Rosie Ng is a Consultant in HFW’s Insurance & Reinsurance Group and Commercial Litigation Group. Prior to joining HFW, she was a partner in a leading international law firm. She heads the insurance practice in Hong Kong. She has over 20 years professional experience in London and Hong Kong.
She graduated with a Bachelor of Laws from University College London and is a qualified solicitor in England & Wales and Hong Kong.
Rosie’s main practice comprises of advising policyholders, insurers and reinsurers, and intermediaries on all aspects of insurance and reinsurance dispute resolution. In particular, she advises on issues relating to D&O, professional indemnity, commercial crime, fidelity, employment practice liability, product liability, business interruption and construction-related insurance. She also provides insurance regulatory advice and advises on policy wordings and product development.
She is a seasoned commercial litigator having conducted a broad range of multi-jurisdictional commercial disputes to include shareholders’ disputes, regulatory defence work and complex negligence and contractual claims.
Rosie is highly recommended in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific guide 2019 for Insurance, she ‘provides an excellent service, combining genuine expertise in her specialist field with long practical experience, very sound judgment and commercially-oriented advice, which inspires great confidence in clients’.”
In the Legal 500 Asia Pacific guide 2018, Rosie was praised for her ‘technical knowledge’ and ability to get ‘straight to the point’.
She speaks regularly at insurance industry conferences and contributes to insurance market publications.
Memberships
• Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel
• Hong Kong Insurers’ Club
• Law Society of England and Wales
• Law Society of Hong Kong
Directorships
Former Director of the Hong Kong Insurance Law Association
HFW was founded in 1883 and is a sector-focused law firm with lawyers who have in depth industry expertise and are commercially focussed.
With more than 500 lawyers working across 20 offices throughout Asia, Australia, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas, HFW is large enough to provide the right level of support and resource globally, while remaining flexible enough to adjust to clients’ needs and maintain a collaborative and personal approach.
HFW’s expertise is concentrated around six core sectors, which are fundamental to international business:
Insurance and reinsurance: HFW provides a wide range of dispute resolution, transactional and regulatory services to clients that include insurers, reinsurers, captives, intermediaries, managing and members agencies at Lloyd’s, and run-off service providers.
Aerospace: HFW advises airlines, banks, manufacturers, support providers, owners, operators, freight forwarders and insurers on issues including regulatory and competition, operations, claims and liability disputes, and the financing and structuring of transactions.
Construction: HFW’s practice covers contentious and non-contentious work for both suppliers and purchasers. Clients range from main contractors, governmental bodies and developers, to subcontractors and suppliers.
Commodities: HFW acts on soft commodities, oil and gas, coal and steel, and non-ferrous and precious metals. Clients include energy and chemical companies, coal and metal traders, commodity trading houses, trade finance banks, brokers, insurers and trade associations.
Energy: HFW has expertise across the entire energy lifecycle ranging from exploration and production, storage and transportation, LNG, refining, trading and sale of oil and gas, to electricity generation, energy management, renewables and carbon trading.
Shipping: HFW advises across all areas of shipping, including wet, dry, regulatory, piracy, offshore, marine insurance, finance as well as on all forms of shipping contracts, transport-related disputes and corporate matters.
In addition to the above core sectors, HFW has expertise in financial institutions, logistics, mining, oil and gas, ports and terminals, travel, cruise and leisure and yachts. HFW also has expertise in legal services such as commercial, corporate, dispute resolution, employment, EU, competition and regulatory, finance, fraud and insolvency, government services and projects.
