{"id":609077,"date":"2026-08-30T09:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T09:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/609077\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T09:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T09:10:13","slug":"legal-battle-over-hong-kong-tycoon-lim-por-yens-hk2-9b-estate-set-to-rumble-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/609077\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal battle over Hong Kong tycoon Lim Por-yen\u2019s HK$2.9b estate set to rumble on"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 15-year legal battle over late tycoon Lim Por-yen\u2019s HK$2.9 billion (US$371.8 million) estate<\/a> is set to continue, with rival parties preparing for further legal action after a Hong Kong court ruled that his third wife and children were entitled to inherit part of his estate.<\/p>\n

Lim\u2019s estate lodged an appeal after losing the legal battle last year, while Pearl Ling Meng-chu, daughter of Lim\u2019s third wife, told the South China Morning Post that she had not ruled out taking further action.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe is reviewing all options available to her and the estate and is not ruling anything out,\u201d Ling\u2019s spokesman said.<\/p>\n

Ling, also known as Pearl Lam, is the daughter of the late tycoon, founder of the conglomerate Lai Sun Group, and his third wife, Koo Siu-ying.<\/p>\n

Lim\u2019s estate asked the court to validate a will purportedly signed by the tycoon in December 2004. Ling and Koo were named as defendants in a probate lawsuit that began in 2011, after each lodged a caveat asserting an interest in the tycoon\u2019s estate.<\/p>\n

Lawyers for Lim\u2019s estate had assessed the value to be about HK$2.9 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 15-year legal battle over late tycoon Lim Por-yen\u2019s HK$2.9 billion (US$371.8 million) estate is set to continue,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[258006,258004,72,176,240,250760,61,60,258005,258011,258008,174,175,258007,10178,258010,258009],"class_list":["post-609077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-andrew-cheung-kui-nung","tag-atv","tag-business","tag-finance","tag-hong-kong","tag-hong-kong-tourism-board","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-koo-siu-ying","tag-lim-por-yen","tag-pearl-ling-meng-chu","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-peter-lam","tag-south-china-morning-post","tag-u-po-chu","tag-wilson-chan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}