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Elaine Chen

Elaine
Chen

Partner

CONTACT INFO

echen@gibsondunn.com

TEL:+852 2214 3821

FAX:+852 2214 3908

Hong Kong

32/F Gloucester Tower, The Landmark, 15 Queen's Road Central, Hong Kong

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PRACTICE

Litigation Appellate and Constitutional Law Global Tax Controversy and Litigation Judgment and Arbitral Award Enforcement Tax Transnational Litigation White Collar Defense and Investigations

BIOGRAPHY

Elaine Chen is a partner in the Hong Kong office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. She is a member of the firm’s Litigation and White Collar Defense and Investigations Practice Groups. Elaine represents companies and high-net-worth individuals in civil and commercial litigation and disputes, including a full range of banking, contractual, tort, companies, trust and tax matters. She has particular experience in tax, contentious probate and estate administration, mental health, private wealth, and boardroom and shareholders disputes. She has acted as legal adviser to many Hong Kong and overseas-listed corporations and financial institutions, and ultra-high-net-worth individuals and trusts and has wide-ranging experience in challenging big-ticket litigation.

Chambers and Partners regularly recognizes Elaine in China Dispute Resolution: Litigation, as well as Hong Kong Tax and Private Wealth Disputes. She is ranked as a leading individual in Hong Kong for Domestic and International Corporate Tax, as well as for Dispute Resolution: Litigation by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific. In Chambers Greater China Region, a client commends her team for their “tremendous skill at determining the legal points that need to be decided in order to win a case. Elaine Chen has a particular instinct for that,” and another client was quoted saying “Elaine is very sensible and realistic, but tenacious when the situation calls for it.” Elaine has also been ranked Band 1 in the Chambers High Net Worth Guide for 3 consecutive years. She has been listed for commercial and transactions in China and Hong Kong by Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific and recognized as one of the Top 100 Women in Litigation by the same publication.  Elaine is also named in the World Tax, International Tax Review 2024 guide and Lawdragon 500’s 2023 Leading Global Litigators guide.

Some of her recent and most significant experience includes advising:

  • A Hong Kong-listed corporation with substantial operation in mainland China to resist injunction applications arising out of acrimonious disputes among directors and shareholders
  • A member of a well-known family in Hong Kong in a successful claim for specific performance, equitable compensation and/or account for profits against another family member in relation to the family wealth distribution more than a decade ago involving properties of over HKD20 billion
  • A Hong Kong-based conglomerate with business around the globe in a dispute with the Hong Kong Inland Revenue concerning the source of profits involving very substantial amounts
  • A professional trustee corporation in defending a negligence claim by the beneficiaries of the trust
  • The executors of the estate of a prominent entrepreneur on various issues arising out of the administration of his estate, including handling numerous proceedings in Hong Kong, the USA, BVI and other jurisdictions in the course of the administration

Elaine graduated from the University of Bristol in 1996 and received the prize for “Best Performance” in the Postgraduate Certificate in Laws program at the University of Hong Kong in 1997. She also holds a Master of Laws from the University of London. She is fluent in English, Cantonese and Mandarin and is admitted to practice in Hong Kong and England and Wales.

EDUCATION

University of London - 2004 Master of Laws (LL.M.)

University of Hong Kong - 1997 Postgrad Certificate in Laws

University of Bristol - 1996 Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.)

ADMISSIONS

England & Wales - Solicitor

Solicitor of the High Court of Hong Kong

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Firm News - August 30, 2023 | Gibson Dunn Ranked in World Tax 2024
Client Alert - August 22, 2023 | Hong Kong Court Clarifies Application of the Guy Lam Approach to Arbitrable Cross-Claims
Firm News - July 25, 2023 | Lawdragon 500 Names 39 Partners Among its 2023 Leading Global Litigators
Firm News - July 20, 2023 | Gibson Dunn Recognized in Chambers High Net Worth 2023
Firm News - May 17, 2023 | Gibson Dunn Ranked in Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific 2023
Client Alert - May 10, 2023 | Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal Upholds Dismissal of Bankruptcy Petition Where Debt Under Dispute Was Subject to Exclusive Jurisdiction Clause
Firm News - January 13, 2023 | Gibson Dunn Ranked in 2023 Chambers Greater China Region Guide
Article - November 1, 2022 | Handling tax disputes in Hong Kong – ‘pay first, argue later’
Client Alert - October 11, 2022 | Potential Costs Exposure for Directors of an Insolvent Company Wound Up in Hong Kong for Causing the Company to Oppose a Winding-Up Petition
Firm News - September 29, 2022 | Gibson Dunn Ranked in World Tax 2023
Client Alert - September 21, 2022 | Hong Kong Court of Appeal Upholds Dismissal of Mis-selling Claim Made Against a Major Bank
Client Alert - August 17, 2022 | Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal Confirms That Directors Are Not Liable for Penalty Tax for Signing Incorrect Company Tax Return
Firm News - July 14, 2022 | Gibson Dunn Recognized in Chambers High Net Worth 2022
Firm News - June 27, 2022 | Benchmark Litigation Names Kelly Austin and Elaine Chen Among 2022 Top Women Litigators in Asia
Client Alert - June 24, 2022 | Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal Confirms That ‘Leverage’ Satisfies the ‘Benefit’ Requirement for Winding Up Foreign Companies
Client Alert - June 22, 2022 | Hong Kong Court of Appeal Confirms That Disputes Over Arbitration Clauses Are for Arbitrators but Not Courts to Resolve
Firm News - May 9, 2022 | Gibson Dunn Ranked in Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific 2022
Firm News - January 13, 2022 | Gibson Dunn Ranked in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2022
Firm News - January 12, 2022 | Gibson Dunn Ranked in 2022 Chambers Greater China Region Guide
Firm News - September 28, 2021 | Gibson Dunn Ranked in World Tax 2022
Firm News - July 22, 2021 | Gibson Dunn Recognized in Chambers High Net Worth 2021
Firm News - July 6, 2021 | Benchmark Litigation Names Kelly Austin and Elaine Chen Among 2021 Top Women Litigators in Asia
Firm News - May 11, 2021 | Gibson Dunn Ranked in Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific 2021
Firm News - January 15, 2021 | Gibson Dunn Ranked in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2021
Client Alert - October 7, 2020 | Hong Kong Case Update: The Court of Appeal Confirmed That Pre-Trial Discovery Against a Non-Party Witness for Use in a Foreign Court Is Not Permissible
Firm News - September 24, 2020 | World Tax Recognizes Sandy Bhogal and Elaine Chen
Firm News - June 22, 2020 | Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific Top 100 Women in Litigation Recognizes Two Partners
Firm News - May 5, 2020 | Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific 2020 Names Three Partners Hong Kong Stars
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