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Leadership

Principal Areas of Practice:

  • Banking & Commercial
  • Insolvency & Corporate Restructuring
  • Litigation & Dispute Resolution
  • Criminal Litigation
  • Intellectual Property & Technology 

Education:

  • 1986        LLB (Hons), The University of Hong Kong
  • 1987        PCLL, The University of Hong Kong
  • 1997        LLM, The University of Hong Kong

Admission:

  • 1989        Solicitor, Hong Kong
  • 1991        Barrister, Hong Kong
  • 2009        Accredited Mediator
  • 2013        Solicitor with Higher Rights of Audience

Professional Activities & Organisations:

  • AsiaLaw Profile Highly Recommended Lawyer
  • Chambers Asia-Pacific Hong Kong Leading Lawyer
  • Director, The Tung Wah Group of Hospitals 2012-13
  • Examiner, Overseas Lawyers Qualification Examination
  • Member, Asian Patent Attorneys Association
  • Member, Insolvency Law Committee, Law Society of Hong Kong
  • Member, Practice Management Committee, Law Society of Hong Kong

Publications:

  • The Hong Kong Corporate Insolvency Manual 4th ed, with Charles Booth, ELG Tyler, Terry Kan, LexisNexis, April 2018
  • ‘Maintenance, Champerty and Litigation Funding in Hong Kong’. Hong Kong Lawyer, February 2014
  • Reforming Law Reform: Perspectives from Hong Kong and Beyond, with Michael Tilbury, Simon Young, Ludwig Ng, HKU Press, 2014
  • Author, ‘Reforming Law Reform’. Hong Kong Lawyer, December 2010

Experience:

Ludwig’s major area of practice is insolvency and corporate restructuring. Under his leadership, the firm has a thriving practice advising and representing insolvency practitioners in Hong Kong and overseas in all aspects of their practice, particularly on investigation of corporate fraud, assets tracing and recovery, actions against former company officers, cross-border insolvency and corporate restructuring. The firm also represents banks, financial institutions and substantial creditors in protecting their rights in the insolvency of their customers. Apart from insolvency, Ludwig is also experienced in the whole spectrum of civil and criminal matters, particularly shareholder disputes, corporate fraud, media law and intellectual properties.

Outside the firm, Ludwig is an examiner of the Overseas Lawyers Qualification Examinations.

Ludwig is one of the few solicitors in Hong Kong awarded the Higher Rights of Audience, which entitles him to appear as an advocate in all courts up to the Court of Final Appeal.

Ludwig is selected by AsiaLaw Profiles and Chambers and Partners as a leading lawyer in the fields of Dispute Resolution and Restructuring & Insolvency.