Asian Academy of International Law

Mr ROGERS, Martin

Partner & Chair (Asia)

Davis Polk

Mr Rogers is the Chair for Asia of Davis Polk and a partner in its Litigation Department, based in Hong Kong. He is regarded as one of Asia’s leading litigation, financial services regulatory and corporate governance lawyers, with over 30 years’ experience. His practice includes corporate governance, Listing Rules and Takeovers Code work, complex litigation and arbitration, particularly disputes arising out of investments and mergers and acquisitions transactions, regulatory, white collar crime and FinTech. He has extensive experience advising both global and regional corporates, institutional investors and financial institutions. He also advises government and public bodies. He regularly advises corporates and financial institutions at main board level. Mr Rogers has a strong relationship with Hong Kong’s regulators and substantial experience with regulators in China, India, Japan, Korea, and Singapore. Mr Rogers is consistently recognised as a leading lawyer by the foremost legal directories, including Chambers Asia Pacific, IFLR1000 and The Legal 500 Asia Pacific. Mr Rogers is in the ‘Hall of Fame’ in dispute resolution: litigation category of The Legal 500’s. He is also named Asia’s top 15 litigators by ALB’s first-ever ranking for his out-of-the-box strategising to deliver the ideal outcome for his clients. For 20 years, he has been the General Editor of Sweet & Maxwell’s Hong Kong Civil Procedure, more commonly known as the White Book.