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Senior Associate

Nathan Hsu

Languages
  • Chinese
  • English
  • Mandarin
  • Cantonese
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Nathan is a Senior Associate in the disputes team in Hong Kong. He specializes in commercial litigation and international arbitration. He regularly acts for shipowners, charterers, P&I Clubs and H&M insurers on shipping and transportation related disputes. He also regularly advises liquidators, trustees, administrators, creditors, and debtors on a range of insolvency and restructuring matters.

Nathan is a Hong Kong qualified lawyer who obtained his LLB at the London School of Economics, PCLL degree at the University of Hong Kong, and LLM at Peking University, Beijing. 

Nathan is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and has been awarded with the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants’ specialist qualification in insolvency.

Relevant experience

Shipping

  • A Hong Kong shipping company in obtaining a worldwide Mareva injunction order and extensive disclosure orders against a BVI company.
  • A Monacan oil trading company in obtaining judgment against a vessel, and securing payment from the sale proceeds of the vessel after it was sold by order of the Hong Kong court.
  • Numerous cargo interests in Hong Kong actions against the owners and/or operators of a Hong Kong warehouse over fire-damaged cargo.
  • Korean carriers in auctioning and selling cargo that had been shipped to but abandoned in Hong Kong.
  • Taiwanese shipowners in various charterparty-related proceedings, including London arbitration, ship arrest actions in South Africa and India, and defending claims brought by UK-based bunker suppliers under a US law maritime lien. *
  • Singaporean shipowners and a consortium of in HKIAC arbitration proceedings against a Chinese shipbuilder for damages arising from an LNG carrier main engine failure. *  

Insolvency & Restructuring

  • A BVI company in successfully opposing applications to set aside statutory demands regarding debts owed for a mining project in the Solomon Islands.
  • A Swedish supply chain services company in Hong Kong winding-up proceedings for debts owed for a mining project in Malaysia.
  • The liquidators of a Luxembourg partnership in winding up a Hong Kong company on just and equitable grounds, in a battle for control over a significant Vietnam property developer. *
  • The liquidators of a Hong Kong listed company in bringing audit negligence claims valued at RMB 4 billion against former auditors. *
  • The trustees in bankruptcy of a director of an insolvent petroleum products group in pursuing various avoidance claims. *

Commercial litigation

  • A Hong Kong shipping company in contested contempt of court proceedings.
  • The court-appointed administrators in contested proceedings and obtaining an order to sell a Grade 2 historic building valued at around HKD 500 million. *
  • A global bank in prosecuting a USD 90 million trade finance fraud claim against a petrochemical products group, various co-conspirators, and other recipients. *

* Experience prior to joining CMS

Publications

  • “Hong Kong court applies Soleh Boneh principles and orders security against applicant for setting aside an arbitral award (Hua She v Beijing Yaolai and Kei)”, Lexis®PSL, Sept 2022

Memberships & Roles

  • SQ (Insolvency), Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants
  • Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators

Education

  • 2017 – LLM at Peking University, Beijing
  • 2015 – PCLL degree at the University of Hong Kong
  • 2014 – LLB at the London School of Economics