Call: 1988 (England & Wales); 2000 (HK)
Inner Bar: 2009 (England & Wales); 2012 (HK)
Arbitration and mediation lists:
CIARB, HKIAC, HKMC, BAC, ICC, LCIA, KLRAC, ICC, DIAC, CEDR, APRAG, SIAC, CAS
聯絡方法
| 電郵: | charlie.manzoni@39essex.com |
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| 電話: | (+852) 2523 2003 |
秘書
| 姓名: | Olivia Tse |
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| 電郵: | olivia.tse@39essex.com |
| 電話: | (+852) 2248 1806 |
引述
經驗
WHAT THE DIRECTORIES SAY
- Chambers & Partners Client’s Guide to the UK Legal Profession 2005
“An excellent all rounder with an internationally focused practice”.
- Chambers “The World’s Leading Lawyers 2006”
“Highly recommended. Exceptionally difficult to catch out”.
- Chambers & Partners Global 2010
“Eminent, fluent and combative”
- Chambers and Partners Asia 2012
“a flexible and cool commercial counsel who always focuses on the bigger picture without getting tied up on the minutiae.” He has particular expertise in engineering and technology-related disputes.
專業經驗
As a qualified Mechanical and Electrical Engineer, Charles worked in the international development department of a multi-national blue chip industrial company for five years before qualifying as a lawyer and entering private practice. Charles’s work involves mainly international litigation, arbitration and mediation across a broad spectrum of commercial work. He acts as counsel in the High Courts of London and Hong Kong, in international and domestic arbitrations, acts as a mediator and conciliator in cross border disputes and regularly sits as a sole arbitrator or as part of a three man tribunal. He has an expanding Sports law practice, and sits as an arbitrator with the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
He was appointed QC in London in 2009 and SC in Hong Kong in 2012.
案件選例
Cross border restructuring involving a Scheme of Arrangement in Hong Kong, and equivalent proceedings in England and the Cayman Islands.
Cross border insolvency involving Malaysia, Hong Kong, the Philippines and the UK.
Recovery claim for approx US$ 1 billion arising out of a hostile take over bid said to have been fraudulently conducted.
Compatibility of existing technical infrastructure with the provision of digital television in the UK.
Provision of content for digital TV.
Dispute over the anti competition provisions (governed by European Law) in a shareholders Agreement governed by English law, relating to television content in Thailand.
$500 million Swiss arbitration between the Indonesian Nationalised Oil Company and the concession owner over a 40 year oil concession terminated and expropriated by the Indonesian Government during the Asian Financial Crisis.
Environmental issues arising from the laying of an LPG pipe line under the South China Sea.
A dispute concerning the safety of a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in central England.
Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal case concerning the existence and scope of the duties of care owed by a solicitor.
Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal case concerning solicitors negligence.
US$200 million auditors negligence in respect of the collapse of a Cayman Island hedge fund.
Arbitration concerning coverage in respect of a collapsed sea defence system.
Re-insurance dispute concerning the liability of a London reinsurer in respect of retrocession business emanating from Taiwan.
Arbitrator on Policy Dispute concerning Employees compensation policy.
Appointed as Chairman of three men tribunal. AED 55 million claim based on wrongful termination of construction project in Dubai. Dubai Seat, Dubai Law.
Failed public tender process in which one party claims 50% profit of a project as a result of an allegedly inadequate public tender process. Appointed as Sole Arbitrator. Singapore Seat, Singapore law.
