José-Antonio Maurellet SC elected as Chair of Hong Kong Bar Association
3VB is pleased to announce that José-Antonio Maurellet SC has been elected as Chairman of the Hong Kong Bar Association (HKBA) for 2025. He will continue practicing during the coming year.
HKBA is the professional regulatory body for barristers in Hong Kong. It was founded in 1949 and has played a key role in the development of Hong Kong’s common law system.
José joined 3 Verulam Buildings as an Associate Member in October 2020. He is a Senior Counsel based at Des Voeux Chambers in Hong Kong. Jose read law at St Edmund Hall, Oxford University. He was called to the Hong Kong Bar in 2000 and to the Inner Bar in 2016. He was admitted in 2020 as a solicitor of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, British Virgin Islands circuit.
José is ranked as a Band 1 commercial disputes lawyer in the 2025 Chambers & Partners guide for the Greater China Region and quoted as being, “an excellent advocate with a strong rapport with the bench” and “very smooth and extremely clever.”
Members of 3VB extend their warmest congratulations to José on his election, and wish him the very best for his year-long term.
