Hong Kong
Air Hong Kong is the earliest all-cargo airline established in Hong Kong with its hub at Hong Kong International Airport. The airline operates an express freight network to 12 destinations in nine countries, including China, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand and Vietnam. It operates a fleet of ten A300-600 freighters, two A330 converted freighter plus one A330 production freighter.
Ince & Co is a leading international commercial law firm with a history of 147 years. We specialise in shipping, energy and infrastructure, trade, business and finance, insurance, commercial disputes and aviation.
We have hundreds of lawyers and legal staff serving clients from our 11 offices, 4 of which are in Asia, namely, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing and Singapore. Lawyers of our Hong Kong office and the Mainland China offices have for decades advised leading companies of Mainland China and Hong Kong on their outbound investments, and helped international clients in their investments and operations in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Asia . This is complemented by our international network in Europe and the Middle East through our 7 offices in London, Piraeus (Greece), Hamburg, Paris, Le Havre, Monaco and Dubai. Many of our lawyers are bilingual (English and Chinese) or multilingual and many are qualified in multi-jurisdictions. We work as an integrated team and offered clients our understanding the local legal and business culture and our international vision and experience.
All our offices are located at key points along the One Belt One Road (‘OBOR’ ) route and we have already been advising clients in and along the route for years. We have successfully helped clients execute intricate transactions and matters across the belt and the road including China, Bangladesh, India, Mongolia, Kazakhstan and Africa. We have negotiated for clients deals each worth many billions of US dollars, and advise them in infrastructure and projects, energy and power, transport and logistics, industrial development, financial markets, mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and structured financings.
With our expertise and established network of contacts at places along the OBOR route and lawyers who know the East and the West, we can help clients to implement projects along the OBOR, in due diligence exercises, partnership and joint venture arrangements; find the right partners and advise them when disputes arise.
We have also been advising the authorities and enterprises on the OBOR strategy. We are all set to serve and help more enterprises to participate in this unprecedented global project .
FP Marine Risks – Asia’s Leading Marine Insurance Brokers.
FP Marine Risks is a specialist marine insurance broker that has provided expertise across all classes of marine insurance since 1994. The company is unique in being a multinational broker dedicated solely to providing marine insurance expertise to a broad range of clients in the trading and general maritime communities.
The business portfolio extends across marine hull, cargo and liability exposures worldwide. FP Marine Risks has a highly focused team of marine insurance professionals drawn from insurance, shipping, legal and financial communities operating from offices in Hong Kong, Beijing, Taipei and Sydney with partner offices in Shanghai. As part of the Hyperion Insurance Group, one of the world’s leading insurance and reinsurance intermediary organisations, FP Marine Risks is a key partner in the broking and underwriting networks of Howden Broking Group and Dual International.
Over the past 20 years the marine insurance industry has rapidly grown in China and it is now one of the biggest marine insurance markets in the world. Throughout this period FP Marine Risks has worked closely with our partners to help build portfolios and develop insurance products and facilities to support this growth. Participating in the Belt and Road initiative is another step towards strengthening our international partnerships as China becomes a strong and reliable participant in the global market.
For more information visit our website at www.fp-marine.com
AXA Hong Kong, a member of the AXA Group, prides itself of serving over 1 million customers1 in Hong Kong and Macau. Besides being one of the largest health protection providers in Hong Kong, it is also the number 1 General Insurance provider2 and a market leader in motor insurance.
AXA Hong Kong is committed to the on-going development and enhancement of our life & savings, health, property & casualty, wealth management and retirement solutions in order to satisfy the different needs of our individual and corporate customers.
We believe it is our inherent responsibility to support the communities we operate in, hence creating a sustainable business via constant and considerable contribution in the dimensions of health, environment and the community.
Remark 1: Including customers of AXA China Region Insurance Company Limited, AXA China Region Insurance Company (Bermuda) Limited (incorporated in Bermuda with limited liability), and AXA General Insurance Hong Kong Limited
Remark 2: Based on 2015 Office of the Commissioner of Insurance market share statistics represented by overall gross premiums
Hill Dickinson is a leading and award-winning international commercial law firm with offices in the UK, continental Europe and Asia. Founded in 1810, we pride ourselves on continually evolving to face ever-changing challenges. We are renowned for the quality of our people, our market knowledge and our commitment to excellence; and our highly experienced legal team comprises recognized specialists in a kaleidoscope of practice areas and market sectors to meet clients' needs.
The firm offers advice and strategic guidance spanning the full legal spectrum acting as a trusted adviser to businesses, organisations and individuals across the globe and from a wide range of market sectors, advising on non-contentious advisory and transactional work through to ail forms of commercial litigation and arbitration, and it is especially well known for its commodities, international trade, shipping and insurance expertise. Our clients include multinational companies, major corporations, insurance companies, banks and financial institutions, public sector organisations, private individuals and professional bodies.
