Professional Services

Bird & Bird is an international law firm which operates on the basis of an in-depth understanding of key industry sectors, including Aerospace, Automotive, Aviation, Energy & Utilities, Financial Services, Food & Beverage, Healthcare, Life Sciences, Media, Sport, and Technology & Communications. We have been doing business in China for nearly 20 years. We offer local expertise within an international context, with more than 1,100 lawyers and legal practitioners in 27 offices worldwide.

Our network in the Asia Pacific region comprises offices located in key business centres in Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore, and Sydney. Recongnised as leaders for intellectual property and telecommunications, media and technology in the region, our team of lawyers also specialise in providing clients with the full commercial service including corporate and advisory matters, M&A, corporate finance, project finance, regulatory and compliance, employment, competition law, sport, environmental, real estate, and all forms of dispute resolution.

In addition to our regional network, we have expanded our geographical footprint in the Asia Pacific region through a series of strategic and dynamic co-operations which include Tay & Partners in Malaysia, K&K Advocates and Nurjadin Sumono Mulyadi & Partners in Indonesia, and Hwang Mok Park in Korea.

Our five regional offices and formal co-operations, as well as strong links and extensive experience across the key technology rich, knowledge driven economies makes us particularly well placed to support out clients throughout the Asia Pacific and ASEAN nations.

We also have dedicated Steering Group and have developed strong relationships with some of the most respected local law firms in jurisdictions where we do significant work for clients including Japan, Taiwan, Macau, Brunei, Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, India, New Zealand, and elsewhere in Asia Pacific.

KPMG China is part of a global network of professional firms providing Audit, Tax and Advisory services. KPMG operates in 155 countries and has more than 162,000 people working in member firms around the world. The independent member firms of the KPMG network are affiliated with KPMG International Cooperative (“KPMG International”), a Swiss entity. Each KPMG firm is a legally distinct and separate entity and describes itself as such.

In 1992, KPMG became the first international accounting network to be granted a joint venture licence in mainland China. KPMG China was also the first among the Big Four in mainland China to convert from a joint venture to a special general partnership, as of 1 August 2012. Additionally, the Hong Kong office can trace its origins to 1945. This early commitment to the China market, together with an unwavering focus on quality, has been the foundation for accumulated industry experience, and is reflected in the Chinese member firm’s appointment by some of China’s most prestigious companies.

Today, KPMG China has around 9,000 professionals working in 16 offices: Beijing, Chengdu, Chongqing, Foshan, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Qingdao, Shanghai, Shenyang, Shenzhen, Tianjin, Xiamen, Hong Kong SAR and Macau SAR. With a single management structure across all these offices, KPMG China can deploy experienced professionals efficiently, wherever our client is located.

Strategic Public Relations Group (SPRG) is one of the largest public relations networks in Asia and the largest public relations consultancy in Hong Kong.

SPRG is an integrated public relations group and an investor relations and financial communications specialist. With 300 professionals working from nine offices in Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia, the Group delivers tailored solutions in investor relations, corporate and marketing communications, event consultancy and management, product promotion, CSR communications, new digital media marketing, B2B communications, conference organisation, media skills and presentation training, issues and crisis management, editorial support and production.

SPRG clients include prominent players of the automobile, banking and finance, IT, travel and hospitality, healthcare and pharmaceutical, lifestyle, entertainment, and sports industries, as well as government bodies and associations.

K K Yeung Management Consultants Limited undertakes a wide variety of Hong Kong, China and regional management consultancy work on a project or retainer basis. In the past thirty-two years, the company provided professional services to numerous local and foreign clients in areas such as management and organization restructuring, corporate and business finance, business development, merger and acquisition, debt restructuring, organisation and methods, project feasibility studies, due diligent investigations, regional investment, strategic planning, public listing, human resources organisation etc. The company also acts as advisor to governments, corporations and institutions in the international scene and in the region.

Apart from the above, the company has long time experience in preparing management reports and designing business improvement programmes for any types of management enquiries.

In 1985, the company became a registered consultant of The Asian Development Bank. In 1992, the company also became a registered consultant of The World Bank. In 1994, the company was invited and listed as a registered consultant of the Managment Service Agency, The Government of Hong Kong S.A.R. and in 1999, the company was invited and listed as a financial consultant of The Finance Bureau, Government of Hong Kong S.A.R. In recent years, the company devoted much resources in China consultancy services. Currently, the company provides turn-key project consultancy, board secretarial and strategic advisory services to many world renowned companies (including companies listed in Fortune '500') for over twenty joint ventures and wholly owned enterprises in China. Since, 2014, the company's senior executives are appointed Honorary Advisor and Secretary General of World Diamond Mark Foundation founded by the World Federation of Diamond Bourses.

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.

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.

hpa (previously known as Ho & Partners Architects Engineers & Development Consultants Limited) was founded in 1980 and became one of the Band 1 architectural consultants in Hong Kong in 1992. hpa was accredited as the first wholly owned foreign company issued with a Class-A Architectural License in China in 2014. Among many other accolades, the company was listed 47 in the UK published World Architecture magazine’s "World’s Top 200 Architectural Practices", and its projects have received a multitude of international awards, including the China Property Awards, MIPIM Awards (France), Asia Pacific Property Awards as well as BCI Asia Top 10 Architects Awards.

hpa has a 1 billion square feet of design project footprint in more than 60 cities across 12 countries. Under the Belt and Road Initiative, hpa expanded its strong presence across Southeast Asia, with ongoing projects in multiple countries along with the New Silk Road, as well as reaching further afield globally to UK and USA. In 2017, hpa was invited as a Strategic Partner of HKTDC’s Belt and Road-related promotions to champion Hong Kong’s role in realising new economic and development opportunities.

White & Case is an international law firm that serves companies, governments and financial institutions. Established in 1901, our long history as a global firm means we are able to help our clients resolve their most complex legal challenges wherever they are.

With 39 offices across 26 countries we are uniquely positioned to guide our clients through the complex and varied legal landscapes along the Belt and the Road. Our global practices, including offices along the Silk Road and the Maritime Silk Road, stand ready to assist on projects of various complexity, sizes and nature. In particular, our Project Finance, Infrastructure, M&A and Finance practices are market leaders in many of the jurisdictions in which they operate across the Silk Road and beyond. Clients turn to us for our deep experience in the development of precedent-setting infrastructure projects in frontier and emerging markets.

With close to 100 Chinese speaking legal practitioners, three Greater China offices and China deals in Europe, Africa, North and South America, we are ideally positioned to advise clients involved in developments and investments along these important trade routes.