Profile
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Jonathan joined Chambers in 2020 upon completion of his pupillage with Mr Peter Duncan SC, Mr Christopher Chain SC, Mr Jason Yu and Mr Justin Lam.
Jonathan has a broad civil and commercial practice in both litigation and arbitration and accepts instructions in all areas of Chambers’ work. He has been involved in cases primarily concerning company and bankruptcy law, commercial law and intellectual property law. He has appeared in the District Court, Court of First Instance and Court of Appeal both as a sole advocate and junior counsel and has been instructed for both Chinese and English language litigation and arbitrations.
Notable cases of his include Indian Overseas Bank v Seabulk Systems Inc. Anors [2024] HKCA 522, where he acted as sole advocate before the Court of Appeal in an appeal concerning principles on the duty to perfect security, China Shanshui Cement Group Ltd v Zhang Caikui Anors [2025] HKCFI 1868, where he represented (led by Rachel Lam SC, with David Chen) a Hong Kong listed company engaged in the production of clinker and cement in a 32-day commercial trial in the Court of First Instance, and Buildtech Enterprise International Ltd Anors v OK Construction Materials (Supply) Co Ltd [2025] HKCFI 1133, where he represented (led by Winnie Tam SC) the respondent in one of the few trials before the Court of First Instance on the invalidation of trade marks. He has also provided written expert opinions on Hong Kong law for the Singapore and PRC courts. He is fluent in English, Cantonese and Mandarin and speaks basic French.
Before joining the Bar, Jonathan graduated from the University of Cambridge with a BA (Law) with Double First-Class Honours, having obtained a number of awards and reached the semi-finals of the BPP-OUP National Mooting Competition (representing the University of Cambridge). He went on to obtain the BCL from the University of Oxford with distinction. He has published articles and case notes in a number of peer-reviewed law journals. He is also a Bar Scholar.
Jonathan has been a part-time Lecturer (Non-Clinical) at the Department of Law, University of Hong Kong, having previously taught Equity & Trusts and the Law of Contract.
General Commercial
- Indian Overseas Bank v Seabulk Systems Inc. Anors [2024] HKCA 522 (as sole advocate) – Appeal on the duty to perfect security
- Indian Overseas Bank v Seabulk Systems Inc. Anors [2023] 4 HKLRD 125 (as sole advocate) – Stay of execution pending appeal (paper disposal)
- China Shanshui Cement Group Ltd v Zhang Caikui Anors [2025] HKCFI 1868 (led by Rachel Lam SC and David Chen) – 32-day trial involving claims for breach of fiduciary duties, unlawful means conspiracy, dishonest assistance by former directors of Hong Kong listed company
- Realord Group Holdings Ltd Anor v Win Dynamic Ltd Anor [2025] HKCFI 1939 (led by Norman Nip SC and Charlie Liu) – Applications for expert directions and further discovery in aid of Mareva injunctions
- Chen Yung Ngai Kenneth and Sun Wing Sze (being the Joint and Several Liquidators of Best Year Enterprises Ltd (in Liquidation) v Sin Kwok Lam Anor [2025] HKCFI 741 (as sole advocate) – 1-day trial on unfair preference
- Rich Place Investment Ltd Anor v Oriental Patron Securities Ltd Anors [2024] HKCFI 576 (led by MC Law SC) – 3-day trial concerning breaches of contract, fiduciary duties and procuring breach of contract by securities brokerage firm
- ZL v WY Anors [2023] HKCFI 2105 (with Lai Chun Ho) – Discharging an ex parte s.21M injunction obtained in aid of Australian matrimonial proceedings
- Chau Lai Bing v Li Rongqiang Anors [2022] HKDC 1389 (as sole advocate) – Summary judgment application on behalf of a victim of email fraud
- Peng Yingzhen v Absolute Skill Holdlings Ltd Anors [2022] HKCFI 3328 (led by Barrie Barlow SC) – Interlocutory injunctions restraining the exercise of voting rights attached to shares
