Partner in charge of the Hong Kong office.
Typically acts for investment firms, corporations and insolvency office holders.
Advises on complex cross-border disputes and other contentious matters, including market abuse and regulatory issues, across the Asia-Pacific region and beyond.
Significant experience handling matters before courts and tribunals in England and Wales and Hong Kong, and in several other jurisdictions in Europe and Asia.

Daniel Cohen acts for investment firms, corporations and insolvency office holders on disputes and other contentious matters, which are usually cross-border in nature and raise complex jurisdictional, regulatory and enforcement issues. These engagements cover a broad range of subject matter areas, including the following:

Debt and equity investments
Shareholder disputes and activism campaigns
Directors’ duties
Corporate restructuring and insolvency
Insolvency office holders
Bondholder rights and remedies
Commercial fraud
Securities, market abuse and other regulatory issues.

Representative Work

Acting for an investment firm in proceedings before the High Court of Hong Kong in relation to a dispute concerning the fund’s shareholding in The Bank of East Asia, Limited, a Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKSE)-listed bank.
Advising a Europe-based investment firm on its rights and remedies relating to an alleged breach of a subscription agreement for convertible notes by a Greater China based investor.
Advising a committee of bondholders of Hyflux Limited, an SGX-listed Singaporean company in relation to certain contentious elements of restructuring proceedings in Singapore
Acting for CW Group, an HKSE-listed, Singapore-headquartered group with entities in provisional liquidation in the Cayman Islands and Hong Kong and s211B moratorium proceedings in Singapore.
Acting for an investment firm in relation to multiple sets of proceedings before the courts in Hong Kong and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in relation to a defaulted loan to a PRC-based property developer.

Education
L.P.C., BPP University Law School, England, 2006
PGDL, BPP University Law School, England, 2005
M.A., University of Cambridge, 2008
B.A., University of Cambridge, 2004

Bar Admissions
Solicitor, England and Wales
Solicitor, Hong Kong

Recognitions

Gold Award from Law Society of Hong Kong Pro Bono and Community Work Recognition Programme 2021 for performing pro bono and community work in Hong Kong. The firm was also recognised and was awarded the Silver Law Firm Award for an outstanding contribution in the provision of pro bono services in Hong Kong.
Asian Legal Business’ list of Asia Super 50 Disputes Lawyers 2021.
China Business Law Journal’s list of China’s Elite 100 Lawyers of 2020.
China Business Law Journal 2018 A-List of top private lawyers for China-related business.

Speeches and Publications

“Activist Investing in Asia,” presentation to an investment bank in Hong Kong, March 2017.
“Risk Management Issues in Relation to Market Abuse and Insider Dealing Laws,” presentation to alternative investment funds, Hong Kong, February, May and November 2016.
“A Refresher on Insider Trading and Related Risk Management Issues,” The Singapore Lunch Circle, October 2016.
“The Developing Scope of Hong Kong Insider Dealing Laws,” Akin Gump Hong Kong Regulatory Breakfast Briefing, September 2016.