Transactional
Regulatory
Litigation
>Capital Markets
>Mergers and Acquisitions
>Investment Funds
>Private Equity
>Asset Financing and Securitization
>Intellectual Property
>Bankruptcy and Corporate Reorganization
>Bank and Finance
>Real Estate
>Tax
>Employee Employment
>Trusts and Estates
>General and Commercial Litigation
>Regulatory and Financial Litigation
>Patent and Other Intellectual
Property Litigation
>Tort
>International Commercial Arbitration
and Dispute Resolution
As a full-service global business law firm, Siu&Co. provides a complete range of business legal services in Hong Kong, PRC, Australia and UK. We combine a strong tradition of client service with a pioneering, cosmopolitan outlook and offer the wide range of advice that you would expect from Hong Kong’s leading independent law firm. From capital markets and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) to private equity and bank and finance, we assist clients through all stages of their transactions to ensure successful deal outcomes.
1.Capital Markets,
2.Mergers and Acquisitions,
3.Investment Funds,
4.Private Equity,
5.Asset Financing and Securitization,
6.Intellectual Property,
7.Bankruptcy and Corporate Reorganization,
8.Bank and Finance,
9.Real Estate,
10.Tax
11.Employee Employment,
12.Trusts and Estates.
Siu & Co. provides advice and assistance on all regulatory and compliance issues. We have developed a depth in many industries by coordinating closely with lawyers in the firm’s strong regulatory practices, such as technology and media, healthcare and life sciences, financial institutions and energy. In the context of a corporate assignment, Siu & Co.’s experience in these industries enables us to address due diligence and disclosure issues efficiently and effectively, craft corporate policies in a commercial manner, and help structure transactions in a comprehensive way that takes into account industry challenges and the regulatory environment in which our clients operate.
Our highly experienced team acts for a wide range of clients in connection with all areas of Hong Kong’s regulatory framework. What sets us apart is our local knowledge, depth of resources and breadth of practice. Our regulatory team provides comprehensive counsel to clients in a wide range of regulatory matters, with a specific focus on issues related to asset management, capital and debit market, insurance, financial institutions and securities regulation and has assisted our clients worldwide to maintain compliance with current regulatory requirements and plan for changes in laws, regulations and directives.
Disputes can be serious and costly at the best of times – and managing an international dispute can really sap your resources. Our litigation group is experienced at every level of the court system in Hong Kong, as well as in international arbitrations and mediations, and will effectively guide you through courts, tribunals, and governmental bodies, across the globe.
With experience in managing multi-jurisdictional litigation and international arbitration across all industry sectors, our lawyers both prevent and resolve disputes by giving practical, creative advice that focuses on our clients' strategic objectives. We have particular strength in general and commercial litigation, regulatory and financial litigation, patent and other intellectual property litigation, tort, international commercial arbitration and dispute resolution, and international trade law.
1.General and Commercial Litigation
2.Regulatory and Financial Litigation
3.Patent and Other Intellectual Property Litigation
4.Tort
5.International Commercial Arbitration and Dispute Resolution
Advising clients on a broad range of corporate financing matters involving Hong Kong, Australia and English law, Siu & Co. enhances its competitive position representing clients on dual listings and international offerings with its multi-jurisdictional law capabilities. We have built a strong global platform based on deep industry knowledge in key growth sectors and access to global funding sources through relationships with the business and funding communities, including investment banks, private equity and venture capital providers and hedge funds.
Our proven track record and unmatched local knowledge in IPOs on the Main Board and the Growth Enterprise Market (GEM) of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong (SEHK) and secondary issues involving shares and other equity derivatives, such as convertible and exchangeable securities, help us provide innovative and practical solutions that suit our clients.
Moreover, we have substantial experience of offering integrated securities advice on complex, cross-border transactions to issuers, underwriters, selling shareholders, sponsors, arrangers, lead managers, originators, dealers, trustees and depositories on a broad range of securities offerings.
