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Paul Shieh SC has a wide commercial litigation and arbitration practice, with experience in banking, insolvency (corporate and personal), company, commercial fraud, conflict of laws, family law and professional negligence. He also acts in judicial reviews, and appears both for applicants and for respondents (whether government departments or other public bodies). Paul is recommended in the leading independent legal directories: Chambers and Partners (2022): Paul is cited as a “Band 1” silk in the commercial dispute resolution category. He is identified by one interviewee as a barrister who “can do any sort of case and make his points well,” while another observes: “He's a great advocate, he's great fun to work with, he's highly regarded by the Bench and he's at the top of his game," then adds: “He's one of a handful of barristers in Hong Kong who can claim to have all of those qualities and to be at that standard. On any big matter, any sensible law firm would opt for him.” Legal 500 (2022): Paul is cited as a “Band 1”, “leading silk” for commercial disputes, and described as “A heavyweight silk, whose submissions are highly respected by the bench”. Who’s Who Legal (2021): Paul is cited as a “national leader” for arbitration in the Mainland China & Hong Kong SAR region. Doyle’s Guide (2022): Paul is recommended as a leading family law & divorce law barrister.

Philip is a partner in the firm’s Hong Kong office and Head of O’Melveny’s Asia Antitrust & Competition practice. Philip joined the firm in 2017. With more than 15 years’ experience in the practice of competition law, Philip advises multinational clients on competition issues arising under antitrust laws globally but with a particular focus on EU competition laws and the competition laws of China and Asia generally. Philip’s extensive private practice experience covers the full range of competition law matters including distribution, cartels and leniency, abuse of dominance cases, and merger control. He has advised parties in proceedings before the Court of Justice of the European Union and in investigations conducted by the EU Commission, the OFT, the NMa, the French Autorité de la concurrence, KFTC, JFTC, the Taiwan FTC, China State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR), the US Department of Justice, the Competition Bureau (Canada), the ACCC and the Competition Commission of South Africa. Philip is a noted expert on China merger control having advised parties on the intricacies of the regime since its introduction in 2008. From 2014 to 2017, Philip served as the first Executive Director (General Counsel) of the Hong Kong Competition Commission (HKCC). In that capacity, Philip was a member of the HKCC's Executive management team with responsibility for the HKCC Legal Division. Philip is an English (England and Wales), Irish and Hong Kong-qualified lawyer.

Formerly a Crown Counsel (Prosecutions); Senior Crown Counsel (Criminal Appeals); Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions; Deputy Principal Crown Counsel (Mainland & Basic Law); Deputy Solicitor-General (Human Rights & Legal Policy, including legal issues and reciprocal arrangements between Mainland and Hong Kong, and reform of the Arbitration Ordinance); Secretary-General of Law Reform Commission; Privacy Commissioner; as well as an Associate Expert at UN Human Rights Committee in Geneva/New York City. Currently specializing in advising and acting for clients as an advocate on legal issues relating to: a) Serious and white-collar crimes (including corruption and offences against public order), online or offline; b) Human rights and freedoms; c) AML, data, professional conduct, trust, antitrust, insurance, shipping, intellectual property and ICT, IPO listings; and d) Commercial arbitration cum civil dispute resolutions.

Winnie was appointed Senior Counsel in 2006. She served as the Chairman of the Hong Kong Bar Association between January 2015 to January 2017 and has been serving as Chairman of the Committee on Intellectual Property since 2019. Since 2015, she has been appointed a Recorder of the Court of First Instance, High Court of the Hong Kong SAR. In 2016, she was honoured as an Overseas Bencher of the Middle Temple Society of England. In 2019, she succeeded from Coleman J. as Chairman of the Hong Kong Advocacy Training Council, and founded the International League of Competition Law (LIDC) Hong Kong Chapter as its founding Chairman. She has also been serving as a member of the Law Reform Commission since 2019. Winnie has broad experience in corporate commercial, intellectual property, technology, media and entertainment disputes. Apart from her regular involvement as lead Counsel in IP and commercial litigation and arbitration, Winnie has accumulated substantial experience as an international arbitrator. Winnie is a panel arbitrator of the HKIAC’s Intellectual Property Specialist Panel, a CIETAC panel arbitrator, a member of the Domain Name Disputes Panel of the HKIAC, a member of the Expert Committee of the China (Shenzhen) IP Arbitration Centre, a panel arbitrator of SCIA, SHIAC, and Qingdao Arbitration Commission, a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and a fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators. She is a WIPO panel mediator, JAMS panel mediator, a CEDR-accredited mediator, a panel mediator on Mainland-Hong Kong Investment Disputes under CEPA. In her capacity as a leading intellectual property barrister she has been invited to join a working group of the Department of Justice on the arbitrability of intellectual property rights, and has contributed to the drafting of a bill presented to LegCo in December 2016. Between 2018 and 2020, Winnie served as a member of the Nominations Committee of the HKIAC. Since 2020, she was appointed Co-Chair of Women in Arbitration (WIA) under HKIAC. Since May 2020, she has been appointed to the Appointments Committee of HKIAC. Winnie has been appointed as a presiding arbitrator and co-arbitrator under ICC, HKIAC, CIETAC and SCIA rules in cases involving cross-jurisdictional commercial and joint-venture disputes, shareholders disputes, intellectual property and licensing disputes, international gaming rights licensing disputes and sino-foreign investment disputes. She has been appointed as arbitrator in international arbitrations to be conducted both in English and in Chinese. She has acted as leading counsel and co-counsel in international arbitrations and court actions in aid of international arbitration.