The Team
Patrick Sullivan
Mr Sullivan is a partner and has over 25 years of experience which spans mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, financing, private equity funds, venture capital funds, hedge funds and pension funds. He has had significant experience in dealing with the recovery of investment losses due to public companies being delisted or going bankrupt. Mr Sullivan also serves in a number of charitable organizations.
Mr Sullivan has also studied accounting and securities law allowing him to interpret financial statements to assess when fraud has occurred. In addition to being a recognized advocate, Mr Sullivan is also a tax specialist.
Jia Huang
Mr Huang is a partner of the firm. He is a frequent speaker on legal, regulatory and compliance issues arising in fixed income markets. His topics of interest include but are not limited to the evolving markets and claims related to credit derivative products. He has also represented clients in claims resulting from bankruptcy and has recovered over $10 million for clients who have suffered investment losses.
Mr Huang has extensive experience in securities enforcement, regulatory investigations and complex cross-border litigation as well as regulatory matters. He has also mitigated cases for clients who have suffered investment losses in foreign jurisdictions.
Mr Huang has conducted numerous internal investigations into the accounts of firms who were involved in fraudulent practices resulting in investor losses, including securities trading and market manipulation.
Isaac Harper
Mr Harper has represented individuals and institutions from the United States and almost every continent in the world. Over the last decade that representation has included hundreds of clients who range from retirees who have lost their life savings to banks who have been defrauded in investment schemes or by negligent brokers and everything in between. The cases Mr Harper has worked on are mainly claims for unsuitable investment recommendations, churning, misrepresentations and outright fraud.
Mr Harper is a frequent lecturer on all issues related to investment disputes and securities law helping educate investors across the nation. Mr Harper received his Bachelor of Arts Degree from Penn State University in the United States of America.
Edward Lee
Mr Lee is a founding partner of the firm. He has significant experience in the allocation of credit risk in the fixed income markets, therefore allowing him to specialize in this area where fraudulent activity has occurred. He has worked with investment banks, hedge funds and brokers/dealers and has a vast knowledge in the area of financial transactions allowing him to see through transactions that appear to be on the up and up but are in fact fraudulent. Mr Lee regularly advises client’s participation in the market for troubled and non-performing financial assets and claims.
His knowledge of compliance and regulatory guidelines allows him to maximize the recovery for clients who have suffered investment losses. He has helped settle claims against the three largest insolvent Icelandic banks.
Henry Chan
Mr Chan is a partner in the firm’s Corporate and Regulatory recovery sector. He assists clients with every aspect of recovery with respect to investment losses caused by unethical practices, mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings and pre-initial public offerings. Mr Chan regularly organizes and presents seminars to clients to assist them in looking for the pitfalls that can not only lead to but also cause investor losses and abuse.
Mr Chan also educates investors on what to look for in choosing a financial planner, investment advisor or investment firm. Further to the above mentioned areas of practice. Mr Chan specializes in investment recovery resulting from stock option backdating, market-timing, accounting irregularities, manipulation and alleged false financial disclosures.
Ken Kwok
Mr Kwok received his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics and Political Science from Vanderbilt University in the United States of America. Mr Kwok served as an officer in the corporate trust and investment banking groups at major financial institutions.
During his career in the financial industry he has had extensive experience with exotic financial instruments while acting as an indenture trustee for collateralized debt obligations and mortgage backed securities. He also worked with a major oil and gas corporation negotiating complex derivative contracts.
