Insurance
Ruby is a Counsel and practises in the areas of commercial litigation, employment and insurance. She has been recognized as a Key Lawyer for the Labour and Employment category in the Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2024 Guide.
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+852 2287 2705 Ruby.Cheuk@clydeco.comMain Office
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Ruby is experienced in commercial litigation. She has acted for financial institutions, listed companies, international insurers, airlines and statutory bodies in a wide range of commercial claims, including contractual disputes, fraud investigation, shareholder disputes and derivative actions. She has handled Hong Kong Court proceedings which ranged from Tribunals to the Court of Final Appeal. She has also run cross-border proceedings across Asia, US and Europe.
Given her extensive expertise in employment law, she has advised on complex Hong Kong Court proceedings relating to restrictive covenants, senior management issues, breaches of duty and confidentiality. She regularly advises on corporate restructuring, global redundancy, severance packages, employment contracts, bonus schemes and company policies. She also assists employers with running whistleblowing and misconduct investigations.
As part of her insurance practice, Ruby has also advised international insurers on claims under D&O, public liability, product liability, employment and other financial lines policies. For financial lines practice, Ruby focuses on cyber incident and data breach response. This includes having recently assisted an international hedge fund firm with handling a cyber-attack and conducting ransom negotiations with threat actors.
Ruby was admitted as a solicitor in Hong Kong in 2013. She speaks English, Cantonese, Mandarin and French.
Experience
Litigation
- Acted for a Chinese-state owned enterprise to conduct a High Court trial for disputes arising out of guarantee documents, and successfully won judgment with costs in full
- Acted for various international companies in cyber fraud cases, including prevention of dissipation of fraudulently wired funds, and conducting subsequent tracing and recovery exercises
- Acted for international services companies on contractual disputes with underlying fraud, including tracing of assets, recovery actions and investigations
- Acted for an international insurer in relation to disputes arising from interpretation of policy
- Acted for an international financial institution on an injunction application to restrain a creditor from presenting a winding-up petition
- Acted for an international insurer to recover assets from Hong Kong and Bermuda winding-up proceedings
- Acted for a statutory body to obtain a Court Order to sell a detained aircraft, which is the first time in Hong Kong
- Acted for an international service company to defend vexatious claims and indemnity claims
Employment
- Acted for an airline in relation to an employee's Court appeal for unreasonable dismissal
- Acted for an international financial institution on injunction application restricting team moves and removal of confidential information
- Advised financial services companies on employee dishonesty and summary dismissal
- Advised international services companies on severance packages in respect of redundancy of senior management staff
- Advised an international hotel chain on its global anti-harassment/unprofessional conduct/discrimination policies and social media guidelines
- Acted for an international bank to conduct whistleblowing investigations on harassment allegations.
- Advised an international insurer on transfer of employees to new entity upon acquisition
Insurance
- Acted as both coverage and defence counsel on D&O, public liability, product liability, employment and other financial lines policies
- Acted as breach response manager for an international hedge fund firm to handle a cyber-attack and data breach incident, which includes working with insurers, brokers, forensic investigators, negotiation specialists, PR agencies; conducting ransom negotiations with threat actors; assisting with breach notifications under various jurisdictions; advising on sanction issues.