Our Hong Kong office is particularly strong in providing the following legal services:
- Shipping law contracts and disputes
- International trade and commodities disputes
- Insurance coverage and policy advice and disputes
- Breach of contract claims
- Shareholder and joint venture disputes
- Debt recovery
- Distressed advisory work
- Restructuring
We frequently advise on complex cross-border transactions and disputes and also assist with the enforcement of Hong Kong and foreign judgments and international arbitration awards both in Hong Kong and globally. Such services may well be required by parties engaging in the One Belt One Road initiative, in which our firm would very much like to take an active part. For example, we are working with the HKlAC on marketing Hong Kong as a dispute resolution centre.
Eversheds is a progressive international law firm that sets the standards. Over the years, we have led the way in changing the face of legal services and providing a service that meets the needs of contemporary globalised businesses.
With offices in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing and Singapore, Eversheds is recognised as one of the leading international full service law firms in Asia, where we work as a single completely integrated team.
We provide a wide range of legal services covering banking and finance, compliance and regulatory, corporate M&A, debt and equity capital markets, employment, general commercial, IP/IT, litigation, arbitration and dispute management, construction & infrastructure, oil and gas, private equity and restructuring & insolvency.
Our clientele includes States and State-owned entities, major multinational corporations, small and medium sized enterprises, international banks and financial institutions, professional services companies, and government and regulatory bodies.
Reed Smith Richards Butler is a global relationship law firm with more than 1,800 lawyers in 26 offices across Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the United States. The firm is a pre-eminent advisor to industries including financial services, life sciences, health care, advertising, technology, media, shipping, energy trade and commodities, real estate, manufacturing, and education.
Following a merger in 2008 with Richards Butler, since 2011 the firm has operated in Hong Kong as Reed Smith Richards Butler and is one of the largest international law firms in Hong Kong and Asia Pacific region. It provides market leading advice in corporate, commercial and shipping litigation, finance, property and intellectual property. The firm is readily equipped to provide various professional legal services for the countries and projects under the Belt and Road Initiative.
Clarksons Platou Asia’s Hong Kong office specialises in Sale and Purchase as well as containership & bulk chartering, focusing primarily on the local, Greater China and Far East markets linking closely with Clarksons Platou global network of offices.
The company has a considerable record of newbuilding success contracting at shipyards in China, having placed many orders for owners from around the world in this significant shipbuilding nation.
Lloyd’s is the world’s specialist insurance market where world-class underwriters from over 50 international insurers work with brokers to provide tailored solutions for complex risks.
For over 325 years Lloyd’s has been a pioneer in insurance, underwriting some of the world’s first motor, aviation, space, energy and liability policies.
Today, Lloyd’s is a leading provider of customised and secure cover for property, construction and infrastructure, marine, energy, motor, aviation, casualty and liability and reinsurance risks worldwide, enabling businesses to build resilience to threats and thrive.
Lloyd’s combines the client responsiveness and entrepreneurialism of a much smaller insurer with the financial security and ratings of the largest carriers. Our unique concentration of underwriting talent, flexibility and innovation is underpinned by our quality claims service, robust capitalisation and highly rated security: ‘AA-’ from Fitch Ratings, ‘A+’ from Standard & Poor’s and ‘A’ from AM Best.
This is why we insure 70% of Straits Times Index companies, 97% of the FTSE 100, and 95% of Dow Jones companies.
Find our more: http://www.lloyds.com/lloyds/offices/asia/hong-kong
Headquartered in Asia’s maritime centre, Hong Kong, Wah Kwong Maritime Transport Holdings Ltd (Wah Kwong) is one of the city’s largest privately owned shipping companies, operating a modern fleet of twenty seven wholly or jointly owned tankers, bulkcarriers and LPG carriers.
Established in 1952 by T.Y.Chao, the modern Wah Kwong is one of a handful of Hong Kong shipping companies who can trace their roots back to Shanghai, where T.Y.Chao had originally started his career as a lawyer. Today, Wah Kwong remains under the ownership and control of the Chao family, with the third generation of the family at the helm under the leadership of T.Y.’s grand-daughter, Sabrina Chao.
The Wah Kwong fleet currently consists of 14 bulk carriers, 3 crude oil tankers and 10 LPG carriers. The fleet trades worldwide, chartererd to some of the leading companies engaged in the supply of raw materials to industry. The company’s bulkcarrier fleet is engaged in the transport of iron ore, coal, grain and other bulk commodities, with the raw materials needed to fuel China’s dominant steel industry a prime source of cargo. The companies’ three Very Large Crude Carriers are primarily engaged in the long haul transport of crude oil from the Middle East and West Africa to Asia. With LPG an increasingly significant feedstock for the petrochemicals industry, the modern fleet of ten small LPG tankers trade in Europe and Asia on charter to leading oil companies and traders.