Michaela Lam
Counsel
Hong Kong
Michaela represents clients on a variety of matters including shareholder disputes, fund related disputes and contentious and non-contentious cross-border restructuring and insolvency matters and works closely with onshore counsel and insolvency practitioners.
She also represents target companies, special committees of directors and dissenting shareholders in relation to cases involving take-privates (by way of mergers) by offshore entities.
Michaela joined Walkers in 2016 and is a member of our Insolvency, Restructuring & Dispute Resolution Group. She is fluent in English. Mandarin and Cantonese.
Experience and recent work
Prior to joining Walkers, Michaela practised as an insolvency and dispute resolution specialist in another offshore law firm in Hong Kong, where she provided advice and representation with respect to Bermuda, Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands law on a broad range of matters including shareholder disputes, restructurings by way of Schemes of Arrangement, insolvencies and general corporate governance issues.
Michaela began her career at Clayton Utz in Sydney, which is a leading independent law firm in Australia. She practised as a general commercial litigation lawyer and acted for government departments, major financial institutions and ASX listed companies on a wide range of disputes.
Qualifications
Admitted in:
- Bermuda (Registered Associate)
- British Virgin Islands
- Australia (New South Wales, High Court and Federal Court) (not practising)
- England and Wales (not practising)
- Hong Kong (not practising)
Education:
- Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice, College of Law
- Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws (Honours), University of New South Wales
Michaela was the Immediate Past Co-Chair of the Hong Kong chapter of the International Women's Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC) for 2023.
She was also the Past Co-Chair of the Hong Kong chapter of the International Women's Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC) for 2021.
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