Profile
Profile
Rachel’s practice primarily encompasses insolvency, restructuring, regulatory, company and commercial matters. She joined Des Voeux Chambers in 2006 after winning a series of scholarships and prizes for academic excellence. She is qualified in three jurisdictions – Hong Kong, England & Wales and New York State – and has enjoyed practising in Hong Kong. She is fluent in English and Chinese, primarily Cantonese but also conversational Mandarin.
Rachel has extensive experience in insolvency and restructuring matters, as well as company and commercial litigation. She acts regularly for liquidators and a wide range of companies. Her company and commercial litigation practice comprises commercial trust matters, corporate claims, derivative actions, and commercial injunctions. In connection with this, she has dealt with a number of corporate restructurings, schemes of arrangement, and privatisations, including amongst others, The Grande Holdings Limited, China Evergrande Group, Kaisa Group Holdings Ltd, and China Aoyuan Group Ltd.
Her regulatory and securities practice encompasses market misconduct and related disciplinary, compliance and contentious matters. She advises clients in relation to the multifarious issues which can crop up in an array of settings, and has acted both for and against the SFC in various High Court proceedings. Her regulatory practice has been given further depth by virtue of her memberships on various committees and boards in a plethora of statutory bodies, where she regularly works with those entities in non-contentious capacities.
In connection with these areas of practice, she regularly deals with complex issues of law and has advised and represented financial institutions, investors, listed companies and their directors, trustees, beneficiaries, regulators, and shareholders at all levels of court and in arbitral proceedings.
Insolvency & Restructuring
- Re China South City Holdings Ltd [2025] HKCFI 2829
- Re Kaisa Group Holdings Ltd, Re Rui Jing Investment Company Ltd [2025] HKCFI 2699
- Re China Aoyuan Group Ltd, Re Add Hero Holdings Ltd [2025] 1 HKLRD 870
- Re Moody Technology Holdings Limited [2024] 1 HKLRD 1123
- Re Guy Kwok-Hung Lam [2022] 4 HKLRD 793, [2023] 26 HKCFAR 119, [2023] 5 HKLRD 463
- Natural Dairy (NZ) Holdings Ltd (in provisional liquidation) v Chen Keen [2023] HKCFI 306, [2022] HKCFI 3037, [2020] 5 HKLRD 148
- Re Up Energy Development Limited Group Ltd [2022] HKCFI 3818, [2022] 2 HKLRD 993
- Re Wang Huimin [2022] HKCFI 2271
- Re Hidili Industry International Development Ltd [2022] HKCFI 1833
- Peace Mark (Holdings) Ltd (in liquidation) v Chau Cham Wong Patrick [2022] HKCFI 1623
- China Medical Technologies Inc (in liquidation) v Samson Tsang Tak Yung [2022] HKCA 41
- Safe Castle Ltd v China Silver Asset Management (Hong Kong) Ltd [2021] HKCA 376
- Re Value Food Supply Ltd [2021] HKCFI 2975, [2020] HKCFI 2776
- Re Hsin Chong Construction Co Ltd [2021] 1 HKLRD 582
- Chin Kam Chiu v FTI Consulting, Inc & Others [2021] HKCA 464, [2020] HKCFI 611
- Re National Arts Entertainment and Culture Group Ltd [2020] HKCFI 151
- Wah Nam Group Ltd v Roderick John Sutton & Anor [2020] HKCA 30
- Chow Wai Shing Daniel v Lu Ying [2020[ HKCFI 2148
- Re REXLot Holdings Ltd [2020] HKCFI 2212
- Ho Chor Ming v Hong Kong Chiu Chow Po Hing Buddhism Association Ltd [2018] 3 HKLRD 270 & [2019] HKCA 495
- Peace Mark (Holdings) Ltd (in liquidation) v Chau Cham Wong Patrick, HCA 2371/2009, [2018] HKCFI 659
- Re Wah Nam Group Ltd, HCCW 166/2000
- Speedy Brilliant Investments Ltd v China Health Group Ltd, HCCW 816/2016
- Re The Grande Holdings Ltd, HCCW 177/2011
- Re STX Pan Ocean (Hong Kong) Co Limited [2014] 5 HKLRD 581
