Practice Areas
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Our team of lawyers is highly experienced to deal with complex legal issues, to tackle legal problems and to provide effective legal solutions.
Financial Services
Our financial services legal practice group encompasses asset management and investment funds, financial services regulations and investigations, financial services compliance and licensing, and broker-dealer related matters. Our lawyers have acted for a wide range of fund managers (from boutique to institutional, local to international), securities firms, financial advisors and other types of financial services firms.
Our financial services legal practice group provides the following services:
(1) Fintech: Fintech companies including, cryptocurrency platform operator, are required to adhere to established industry, legal and regulatory requirements. Further, additional legal obligations are imposed on fintech companies (e.g. personal data, intellectual property and cybersecurity). It is required to understand all legal and regulatory intricacies that regulates fintech companies. Our lawyers provide a wide range of legal services to fintech companies which include:-
- Conducting health check on compliance with mandatory legal and regulatory requirements for fintech companies;
- Providing suggestion for the conduct of activities in accordance with legal and regulatory requirements
- Drafting, reviewing and preparing legal documents;
- Legal support of negotiations with clients and partners;
- Advising on the legal obligations and regulatory landscapes and fintech matters.
(2) Licensing, compliance and investigation: financial services firms in Hong Kong are subject to licensing requirements and strict legal and regulatory requirements. Our experienced lawyers advise financial services firms on activities that require registration and are also knowledgeable about compliance requirements. It is also necessary for financial services firms to seek our legal support for regulatory investigations commenced against them. Our services include:-
- Advising on licensing requirements and its application to the conduct of business;
- Applications for financial services licenses;
- Providing advice on compliance issues in the ordinary course of business;
- Drafting agreements (either standard or transaction specific) entered into with clients;
- Conducting mock investigation to ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements; on compliance with mandatory legal and regulatory requirements for fintech companies; and
- Acting for financial services firm in regulatory investigation and disciplinary proceedings.
(3) Fund formation: Hong Kong is a hub of wealth management business in the Greater China region. Fund managers and fund houses seek services ranging from formation of fund to draft funds documents. Our lawyers have acted for fund managers in fund set-up and advised fund managers in compliance matters: We provide the following services to fund managers and fund houses:
- Formation of private equity funds, hedge funds, open-ended funds and the SFC authorized funds; and
- Advising on established legal and regulatory requirements to regulate the conduct of business.
(4) Capital Market Transaction: Our lawyers are experienced to provide advice on capital market transactions and draft and review business documents for capital market transactions.
(5) Listed company compliance: Our lawyers engage in providing compliance services to companies listed on exchanges.
(6)Others: We also provide a wide spectrum of services to money lenders, trust companies and money service operators from advice on compliance matters and drafting business documents.
Banking and Finance
Our banking and finance legal practice group provides the following services:
(1) Legal and Regulatory Compliance: Hong Kong is an international financial centre and the licensed banks in Hong Kong are subject to legal and regulatory regimes established in Hong Kong. Our lawyers have its dedicated legal practice focused on supporting bank clients to comply with banking laws and regulations, structure products and draft client agreements in compliance with legal and regulatory regimes. We provides the following services:-
- advising on banking laws, rules and regulations; and
- drafting and preparing terms and conditions for banking services and client agreements; and
- providing transaction-specific legal advice.
(2) Lending and trade finance: Our well-experienced lawyers engage in drafting loan and trade finance documents for bank client. Our services include:-
- advising on legal and regulatory requirements for lending and trade finance;
- Proving recommendations on lending and finance documentation architecture; and
- Advising on loan and finance structures and legal risk thereof.
Commercial and Corporate
As a well-established firm in Hong Kong with extensive knowledge in commercial and corporate law, our firm is committed to providing our client with meticulous and bespoke legal advice. Our firm strives to provide commercial and corporate legal services with innovative ways to our client.
Our lawyers are equipped with deep knowledge to assist clients to resolve complex legal issues with simple and most-convenient ways. Over the years, our lawyers have worked with local or international businesses from small to large sizes and in all commercial sectors. Our firm has provided the following legal support and services to clients:-
- Mergers and acquisitions;
- Joint venture and partnership;
- Corporate restructuring;
- Corporate governance;
- Acquisitions of asset and sale and purchase of business;
- Shareholder agreements;
- Due diligence;
- Initial Public Offering related matters; and
- Company secretarial practice.
Intellectual Property
Intellectual property protects applications of ideas and information that are of commercial value. It also plays a significant role in the modern and digitized world. Our firm provides one-stop service for intellectual property and our lawyers have extensive experience in assisting client to protect intellectual property rights by registration of trade marks, designs and patents in Hong Kong or elsewhere. Our services also include advice on building up intellectual property portfolios and enforcement of, and litigation for, intellectual property rights.
In addition, we have built a strong network with major jurisdictions in the world to provide all-round services for intellectual property.
Dispute Resolution
Following the China’s reform, Hong Kong rise as a dispute resolution hub. Our dispute resolutions legal practice group to provide legal services to assist our client to resolve the dispute with cost-effective and expedient means. Our services include:-
- Debt recovery;
- Insolvency;
- Shareholders disputes;
- Commercial agreements disputes;
- Matrimonial causes;
- Arbitration; and
- Mediation.
Other Practice Areas
Our services cover work undertaken by general legal practitioners including real estate and conveyancing, litigation, employment, formation of companies and company secretarial matters.
Mainland China & Taiwan
We have established an extensive Mainland China and Taiwan network by linking up with other law firms in prime cities in Mainland China and Taiwan including Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Beijing and Taipei for the provision of relevant services.
