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WinnieTam SC

Winnie Tam SC is abarrister in private practice and a Senior Counsel of the Hong Kong Bar.  She served as the Chairman of the Hong KongBar Association between January 2015 to January 2017. She was also admitted topractise as a barrister in England and Wales, and as a barrister and solicitorin Singapore and the Australian Capital Territory. She practices from Des VoeuxChambers in civil and commercial law with an emphasis on intellectualproperty. 

Winnie wasappointed Senior Counsel by the Chief Justice of HKSAR in 2006. In 2015, shewas appointed as a Recorder of the Court of First Instance, High Court of theHong Kong SAR. In her capacity as a Deputy High Court Judge and Recorder, shehas been adjudicating on civil matters of all natures. She is fully bilingualin Chinese and English.

Winnie is a panelarbitrator of the HKIAC’s Intellectual Property Specialist Panel, a member ofthe Expert Committee of the Hi-tech and IP Arbitration Committee of the SouthChina International Arbitration Commission (SCIA), and a panel arbitrator ofSCIA.

Winnie has beenappointed presiding arbitrator and co-arbitrator in cases involvinginternational commercial and joint-venture disputes, international intellectualproperty disputes, and foreign investment disputes in the PRC.  She has been appointed as arbitrator inarbitrations to be conducted in both English and Chinese.  She has acted as leading counsel in arbitrationsand court actions in aid of arbitration.

KimM Rooney

Kim is an arbitrator,barrister and mediator in Hong Kong. Kim is also admitted to practice as asolicitor in England and Wales and as a barrister and solicitor in WesternAustralia.

Kim is a member ofthe Council of the Hong Kong Bar Association and Chair of its International, analternate member of the ICC’s International Court of Arbitration (for HongKong). Kim is the Chair of the Hong Kong Law Reform Commission’s Sub-committeeon Third Party Funding for Arbitration.

Kim is aninternational arbitrator on various panels including of APRAG, CIETAC, HKIAC,KLRCA, SCIA and SIAC. She is also a fellow of ACICA. Among other roles Kimserves on the Hong Kong Department of Justice’s Advisory Committee on thePromotion of Arbitration and Committee on Provision of Space in the Legal Hub.She was a Senior Expert in ADR in an EU funded public sector project inIndonesia (2013-2016). She regularly judges mooting competitions in Hong Kong,the mainland and around Asia.

Vincent Chiu

Vincent Chiu was called to the Bar in 2016. Priorto a career in law, Vincent studied Global Business in the Hong Kong Universityof Science and Technology (HKUST) and spent a year at Harvard University as avisiting student on scholarship. After graduation, he gained insight into thecommercial and financial world through working as an Analyst at Goldman Sachs. His switch to law has seen him obtaining the Juris Doctor degree withFirst Class Honours and subject prizes, receiving a Distinction in PCLL, andearning the BCL degree at University of Oxford.

Vincent appeared as a sole advocate in the Court of Appeal and High Court.  He frequently appeared in various typesof interlocutory and enforcement matters. On the arbitration front, he has alsoappeared as a led junior in a 5-day arbitration trial (HKIAC rules) and as the Presiding Arbitrator’s assistant in a 3-day arbitration (HKIAC rules).