- Re Lehman Brothers Commercial Corporation Asia Ltd [2014] 3 HKLRD 448
- Re Days International Ltd [2014] 1 HKLRD 20
- Re Gabriel Ricardo Dias-Azedo [2013] 4 HKLRD 549
- Re Pioneer Iron and Steel Group Co Ltd, HCCW 322/2010
- Re Moulin Global Eyecare Holdings Ltd, HCCW 470/2005
- Re Chung Winston [2013] 2 HKLRD 649
- Re Titanium Technology Ltd [2011] 3 HKLRD 134
Company, Commercial & Trusts
- High Fashion New Media Corporation Ltd v Leong Ma Li [2022] HKCFI 2234, [2023] 4 HKLRD 603, [2025] 5 HKLRD 691, [2026] HKCFA 18
- Li Yuhong v oOo Securities (HK) Group Ltd [2025] HKCFI 5270
- China Shanshui Cement Group Ltd v Zhang Caikui [2018] HKCFI 444, [2018] HKCFI 973, [2018] HKCFI 1192 & [2020] HKCFI 2560, [2025] HKCFI 1868
- MCYP v CWYW [2022] 4 HKLRD 513
- China Construction Bank (Asia) Corporation Ltd v Zhang Kangyang [2022] HKCFI 2135
- Citicorp International Ltd v Tsinghua Unigroup Co Ltd [2022] 2 HKLRD 1225
- Lam Tak Choi v Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Co Ltd [2020] HKCFI 362
- Emperor Securities Ltd v SMI Investment (HK) Ltd & Ors [2020] HKCFI 129
- Société Générale, Singapore Branch v Inter Pacific Group Pte Ltd & Ors [2019] HKCFI 2405
- Hong Ziyun v Chan Kwan Ming & Ors [2019] 4 HKLRD 405
- Tang Jialin v Sinopac Securities (Asia) Ltd & Ors [2019] HKCFI 2087
- Dickson Valora Group (Holdings) Co Ltd v Fan Qi Jian [2019] 2 HKLRD 173
- Re China Assets (Holdings) Ltd, HCMP 1875/2017
- Chen Mei Lan v The Registrar of Companies [2017] 1 HKLRD 924
- China Baoli Technologies Holdings Ltd v Orient Equal International Group Ltd, HCA 1399/2016
- Union Glory Finance Inc v Merrill Lynch International Bank Ltd, HCA 2494/2013, CACV 205/2016
- Excel Courage Holdings Ltd v Wong Sin Lai [2014] 3 HKLRD 642 & HCCL 34/2013
- Pacific Electric Wire & Cable Co Ltd v Harmutty & Ors [2007] 2 HKLRD 261 & [2008] 4 HKLRD 349 (CFI), [2009] 3 HKLRD 94 (CA), & (2014) 17 HKCFAR 710
- Talal El Makdessi v Team Y&R Holdings Hong Kong Ltd, HCMP 1054/2011
- East Epoch International Ltd v Wong Poon Ting [2010] 3 HKLRD 495
- World Fuel Services (Singapore) Pte Ltd v Florens Container Inc (2007) 10 HKCFAR 252 & (2007) 10 HKCFAR 256
Regulatory
- Securities and Futures Commission v Jia Yueting & Ors [2026] HKCFI 2152
- Securities and Futures Commission v Cheng Wai Tak & Ors [2024] 2 HKLRD 1023
- Securities and Futures Commission v Yik Fong Fong [2021[ HKCFI 3351
- Securities and Futures Commission v Liu Zhongkui [2021] HKCFI 1975
- Various ongoing engagements by the Securities and Futures Commission including S.214, Cap 571 matters
- Founder Holdings Limited Inquiry
Judicial Appointment
- Recorder of the Court of First Instance of the High Court, Hong Kong (1 Jan 2021 – 31 Dec 2027)
Prior Roles / Appointments
- Chairperson, Insurance Appeals Tribunal
- Deputy Chairman, Administrative Appeals Board
- Member, Standing Committee on Company Law Reform
- Member, Disciplinary Chair Committee, Securities and Futures Commission
- Member, Competition Commission
- Member, Committee on Companies Law, Hong Kong Bar Association
- Member, Standing Committee on Discipline, Hong Kong Bar Association
- Adjudicator, Immigration Tribunal
- Contributing Editor to Hong Kong Company Law Cases (2008 – 2019) – published in 2020 by DVC in collaboration with Kluwer
- Contributing author, Bullen & Leake & Jacob’s Hong Kong Precedents of Pleadings (1st & 2nd editions)
- Oxford University (Pembroke College): Exhibition, First Class Honours
- Hong Kong Bar Association: Bar Scholarship (2004) & Charles Ching Memorial Scholarship (2004)
- Harvard Law School: Yong K. Kim Memorial Prize 2005 (for L.L.M. Dissertation on Intellectual Property and the Rule of Law in China)