- Yip Kim Po v AIG Insurance Hong Kong Ltd (Formerly known as American Underwriters Ltd) [2021] 5 HKLRD 295 (as sole advocate) – Stay of execution pending appeal on question of law
- Allahabad Bank v UD Trading Group Holding Pte Ltd [2020] HKCFI 3030 (as sole advocate) – Application for leave to serve writ out of jurisdiction upon re-grant
Company, insolvency and bankruptcy
- Re HNA Group (International) Company Ltd [2025] 1 HKLRD 1316 (as sole advocate) – Winding-up petition concerning a Chinese aviation conglomerate and principles on presenting multiple petitions
- Re China Stem Cells Holdings Ltd [2024] HKCFI 2089 (led by Victor Dawes SC) – Winding-up petition concerning BVI and Cayman Islands companies involved in cord blood banking and storage
- Tang Siu Chung v The Hong Kong Society for the Deaf Anors [2023] 4 HKLRD 176 (as sole advocate) – 2-day trial on the validity of AGM and resolutions passed therein in respect of a leading non-profit making organisation aimed at promoting the well-being of the hearing-impaired
- Re Leung Yat Tung [2023] HKCFI 1279 (as sole advocate) – Joinder application in a long-standing dispute over a valuable piece of land in Yau Tong
- Harbour Front Ltd v The Official Receiver and Trustee of the Property of Leung Yat Tung [2023] HKCFI 1294 (as sole advocate) – Joinder application in a long-standing dispute over a valuable piece of land in Yau Tong
- Re Target Insurance Co Ltd [2022] HKCFI 3036 (led by John Scott SC) – Represented the Insurance Authority in the winding up of a major insurance company
- Re Ng Shui Cheong [2021] HKCFI 703 (as sole advocate) – Bankruptcy petition
Property law
- Li Chun Bon Anor v China Mobile Hong Kong Co Ltd [2024] HKCA 865; [2023] 5 HKLRD 736 (as sole advocate) – Leave to appeal on interpretation of “common parts” in Deed of Mutual Covenant (paper disposal)
- Fubon Bank (Hong Kong) Ltd v Lee Hing Company Asia Ltd Anors [2025] HKCFI 3438 (as sole advocate) – Mortgage action seeking vacant possession of premises and payment of outstanding debts
- Bank of China (Hong Kong) Ltd v Perpetual Wealth (Hong Kong) Ltd [2025] HKCFI 2300 (as sole advocate) – Mortgage action seeking vacant possession of premises and payment of outstanding debts
Intellectual Property
- Buildtech Enterprise International Ltd Anors v OK Construction Materials (Supply) Co Ltd [2025] HKCFI 1133 (led by Winnie Tam SC) – 9-day trial on invalidation of trade mark
- Part-time Lecturer (Non-Clinical) in Equity & Trusts, Department of Law, The University of Hong Kong (September 2024 – August 2025)
- Part-time Lecturer (Non-Clinical) in Equity & Trusts, Department of Law, The University of Hong Kong (September 2023 – August 2024)
- Part-time Lecturer (Non-Clinical) in Law of Contract, Department of Law, The University of Hong Kong (November 2021 – August 2022)
- Part-time Lecturer (Non-Clinical) in Equity & Trusts, Department of Law, The University of Hong Kong (September 2020 – August 2021)
- Bar Scholarship (2019)
- Prize Scholarship (2015, 2017)
- Des Voeux Chambers Junior Scholarship (2015)
- Eunice and Alton Kramer Prize for Law (2015)
- “Electronic Signatures and Related Issues”, The Hong Kong Lawyer’s e-newsletter (14 May 2021) (co-authored with John Scott SC, JP)
- “Recasting Brickenden” (2021) 33 SAcLJ 680
- “Equitable Compensation and Brickenden: Fiduciary Loyalty and Causation” Trust & Trustees, Volume 26, November 2020, Issue 8-9, pp.800-813
- Contributing Editor to Hong Kong Company Law Cases (2008 – 2019) – published in 2020 by DVC in collaboration with Kluwer
- “A Hardly Obvious Question” [2020] 1 IPQ 74
- “Substantiating Substantive Review” [2018] PL 632
- “The impact of social unrest and Covid-19 on commercial leases”, The Property and Conveyancing Law Association (September 2021)
- CPD Seminar: “Common interlocutory relief in commercial disputes” (with Tinny Chan) (July 2021)
English
Cantonese
Mandarin
French (conversational)