The decision to merge, acquire a competitor, attract new investors, or sell a subsidiary, can be the most important you ever take.
Siu & Co.’s lawyers have considerable experience in both public and private M&A, ranging from multibillion dollar public mergers to small private acquisitions. With local lawyers on the ground, we have the ability to flag potential pitfalls in Hong Kong, PRC, Australia and UK, advise on cultural differences and nuances, offer vital auxiliary advice in such areas as employment and competition law and manage even the most demanding due diligence exercise. We assist our clients in all aspects of M&A, including:
- due diligence;
- regulatory issues;
- tender offers;
- acquisitions of entire companies or businesses;
- implementation of complex joint ventures and partnering arrangements;
- acquisitions of discrete products or technologies;
- public and private, and hostile and friendly transactions;
- structured transactions; and
- pre- and post-merger re-organization matters.
Our M&A lawyers work as an integrated team with experts in key areas such as intellectual property, antitrust, litigation, tax, labor and benefits, finance and bankruptcy, real estate, environmental, and securities. Our experience allows us to execute cross border global deals seamlessly while supporting you across all stages of the transaction and offering you cost-effective, pragmatic business solutions.
Siu & Co.’s investment funds practice has a global platform in key funds jurisdictions including London, New York, Hong Kong and Australia, and advises on all types of investment funds, from real estate funds, private equity funds, infrastructure funds, commodity pools and venture capital to hedge funds and other public and private pooled investment vehicles. We also represent clients with respect to more traditional investment funds, such as open-end registered investment companies (i.e., mutual funds), closed-end funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
Across the world our experienced investment funds lawyers are very familiar with local laws and regulations in different jurisdictions and provide a dynamic, integrated service to funds, sponsors, fund managers and institutional investors, supported by our international tax and regulatory networks.
We are one of the most active law firms for private equity in Hong Kong and have the market knowledge and exposure to help you achieve your goals throughout the investment life cycle.
Our private equity group has been active in private equity for many years, and advises on all aspects of a broad range of domestic and cross-border private equity transactions, including growth capital and other debt or equity investments, buyouts, going-private transactions, restructuring, refinancing and IPO and M&A exits. Siu & Co.’s Private Equity Practice includes representation of portfolio companies, LBO sponsors and investors in fund formation and in secondary transactions as well as representing the funds and management teams in buyout and other transactions.
With private equity becoming ever more international (including in emerging markets), our firm is well placed to offer a truly integrated service, with consistency of quality and responsiveness across all jurisdictions in which we operate across the world.
Siu & Co.’s Asset Financing & Securitization practice offers truly integrated, full-service representations in traditional securitizations, as well as innovative structured finance transactions such as CLOs and whole business securitizations.
Our lawyer team is experienced in a wide range of structures, asset classes and industries, and has worked on thousands of asset-backed securitization transactions, representing issuers, underwriters and financial guarantors. Apart from transactions involving traditional consumer and commercial assets such as residential and commercial mortgages, trade receivables, credit cards, auto loans and leases, equipment leases, commercial loans and other debt obligations, we have also represented clients in structured transactions involving many esoteric and specialized assets such as patent and trademark licenses, renewable and other energy assets, insurance, franchisee loans and aircraft leases.
As valued business advisors, Siu & Co.’s asset financing lawyers understand each client’s needs and work to achieve their objectives.
As one of the few global firms with a full-service IP Practice, Siu & Co. provides clients with access to IP lawyers in the Hong Kong, Mainland China, Australia and United Kingdom who are experienced in litigation, prosecution, licensing and technology transfer, and IP counseling.
The experienced team at Siu & Co. retains a strong foothold in the Hong Kong and Mainland China IP markets covering all areas of contentious and non-contentious IP work, including Hong Kong, China and international trade marks, copyright and design rights, patents, domain names, data protection, technology, e-commerce, advertising and broader brand protection issues. Our deep knowledge of the local market helps our clients to protect and develop their IP assets.
