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Jurisdictions
- Hong Kong (2014)
- England and Wales (2023) (non-practising)
Awards
Michael Kot
Senior Associate
Michael is a Senior Associate with our Dispute Resolution Practice having joined the firm in 2018. Michael is involved in a wide range of litigation matters including fraud and asset tracing, debt recovery, urgent injunction applications, contractual and employment disputes. Michael also has experience in other aspects of legal practice, including criminal, immigration and regulatory matters.
He obtained his LLB degree and PCLL from The University of Hong Kong and qualified as a solicitor in Hong Kong in 2014.
Michael is fluent in spoken and written English, Cantonese and Mandarin.
Michael has handled matters for multinational clients in various sectors. His work involves:
- Acting for an Argentinian company in recovering millions of stolen funds from various Hong Kong companies through injunctions and enforcing judgment by way of garnishee proceedings
- Acting for liquidators of a UK company against various defendants in Hong Kong in obtaining injunction order on the ground of conspiracy to defraud
- Acting for a Germany company against various companies set up by its former employees in breach of their fiduciary duties
- Acting for a US company in recovering the purchase price paid for goods undelivered
- Acting for the executrices of an estate in reaching settlement with other beneficiaries concerning a number of wills made worldwide and property in Hong Kong
- Acting for a money service operator in making review application to the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Finance Review Tribunal
- Acting for a multi-national health product corporation subject to criminal investigations by the Department of Health and potential criminal proceedings
In addition, he has experience in other aspects of legal practice, such as employment, corporate and commercial, and criminal law.
