Guantao Law Firm has hired Ronald Sum and Julianne Doe as partners at its Hong Kong office, strengthening its dispute resolution and corporate M&A practices, respectively.
Before joining Guantao, they had practised from 2024 at Hui Doe & Sum Law Firm, which they co-founded, with Sum serving as senior partner and Doe as founding partner.
Sum has more than 30 years of experience in dispute resolution. Before founding Hui Doe & Sum, he held a series of Hong Kong-based roles from 2018, including head of arbitration and alternative dispute resolution at Locke Lord, head of Hong Kong’s dispute resolution team at Addleshaw Goddard and partner at Baker McKenzie.
From 1997, he served as a partner at DLA Piper, Eversheds Sutherland, Blank Rome and Troutman Sanders, which is now known as Troutman Pepper Locke following a series of mergers.
Sum is qualified to practise in Hong Kong, England and Wales, Australia and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area. His practice covers litigation, arbitration, mediation and online dispute resolution. He has acted as both counsel and arbitrator in institutional arbitrations in Hong Kong, the Chinese mainland, Singapore, London and Paris, among other jurisdictions.
Doe previously spent more than 23 years at Dentons Hong Kong, where she rose from senior consultant to partner. She joins Guantao as a corporate/commercial partner.
Doe, who also has more than 30 years of experience, is qualified to practise in Hong Kong, England and Wales and Australia, and has passed the PRC Greater Bay Area law examination.
She focuses on capital markets, corporate finance, M&A, investment structuring and regulatory compliance, with specific experience in strategic cross-border M&A, joint ventures, private equity financing, IPOs and commercial compliance matters.