Today’s cross-border restructuring and bankruptcy work calls for lawyers possessing sharp technical skills to be able to guide clients through the complexities of this market, and Siu & Co. brings a full range of skills needed in the restructuring context and provide clients with top-quality legal service in Hong Kong, PRC, Australia and UK.
Our bankruptcy and restructuring team represents corporations, banks, creditors’ committees, hedge funds, sponsors, insurance companies and other financial institutions on workouts, restructurings and bankruptcy cases from middle market businesses to the largest multinational enterprises, including:
- Cross-border, out-of-court restructurings
- Multinational insolvencies and workouts
- Strategies for distressed investors to obtain control of troubled companies
- Rescue, debtor-in-possession and exit financings
- Pre-packaged and pre-arranged plans of reorganization
- Exchange and tender offers and consent solicitations
- Distressed M&A including acquiring assets out of formal insolvency proceedings
We understand the legal, political, and business landscapes involved when a company gets into financial difficulties. In serving our clients, we often team up with lawyers from other practice areas including capital markets, litigation, real estate, intellectual property, regulatory, tax, employment and pensions to be able to advise on all the challenges the bankruptcy and restructuring matters might present.
Siu & Co. is one of the leading banking and financial services law firms in Hong Kong, advising domestic and foreign banks, insurance companies, credit card companies, mortgage bankers, investment banks, investment management companies and investment advisers, and other financial institutions on regulatory and litigation, as well as transactional, matters.
Siu & Co.’s banking lawyers represent investment banks and other financial institutions in their capacities as agents, arrangers and lenders, as well as corporate borrowers and private equity firms, in structuring and executing the most complex financings across industries and around the globe.
We represent clients in a wide variety of financings, including asset-based loans, bridge loans, cash flow loans, cross-border financings, investment grade loans, leveraged financings, multi-currency financings, secured loans, syndicated loans and working capital facilities.
Siu & Co. provides innovative and practical legal advice to a broad range of real estate industry participants in Hong Kong and internationally, in all types of real estate transactions. Our lawyers are at the forefront of breaking developments in the real estate arena and are well equipped to anticipate and navigate changes in real estate development and finance that may affect our clients’ businesses.
We are one of a select group of firms with recognized expertise across a broad spectrum of real estate activities that includes the sale and purchase of real estate, development projects, joint ventures on property development, joint sales of properties, bankruptcies and workouts, property management and landlord/tenant issues, real estate finance, planning and zoning, real estate tax and dispute resolution.
Siu & Co. offers an experienced tax team that advises clients on the tax regimes of Hong Kong, PRC and further abroad. As a Hong Kong-based independent law firm, our experienced lawyers enjoy extensive contacts with the tax authorities, allowing us to provide timely advice on regulatory developments.
We provide the full range of tax services that address the challenges of international commerce and business operations. Our tax lawyers have considerable experience handling matters for a diverse client base, including multinational companies, financial institutions, private equity funds, Fortune 500 corporations and emerging companies, in the areas including transactional tax, international tax, tax controversy and disputes, tax-exempt organizations, and benefits, compensation & employment.
A company’s workforce is its most important asset. Managing employees in today's global market is complex, requiring deep knowledge of developing national and local laws as well as, in many cases, multinational legal requirements and cultural factors.
Siu & Co. partners with its clients to find solutions and manage risk in relation to their employment, incentives and pensions legal challenges and objectives. Our lawyer team advises and guides a wide range of clients, from multinational corporations to smaller Hong Kong businesses, as well as pension trustees and administrators, on all types of employment challenges and opportunities including employment documentation, employee benefits and incentives, day-to-day HR issues, employment disputes, pension regulations, work and residence visas, and the employment aspects of M&A, transfers of business undertakings and restructurings.
We help clients develop and implement best practices in the workplace.
