Tse, Owen
Owen Tse is a partner of Vivien Chan & Co. His practice areas include multi-jurisdictional dispute resolution, intellectual property, regulatory compliance and construction. He has been consecutively recognized as the Dispute Resolution Leading Lawyer from 2015 – 2020 and Intellectual Property Leading Lawyer from 2015 – 2018 in Asialaw Leading Lawyers (Euromoney Legal Media Group).
Owen has acted for a listed company subsidiary in disputes with the PRC vendor and the management buyouts of PRC businesses. He also advised on disputes arising from the pre-listing restructuring. He has assisted international brands in franchise and licence disputes as well as intellectual property rights infringement litigations. He also advised prominent individuals in high profile shareholders’ disputes, defamation and matrimonial proceedings. His experience in regulatory compliance includes food and drug regulations, privacy laws, trade promotion regulations, pyramid selling prohibition laws and SFC regulations.
Owen obtained his law degree from the University of London and is admitted in Hong Kong. He is also a qualified quantity surveyor and notary public.
International Professional Membership:
Unfair Competition Committee of the International Trademark Association (INTA)
The Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors (MHKIS)
RICS Chartered Qualification (MRICS)
Notary Public
Practice Areas
Litigation and Arbitration
- Cross border commercial transactional disputes
- Shareholders’ disputes and winding up actions
- Defamation
- Real property litigation on ownership, easements and other equities, adverse possession and tenancy disputes
- Debt recovery and asset preservation actions
- Insurance claims
- Injunctive relief
- Jurisdictional challenge
- Negligence and personal injury litigation and indemnification proceedings
- Enforcement of non-competition and confidentiality covenants
Intellectual Property
- Enforcement of intellectual property rights, franchise and licence disputes
- Cross-border infringement litigations
- Patent infringement and invalidation proceedings
- Anti-Unfair Competition Law
- Shadow companies issues
Regulatory Compliance
- Advising and defending claims for violation of privacy law
- Licensing and compliance issues in trade promotion activities
- Product labeling and trade description issues
- Advising and lobbying on the proposed amendments of regulatory legislation
- Advising on compliance of drugs law
Construction
- Advising on project procurement and preparation of contracting documentation
- Advising on contract determination and appointment of replacement contractor and nominated sub-contractors
- Variations, extension of time and other contractual claims
- Construction arbitration
Litigation and Arbitration
- Cross border commercial transactional disputes
- Shareholders’ disputes and winding up actions
- Defamation
- Real property litigation on ownership, easements and other equities, adverse possession and tenancy disputes
- Debt recovery and asset preservation actions
- Insurance claims
- Injunctive relief
- Jurisdictional challenge
- Negligence and personal injury litigation and indemnification proceedings
- Enforcement of non-competition and confidentiality covenants
Intellectual Property
- Enforcement of intellectual property rights, franchise and licence disputes
- Cross-border infringement litigations
- Patent infringement and invalidation proceedings
- Anti-Unfair Competition Law
- Shadow companies issues
Regulatory Compliance
- Advising and defending claims for violation of privacy law
- Licensing and compliance issues in trade promotion activities
- Product labeling and trade description issues
- Advising and lobbying on the proposed amendments of regulatory legislation
- Advising on compliance of drugs law
Construction
- Advising on project procurement and preparation of contracting documentation
- Advising on contract determination and appointment of replacement contractor and nominated sub-contractors
- Variations, extension of time and other contractual claims
- Construction arbitration
