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Kingsley is a Notary Public and Partner based in Hong Kong, and leads the firm’s Structured Finance and Restructuring/Insolvency practices in Asia. He specialises in all types of financing and debt restructuring, including debt capital markets, derivatives, structured finance, securitisation, restructuring and insolvency. He also handles related arbitrations and disputes.
He is the only lawyer in Asia to be ranked by legal directories as a Leading Lawyer in 5 practice areas (Banking & Finance | Structured Finance | Securitisation, Derivatives | Restructuring/Insolvency).
Kingsley is Adjunct Law Professor at The City University of Hong Kong (having previously also taught at The University of Hong Kong). He authored many of the leading practitioner texts in his specialist areas, and his published opinions have been cited as legal authority in the US Court (Lehman Brothers Special Finance vs Bank of New York, SDNY 09-012422010), the Hong Kong Standing Committee on Company Law Reform, the Financial Stability Board (FSB), and leading textbooks.
Kingsley is regularly sought after as a Hong Kong Law Expert Witness in foreign courts, in cases where Hong Kong legal issues were relevant and being contested. He has appeared before the US Bankruptcy Courts and District Courts in New Jersey, Iowa, Minnesota, Texas.
Kingsley also actively takes appointments as Arbitrator and conducts arbitrations in English and Chinese. He is on the Arbitrator panels/lists of HKIAC, The Hong Kong Law Society, eBRAM, KCAB, JCAA, BAIAC, SCIAHK, CAA and RAC.
