Bryan O'hare

Bryan is a partner in Hong Kong and leads the commercial and insolvency disputes practice.

Bryan has over 20 years’ of legal practice in Hong Kong working at leading global law firms. He has extensive experience in all aspects of dispute resolution including trial preparation, conducting trials, asset tracing and asset recovery and settlement negotiations. He often handles challenging commercial and insolvency related disputes. He has managed numerous high-profile disputes from the Court of First Instance up to the Court of Final Appeal. He also has experience of domestic and international arbitrations and mediations.

He acts primarily for financial services companies, financial institutions, leading insurers and reinsurers, turnaround management firms and court appointed liquidators and receivers and high-net-worth private clients.

Bryan has particular experience of debtor payment defaults, corporate insolvencies, receiverships, corporate fraud, breach of fiduciary duties by directors and officers and trustees, shareholder disputes, professional negligence and sale of goods/commodity disputes. During the global financial crisis he also acted for leading financial institutions defending investment product ‘misselling’ claims and the related regulatory/compliance investigation. He also has experience managing multi-jurisdiction litigation including PRC cross-border disputes and cross-border insolvencies and pursuing multiple claims following a corporate collapse as a result of a fraud by the former management. He has experience pursuing claims offshore such as Cayman, BVI and Samoa. He regularly obtains urgent interim relief for clients including asset freezing and disclosure orders.

Bryan is a regular writer, commentator and presenter on dispute resolution and insolvency market trends and developments. He has been a joint contributor to the Hong Kong White Book for many years and he authored the Bullen & Leake Chapter on Insolvencies and Companies (Hong Kong 2013 First Edition and 2017 Second Edition). He is also a featured video presenter on the Conventus Law online legal media platform. He graduated from the University of Strathclyde with a bachelor of laws and post-graduate diploma in legal practice.