Bryan Fok

Bryan Fok is Founder and Principal of BF & Co., a Hong Kong law firm specialising in international arbitration and dispute resolution. He is a solicitor advocate of Hong Kong, a barrister of England and Wales and of the British Virgin Islands, and a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

Bryan has practised in Hong Kong, London and Geneva. Before founding BF & Co., he practised at Herbert Smith Freehills and Schellenberg Wittmer, and served as in-house litigation counsel at Morgan Stanley and UBS. His practice covers cross-border joint-venture, shareholder, investment and financial disputes. In recent years, he has frequently acted in disputes involving international sanctions and force majeure arising from geopolitical developments. His experience of international investment law and investor-State dispute settlement includes acting for a sovereign State in the Hong Kong courts on a challenge to an arbitrator in a bilateral investment treaty arbitration seated in Hong Kong.

Alongside his practice, he maintains a connection with public service and legal academia. He holds, and has held, a number of public appointments in Hong Kong, including as Chairman of the Buildings Appeal Tribunal and as a Member of the Inland Revenue Board of Review. He has delivered guest lectures at Harvard Law School, Peking University Law School and Renmin University Law School, and was an Honorary Fellow of the Asian Institute of International Financial Law at the University of Hong Kong.

Bryan was educated at University College London and the University of Cambridge.