Chinese Mainland

Jones Day was founded in Cleveland, Ohio in 1893 and today, with 42 offices in Asia, America, Europe, Middle East and Australia and 2,400 lawyers worldwide, is one of the largest law firms in the globe.

Established in 1986, Jones Day’s Hong Kong office became the first branch office of a U.S. law firm to practice Hong Kong law in 1996. Today, our Hong Kong office comprises of approximately 50 lawyers, the majority of whom are admitted both in Hong Kong and at least one other jurisdiction, and who advise local, regional, and international clients in Hong Kong, China, and Asia. Our lawyers advise our clients on a broad range of legal issues including trade and investment, commercial property, construction, corporate and commercial, corporate finance, dispute resolution, employment, energy and projects, insolvency and corporate restructuring, IP, joint ventures, lending / structured finance, mergers and acquisitions, regulatory compliance, U.S. securities and venture capital, and private equity.

We have a strong Projects & Infrastructure team and a large Construction practice. Our attorneys in the projects team regularly represent developers, sponsors, equity investors, contractors, and suppliers, as well as lenders, underwriters, and other financing entities. The representation of clients on both sides of the transaction has given us keen insight into the issues involved in financing complex, capital-intensive projects. Our construction team serves an extensive and diversified group of clients active in large-scale international construction and engineering projects. Our lawyers advise on every aspect of the architectural, engineering, and construction process, from planning and design to financing, through bidding and award, during construction and after project completion.

Our firm founder, Mr. Ng Wing Fai, Simon, who specializes in the business consultancy, tax, audit and pre-Initial Public Offerings services, especially, Mr. Simon Ng has more than twenty years of experience in China market, Asia Pacific market and UN, so our firm can provide consultancy services for those China business which intends to inbound and outbound investment under the Belt and Road Initiative.

With an average weekday patronage of about 5.9 million passengers, MTR is regarded as one of the world's leading railway operators for safety, reliability, customer service and cost efficiency. The Corporation now operates eleven railway commuter lines, a light rail network, and a high speed rail connecting to the Mainland of China. In addition to its railway operations, the Corporation also involved in a wide range of business activities. These include the development of residential and commercial projects, property leasing and management, advertising, telecommunication services and international consultancy services. From its starting base in Hong Kong, the Corporation has expanded into the Mainland of China, Australia, Sweden and United Kingdom, having taken on a range of railway construction, operations and management projects. The Corporation also offers railway consultancy and contracting services worldwide. Clients served include metro companies, government authorities, and railway system suppliers in the Mainland of China,Australasia, Southeast Asia, Northeast Asia, and Middle East.

P&T Group, was first established in Hong Kong in 1868, is the oldest and largest international architectural and engineering practice in the South East Asia with over 1,600 staff, working from offices located in Hong Kong, Singapore, Bangkok, Shanghai, Wuhan, Shenzhen, Macau, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Dubai & Abu Dhabi. Projects are also undertaken in most other Southeast Asian countries.  

P&T Group offers a full range of architectural, structural and mechanical engineering, planning and project management services, with full support from in-house interior and graphic design divisions. Since our inception, we have proved a major contributor to the physical development of this region and responsible for many of its old and new architectural landmarks. 

AD+RG Architectural Design and Research Group Ltd, as Hong Kong AACSB Band 1 Architectural Consultant, is a design and research collaborative institute based in Hong Kong, made up of a group of professionals, researchers and expertise committed to the excellence in architectural design, caring for clients’ needs, offering cost-effective design solutions and providing high standard professional services. 

AD+RG provides highly unique expertise in innovative and sustainable designs, profound experience in the execution of innovative healthcare, commercial, educational and institutional projects and a leading edge in design research and facility programming with international recognition.  We have also developed specialized workshop programmes to assist users to develop their briefs and design options.  AD+RG also has successful experience with international collaborators, such as Zaha Hadid, MVRDV, UNStudio and Isozaki Arata on various projects. 

AD+RG has profound experience in the design and construction management of end-users oriented projects, where extensive “architect-end-user” coordination is required to provide satisfactory output as well as research on innovative design and research on sustainable development.

Harneys’ Hong Kong office is the hub of our expanding British Virgin Islands and Cayman Islands Legal practice in Asia. Harneys has been the leading firm for BVI law for decades; we helped write the commercial law and no other firm comes close to our collective expertise. Lawyers from our Hong Kong office advise on a wide range of matters covering the core transactional practice areas including banking and finance, capital markets, corporate, trusts and investment funds.

Our Cayman transactional practice advises on banking and finance, corporate, capital markets, funds and trusts matters. We have particular expertise on Cayman Islands funds and the structuring of downstream corporate transactions for private equity and venture capital funds.

We undertake all aspects of litigation in BVI and Cayman Islands courts, shareholders disputes, fraud and asset tracing/enforcement and contentious trusts disputes. Our restructuring and insolvency group leads the offshore market in both global reach and expertise. We advise lenders and investors at all levels of the capital structure, corporates and insolvency officeholders. Other areas of expertise include debt and equity rescheduling and refinancing, distressed mergers and acquisitions and distressed funds advice.

The Hong Kong office also provides clients with a real time interface for Harneys’ Anguilla and Cyprus law practices and its BVI intellectual property, regulatory, private client and shipping practices. We also offer corporate and fiduciary services through our affiliate Harneys Corporate Services (Asia) Limited.

Credit Agricole CIB is the Corporate and Investment Banking arm of the Credit Agricole Group, the world’s n°11 bank measured by Tier One Capital (The Banker, July 2015). The Bank offers its clients a comprehensive range of products and services structured around six major divisions:

- Client Coverage & International Network
- Global Investment Banking
- Structured Finance
- Global Markets
- Debt Optimisation & Distribution.
- International Trade & Transaction Banking

The Bank provides support to clients in large International markets through its network with a presence in major countries in Europe, America, Asia Pacific and The Middle East.

Power Assets Holdings Limited is a global investor in power and utility-related business with investment in electricity generation, transmission & distribution, gas distribution, renewable energy and energy from waste generation. We have an investment portfolio of 11,784MW of power plants and 500,00km of electricity and gas network in 4 continents and 9 countries serving 19 million customers.