Practice Areas
Banking & Finance
- Asset based financing
- Bank claims
- Banking litigation including pre-litigation strategy and settlement agreements
- Capital fund raising
- Club and bilateral finance transactions
- Financial services including fintech and online banking
- Hire purchase and leasing finance
- Loans and credit facilities
- Standard banking forms
- Structured finance
- Trade finance and export credits
China Business
- Acquisition of China assets or entities
- Corporate restructuring and re-organisation
- Direct investment and re-investment in the China
- Establishment of domestic company and foreign investment enterprises
- International business transactions
- Private equity and venture capital
- Restructuring of onshore and offshore legal entities
- Secured lending
- Sino-foreign joint ventures
Corporate Services
- Company administration, corporate changes and compliance
- Company secretarial services
- Incorporation of companies in Hong Kong and all major offshore jurisdictions
- Listed company regulatory compliance
- Provision of nominee directors and shareholders
- Provision of registered office and registered agent
- Tax and accounting related services
- Trust and asset planning services
Employment
- Anti-discrimination and unfair dismissal
- Employee share option and retirement schemes
- Employees’ benefits and entitlements
- Employment Contract vs Service Contract
- Employers’ obligations
- Employees Handbook or Manual
- Employment visas and immigration issues
- Labour Tribunal and employment disputes
- Mandatory Provident Fund compliance and schemes
- Termination, retrenchment and long service
Intellectual Property
- Competition law and anti-competition conduct
- Enforcement of IP rights, by potential trademark opposition
- Handling opposition
- IP audit and due diligence
- IP licensing, assignment, franchising and technology transfer
- IP infringement litigation and administrative actions
- Non-disclosure and confidentiality agreement
- Structuring IP rights
- Trademark and patent applications, copyright issues, design applications and domain name registrations
- Trademark searches, pre-registration advice and applications (such as word marks, colour marks and 3-dimensional trademarks)
Litigation & Dispute Resolution
- Alternative dispute resolution and mediation
- Arbitration
- Bank litigation
- Companies and shareholders disputes
- Contractual and commercial claims
- Debt collection
- Foreign judgments: registration and enforcement
- Intellectual property litigation
- Probate and estate dispute between beneficiaries
- Property and tenancy disputes
- Public and administrative law including judicial renew
- Recovery of loans including documentary credits and enforcement of security
- Securities litigation
- Trust litigation and tracing actions
Mergers and Acquisitions
- Acquisition structures and deal models
- Business transfer
- Corporate restructuring and asset reorganization
- Corporate transactional and advisory matters
- Direct investments, joint ventures and other commercial arrangements
- Legal due diligence
- Management buy-outs
- Mergers, acquisitions and divestments, both domestic and multi-jurisdictional
- Takeovers of listed companies and share transactions
Securities & Regulatory Compliance
- Advice on public offerings
- Complex commercial crime
- Corporate Finance including initial public offerings and takeovers
- Dealings with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and Securities & Futures Commission
- Establishment, registration and authorization of funds
- ICAC and probity matters
- Insider trading and dealing
- Listed companies and regulated corporations ongoing compliance
- Market misconduct proceedings
- Regulatory or criminal investigations