Wilkinson & Grist

Wilkinson & Grist offers a range of real estate services, including disposals and acquisitions, town planning applications, project developments and pre-sales, project and real estate finance, mortgages, leases, and tenancies. Cleresa Wong has been advising Cheung Kong Property on sale and purchase agreements, and mortgage loan documentation for a real estate project consisting of more than 1,100 residential units. Raymond Chan has been advising The Bank of East Asia on the acquisition of a mortgage loan portfolio for HK$6 billion. David Choi joined the real estate department in September 2015 from the Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital.

Wilkinson & Grist has established an excellent reputation in probate litigation. Keith Ho heads the dispute resolution and litigation practice. The firm advised on the preparation of the scheme of administration of the charitable trusts of the late Nina Wang. Ho has been acting for Timothy Fok Tsun-ting in connection with a dispute over his father Henry Fok Ying-Tung’s estate.  Ho and Florence Chan acted for Man Chun So and Choon Onn Chin as the joint and several receivers of shares in Hang Fat Ginseng Holdings to vary a Mareva injunction (court order to freeze assets). Ivan Chu has been acting for Penny’s Bay Investment in a land dispute.

Andrea Fong leads the established IP practice at Wilkinson & Grist. The firm has worked with clients such as Porsche, 7-Eleven, Johnson & Johnson, Coca-Cola, Kao, Hallmark Cards and Galaxy Entertainment. The firm has a strong team that advises on the protection of trade marks, designs and patents; enforcement and strategy in addition to domain names.

Wilkinson & Grist’s restructuring and insolvency practice has a strong focus on litigation. Lawrence Chan is acting for the liquidators of Asia Aluminum Holdings on a cross-border insolvency matter. Chan also acted for the provisional liquidators of Sunlink against Deloitte for alleged negligence over its auditing of financial statements.