Teddy To

Teddy joined Reed Smith Richards Butler in 2023. His practice spans court litigation and arbitration. He has represented clients in court in contractual claims, fraud recovery, interlocutory injunction applications, and shareholder disputes. He has also conducted arbitrations under various rules including the HKIAC, CIETAC, ICC, UNCITRAL and SCC rules, and was appointed as an HKIAC tribunal secretary in cases involving private equity investment claims and debt recovery.

Experience

Representative matters

Acted for a Chinese company in successfully resisting multiple interlocutory injunction applications sought to restrain shareholders’ meetings, removal of directors, share transfer and allotment.

Acted for a German corporate email fraud victim in successfully tracing, freezing and recovering dissipated assets through multiple injunctions and disclosure orders.

Acted for minority shareholders in successfully obtaining injunction against majority shareholders and controlling director of the company to prevent dissipation of company assets.

Acted for a Chinese company in successfully resisting multiple interlocutory injunction applications sought to restrain shareholders’ meetings, removal of directors, share transfer and allotment.

Acted for a German corporate email fraud victim in successfully tracing, freezing and recovering dissipated assets through multiple injunctions and disclosure orders.

Acted for minority shareholders in successfully obtaining injunction against majority shareholders and controlling director of the company to prevent dissipation of company assets.

Acted for a Chinese mining company in defending an unfair prejudice claim in arbitration from its Singaporean joint venture partner over an African mine, successfully resisting an emergency arbitration award for injunction.

Acted for default bond issuer in resisting multiple claims from bond trustee. Appealed with ad hoc committee to the Court of Appeal to set aside enforcement order obtained by the majority bond holders.

Acted for a Chinese port operator company in litigation against a multinational logistics company concerning the inducement of breach of contract, with potential exposure over USD 485 million.

Acted for the authorized distributor of an Italian fashion house in defending a claim arising out of a supplier agreement in an ad hoc arbitration.

Acted for a listed company and its financial controller in resisting receiver’s claim for conspiracy to defraud, after a defaulted shareholder transferred away secured assets of the company.

Acted for a state enterprise in a SCC arbitration in Sweden arising from a dispute between shareholders of a Sino-U.S. joint venture corporation over a piece of PRC land valued at RMB 100 million.

Acted for founder of an education enterprise in a HKIAC arbitration in defending a Korean private equity investor’s claim for breach of non-compete obligations under pre-IPO restructuring contracts.

Acted for private equity funds in commencing HKIAC arbitration against company issuer under a series of warrant agreements. Obtained interim measures from the PRC Intermediate People’s Court through the PRC-HK Arrangement on Interim Measures.

Acted for a local food manufacturer in commencing HKIAC arbitration against its U.S. distributor over a distributorship contract dispute. Proceedings adopted UNCITRAL Rules.

Advised and represented leading cryptocurrency exchanges, asset custodians, issuers and Web3 service providers regularly.

Appointed as tribunal secretary to a three-member tribunal in a HKIAC arbitration concerning investor’s share repurchase claim in the amount of US$15 million upon target company’s failure to go public.

Appointed as tribunal secretary to a three-member tribunal in a HKIAC arbitration concerning a US$30 million loan dispute.