Joshua Tong

Senior Associate | Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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Joshua is a senior associate in Kennedys financial lines team in Hong Kong. Dual qualified in Hong Kong and Australia, he specialises in financial lines insurance, including professional indemnity insurance, directors’ and officers’ liability insurance, investment management liability insurance and crime insurance.

Joshua is a member of our APAC Cyber & data privacy practice that provides cyber incident response services, advises on data privacy law and coverage under cyber insurance policies, and handles investigations commenced by data protection regulators.

Joshua also has extensive experience in handling a wide range of complex and multi-jurisdictional commercial disputes, including reinsurance, directors and shareholders, and insolvency disputes.

Joshua is fluent in English, Cantonese and Putonghua.

Work highlights

  • Advising on coverage, monitoring and defence of financial lines insurance claims.
  • Acting for a leading reinsurer in an ongoing treaty dispute with the cedant.
  • Advising on data breach incidents, including data protection regulations.
  • Acting for listed companies and private investment companies in contractual disputes.
  • Defending regulatory proceedings under section 214 of the Securities and Futures Ordinance.
  • Defending professional negligence claims, including those against brokers, engineers and other related claims.
  • Handling numerous highly contentious disputes between co-founders of a multinational fisheries business.
  • Acting for insurers and victims of cyber fraud on recovery matters.
  • Assisting in a successful discharge of an injunction in respect of cryptocurrency.

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