Vincent Lung

• Solicitor (Hong Kong): 2006 – 2007

• Deputy District Judge, District Court (May 2018)
• Bar Council Member (Jan 2016 – Jan 2017)
• Lecturer and Course Coordinator, Equity & Trust Course for the HKU JD Program (since Sept 2012)
• Part-time Lecturer, Equity & Trust Course for the HKU LLB Program (Jan 2009 – June 2012)

• Middle Temple Scholarship for Advocacy Training (2008)
• Dechert Company Law Prize for the best company law paper in the year (2003)
• Sir Edward Youde Memorial Scholarship for Overseas Studies (2000). It fully financed the overseas undergraduate studies, usually awarded to no more than 3 awardees every year
• South China Morning Post’s Student of the Year (Runner-up) (1999)
• Grantham Scholar of the Year, HKSAR Government (1999)
• Hong Kong Outstanding Students Award, Lion & Globe Educational Trust (1998)

Contributing Editor of the White Book Service since 2009

Winding up / shareholders disputes / company matters

• Ashok Hemnani v Primlaks (HK) Ltd [2016] 2 HKLRD 31 – application for leave to commence statutory derivative action in a shareholders’ dispute
• Wong Pak Sum v Hong Kong Furniture & Decoration Trade Association Ltd [2014] 1 HKLRD 507 – validity of resolutions passed at a shareholders’ meeting
• Re Pedagogic Innovations Ltd [2014] 1 HKLRD 613 – application to stay a members’ voluntary winding up
• Lam Kit Sing v Chungshan Commercial Association, Hong Kong [2011] 3 HKLRD 323 – directors’ right to inspect company documents
• Re Birmingham International Holdings Ltd, HCMP 395/2015 – minority shareholders of a listed company seeking to extend the office of appointed receivers
• Re CTRISKS Rating Ltd, HCMP 1383&1384/2016 – application for relief under ss.111 and 122 of the former Companies Ordinance concerning failure to hold general meetings

Trust / fiduciary claims

• Liu Hsiao Cheng v Wong Shu Wai [2018] 1 HKLRD 1087 – applicability of limitation periods to claims against a fiduciary / de facto director
• Au Cheuk Wei Wilson v Hang Seng Bank (Trustee) Ltd [2013] 1 HKLRD 925 – the role of an administrator pendente lite under the Trustee Ordinance and the Probate and Administration Ordinance to make advancements
• Wing Hong Construction Ltd (in compulsory liquidation) v Hui Chi Yung, HCA 1423/2015 – appeared in a security for costs application concerning a claim brought by liquidators against former directors for misappropriation of company assets
• Shun Hing Holdings Co Ltd v Li Kwok Po David, HCA 664/2012 – appeared in various interlocutory applications in relation to a claim brought by a company against a former (deceased) director for misappropriation of corporate assets
• APE Accessories of Pet Express (Hong Kong) Ltd v Lau Ki Wai, HCA 2224/2014 – appeared in various interlocutory applications in relation to a claim brought by a company against former employees for diversion of business opportunities

General commercial disputes

• Polytec Overseas Ltd v Grand Dragon International Holdings Co Ltd [2017] 3 HKLRD 258 – stay of proceedings in favour of arbitration
• First Kind Ltd v Wong Fu Cheung [2016] 3 HKLRD 39 – valuation of adjoining lots upon a compulsory sale
• To Pui Kui v Ng Kwok Piu [2014] 5 HKLRD 103 – Appeal in relation to an application to amend pleadings and to file Amended Notice of Appeal
• Distribution Ltd v Amann & Sohne GmbH & Co KG [2009] 4 HKLRD 633 – trial concerning the length of “reasonable notice” to be given upon termination of a contract without an express termination clause
• Tsang Yan Kwong v 360 HK Ltd, HCA 548/2017 – mandatory injunction over the custody of listed company shares for disputes arising out of a share mortgage
• Ming Shieh v Xu Zhe, HCMP 3072/2014 – enforcement of an undertaking as to damages arising out of a Mareva injunction
• Foremost Hill Ltd v Li Hon, HCA 2555/2013 – trial concerning adverse possession by a co-owner over a unit within a building governed by a Deed of Mutual Covenant
• Ng Kwok Piu v To Pui Kui, HCA 51/2007 – trial over an alleged restructuring of family companies involving allegations of forgery
• Chum Mei Diu v Sum Fan Hung, HCA 946/2013 – trial concerning a dispute between 2 sisters over the ownership of a flat

Medical negligence / personal injuries

• Pang Siu Kuen v Hospital Authority [2017] 1 HKLRD 132 – striking out a medical negligence claim based on limitation
• Catherine Poon v Hospital Authority, HCPI 381/2011 – appeared in interlocutory applications including adducing additional expert reports

Vincent was a former solicitor at Clifford Chance in the Banking and Finance Department. He has experience in project financing and syndicated finance transactions.