Pamela Mak

Biography

Pamela is the Head of our Litigation Department.  With over two decades of litigation experience in Hong Kong, Pamela has built a strong commercial litigation practice.  Her exceptional work has earned her recognition from multiple legal publications, a spot in ALB Asia’s Super 50 Disputes Lawyers, and the title of “Leading Individual” in Commercial Litigations by Legal 500 amongst her peers in Hong Kong.

Pamela has extensive experience in general commercial litigation with emphasis on shareholders’ disputes and contentious trust and probate matters.  She also advises financial services providers and regulated individuals in investigations conducted by SFC and ICAC.  She also represents clients in arbitrations administered by HKIAC and ICC.    

Pamela regularly represents high-net-worth individuals, listed and private companies, conglomerates and PRC state-owned enterprises in complex and high-value disputes.  She often collaborates with local and overseas professionals in cross-border disputes. 

Pamela was born and raised in Hong Kong and has studied laws in Hong Kong, Sydney and London.  She was admitted as a solicitor in Hong Kong, the State of New South Wales in Australia, and England & Wales.  Pamela understands the needs of international clients and often assists international clients in debt collections, enforcement of foreign judgments and awards and seeking interim injunctive reliefs in aid of foreign proceedings to multi-jurisdictional shareholders/ joint venture disputes.   

Pamela worked in the Insolvency and Restructuring Department in Deacons in her early days of practice, and gradually evolved to become a general commercial litigator after she joined Tanner De Witt. Fluent in Cantonese, Putonghua and English, Pamela co-leads the firm’s China Practice Group.

Biography

• Advising a top-ten Chinese cement producer in a shareholders’ dispute involving companies from Taiwan, Mainland China and Hong Kong.
• Advising the founders of a classical music platform in a shareholders disputes involving companies in the BVI, Cayman Islands, US, UK and Hong Kong. 
• Advising shareholders in a company in the air-racing sector in a shareholders’ disputes where forgery by a minority shareholder is involved.
• Acting for a shareholder in a joint venture disputes between Belgian and Russian with infrastructures in Vietnam.
• Acting for a minority shareholder in a listed company in resisting removal of the current board of directors who oversee investigations against the major shareholder for misappropriation of assets of the company.
• Acting for a high net worth individual whose assets were misappropriated by former employees and joint venture partners, involving multiple concurrent legal actions and arbitration proceedings in Hong Kong and the PRC.
• Assisted a founder of a Cayman Island company, one of the world’s largest independent mobile advertising platforms in the PRC, in a shareholders’ dispute.
• Represented an angel series A investor in a joint venture providing an online platform for the international logistics industry in an HKIAC arbitration against some founders.
• Acted for the sole heir of a deceased individual in a contentious probate action against the surviving spouse, with concurrent legal proceedings in the United States.
• Represented beneficiaries/executors of a deceased high-net-worth individual in Hong Kong in issues involving mental capacity, forgery, and the ‘golden rule’ of will preparation.

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• ALB Asia Super 50 Dispute Lawyer 2023, 2025
• Legal 500, Asia Pacific Leading Individual since 2021
• Recommended as a leading Estates, Probates & Succession Litigation Lawyer by Doyle’s Guide 2022
• Ranked in Commercial Litigation in Chambers and Partners, Greater China Region since 2020
• Ranked in Private Wealth in Chambers and Partners Greater China Region since 2025

Biography

• Business and Banking Litigation Network
• The Law Society of Hong Kong

Biography