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About JN

James Ng is the sole Principal of JN Legal Consulting. After obtaining his law degree from University College London, James practised as an Advocate & Solicitor in the corporate and commercial litigation department at Shearn Delamore & Co, a premier law firm in Malaysia.

In 1998, James joined Wragge & Co LLP, a major UK law firm based in Birmingham and London. From 2007 to 2009, James headed up Wragge & Co’s offices in Hong Kong and Guangzhou, China. He returned to the United Kingdom in January 2009.

On 8th August 2009, James founded JN Legal Consulting.

For more than a decade James has handled numerous complex, high-value cases, both in court and in arbitration and many of which often involved mediation.

James is a CEDR Accredited Mediator and a Panel Commercial Mediator of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) and China Council of International Commerce (CCOIC), Beijing. He speaks English, Putong-Hwa (and two other Chinese dialects, Cantonese and Hokkien) and Malay.

James's experience includes:

- The successful defence and counterclaim in a High Court trial on behalf of a property development company which involved diversion of contracts and the breach of an agent’s fiduciary duty to the company.

- Acting in a complex multi-million pound dispute between major shareholders of a brewery involving a petition made under what was the equivalent of Section 994, Companies Act 2006.

- Successfully obtaining injunctive relief on behalf of a well-known franchise client against not only the party in breach but a third party who induced the breach of the contract.

- Advising on dispute resolution issues relating to complicated energy supply contracts.

- Acting for a major automotive supplier in a multi-million pound dispute with its sub-supplier.

- Acting in a £45million ICC arbitration involving the construction of a hotel in the Middle East.

- Advising a major construction company on a multi-million dollar dispute with a State-owned enterprise in Shanghai, China involving CIETAC Arbitration.

- Acting for a large Japanese corporation in a complex multi-million dollar and multi-jurisdictional dispute.