Alex Wong is a partner of Karas So LLP. He specialises in commercial litigation and dispute resolution, including contentious trust and probate, companies, tax, shareholder and joint venture disputes. He also specialises in international arbitration. Alex regularly represents high net worth individual, institutional and corporate clients and has acted for them in complex litigation.
Alex is ranked Band 2 in Chambers High Net Worth Guide 2024 and is quoted as “a safe pair of hands”. He is also recognised by The Legal 500 in Hong Kong for Dispute Resolution: Litigation and Domestic and International Corporate Tax and is recommended in Hong Kong Corporate Tax by Who’s Who Legal.
Alex is a solicitor advocate and has been granted Higher Rights of Audience by the Higher Rights Assessment Board and is also a member of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
Alex is fluent in English, Cantonese and Mandarin.
Key Experience
- Representing a member of a well-known family in Hong Kong in a claim in relation to the distribution of family wealth of substantial value and on disputes relating to the administration of the estate
- Representing a listed company in Hong Kong in resisting an injunction application arising from disputes amongst majority and minority shareholders
- Representing a retail group in Hong Kong in a dispute with the Hong Kong Inland Revenue Department in relation to source of profits and deductibility of expenditures
- Representing a US private equity fund in an investment dispute with a Chinese joint-venture partner in a HKIAC administered arbitration
- Representing various directors in a just and equitable winding up and an unfair prejudice petition before the Hong Kong High Court
- Advising and handling trust disputes on behalf of trustees, personal representatives and beneficiaries
Career History
- Partner, Karas So LLP, 2024
- Of Counsel, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, 2020
- Consultant, Clifford Chance, 2017
- Senior Associate, Clifford Chance, 2014
- Senior Associate, DLA Piper Hong Kong, 2012
- Associate, DLA Piper Hong Kong, 2007
- SOAS, University of London, LLM, 2004
- University of Hong Kong, LLB, 2002
Admissions
- Solicitor Advocate, Hong Kong, 2022
- Hong Kong, 2006
- England & Wales, 2008