Nathan Hsu

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