Tiffany Fung

TIFFANY FUNG focuses her practice on international commercial arbitration. She also has experience in commercial litigation and regulatory matters before the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC).

Tiffany is fluent in English, Cantonese, and Mandarin Chinese.

• Leading Holdings Group Limited in striking out a winding-up petition on the grounds that the petitioner, an investor of a publicly issued U.S.-dollar-denominated notes issued by a Hong Kong listed and held on a “global notes structure,” lacked standing to present the Petition. The decision has far-reaching implications. This is the first occasion a Hong Kong court has had to decide the issue of standing of an investor of a global note to present a winding-up petition as a contingent creditor.
• A Taiwanese conglomerate in a US$1.1 billion HKIAC arbitration against a Japanese trading house. The parties’ dispute arose out of a series of sale and purchase agreements, which required the transfer of (i) certain shares in a Cayman corporation from the Japanese party to the client and (ii) shares in a real estate project from the client to the Japanese party.
  
• A global biotech company in a US$340 million New York-seated ICC arbitration against its U.S. clinical research partner in respect of disputes over performance and breach of two New York law-governed license and collaboration agreements for the joint development of cancer treatments.
• A Hong Kong-based hedge fund in disputes against institutional investors in Korea, including in a consolidated arbitration governed by Jersey law commenced under the UNCITRAL Rules and administered by the HKIAC in Hong Kong.
• A major private equity fund in an HKIAC arbitration governed by Hong Kong law against a Chinese tech group in relation to alleged breaches of a shareholders’ agreement.
• The subsidiaries and affiliates of a group headquartered in the Netherlands in the family education entertainment industry against a group of companies with a parent company listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in an ICC arbitration seated in Hong Kong, in relation to the termination of a joint venture.
• A Cayman subsidiary of a Hong Kong-listed company in a multi-million dollar executive compensation dispute under the ICC Rules following the acquisition and subsequent restructuring of the P.R.C.-based franchise business of a Fortune 500 company.
• A global private equity fund in a third-party intervention application before the Hong Kong High Court to amend/discharge an interim injunction in support of an arbitration commenced by a Chinese investor against the founder in respect of ownership over the fund, whose portfolio companies were valued at over US$800 million. The application before the Hong Kong High Court was one of several contentious proceedings between the parties across multiple jurisdictions.
• A P.R.C. real estate developer and its related Singapore SPV in an approximately US$100 million HKIAC arbitration concerning a Sino-foreign joint venture dispute with its U.S. private equity fund partner.

• Emerging Enterprises Pro Bono Program