Victor Dawes SC
HKIAC
Brief Introduction
Victor is a commercial litigator with substantial experience in a wide range of commercial, chancery and regulatory disputes including international arbitration, equity and trusts, probate, company law, and banking and financial disputes.
Since the financial crisis in 2008, he appeared for a large number of financial institutions in the most significant mis-selling cases concerning a wide range of investment products: e.g. Selina Kwok v HSBC, DBS Bank v Sit, Chang v Bank of Singapore and Shine Grace v Citibank.
Victor also has a substantial practice in high value trust disputes, most recently appearing in China Life Trustees Limited v China Energy Reserve and Chemicals Group and Anor in the Court of Final Appeal.
As part of his ADR practice, Victor appears regularly as counsel in arbitrations and related court applications, and sits as arbitrator in a wide range of commercial disputes in Hong Kong and abroad. He is currently one of the Co-Chairs of Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre.
As to his regulatory practice, throughout his career, Victor acted regularly as advocate for both regulators and market participants. Recent cases include acting for the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in a number of judicial review proceedings regarding decisions of the Listing Appeals Committee.