration Facilitation Scheme For Persons Participating In Arbitral Proceedings

Hong Kong Litigation

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Tanner De Witt

Getting The Ball Rolling: Sports Disputes Resolution In Hong Kong SAR

Hong Kong Media & IT

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Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Director Stand-off: Does A Director Have Standing To Bring Proceedings Alleging A Breach Of Company's Articles?

Hong Kong Litigation

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Harneys

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F&M - Dispute Resolution & ADR - Highlights 2025

India Litigation

Fox & Mandal

Second Agreement Concerning Amendment To CEPA Agreement On Trade In Services To Be Implemented On 1 March 2025

Hong Kong Commercial

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Haldanes

Arbitration – Arbitral Autonomy And Immunity – Arbitrator Compelled To Give Evidence

Hong Kong Litigation

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Stephenson Harwood

Arbitrability – Stay Of Proceedings In Favour Of Arbitration Falcon Insurance v Bing Lee [2023] HKCFI 1129

Hong Kong Litigation

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Stephenson Harwood

The Hong Kong Court Discharges Service Out Of The Jurisdiction Of A Tort Claim

Hong Kong Litigation

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Stephenson Harwood

Hong Kong Court Lifts Stay Of Proceedings For Spent Arbitration Agreement

Hong Kong Litigation

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Stephenson Harwood

Arbitration—Set Aside—Illegality—Common Mistake—Hong Kong Public Policy (AI v LG II LG III)

Hong Kong Litigation

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Stephenson Harwood

CASE ANALYSIS: Gunga v Sonangol [2022] EWHC 1372 (Comm)

Hong Kong Litigation

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Stephenson Harwood

CASE ANALYSIS: Gunga Shipping Co NV v Sonangol Shipping Angola (Luanda) Ltd

Hong Kong Litigation

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Stephenson Harwood

Hong Kong Court Stays Proceedings Even When They Are Not Covered By An Arbitration Agreement MAK V LA [2022] HKCFI 285

Hong Kong Litigation

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Stephenson Harwood

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