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Maria Sit
Partner Litigation, Arbitration, and Employment
Languages
Cantonese, English, Mandarin Chinese
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Credentials
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Chambers Greater China Region 2025Maria fully understands clients' needs and provides practical advice.
Maria is a partner in the Hong Kong office of Hogan Lovells and leads the firm’s Hong Kong litigation practice. Maria focuses on dispute resolution, regulatory enforcement and investigations in Greater China. She is a former in-house counsel at the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong.
Maria is a prominent litigator with more than two decades of experience focusing on complex commercial litigation and arbitration across a range of sectors. Maria often represents clients in investment and financial products related disputes. Maria has a notable track record representing clients and obtaining winning judgments and awards in a broad variety of high-profile cases in mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and other jurisdictions around the world including the United Kingdom, the United States, the Cayman Islands, the British Virgin Islands and Bermuda.
Maria has a track record representing financial institutions, licensed persons and public companies in investigations, enforcement actions, and prosecutions initiated by Hong Kong regulatory and law enforcement bodies including the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong, the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, the Hong Kong Independent Commission Against Corruption, and the Commercial Crime Bureau of the Hong Kong Police Force. Maria is the go-to person for large scale and the most high-profile regulatory investigations and government enforcement actions in the region.
Maria serves as an Arbitrator on the panel of the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration (SCIA).
Chambers Greater China Region 2025Maria fully understands clients' needs and provides practical advice.
Representative experience
Successfully defended a Taiwan-listed company in the landmark shareholder disputes in the cement industry, securing the dismissal or striking out of all related Hong Kong proceedings.
Successfully defending a delisted Hong Kong entity against shareholder petitions for just and equitable winding up.
Representing a major financial institution in unprecedented joint investigations, marking the largest-scale raids and enforcement actions conducted by the SFC and ICAC since 2017.
Represented a publicly listed tech company in a landmark HKIAC investment arbitration, securing 100% of the claim amount against a prominent Chinese State-Owned Asset Management entity.
Representing the trust company of a leading Chinese insurer in three fund disputes, securing multi‑million settlements in two and continuing to litigate the remaining matter.
Acted for a US investment consortium in complex investment-related proceedings, achieving a highly favorable resolution through the Hong Kong courts. *
Defended a leading Chinese technology company in multi‑front product liability and IP litigation in the United States, achieving a complete dismissal of all claims against the client. *
Represented a leading Chinese energy entity in a multi-jurisdictional dispute, successfully obtaining enforceable judgments and awards in both the Hong Kong and UK courts and arbitral tribunals. *
Represented a global financial institution in multi‑region internal investigations, achieving a full resolution with authorities and avoiding all penalties and enforcement actions. *
Successfully defended a leading U.S.-based international law firm against professional negligence claims, securing the full withdrawal of all High Court proceedings in Hong Kong. *
Financial institutions on regulatory matters, including major compliance failures and market misconduct, and conducted internal investigations.
Asia-listed companies and their directors and officers on a broad range of regulatory issues and investigations by regulatory and law enforcement bodies.
*Matter handled prior to joining Hogan Lovells.
Credentials
Education
- Master of Business Administration, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2008
- PCLL, The University of Hong Kong, 2001
- BA (Law) LLB, The University of Hong Kong, 2000
Bar admissions and qualifications
- Hong Kong
- Law Society of England and Wales