Caroline Thomas

Caroline Thomas is a partner of Hauzen LLP. She is an arbitrator and international counsel with over 15 years of experience of dispute resolution and regulatory law.

Dispute Resolution

For over 15 years, Caroline has acted as commercial litigator and counsel. She has extensive experience (over 50 cases) as counsel and arbitrator in international arbitrations (including HKIAC, HKMAG, ICC, LCIA, LMAA and SIAC arbitrations) and has written and advised an NGO on investor state arbitration. In addition, she has handled court cases in England & Wales and in Hong Kong and helped clients supervise disputes heard before courts in other jurisdictions.

Regulatory Law

Having spent several years in a legal and policy role at the Insurance Authority of Hong Kong (2018-2020), Caroline is not only very familiar with Hong Kong’s insurance regulatory regime, but also with other insurance and financial services regulatory regimes both in Hong Kong and in other leading financial jurisdictions. Caroline frequently handles the regulatory aspects of M&A transactions (particularly insurance), licence and other applications as well as thorny regulatory issues.

A holder of a Masters Degree in Economics, Caroline enjoys advising on competition law. She also advises on AML, data protection (under the GDPR and Hong Kong law) as well as on sanctions (and has advised on steps to be taken following an AML or sanctions breach).