Dentons Hong Kong
FIRM OVERVIEW
Dentons is the world's largest global law firm, connecting top-tier talent to the world's challenges and opportunities across over 80 countries. Dentons helps you grow, protect, operate and finance your organization by providing uniquely global and deeply local legal solutions. Polycentric, purpose-driven and committed to inclusion, diversity, equity and sustainability, our award-winning client service challenges the status quo to advance client interests.
The Hong Kong office provides legal advice and representation to governments and state owned entities, financial institutions, multinational corporations, professional services firms and high net worth individuals in relation to their business needs in Hong Kong, across the Asia Pacific region and globally.
Our Hong Kong team comprises experienced lawyers and leading professionals qualified in seven jurisdictions – Hong Kong, England and Wales, the United States (New York, District of Columbia), Singapore, Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand.
MAIN AREAS OF PRACTICE
Banking & Finance
Dentons’ Hong Kong Banking and Finance team assists a wide range of commercial banks, investment banks, accounting firms, insurance companies, asset management companies, trust companies, financial companies, funds and other financial institutions, as well as government agencies, with transactions of every size and scope.
Our Structured Finance and Securitisation lawyers represent virtually every banking and financial institution that is active in the financing, purchase and securitisation of financial assets.
As part of Dentons’ ESG Global Solutions, Dentons Hong Kong is also active in the areas of green and sustainable finance.
Capital Markets (Debt and Equity)
Dentons Hong Kong is one of the few firms in Hong Kong that has on-the-ground capability to advise on both Hong Kong and US securities laws in IPO and other capital markets transactions.
The Hong Kong Equity Capital Markets team has represented issuers and underwriters in over 60 Hong Kong IPOs, including Main Board and GEM, red chip and H-share projects. The firm’s Debt Capital Markets team has advised clients on the full spectrum of international and domestic debt offerings.
Corporate and Mergers & Acquisitions
Dentons' Hong Kong Corporate, Mergers & Acquisitions team offers a full service to local and international clients, including entity formation, conversion, dissolution and liquidation as well as legal counseling covering all aspects of transactional and operational work in our clients’ businesses.
The firm has represented public and private companies, buyers and sellers, boards of directors, shareholders, investors and owners, partnerships and private individuals, financial services institutions, underwriters, commercial and investment banks on a wide range of matters. The team also advises on commercial issues including regulatory and compliance and data protection.
Employment
Dentons’ employment team advises local and foreign clients on a range of employment and HR related matters, including employment contracts and policies, employees' protection and compensation, restrictive covenants, transfer and secondment of staff, visas and work permits arrangement, redundancy issues, data privacy, discrimination issues and occupational safety and health issues. We support our clients in every stage of an employment relationship and our employment litigation specialists handle labour disputes brought at the Equal Opportunities Commission, the Labour Tribunal, the District Court and the High Court as well as handling large-scale internal investigations, regulatory reporting and acrimonious terminations.
Investment Funds
Dentons Hong Kong offers a full range of services to investors and investee companies, including, on the public fund side, helping local fund houses to establish public funds and international fund clients to obtain regulatory approval for offering fund products to the Hong Kong public, and, on the private fund side, setting up and structuring onshore and/or offshore investment funds. We pride ourselves in being a one-stop shop supporting the entire investment life cycle and investment managers’ value chain. Our team carries unique capabilities advising on regulatory matters in the management or offering of investment products, also in relation to different responsible investment strategies and related environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues for investors and investee companies.
Litigation & Dispute Resolution
Dentons’ Litigation & Dispute Resolution group advises and represents the firm’s clients in relation to commercial litigation, international arbitration and both contentious regulatory and internal investigations.
The firm’s disputes lawyers are experienced in resolving a wide range of disputes after they have arisen but also in advising on strategies and devising tools to mitigate the risk of their arising in the first place.
Our litigation specialists are highly experienced in conducting court proceedings and regularly make and resist applications for injunctions and other forms of interim relief. The firm’s international arbitration practitioners are specialist advocates and represent parties on arbitrations in Hong Kong and further afield. On the regulatory side, the team assists clients with internal investigations and reviews, as well as with investigations and proceedings brought by various regulators, including the SFC, HKMA, ICAC and HKSE.
Real Estate
Dentons’ Asia Pacific Real Estate group is a diverse team that provides advice with both a global and regional perspective, with experience and familiarity with complex cross-border transactions as well as deep local knowledge in the many jurisdictions in which we practice. The group assists investment banks, private equity funds, financial institutions and developers in acquisitions and dispositions, financings, joint venture and construction transactions. The group also routinely represents hospitality clients as well institutional landlords and tenants in commercial transactions. Our group focuses on an integrated approach, giving clients the comfort of an unmatched global and regional presence together with a deep understanding of local real estate markets befitting a firm with offices in most, if not all, of the locations where our clients do business.
The group also routinely works with our other related practice groups to provide our clients with seamless access to our experience in project finance, project development and dispute resolution matters.
