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CORPORATE AND COMMERCIAL PRACTICE
Our solicitors are skilled in all major areas of corporate and commercial legal practice. The practice areas in which the firm is active include:
- Formation of new companies, acquisitions of and venture capital investments in existing companies, and creation of joint ventures.
- Corporate governance and listing rules compliance.
- Company secretarial services to both listed and private companies
- Rights issues, placement and issues of convertible security
- Secured and unsecured financing
- Private Equity
- Corporate restructuring, mergers and acquisitions
- Non competition, restrictive covenants, confidentiality agreements
- SFC and Hong Kong Stock Exchange Enquires
- Company liquidation, insolvency and receivership
- Partnership formation and agreements
- Agreements on manufacturing, licensing, agency distribution, supply, franchise and other commercial and trading arrangements
- Employment
- Tax related matters
SAMPLE OF PAST REPRESENTATIONS
- Advising a director of a listed company with a market capitalization of HK$8.2 billion on the listing application of the said listed company
- Representation of a PRC-based mining company on its corporate restructuring and advising the clients as to an acquisition at a consideration of HK$250 million, for the purposes of a future IPO
- Representation of a US based international toy group of companies on its US$129 million acquisition of a particular segment of toy business on a worldwide basis from another US based international conglomerate for products and markets diversification; whereas the Firm is primarily responsible for assisting the said client’s acquisition of businesses in Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China and Taiwan
- Representation of a US based international toy group of companies on its EURO 12 million loan to the Hong Kong subsidiary companies of a French international company
- Advising a company on the investment in the construction of one of the largest casino resort complexes in South East Asia
- Advising and assisting a Hong Kong entertainment company in their pre-IPO corporate restructurings
- Representation of a Thailand based manufacturer of the most famous brand of lingerie on tax issues in Hong Kong
- Advice to the Chief Executive Officer of one of the world’s largest computer maker on listing compliance issues in relation to his employment contract with the company, which is listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
- Representation of a major US telecommunication company in structuring and establishing a joint venture with a leading Hong Kong wireless technology solutions company in respect of operating and maintaining a two-way radio communications network offering radio messaging, data transmission and voice services in Hong Kong and Mainland China; including advice with regard to compliance with OFTA Rules
- Representing a major management service centre provider in East and South East Asia in a major merger and acquisition by an international management service centre provider listed in the London Stock Exchange covering management service centres and related business in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia
- Advice to a major international commercial bank acting as bondholders’ trustee concerning Hong Kong law issues arising out of a default by the issuer in payment due to the bondholders
- Advice to a US leading international bank on its restructuring which involved Hong Kong, New York and BVI law issues
- Representing a leading international US-based law firm with over 2000 lawyers in 30 offices across the globe in their expansion of their practice in Hong Kong
- Representing a leading international US & UK-based law firm with over 1500 lawyers and with offices across the globe to set up legal practice in Hong Kong and advise on other Hong Kong law issues
- Representing two leading international US-based law firms each with over 700 lawyers and 10 offices worldwide to set up legal practice in Hong Kong and advice on other Hong Kong law issues
- Representing a leading international French-based law firm, with 600 lawyers and 18 offices worldwide to set up legal practice in Hong Kong upon the introduction by Investment Hong Kong
- Advising seven other leading international US-based law firms, one leading international UK-based law firm and one Korean-based law firm to set up legal practice in Hong Kong
- Acting jointly with Messrs. Kelley Drye & Warren LLP to represent and advise a major US listed internet service provider (“ISP”) and various internet related business in numerous acquisitions and investments in Hong Kong
- Representation and advice to a Hong Kong listed aircraft engineering company on major redundancy exercise and employment issues during the Asian economic crisis
- Representation and advice to a Hong Kong listed company in acquisition of an U.S. information technology company
- Representation and advice to a Hong Kong listed company in acquisition of a Bio-chemical industrial company in Canada on sewage recycling projects
- Representation on capital restructuring of a PRC company owned by foreign (European) as well as local investors
- Representation and advice to listed companies and their officers on a number of high profile SFC’s Enquiries.
