DESMOND ANG focuses on international commercial litigation and arbitration, with an emphasis on high-stakes disputes involving business relationships and investments with companies in China, Japan and South Korea.

Examples of Desmond’s significant experience include*:

• Representing a Korean electronics and information technology multinational in an approximately US$1 billion ICC arbitration in Tokyo against a U.S. multinational technology company concerning the calculation of patent royalties; New York law governs.

• Representing 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 our client and (ii) shares in a real estate project from our client to the Japanese party.

• Representing a U.S.-based global investment company in a private equity dispute in an approximately US$50 million HKIAC arbitration arising from its private equity investment in the PRC; Hong Kong law governs.

• Defending one of the PRC’s leading copper producers in an SIAC arbitration in connection with a dispute over its joint venture investment in a copper strip plant in China; PRC law governs.

• Representing two Mongolian companies in a JCAA arbitration in Tokyo arising out of sales agreements allegedly entered into with a Japanese trading house for the purchase of mining equipment in excess of US$100 million; Japanese law governs.

• Representing a PRC 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.

• Representing 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.

• Conducting an internal investigation on behalf of a hedge fund triggered by an ex-employee’s allegations of stock market manipulation and other market misconduct.