Specializing in sophisticated estate and tax planning for families and their businesses, Siu & Co. always stays current on changes in the law that may work to the clients’ advantage and provides advice to private individuals and companies on the creation of trusts, covering trust law, asset protection and taxation issues.
Our lawyers represent high net worth individuals and families, banks and trust companies, family offices and private trust companies and other clients in a broad range of substantive areas. We work to protect your assets and ensure that they are effectively transferred to your heirs in a manner that minimizes tax consequences—and maximizes the value of your hard work, by developing succession planning strategies, establishing a family office or developing a family constitution and balancing both family and business needs with tax laws.
Litigation can have significant impact on a company’s ability to achieve its business objectives, and Siu & Co.’s skilled commercial litigation team helps companies involved in commercial litigation assess their options, contain costs and decide on a course of action consistent with their goals. From risk analysis to crisis management, and from representation in a single court to advice in a multijurisdictional cross-border dispute, we provide you with smart and clear advice from seasoned litigators to resolve your disputes.
Siu & Co. represents companies across a broad range of industries including pharmaceuticals, financial services, insurance, consumer products and communications in litigation and alternative dispute resolution proceedings related to commercial agreements, consumer fraud, insurance and banking, false advertising, corporate governance and M&A-related claims.
Today’s complex global financial markets require swift and strategic approaches to addressing the priorities of financial institutions. Financial institutions are taking greater precautions to protect against new risks, regulators are coordinating more aggressively and similar claims are being made in different jurisdictions or by class actions.
Siu & Co. has built banking litigation practices in the principal financial markets and finds solutions that preserve its financial institution clients' immediate interests along with their relationships with customers, other industry participants, and regulators. We help clients respond to litigation, assess legal risks related to financial products and M&A transactions, and prepare for new capital raising opportunities around the world. Our experience is deep and diverse.
Protecting valuable inventions in a highly competitive global environment has become increasingly challenging for multinational businesses. With our longstanding focus on handling large-scale patent, trade secret, trademark, copyright and IP-antitrust disputes, our global patent and intellectual property litigation team consistently ranks among the best in Hong Kong in protecting and maximizing the value of our clients’ IP assets. In each instance, we precisely tailor our advice to match a client’s specific needs and goals.
We provide clients with trial-ready teams related to all areas of IP law and represent clients in all types of trade practice claims under key jurisdictions laws worldwide: copyright, patent, trademark, service mark, trade secrets, and trade dress infringement; dilution; unfair competition; counterfeiting; cyber squatting; and unfair advertising cases.
Business torts – fraud, tortious interference with contract, theft of trade secrets and the like – are a regular feature of commercial disputes. Siu & Co. has extensive experience and a prominent track record of success in both prosecuting and defending business torts economically and effectively.
Siu & Co. acts for clients in business torts throughout Hong Kong, PRC, Australia and UK. Our tort lawyer team also has extensive experience in pursuing and defending other business torts: business disparagement, tortious interference with contract or prospective business relations, unfair competition, theft of trade secrets and others.
Cross-border disputes are ever more significant in international business, and International arbitration has increasingly become the preferred method of resolving such disputes, offering the benefits of greater flexibility, confidentiality and crucially, prospects for enforcement, than national court based litigation.
Our international commercial arbitration team possesses detailed knowledge of arbitration institutions, applicable rules, regulations and practices, and has the global resources and experience to handle the largest, most complex disputes confronting businesses throughout the world.
Many of our lawyers are acknowledged as leaders in the field of international arbitration. Our global team has vast experience in conducting international arbitration including acting as counsel or sitting as arbitrator under all the major institutional and procedural rules. We represent parties in international arbitrations arising in a broad range of industry sectors, including aviation, banking, construction, energy, insurance and reinsurance, international finance, international trade and investments, intellectual property, maritime, media and communications, technology and telecommunications.
We work across continents, coordinating our internal resources to respond to the most challenging factual and procedural situations you face.