Our Hong Kong office advises clients on matters across the entire Asia-Pacific region, including China, India, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, South-East Asia and Australia/New Zealand. We also advise on multi-jurisdictional cross-border transactions involving Asia-Pacific, North America and Europe.
Our practice has evolved to meet the growing demands of our clients. The Hong Kong office expands our ability to provide best-in-class counseling throughout the Asia-Pacific region.
With a deep bench of expertise, our Asia team advises clients on all aspects of their business and transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity, leveraged and acquisition finance, as well as restructuring, insolvency and special situations matters.
Our Corporate lawyers are highly experienced in mergers and acquisitions, takeovers, take-private transactions, minority investments (including PIPEs), joint ventures, strategic alliances and other deals involving listed companies on the NYSE, NASDAQ, HKSE, PRC stock exchanges and other stock exchanges in Asia (including Tokyo, Singapore and Mumbai).
Our Restructuring team counsels clients across industries on a range of distressed situations, bringing its unique full spectrum offering of contentious insolvency and non-contentious restructuring expertise to assist clients throughout the process of dealing with distressed situations and formal insolvency.
Awards and Recognition
- Charles Ching Named Among The Visionaries
- 2024-2025 A-List Lawyers by China Business Law Journal
- Partner Named Among The Visionaries
- China Law Business Journal 2024-2025
- Awarded 2023 Private Equity Firm of the Year
- China Law & Practice Awards by ALM
- Named Finalist for Private Equity Team of the Year
- IFLR Asia-Pacific Awards 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021 and 2020 (for five consecutive years)
- Named Finalist for Private Equity Firm of the Year
- Thomson Reuters’ ALB China Law Awards 2024, 2023 and 2022 (for three consecutive years)
- Ranked Tier 1 for Private Equity, Hong Kong and China
– The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2024 (for the 12th consecutive year)
- Ranked Tier 1 for Private Equity, Hong Kong and China
– IFLR1000 Asia Pacific 2023 (for the 13th consecutive year)
- Named a “Leading Firm” for Corporate/M&A: Private Equity, Asia-Pacific Region
– Chambers Asia-Pacific 2024
- Named a “Leading Firm” for Private Equity: Buyouts & Venture Capital Investment (International Firms), China
– Chambers Greater China Region 2024
- Named a “Leading Firm” for Corporate/M&A: The Elite (International Firms), China
– Chambers Greater China Region 2024
- Named a “Leading Firm” for International & Cross-Border Capabilities (International Firms) in China
– Chambers Global 2024
- Named a “Leading Firm” for Corporate (including M&A), Hong Kong and China
– The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2024
- Named a “Leading Firm” for M&A, Hong Kong and China
– IFLR1000 Asia Pacific 2023
- Named a “Leading Firm” for Restructuring and Insolvency, Hong Kong
– The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2024 & IFLR1000 Asia Pacific 2023
- Named a “Leading Firm” for Banking and Finance, Hong Kong
– The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2024 & IFLR1000 Asia Pacific 2023
- Awarded 2024 Private Equity Deal of the Year
– IFLR Asia-Pacific Awards
- Awarded 2024 Private Equity Deal of the Year
– Law.com’s Asia Legal Awards
- Awarded 2023 Best Private Equity Deal (China offshore) and 2023 Best Private Equity Deal (Hong Kong SAR)
- FinanceAsia Achievement Awards
- Awarded 2023 Loans Deal of the Year
- IFLR Asia-Pacific Awards
- Charles Ching named amongst The Visionaries
- 2023-2024 A-List Lawyers by China Business Law Journal
- Charles Ching named amongst 2023 China Dealmakers
- Thomson Reuters’ Asian Legal Business
- Henry Ong named amongst leading lawyers for APAC Region
- 2024 M&A Private Practice Powerlist 2024 by The Legal 500
- Kathleen Aka named amongst The Growth Drivers
- 2023-2024 A-List Lawyers by China Business Law Journal