Notice Inviting Claims
 

6-09-2006

  
 


Wing Yip Company Limited

  
 

INVESTOR COMPENSATION FUND

Notice under section 3 of the Securities and Futures
(Investor Compensation - Claims) Rules

Notice Inviting Claims in respect of Wing Yip Company Limited

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that qualifying clients1 of Wing Yip Company Limited ("Wing Yip") who believe they may have sustained a loss as a result of default2 by that company may lodge an application for compensation against the Investor Compensation Fund ("ICF").

Claims may be lodged by post or in person with the SFC at 8th Floor, Chater House, 8 Connaught Road Central, Hong Kong. Claims must be submitted in the specified form and must reach the SFC on or before 6 December 2006. Claim forms can be downloaded from the ICC's website (http://www.hkicc.org.hk) or collected from the SFC's office at the above address.

Claim forms must be duly completed and signed, and submitted together with the documents specified in the form. Claims lodged after 6 December 2006 may be disallowed.

An acknowledgement of receipt of the claim form will be issued and sent to claimants by post within 7 days of receipt. Claimants who do not receive an acknowledgement within 7 days should follow up with the ICC promptly.

Claimants who have already lodged a claim for compensation with the ICC need not submit their claim again, but should follow up with the ICC if an acknowledgement of receipt from the ICC as aforesaid has not been received.

The submissions of claim forms or other information to Mr John James Toohey and Mr Rainier Hok Chung Lam (currently appointed by the High Court as joint administrators of Wing Yip) shall not be treated as submissions of claims for compensation against the ICF, and separate applications must be lodged with the SFC as aforesaid.

Further details and information are also available on the website of the ICC.

                                                               Investor Compensation Company Limited

6 September 2006

1   Qualifying clients include retail clients
2   Default includes any breach of trust, defalcation, fraud or misfeasance