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Jackson Ng MCIArb

Partner & Barrister

Jackson Ng MCIArb

Partner & Barrister

Cryptocurrency Fraud and Asset Recovery, POCA and Account Freezing Orders, UK–China Commercial Disputes and Enforcement, Commercial Arbitration, Cross-border Family Wealth and TOLATA

Jackson Ng (黄精明 / Huáng Jīngmíng; Traditional Chinese: 黃精明). Partner & Barrister · Called to the Bar 2015 (Inner Temple) · MCIArb · Pro Bono Recognition List 2025.

Jackson Ng acts in cryptocurrency fraud, asset tracing and recovery, and proceedings under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 ("POCA") — recovering assets for victims of large-scale cross-border fraud, and defending individuals and businesses facing Account Freezing Orders, civil recovery or confiscation. Much of his work is for Mandarin- or Cantonese-speaking clients whose money, evidence or counterparties sit across England, mainland China and Hong Kong.

He qualified as a solicitor of England and Wales in 2010, gaining Higher Rights of Audience, and transferred to the Bar in 2015 (Inner Temple); he now practises as a barrister and is authorised to conduct litigation as well as to appear as an advocate — so clients deal with one lawyer from first instruction through to enforcement, with Chinese-language evidence handled in-house. He works in English, Mandarin and Cantonese, and has working Dutch. Duan & Duan UK LLP is the London office of Duan & Duan, an international Chinese law firm with 40 offices and over 2,000 lawyers.

Core practice

Cryptocurrency fraud and asset recovery

Acting for fraud victims to identify, freeze and recover assets: proprietary and equitable tracing into cryptoassets and converted proceeds, worldwide freezing injunctions, disclosure and information orders, and recovery against English property, bank accounts and companies — coordinated with forensic investigators and overseas counsel where assets or evidence lie in mainland China, Hong Kong or offshore jurisdictions. He also defends claims that assets represent the proceeds of fraud.

POCA, Account Freezing Orders and financial-crime defence

Recovery and defence under POCA — Account Freezing Orders and forfeiture, Part 5 civil recovery, confiscation, and third-party interests in restrained property. He has particular strength in source-of-funds and source-of-wealth evidence, informal RMB-to-sterling remittance arrangements, and explaining Chinese banking and payment practices to English courts and enforcement authorities.

UK–China commercial disputes and enforcement

Shareholder, joint-venture and contractual disputes involving Chinese businesses and investors — unfair-prejudice petitions, misrepresentation and fraud claims, supply-chain disputes, and interim relief — together with the enforcement of Chinese judgments and arbitral awards in England.

Supporting work

A Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb), Jackson advises on arbitration clauses, seat and governing law, and enforcement of awards under the New York Convention, and is available to act as counsel in UK–China commercial arbitration; he does not currently sit as an arbitrator. He also takes selected cross-border family-wealth and TOLATA cases — typically disputes over whether family money from China put into English property was a gift, a loan or a beneficial investment.

Selected experience

Private-client matters are described in anonymised terms; identifying details are altered or omitted to preserve confidentiality.

Publicly reported

  • Civil recovery following the conviction of Zhimin Qian (Lantian Gerui cryptocurrency fraud). Leads the Duan & Duan UK team acting for one of the cohorts of applicants in the civil recovery proceedings in the King's Bench Division (case-managed in Manchester) arising from the largest cryptocurrency seizure in UK judicial history. See the firm's note on the civil-recovery dimension of the case.
  • Global Sparkle Holdings VI Ltd & ors v Ge & ors. Acts for the Third Defendant, defending a claim under section 423 of the Insolvency Act 1986 (transactions defrauding creditors) in which the claimants seek to recover assets exceeding £200 million. The dispute runs across several jurisdictions — judgments in Hong Kong, enforcement proceedings in Switzerland and potential litigation in the British Virgin Islands — and turns in part on questions of Chinese law and their application to a section 423 claim in England and Wales.
  • Wang v Secretary of State for the Home Department. Acted for a cohort of over 100 Mandarin-speaking investors challenging Home Office Tier 1 (Investor) decisions.

Selected anonymised matters

  • Secured the discharge, at a contested hearing, of an Account Freezing Order over funds sent through an informal RMB-to-sterling channel, on a structured source-of-funds case supported by Chinese income and banking evidence.
  • Defended Part 5 civil recovery over bank balances and a London property connected with a daigou personal-shopping business; resolved well short of forfeiture.
  • Defended proceedings over UK assets alleged to be traceable to an overseas cryptocurrency-exchange fraud, including good-faith and valuable-consideration defences.
  • Cross-border asset tracing across England, Hong Kong and an offshore centre, obtaining a worldwide freezing injunction and related disclosure orders.
  • Acted for a shareholder in a section 994 unfair-prejudice petition concerning a UK–China joint venture; resolved by negotiated buy-out at an independent valuation.
  • TOLATA claim over a central London property held in a relative's name but funded from mainland China, turning on resulting and constructive trusts and WeChat evidence.

For the firm's reported judgments and a fuller list of representative matters, see Duan & Duan UK LLP — Notable Cases.

Advocacy and 33 Chancery Lane

Jackson is an Associate Member of 33 Chancery Lane (30 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London), a set ranked by Chambers & Partners and The Legal 500 for Proceeds of Crime (POCA) and Asset Forfeiture and for Financial Crime. At Duan & Duan UK LLP he leads and conducts the firm's litigation as part of its SRA-regulated practice; where he is instructed separately as counsel, instructions are arranged through the clerks at 33 Chancery Lane. Clients are always told clearly in which capacity he is acting. His profile on the Duan & Duan parent-firm site is available at duanduan.com →.

Public service

Outside practice, Jackson is the Unitary Councillor for Beaconsfield on Buckinghamshire Council (re-elected 1 May 2025) and a former Mayor (2023–2024) and Deputy Mayor (2021–2023) of Beaconsfield; more at jacksonng.com. He undertakes pro bono work, including urgent non-molestation order applications for Chinese-speaking applicants, and was named on the Pro Bono Recognition List 2025.

Qualifications: Admitted as a Solicitor of England and Wales 2010 · Higher Rights of Audience (Civil) 2010 · Transferred to the Bar of England and Wales (Inner Temple) 2015 · Member, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb) · Qualified Mediator (Civil Mediation Council).