Our
Team
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We are proud of our team members, comprising of talented and dedicated individuals from diverse backgrounds. With our open and authentic corporate culture, we embrace each team member's uniqueness/idiosyncrasies and support each other's aspirations.
Managing Partner
Monin Ung
Professional Background
For over 20 years, Monin practiced as a solicitor with Magic Circle and international firms including Clifford Chance LLP, Allen & amp; Overy LLP, and Troutman Pepper. She is a triple-qualified English Barrister, Singapore advocate, and Hong Kong solicitor.
Boasting a stellar track record spanning blockchain-related dispute resolutions, compliance for technology companies (across blockchain, AI, cloud computing, and biotechnology), corporate finance, private equity, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, trade disputes, and intellectual property litigation.
Managing Director
MUNGVERSE LLC
Ung Gim Sei
Professional Background
Mr. Gim Sei Ung focuses his practice on intellectual property matters. He is a regular contributor to the Chinese Singapore Daily newspaper on legal topics, including cyber defamation.
Prior to practicing law, Mr. Ung spent 27 years in the media industry. He worked as a journalist and then later as managing director of the now-defunct Nanyang Siang Pau. In 1983, he became the group general manager of the Chinese Newspapers Division until 1990. In 1991, Mr. Ung joined the Hong Kong Sing Tao Newspapers Group.
Mr. Ung graduated in 2002 from the National University of Singapore with a graduate diploma in Singapore law. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics, a Common Professional Examination in law (London), and an LLM (Distinction) in Chinese and Comparative Laws from the City University of Hong Kong. He was admitted to practice law in 2003.
Associate Lawyer
Julian Lam
Professional Background
Julian specializes in cross-border M&A, IPOs, data protection, and technology law, with expertise in cloud computing, blockchain, NFTs, and biotechnology. He has extensive experience in cryptocurrency tracing, blockchain compliance, and cross-border corporate litigation and arbitration in Hong Kong and the UK. He also leads MUNG legal’s tech development initiatives.
Before joining MUNG, Julian worked at top international and PRC law firms and served on the HKEX IPO Vetting Team for the innovative sector.
He holds an LLM in Corporate and Commercial Law from City University of Hong Kong, an LLB from the University of Bristol, and a Professional Diploma in Accountancy.
Proficient in C++, JavaScript, Python, HTML, and CSS, Julian serves on multiple government committees. In 2021, he received the Outstanding Youth Commendation from the Secretary for Home Affairs for his contributions.
Strategy & Business Director
Michael Hui BBS, MH, JP
Professional Background
Mr. Michael Hui is the Managing Director of Freedom Industrial Corp. Ltd., the Founding Partner of Elysian Executive Solution Ltd., director of Skyzer VC Ltd. and Independent Non-executive Director of Infaith Group. Mr. Hui graduated from the Department of Economics of Cornell University and has vast experience in management, import and export trade, apparel and start-up investment.
Mr. Hui has chaired a spectrum of government and commercial committees and actively participates in mainland organizations and affairs. He is currently a member of the Communications Authority, member of Trade and Industry Advisory Board, Council member of Lingnan University, Chairman of the University’s Committee on Mainland Development, and a member of Shenzhen CPPCC and the China Overseas Friendship Association.
In recognition of his outstanding leadership and significant contribution to the society, Mr Hui was conferred with a Medal of Honour in 2009, appointed as Justice of Peace in 2015, and Bronze Bauhinia Star in 2022 by the HKSAR government. In 2020 he was conferred Honorary University Fellowship by Hong Kong Baptist University.
Consultant
Makoto Takada
Professional Background
Makoto Takada is a Japan-qualified attorney with over 30 years of experience and expertise on real estate (RE) funds and private equity (PE) funds.
Started at one of the biggest law firms in Japan and subsequently worked in Goldman Sachs Japan as an in-house counsel, in a PE fund as a general counsel, and now taking on a role as the managing director of a consulting firm in Hong Kong.