Melodie Leung

Senior Associate

Hong Kong | T +852 2842 9504 | M +852 9860 6219
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Melodie Leung is a Senior Associate in the Hong Kong Disputes and Restructuring practice at Conyers. She joined the firm in 2025 and focuses on litigation and restructuring matters, with experience in cross-border insolvency, shareholder disputes, and fund-related litigation.

She advises trustees, financial institutions, investment funds, and high net worth individuals on a range of contentious and non-contentious issues, including enforcement actions, receivership applications, appointment of liquidators applications, and advising on directors’ duties in distressed scenarios.

Prior to joining Conyers, Melodie frequently spoke on offshore litigation and fund disputes and has delivered seminars across Hong Kong and Mainland China.

Jurisdictions

Experience

  • Acted for SequoiaDB Software Ltd in successfully opposing a winding-up petition brought by an investor seeking share redemption following the non-occurrence of an IPO. The Grand Court dismissed the petition, finding the debt was bona fide disputed on substantial grounds (In the Matter of SequoiaDB Software Ltd [2025] CIGC (FSD) 120)
  • Acted for a group of major limited partners in a Cayman exempted limited partnership where a GP-led voluntary liquidation had stalled for almost three years with no distributions and limited transparency. Successfully obtained court supervision of the winding-up, displacing the GP and securing the appointment of independent official liquidators with full statutory powers

Melodie regularly:

  • acts for petitioning creditors and respondent companies in contested and complex cross-border insolvency and restructuring matters involving offshore structures and investment funds
  • advises on complex and multi-jurisdictional shareholder and fund disputes, including contested redemptions, removal of general partners and enforcement of investor rights
  • acts and advises shareholders, boards of directors, and other stakeholders on contentious corporate matters, including boardroom disputes, governance crises, directors’ duties, shareholder requisitions, and merger- and transaction-related disputes
  • acts for beneficiaries (including minors) and their representatives in trust and estate matters, covering both contentious and advisory work, including matters regarding distributions and trust arrangements
  • specialises in Cayman and BVI estate issues arising from complex cross-border wealth and succession structures
  • devises asset recovery and enforcement strategies, including obtaining and advising on interim and final relief (and in recent cases where digital or cryptocurrency assets are involved), statutory demands, stop notices, enforcement actions, and broader creditor strategies

Qualifications

Professional Background

  • Associate, Walkers (Hong Kong), Hong Kong
  • Associate, Johnson Winter & Slattery, Melbourne Australia
  • Associate, Websters Solicitors, Barristers and Notaries, Sydney Australia
  • Paralegal, Websters, Solicitors, Barristers and Notaries, Sydney Australia

Education

  • College of Law, Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice, 2016
  • University of New South Wales, LLB / International Studies, 2015

Bar Admissions

  • Cayman Islands, Attorney-at-Law, 2026
  • Hong Kong, Solicitor, 2021 (not currently practising)
  • Bermuda, Registered Associate, 2020
  • New Zealand, Barrister and Solicitor, 2017 (not currently practising)
  • New South Wales, Australia, Solicitor and Barrister, 2016 (not currently practising)

Associations

  • Member, Law Society of Hong Kong
  • Member, Law Society of New South Wales
  • Member, International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC)
  • Member, Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP)

Languages

  • Cantonese
  • English
  • Mandarin