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Dr. William Wong, S.C., has been in practice in Hong Kong since 1998. In 2013, Dr Wong was appointed as a Senior Counsel in Hong Kong. He was also called to the Bar of the British Virgin Islands. Dr. Wong is currently one of the Vice Chairmen of the Board of Review of the Hong Kong Inland Revenue and a board member of the Hong Kong Airport Authority. Dr. Wong is also a member of the Basic Law Committee, the National People’s Congress. Dr. Wong is also a Distinguished Fellow of the Centre for Financial Regulation and Economic Development of the Faculty of Law of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and a part-time Professor in the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics.
Dr. Wong’s practice covers a wide spectrum of contentious commercial litigation. He has a special focus and substantial experience in the areas of company, insolvency and securities law. He frequently represents clients in contentious shareholders and/or investors disputes and disputes in liquidation. He co-authored a leading textbook on company law in Hong Kong – “Company Law: Powers and Accountability (2003) Lexis-Nexis”. Dr. Wong is also the first Hong Kong Silk to be admitted, on ad hoc basis, to conduct a trial in Bermuda. He also appears in BVI for offshore shareholders’ disputes cases.
Academically, William graduated from the Business Faculty of the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1994 as the Rhodes Scholar of the year. In 1996, he obtained his degree in Jurisprudence from Wadham College, Oxford. In 2004, he also obtained his LL.M degree from the Peking University. In 2012, he was awarded the Doctoral Degree from the Peking University with a dissertation on corporate insolvency laws.
王鳴峰資深大律師于1998年開始在香港執業，並於2013獲委任為資深大律師。王資深大律師亦獲得了英屬處女羣島的大律師執業資格。他亦經常代表客戶在海外, 如百慕大進行訴訟。王資深大律師在2014年獲委任為證券及期貨事務監察委員會非執行董事。王資深大律師亦是基本法委員會的委員。王資深大律師亦是香港大律師公會仲裁委員會主席和中國業務發展委員會副主席及香港保險業聯會上訴委員會的委員及香港稅務上訴委員會副主席。王資深大律師在2016年分別被聘為香港中文大學法律學院金融規管及經濟發展中心的傑出院士及上海財經大學學法院的兼職教授。
王資深大律師在商事訴訟領域具有廣泛的執業經驗，在公司法, 證券法和破產法領域的經驗尤為豐富。王資深大律師是首位被百慕大法院授予特別出庭資格的香港資深大律師。王資深大律師亦經常在英屬處女群島就股東爭議及商業案件出庭處理有關訴訟。他與羅修章先生合著的 《公司法 – 權力與責任》（Company Law: Powers and Accountability (2003) Lexis-Nexis）一書是香港公司法領域的權威性著作。
學術上, 王資深大律師于1994年自香港中文大學工商管理學院畢業，並被選為當年的羅德學者。其後，他赴英國牛津大學瓦德漢學院進修法學，並於1996年畢業。他於2004年獲得了北京大學法學碩士學位，並於2012年獲得了北京大學經濟法方向的哲學博士學位。