Personal bio
Norman Nip SC has a broad civil practice with an emphasis on commercial and securities litigation. He has acted for the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission and parties under investigation in a number of cases before the courts and the specialist tribunals. He has also served as an expert witness on securities laws in offshore proceedings.
His expertise also spans other practice areas, including banking, company and shareholder disputes, insurance, professional liability, land, trusts, employment, matrimonial, bankruptcy, competition, PRC and international cross-border disputes as well as white-collar crime.
Norman has been serving as a deputy High Court judge in Hong Kong since 2023.
In the arbitration sphere, Norman is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a member of the HKIAC List of Arbitrators and has sat as an arbitrator in a number of commercial disputes administered by the HKIAC, ICC and the Swiss Arbitration Centre. As counsel, Norman has acted in a number of complex and high value international commercial disputes. He has also acted in court proceedings in aid of arbitration proceedings as well as applications to set aside the enforcement of arbitral awards
Prior to joining the Bar in 2006, Norman had served as the tipstaff to the Honourable Justice Sperling of the New South Wales Supreme Court and practised as a solicitor with Clayton Utz in Sydney and Linklaters in Hong Kong.