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Banking & Finance

Our growing Hong Kong banking and finance practice is supported by a team of experienced multi-lingual lawyers.  

Lawyers in our team are recognised and ranked by independent legal directories, including Chambers & Partners, Legal 500, IFLR1000, Who’s Who Legal, Lexology Client Choice Award and the China Business Law Journal, in the areas of Asset Finance, Derivatives, Structured Finance, Securitisation, Debt Restructuring and Distressed Debt Financing. 

We advise on a wide range of matters, from highly structured debt transactions to vanilla loans. Our team has experience working on securing assets, enforcing security and restructuring debt in multiple jurisdictions across Asia-Pacific. 

Our Hong Kong finance team works closely with our colleagues in Singapore and our wider global finance team comprising of more than 500 experienced specialist banking and finance lawyers.

Our clients include financial institutions, private credit lenders, corporates, regulators, rating agencies, insurance companies, arrangers, trustees, service providers, liquidity providers, liquidators, receivers, etc.

Lawyers of our team have edited and authored the following leading practitioner textbooks:

  • Halsbury’s Laws of Hong Kong, Banking & Finance Volume (Vol. 3), 2020, Lexis Nexis.
  • The Hong Kong Encyclopaedia of Forms & Precedents: Financing and Taking Security (Vol. 7), 2021, Lexis Nexis.
  • Chitty on Contracts: Hong Kong Specific Contracts (6th Edition), 2019, Sweet & Maxwell.
  • The Hong Kong Companies Ordinance (Cap. 622): Commentary & Annotations” (1st - 7th Editions, 2014-2021), Sweet & Maxwell.
  • Structured Finance & Securitisation in Asia, 2018, Sweet & Maxwell.

"Client and solution-oriented. Prompt and responsive."

IFLR 1000, 2022

"Communicates well and explains things clearly."

Legal 500, 2022

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As­set Fin­ance
We see vari­ous chal­lenges in the as­set fin­ance mar­kets today from in­creased reg­u­la­tion, as­set de­lin­quency, fin­an­cial dis­tress and op­por­tun­it­ies caused
Debt Capital Markets
Debt Cap­it­al Mar­kets
Our multi-lin­gual Hong Kong fin­ance team has reg­u­larly ad­vised on a vari­ety of Debt Cap­it­al Mar­kets (DCM) trans­ac­tions. We are par­tic­u­larly well-
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De­riv­at­ives
We are very ex­per­i­enced in ad­vising on de­riv­at­ives and struc­tured fin­ance products. Wheth­er you are an is­suer, product man­u­fac­turer, sell-side in­stitu
Restructuring & Insolvency
Re­struc­tur­ing & In­solv­ency
In Hong Kong, our team of multi-lin­gual law­yers ad­vise on the full range of non-con­ten­tious and con­ten­tious re­struc­tur­ing & in­solv­ency and spe­cial
Securitisation & Structured Finance
Se­cur­it­isa­tion & Struc­tured Fin­ance
We have one of the lead­ing struc­tured fin­ance & se­cur­it­isa­tion prac­tices in Hong Kong.  Our ded­ic­ated team has con­sid­er­able ex­per­i­ence repres