Hong Kong

Our Hong Kong firm offers practical, intuitive advice that is tailored to each client. The attorneys work hard to give customized advice regarding registration of security and enforceability of security documentation, parent and sister company guarantees and first demand guarantees, asset-backed and receivable financing.

Included in the banking & finance legalities are:

• Complex group financings
• Corporate debt refinancing
• Comprising syndicated loan agreements
• Private placements and inter-creditor agreements
• Debt subordination issues

Our attorneys are very experienced in blockchain technology, fintech and cryptocurrency transactions with this fast-paced and rapidly growing industry and ready to assist with: –

• Counseling clients on their initial coin or token offerings or security token offerings (ICOs/ITOs/STOs) in the Cayman Islands, including structuring issues, SAFT/SAFTE agreements, reviewing the White Paper and the terms and conditions of the blockchain platform, and drafting the token sale documentation
• Advising clients on issues related to offshore investment funds investing in digital assets and specific risk factors
• Advising on tokenized funds investing in venture capital or real estate
• Advising on corporate, financing and intellectual property issues related to investments in blockchain companies and joint venture projects
• Advising token issuers and cryptocurrency funds on compliance with the Cayman Islands Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regulations.

Our Hong Kong firm has proficient attorneys on hand to create innovative solutions that meet our client’s objectives in capital markets. In addition to our one-to-one client consultations, our team in Hong Kong have been deeply involved in directing issuers, lead & investment managers, underwriters, arrangers, trustees and more with a broad scope of international debt offerings.

• Medium-term note programs
• High-yield bonds
• Convertible and exchangeable bonds
• Tender offers
• Sovereign debt offerings
• Loan participation notes
• Variable funding notes
• And more

We provide our clients in Hong Kong with issues about shareholder disputes, fiduciary issues, issuing legal opinions, legal due diligence reports, and more. In doing so, we make sure our clients acquire insightful, practical advice that will deal with their primary concerns. These include:

• Legal due diligence reports
• Issuing Legal Opinions
• Cross border joint venture transactions
• Solvent group reorganizations via scheme of arrangement
• Acquisition and disposal of shares and business assets
• Re-domiciliation of corporate vehicles from other jurisdictions to Hong Kong
• Migration of corporate vehicles from Hong Kong to other jurisdictions
• Shareholder disputes, including derivative actions and class actions
• And more

Enforcement of security, asset tracing, schemes of arrangement and other Court driven restructurings, and voluntary liquidations. Our team is experienced in: –

• Debt & Equity Rescheduling & Refinancing
• Distressed situations, asset investing, M&A, funds and private equity
• Funds restructuring
• Winding-up proceedings
• Liquidations
• And more…

Our investment funds group has extensive experience in advising on the formation, structuring and launch of a broad range of investment funds in the Cayman Islands, including the following asset classes: –

• Hedge Funds
• Private Equity Funds
• Venture Capital
• Infrastructure Project Funds
• Cryptocurrency Funds
• Open-ended Funds
  • Registered Funds
  • Administration Funds
  • Limited Investor
  • Listed Funds
• And more ….

Over the past few years, there have been dramatic changes in the way high-net-worth (HNW) families in Hong Kong, Singapore and Asia Pacific. Cayman Islands have a wide variety of succession planning options that a HNW family will consider attractive, including: –

• IPO planning
• Structuring
• Family office set up and governance
• Trust Advisory and establishment
• Developing Policies and Procedures and Best Practices
• Registration of Intellectual Property
• Business succession planning
• Legacy
• And much more….

We have an entity management services team assisting in setting up and maintenance of companies are suitable for startups, international corporates, financial institutions, private wealth clients, there expertise includes advising on: –

• Cayman Islands AML / CFT training
• Private Wealth and Family office Service
  • Trust and Foundations advisory
  • Family Office
  • Companies and family limited partnerships
  • Employee incentives and Pension
• ESG
• Investor Services
• • Registrar Service
  • FATCA and CRS Compliance
  • AML service
• Corporate Administration
• Registered Office / Registered Agent and domiciliation service
• And more …

Our work includes launching sustainable investment (SI) and impact funds, advising on green, social and sustainable bonds/loans as well as other sustainability linked financings and related structures. We can advise on the incorporation of ESG and/or impact objectives into private wealth and other structures and help clients mitigate risk in the context of ESG and sustainability under BVI and Cayman laws.
Our expertise includes advising on:

• Sustainable investment consulting
• Regulatory consulting