Amita Haylock

Amita helps multinational and high-growth technology, media and telecommunications companies protect, commercialise, and defend the assets that matter most to their business. Her clients include global technology and financial services companies, broadcasters, and telecommunications regulators, and her practice spans intellectual property, data protection, competition law, and cybersecurity across Hong Kong, Singapore, and the wider Asia-Pacific region.

Amita is equally at home in the boardroom and the courtroom. She structures and negotiates complex licensing, technology, and distribution arrangements, and steps in when disputes escalate, having represented both regulators and multinational companies in landmark judicial review proceedings and arbitrations administered by HKIAC, SIAC, ICC, CIETAC, and the LCIA. Clients value her ability to translate intricate legal and regulatory issues into clear, actionable advice for boards and senior management, and her pragmatic approach to resolving disputes efficiently while protecting long-term commercial interests.

• Telecoms competition case to Hong Kong's CFA

  Acted for a telecommunications regulator in a landmark competition probe into a global device manufacturer's network exclusivity practices, arguing the case through to Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeal.

• Shaped fintech platform's regulatory strategy

  Shaped the regulatory and data governance strategy for a fintech technology platform linking financial institutions with e-commerce merchants, establishing the commercial framework while navigating intricate cross-border regulatory issues.

• Steered multi-jurisdiction stablecoin defence

  Steered the defence strategy for digital asset management companies facing fraud and breach of trust claims tied to a major stablecoin business, with parallel proceedings across Hong Kong, Singapore, the BVI, Cayman, and the US.