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MC Law SC has a broad civil and commercial practice. He advises and acts in disputes in various fields, including general commercial disputes, company and shareholders disputes, corporate finance, conflict of laws, insolvency, land, banking, trusts and probate, arbitration, libel and slander. He regularly handles substantial interlocutory applications, such as injunctions, appointment of receivers, anti-suit injunctions, provisional liquidators; disputes on jurisdiction and stay for forum non conveniens / breach of arbitration agreement; etc.

Recent important cases include Bank A v Bank B (representing a German bank in successfully obtaining anti-suit and anti-anti-suit injunction against a Russian state-owned bank on a claim exceeding Euros 112 million; questions involving sanctions against Russia; ongoing); Re Tianji Holding Ltd (defending winding up petition brought by liquidators of China Evergrande for an alleged debt of RMB 37 billion); Re Payson Cha Mou Sing (successfully dismissing summary judgment application in probate action of the estate of the former chairman of HKR International); DP World v. China Merchants Port Holdings Ltd (defending claims for procuring breach of contract relating to grant of concession of the port facilities in Djibouti, Africa, ongoing); Grand XI Investments Pte Ltd (successful in obtaining interlocutory and final injunctions against former directors of the developer of the luxurious development Grand Homm); First Laser Ltd v Fujian Enterprises (Holdings) Ltd (successfully obtaining anti-suit injunction to restrain foreign proceedings for RMB 900 million; and dismissing s21M proceedings; appeal ongoing).

MC is recommended as “a good strategist who works exceptionally hard; a thorough silk”; and is “highly approachable and hands on, and one can always rely on him to analyse the documents and issues closely and provide a focused solution to the client. His advocacy in court is succinct, focused, to-the-point, and highly persuasive.”