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COVID-19 Insolvency: APAC Guide To Directors’ Duties And Insolvent Trading
The COVID-19 pandemic has placed immense strain across the whole of the economy and raises the issue of how company directors should balance their obligations to shareholders and creditors while ensuring that they protect themselves from any personal liability....
A New Structure For PE Funds In Hong Kong
On 20 March 2020, the Hong Kong government published the Limited Partnership Fund Bill (Bill). The Bill will be subject to Hong Kong’s usual legislative process. The government’s aim is for it be enacted by 31 August 2020. Background The main purpose of the...
The Hong Kong Companies Court Recognises And Gives Assistance In Relation To A Mainland Liquidation For The First Time
In recent years the Hong Kong Companies Court has dealt with a large number of applications for recognition and assistance from the Courts of various overseas jurisdictions in relation to cross border insolvency matters. The Court will now routinely grant orders of...
Hong Kong Initiates Data Privacy Law Reform: What This Means For Business
After a several high profile and large data breach incidents in Hong Kong, including involving companies such as Cathay Pacific, long-anticipated data privacy law reform has commenced in Hong Kong. On 20 January 2020, the Hong Kong Legislative Council Panel on...
Hong Kong – 2019 Competition Law Review
2019 saw a number of significant developments in competition law in Hong Kong. The year started off with the Hong Kong Competition Commission’s (HKCC) announcement of its investigation of the Seaport Alliance, a joint venture among four of the largest container...
Advice For Hong Kong Listed Companies, Or Those In The IPO Process, in light Of COVID-19
Has The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (“SEHK”) or the Securities and Futures Commission (“SFC”) made any special arrangements for SEHK listed companies which are unable to comply with relevant financial reporting obligations under the Rules Governing the Listing...
The 2019 HK Legal Recruitment Market – a Review of an Eventful Year!
What a year! Protests in the streets, trade wars, global uncertainty – how was legal hiring affected? After a very busy hiring market in 2018, the first half of the year started comparably more slowly, with the IPO market’s 25% drop on last year’s listing activity...
Hong Kong – Top 10 Tips For Managing SFC Inspection Opening Meetings
The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) conducts regular routine inspections on all licensed corporations to check their compliance with the Securities and Futures Ordinance, its subsidiary legislation, SFC codes and guidelines and the firm’s own policies and...
Hong Kong Regulatory Update – October 2019
This update provides an overview of key regulatory developments in the past three months relevant to companies listed, or planning to list, on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (HKEx), and their advisers. In particular, it covers amendments to the Rules...
Connecting Hong Kong Arbitrations to Mainland Interim Measures
1 October 2019 was an important milestone for the Hong Kong dispute resolution community because on that day, the “Arrangement Concerning Mutual Assistance in Court-ordered Interim Measures in Aid of Arbitral Proceedings by the Courts of the Mainland and of the HKSAR”...
