Samathur Li

Samathur Li Kin-kan is the eldest son of Hong Kong billionaire property developer Samuel Tak Lee (1939–2026).^[1]

Li has been a director of various family businesses. In or after 2013, he pursued a lawsuit for a claimed loss of US$20 million against a firm using a "robot hedge fund".^[2]

In 2021, Li was working on a not-for-profit biomass generation scheme using brownfield land to produce "raw materials for environmentally-friendly fuels as well as generating carbon credits".^[3]

Li is the founder and owner of the British-based car racing Team Veloqx, which won the British GT Championship in its first season in 2002.^[3] In 2004, with two Audi R8 LMP1 prototypes, they won the Sebring 12 Hours and came second at the Le Mans 24 Hours.^[3] Team Veloqx took a break from 2004 for Li to focus on the family real estate business, but was relaunched in 2021, with plans to compete in the 2025 FIA World Endurance Championship with a Veloqx Fangio Hypercar.^[3] As of 2026,^[update] the project has yet to come to fruition.

In December 2011, the Hong Kong High Court ordered Li to pay his wife of eight years, Florence Tsang, a 38-year-old solicitor, a divorce settlement of HK$1.2 billion ($154 million or £98 million).^[4][5] The divorce occurred because she refused to have an abortion.^[6] The package included real estate and club membership fees in Hong Kong and London, and fees to buy three luxury cars and a yacht.^[4] Tsang had sought HK$6.4 billion, more than half of their joint assets.^[4] In January 2014, the Hong Kong Court of Appeal reduced the divorce settlement to HK$411 million, following an appeal by Li and his father.^[7]

Li owns the Cayman Islands-registered superyacht Pelorus, previously owned by Roman Abramovich, and later David Geffen.^[8]

Li is a car collector, and owns the Rolls-Royce Sweptail, which, at the time of launch, was the most expensive new car ever, priced at over £10 million.^[9]