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HUGH KAM

2521 2616

Telephone (Office)

2845 0260

Fax

Address

14/F and 44/F, Tower 1, Lippo Centre, 89 Queensway, Admiralty, Hong Kong

Email

hughkam@plowmanchambers.com

Called to the Bar

Hong Kong, 2011

Languages

English
Cantonese
Mandarin

Areas Of Practice

Arbitration
Commercial Disputes
Company Law
General Civil
Land and Property
Probate/Administrative Action

Hugh Kam qualified as a barrister in 2011 and runs a broad based civil and commercial practice. He appears regularly in the Court of Appeal and the High Court and has conducted both trials and appeals at these levels in Chinese. His cases regularly involve claims of over HK$100M and have an international element, with him having worked with clients and lawyers from over 20 jurisdictions.


Hugh’s clients include multiple Fortune 500 companies, companies listed on the NYSE, NASDAQ, HKSE, SZSE and ASX, state owned enterprises, private conglomerates, governmental institutions and high net worth individuals, such as Manulife, Sun Life, the CITIC Group, the BGI Group, The Mission Hills Group, China National Machinery Industrial Corp., the Hospital Authority of Hong Kong, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Asia Television Ltd., INEDs and investment bank MDs.


Being on the HKIAC’s List of Arbitrators, Hugh has been appointed as a sole arbitrator and a (presiding) co-arbitrator in about a dozen international commercial arbitrations. He has also sat on 6 different statutory tribunals and disciplinary committees over the past 7 years, including as Chairman of the Buildings Appeal Tribunal and as Chairman of Disciplinary Panels of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and otherwise provided Hong Kong law expert evidence for multiple Court and arbitral proceedings in the PRC as well. He has been a Co-Editor of Hong Kong Civil Procedure (the White Book) since 2014.


Hugh served as a Council Member of the Hong Kong Bar Association for 4 years from 2017 to 2022 and was Chairman of its Standing Committee on International Practice and its Standing Committee on Young Barristers, each for 2 years.


In the arbitral sphere, he has sat on the Committee of HK45, the HKIAC’s group for young arbitration practitioners, spoken repeatedly at events for the CIArb and the HKIAC, including its flagship ADR in Asia Conference, and coached Peking University’s Vis Moot Team previously.


Outside of the law, Hugh is Vice Chair of Oxfam Hong Kong (the anti-poverty charity) and Chair of the Youth Arch Foundation (a youth development NGO). He was formerly a Council Member of the Hong Kong Advisory Council on AIDS.


Hugh has been awarded a scholarship each from the International Bar Association, the International Association of Young Lawyers and the Inter-Pacific Bar Association in recognition of his active efforts in the legal and broader communities. Further, he was named by Prestige magazine as one of Hong Kong’s ’40 Under 40’ in 2019.


Hugh obtained his B.A. in law from the University of Cambridge as a Prince Philip Scholar and his LL.M. from Peking University as a Law School Scholar. He was awarded the Ludlows Prize for achieving the highest score in the subject of Advocacy when he completed the P.C.LL at the University of Hong Kong.


Prior to joining the Bar, Hugh was engaged in rule of law work at the Office of the Secretary General, United Nations in New York.

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