Welcome to the ALB Hong Kong Competition Ordinance

Date: 30 November 2016
Registration: 12:00pm to 1.00pm
Event Time: 1.00pm to 4.35pm
Venue: TBA, Hong Kong 

 
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Philip Monaghan
Executive Director (General Counsel)
The Hong Kong Competition Commission

Mr. Philip Monaghan was appointed to the position of Executive Director (General Counsel) of the Competition Commission (Commission) in June 2014. 

Immediately prior to his appointment to the Commission, Mr. Monaghan was in private practice in Hong Kong with an international law firm advising Hong Kong businesses, Asian companies and global multinationals on competition law issues arising under antitrust laws worldwide.

Before relocating to Hong Kong in 2007, Mr. Monaghan worked in the competition and economic regulatory departments of international legal practices in London and Brussels. With over a decade of experience in competition law, his private practice work has covered competition compliance, restrictive agreements and cartels, abuse of market power matters and multi-jurisdictional merger control.

Mr. Monaghan has represented clients involved in antitrust investigations and reviews conducted by various international competition authorities. He has been legal advisor to one of the United Kingdom's sectoral economic regulators and has assisted UNCTAD, the ASEAN Experts Group on Competition and regional Asian authorities with competition capacity building initiatives.

Mr. Monaghan was admitted as a solicitor in Hong Kong in 2009. He is also admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales and in the Republic of Ireland (though currently non-practicing in the Republic of Ireland). Mr. Monaghan graduated with an LLB (Hons) from Queen Mary, the University of London. He also holds a Postgraduate Diploma in EU Competition Law from King's College London and an MA in French literature from the National University of Ireland (Dublin).

Asst. Prof. Kelvin Kwok
Assistant Professor
University of Hong Kong (HKU)

Kelvin Kwok is an Assistant Professor of Law and Deputy Director of the BBA Law double-degree programme at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), where he specialises in competition law. A graduate of HKU and the University of Chicago, he taught briefly at the HKU Faculty of Business and Economics before joining the Faculty of Law in August 2012.Kelvin was recently called to the Hong Kong Bar and commenced limited practice in April 2015. He began to advise on competition law matters as an ad-hoc consultant prior to joining the Bar. He has experience dealing with a competition matter under the Broadcasting Ordinance and applications concerning exclusion/exemption under the Competition Ordinance. He has been involved in various commercial and civil matters as a pupil at Des Voeux Chambers. Kelvin serves as an executive committee member of the Hong Kong Competition Association and a co-opted member of the Hong Kong Consumer Council. He was, upon nomination by the Hong Kong Competition Commission, an Non-Governmental Advisor to the International Competition Network (ICN) for the 2014 ICN Annual Conference. He has published internationally on competition law and is regularly interviewed by the local media on competition law issues.

Wong Yong Kai
Head of Legal and Compliance
CITIC Capital Holdings

Mr. Wong is the Head of Legal and Compliance and is also the Company Secretary. He is responsible for overall legal and execution coverage for CITIC Capital’s inbound and outbound investment activities, as well as all aspects of CITIC Capital’s general corporate, company secretarial and legal functions.

He has over 10 years of experience in alternative investments including private equity, real estate, infrastructure, venture capital, complex debt restructurings, structured finance and mezzanine financing with leading global firms and has advised on a number of landmark transactions and fund formations in the U.S., Europe and emerging markets. Prior to joining CITIC Capital, he has served as the Associate General Counsel for APG Asset Management Asia, one of the world’s largest institutional investors. Prior to that, he has worked in various reputable international law firms in the U.S., London, Hong Kong and Singapore. He is an active member of Asia Pacific Real Estate Association (APREA), Asian Association for investors for Non-listed Real Estate Vehicles (ANREV), and a Professional Advisory Board Member of the Asian Institute of Financial Law of The University of Hong Kong.

Yong Kai has dual qualifications in law and finance. He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and an LL.M. (First Class Honors) from the University of Cambridge.

Asst. Prof. Sandra Marco Colino
Assistant Professor
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Prof. Sandra Marco Colino is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is the Deputy-Director of the European Union Academic Programme in Hong Kong, and the Director of the Centre for Financial Regulation and Economic Development. Before moving to Hong Kong she was a Lecturer in EU Law at the University of Glasgow. Her main teaching and research interests lie in the fields of competition law, communications law, EU law and the regulation of gambling. In 2007 she was awarded a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence. She also holds an LLM in EU Law from the Universidad Carlos III of Madrid. A qualified lawyer in Spain and a member of the Madrid Bar, Dr. Marco Colino has been a trainee at the European Commission and the law firm 'Miguel Cid y Asociados'. She has been a Visiting Scholar at UW-Madison, UC Berkeley, the University of Melbourne and the University of Birmingham. She is the Hong Kong news correspondent for the European Competition Law Review. In 2015, Dr. Marco Colino was appointed as a Non-Governmental Advisor for Hong Kong to the International Competition Network.