施高义

作为事务律师曾处理的重要案件：

在1990年至2005年期间，施法官曾作为主办合伙人处理多宗大型跨境和英国本地重组案件。他擅长银行和金融法（包括公共债务问题和结构性融资），曾为金融机构的各类金融产品和债务工具的架构设计以及文书制作提供法律意见。此外，他亦擅长处理银行及金融机构的处置问题，曾作为主办合伙人之一向英格兰银行提供关于处置与恢复问题的法律意见（包括在雷曼兄弟银行倒闭事件中为英格兰银行提供法律意见）。他曾参与的知名案件包括：作为主办合伙人处理BCCI集团的重组（为阿布扎比酋长国政府和BCCI集团准备重组方案及对银行倒闭前的欺诈调查，时长超过一年）；Heron集团的全球重组；为Maxwell集团的管理人提供法律意见；为英格兰银行以及Heritable银行、Kaupthing银行和Dunfermline 建房互助会的管理人提供法律意见；在金融危机期间，为Northern Rock董事会提供关于其国有化事宜的法律意见；为BMI董事会提供关于其与英国航空整合的法律意见；为特立尼达和多巴哥政府提供CLF集团处置事宜的法律意见；为Stemcor的全球重组提供法律意见以及在英国最高法院的雷曼兄弟“瀑布”诉讼案件中为优先债权人提供法律意见。

近期判案

• Re BJB Career Education Company Limited – [2025] CIGC 102 – the court’s jurisdiction under the rules to permit a provisional liquidator to apply for his discharge and its inherent power to order that the provisional liquidator be released from liability
• Re Cassatt Insurance Company Ltd – Bermuda Supreme Court – 14 October 2025 – after the filing of an unfair prejudice petition under section 111 of the Companies Act 1981, the respondent shareholders agreed to sell their shares in the company and the petitioner sought an injunction to restrain the sale pending the determination of the petition
• Jafar v Abraaj Holdings and others – FSD 203 of 2020 (NSJ) [2025] CIGC (FSD) 69 – The open justice principle – application by Plaintiff for an order that the Court’s trial judgment not be made public until thirty days after he had filed his notice of appeal – Plaintiff intended to challenge on appeal the findings made and comments in the judgment that were critical of the Plaintiff, his principal witness and his son who was neither a party nor gave evidence – Plaintiff asserted a risk that publication would cause him and them very serious and irreparable harm.
• Jafar v Abraaj Holdings and others – FSD 203 of 2020 (NSJ) [2025] CIGC (FSD) 70 and 71 25 July 2025 – Judgment after trial of claims in deceit (under Cayman and UAE law) and unjust enrichment (under UAE law) based on oral misrepresentations by controller of the Abraaj group of companies and quantification of damages claim.
• In the matter of Hangzhou v Zaichang – [2025] CIGC (FSD) 70 – 30 June 2025 – Ex parte without notice application (made by a summons) for service out of the jurisdiction of the writ of summons and statement of claim – Ex parte without notice application (made by a summons) for a freezing injunction prohibiting the disposal of assets. The applications were made following and to enforce a judgment of the Shanghai Financial Court.
• In the matter of Productivity Media Inc – FSD 360 OF 2024 – 18 December 2024 – Ex parte application made by a summons seeking freezing order in support of proceedings in Ontario Canada pursuant to section 11A of the Grand Court Act (2015 Revision) 
• Laggner and others v Uphold Limited – FSD 0134 OF 2022 – 5 December 2024 – Winding up petition – liability for costs of strike-out applications – applications for indemnity costs and payment on account of costs

曾被英国枢密院司法委员会参考的判案：

• Shanda Games Limited v Maso Capital Investments Limited [2020] UKPC 2; [2020] I BCLC 577 – appraisal action – minority discount
• Perry v Lopag Trust Reg [2023] UKPC 16; [2023] 1 W.L.R. 3494 – claim that transfer of shares to Liechtenstein trustees should be set aside for mistake or breach of Israeli matrimonial property law; test to be satisfied for appeal seeking to disturb concurrent findings of fact reached at first instance and on appeal
• Tianrui (International) Holding Co v China Shanshui Cement Group Limited [2024] UKPC 36; [2025] A.C. 709 – company law; do minority shareholders have a personal right of action against the company where directors act in breach of duty by issuing shares for an improper purpose and to dilute the minority’s shareholding?
• Cayman Shores Development Ltd v Proprietors of Strata Plan No 79 [2025] UKPC 27 – real estate and registered land; whether proprietors had a recreational easement over adjacent land; whether the easement had been properly registered and if not whether rectification of the register should be permitted
• Maso Capital Investments Limited v Trina Solar Ltd [2025] UKPC 48 – appraisal action; assessment of fair value by first instance judge; the proper scope of appellate review of that decision
• IGCF SPV 21 Limited v Al Jomiah Power and another JCPC/2025/0005: appeal argued and heard on 6 October 2025 [judgment awaited] – anti-suit injunctions in relation to foreign proceedings – proceedings in Pakistan – whether the applicant had submitted to the jurisdiction.

• 司法破产网络（JIN）和国际商事法院常设论坛（SIFoCC）司法成员
• UNIDROIT UK Foundation for International Law前主席
• 公认的国际金融市场专家小组（PRIME Finance）金融法专家
• 国际破产／清盘学会（International Insolvency Institute）创始成员，并长期担任董事会成员
• 国际破产从业者协会（INSOL）成员
• Society for Advanced Legal Studies 研究员
• 美国破产学会（American College of Bankruptcy）委员
• BAILII 前受托人
• 牛津法学商法中心顾问委员会成员
• 牛津大学全球校友理事会前主席
• Secured Transactions Law Reform Project指导委员会及执行委员会前成员
• 牛津大学BCL课程教授
• 欧洲重组和破产会议（CERIL）成员
• 曾在伦敦大学学院和伦敦玛丽王后大学任访问学者

• Carl Albert Prize 1979 (牛津大学授予当年期末考试成绩最杰出的一级荣誉毕业生)

• 顾问编辑, Totty, Moss & Segal: Insolvency (Sweet & Maxwell)
• 贡献作者, Lightman & Moss: The Law of Receivers and Administrators of Companies (Sweet & Maxwell)
• 贡献作者, Moss, Fletcher and Issacs: The EU Regulation on Insolvency Proceedings (Oxford)
• 贡献作者, Rose, Restitution and Banking Law (Oxford)
• 期刊文章包括: The impact of Insolvency on the right to rescind – the flaw in the Crown (29 Insolvency Intelligence 27 (2016)

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