Wire fraud, including email, scams have been on the rise recently. Fraudsters are getting craftier in adopting new and emerging deceitful tactics. Businesses and individuals are increasingly falling for fraudulent emails and calls and as a result struggle to find effective and workable measures to protect and recover their misappropriated funds.
Evelyn Chan and Yandy Lam have contributed the Hong Kong Chapter for Lexology’s Enforcement of Judgements 2022. Representing jurisdictions worldwide, this new volume in the Getting The Deal Through series offers expert analysis of the key issues relating to the enforcement of foreign judgments. Topics covered include: treaties, regulations and conventions, limitation periods, types of enforceable order, competent courts, defences, judicial requirements and procedures, significance of the enforcing jurisdiction’s public policy to the enforcement of foreign judgments, awards and enforcement process.
Gall recently obtained a proprietary injunction in Hong Kong for its clients, Ms Zhao Long and a British Virgin Islands (“BVI”) company Endushantum Investments Co., Ltd. (“Endushantum”) in a complex cross-border dispute involving the shareholdings in Lunan Pharmaceutical Group Corporation (“Lunan”), a significant PRC pharmaceutical company, and other group companies (collectively, the “PRC Shares”).
Gall recently obtained a proprietary injunction over misappropriated crypto tokens on an urgent basis to prevent the dissipation of funds. In addition to the proprietary injunction, Gall also obtained a Mareva injunction against the Defendant’s cryptocurrency wallet by identifying the wallet address.
Since the outbreak of COVID-19, we have seen an overwhelming demand worldwide for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), which includes respirators, surgical masks, gloves and face shields. Regrettably, unscrupulous traders never miss an opportunity to capitalise on public fears and concerns. Amid these difficult times, there has been a surge of fraud schemes associated with PPE transactions all around the globe. In Hong Kong, over 1,600 reports of online mask scams were received by the Hong Kong Police between January and March this year, consisting of more than 3,000 individual victims and local companies involving a total of HK$48.2 million. It has also been reported that fraudulent mask schemes totalling US$799 million were uncovered in United States in the last few months, and similar patterns have been observed across the Europe.
Nick Gall and Ashima Sood have contributed the 2020 Hong Kong Chapter on Asset Recovery for Lexology Getting The Deal Through. The publication provides expert summaries of the laws and regulations which have been developed to freeze and repatriate the proceeds of fraud and corruption, and Gall’s Hong Kong chapter explores both civil and criminal asset recovery.
Nick Gall and Ashima Sood analyse the laws and regulations in Hong Kong to freeze and repatriate the proceeds of fraud and corruption in the latest edition of Getting The Deal Through: Asset Recovery 2019.
Nick Gall and Ashima Sood analyse the laws and regulations in Hong Kong to freeze and repatriate the proceeds of fraud and corruption in the latest edition of Getting The Deal Through: Asset Recovery 2018.
Reproduced with permission from Law Business Research Ltd. Getting the Deal Through: Asset Recovery 2017, (published in September 2016; contributing editors: Jonathan Tickner, Sarah Gabriel and Hannah Laming, Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP) For further information please visit
Senior Partner Nick Gall and Anjelica Tang contribute the Hong Kong chapter to “Asset Recovery 2016” published by Getting The Deal Through
