Locations

Hong Kong

Background

Hong Kong

Loeb Smith Hong Kong office is a full service offshore law firm offering award-winning legal services, governance and regulatory compliance, managed corporate services and consulting to clients based in or doing business across Asia.

For the Asia region, we focus on international finance and corporate with a particular emphasis on investment funds, private equity, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and finance. We also have a private wealth practice, which advises high-net-worth individuals and families throughout Asia, as well as intellectual property, dispute resolution practice and restructuring and corporate recovery legal services.

* Please note that Loeb Smith Attorneys is registered as a Foreign Law Firm in Hong Kong and does not practise Hong Kong Law.

Loeb Smith-Corporate Offshore Law Firm-Hong Kong office location

Why Hong Kong?

Loeb Smith Hong Kong advises financial, institutional, business and private clients. Our Hong Kong legal services include a wide scope of practice areas built to help our clients with all their needs.

Located in the heart of Hong Kong’s financial district, our legal services team advises on the laws of the British Virgin Islands and Cayman Islands delivering Asian time zone convenience to cater international clients doing business in and from Hong Kong, mainland and the wider Asian region and provide advice in English, Mandarin, and Cantonese. We don’t practise Hong Kong law.

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Our legal experts in Loeb Smith’s Hong Kong office are acclaimed for providing client-focused, success-driven services in an ample range of practices.

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Practice Areas

  • Our Hong Kong firm offers practical, intuitive advice that is tailored to each client. The attorneys work hard to give customized advice regarding registration of security and enforceability of security documentation, parent and sister company guarantees and first demand guarantees, asset-backed and receivable financing.

    Included in the banking & finance legalities are:

    • Complex group financings
    • Corporate debt refinancing
    • Comprising syndicated loan agreements
    • Private placements and inter-creditor agreements
    • Debt subordination issues
  • Our attorneys are very experienced in blockchain technology, fintech and cryptocurrency transactions with this fast-paced and rapidly growing industry and ready to assist with: –

    • Counseling clients on their initial coin or token offerings or security token offerings (ICOs/ITOs/STOs) in the Cayman Islands, including structuring issues, SAFT/SAFTE agreements, reviewing the White Paper and the terms and conditions of the blockchain platform, and drafting the token sale documentation
    • Advising clients on issues related to offshore investment funds investing in digital assets and specific risk factors
    • Advising on tokenized funds investing in venture capital or real estate
    • Advising on corporate, financing and intellectual property issues related to investments in blockchain companies and joint venture projects
    • Advising token issuers and cryptocurrency funds on compliance with the Cayman Islands Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regulations.
  • Our Hong Kong firm has proficient attorneys on hand to create innovative solutions that meet our client’s objectives in capital markets. In addition to our one-to-one client consultations, our team in Hong Kong have been deeply involved in directing issuers, lead & investment managers, underwriters, arrangers, trustees and more with a broad scope of international debt offerings.

    • Medium-term note programs
    • High-yield bonds
    • Convertible and exchangeable bonds
    • Tender offers
    • Sovereign debt offerings
    • Loan participation notes
    • Variable funding notes
    • And more
  • We provide our clients in Hong Kong with issues about shareholder disputes, fiduciary issues, issuing legal opinions, legal due diligence reports, and more. In doing so, we make sure our clients acquire insightful, practical advice that will deal with their primary concerns. These include:

    • Legal due diligence reports
    • Issuing Legal Opinions
    • Cross border joint venture transactions
    • Solvent group reorganizations via scheme of arrangement
    • Acquisition and disposal of shares and business assets
    • Re-domiciliation of corporate vehicles from other jurisdictions to Hong Kong
    • Migration of corporate vehicles from Hong Kong to other jurisdictions
    • Shareholder disputes, including derivative actions and class actions
    • And more
  • Enforcement of security, asset tracing, schemes of arrangement and other Court driven restructurings, and voluntary liquidations. Our team is experienced in: –

    • Debt & Equity Rescheduling & Refinancing
    • Distressed situations, asset investing, M&A, funds and private equity
    • Funds restructuring
    • Winding-up proceedings
    • Liquidations
    • And more…
  • Our investment funds group has extensive experience in advising on the formation, structuring and launch of a broad range of investment funds in the Cayman Islands, including the following asset classes: –

    • Hedge Funds
    • Private Equity Funds
    • Venture Capital
    • Infrastructure Project Funds
    • Cryptocurrency Funds
    • Open-ended Funds
      • Registered Funds
      • Administration Funds
      • Limited Investor
      • Listed Funds
    • And more ….
  • Over the past few years, there have been dramatic changes in the way high-net-worth (HNW) families in Hong Kong, Singapore and Asia Pacific. Cayman Islands have a wide variety of succession planning options that a HNW family will consider attractive, including: –

    • IPO planning
    • Structuring
    • Family office set up and governance
    • Trust Advisory and establishment
    • Developing Policies and Procedures and Best Practices
    • Registration of Intellectual Property
    • Business succession planning
    • Legacy
    • And much more….
  • We have an entity management services team assisting in setting up and maintenance of companies are suitable for startups, international corporates, financial institutions, private wealth clients, there expertise includes advising on: –

    • Cayman Islands AML / CFT training
    • Private Wealth and Family office Service
      • Trust and Foundations advisory
      • Family Office
      • Companies and family limited partnerships
      • Employee incentives and Pension
    • ESG
    • Investor Services
      • Registrar Service
      • FATCA and CRS Compliance
      • AML service
    • Corporate Administration
    • Registered Office / Registered Agent and domiciliation service
    • And more …
  • Our work includes launching sustainable investment (SI) and impact funds, advising on green, social and sustainable bonds/loans as well as other sustainability linked financings and related structures. We can advise on the incorporation of ESG and/or impact objectives into private wealth and other structures and help clients mitigate risk in the context of ESG and sustainability under BVI and Cayman laws.
    Our expertise includes advising on:

    • Sustainable investment consulting
    • Regulatory consulting
办公地点

香港

背景

香港

Loeb Smith香港办公室是一家提供全方位服务的离岸律师事务所,为在亚洲或在亚洲开展业务的客户提供屡获殊荣的法律服务、公司治理与合规服务、企业管理服务以及咨询服务。

在亚洲地区,我们专注于国际金融和公司业务,尤其侧重于投资基金、私募股权、并购、资本市场和金融。我们还拥有私人财富业务,为亚洲各地的高净值个人和家庭提供法律咨询服务,并提供知识产权、争议解决以及重组和公司恢复法律服务。

*请注意,Loeb Smith律师事务所在香港注册为外国律师事务所,并不就香港法律执业。

Loeb Smith-Corporate Offshore Law Firm-Hong Kong office location

为何选择香港?

Loeb Smith 香港律师事务所为金融、机构、商业和私人客户提供法律咨询服务。我们的香港法律服务涵盖广泛的实践领域,旨在满足客户的所有需求。

我们的法律服务团队位于香港金融区的核心地段,提供英属维尔京群岛和开曼群岛的法律咨询服务,并根据亚洲时区提供便利,以服务在香港、内地及亚洲其他地区开展业务的国际客户,并以英语、普通话和粤语提供法律咨询。我们不就香港法律进行执业。

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Loeb Smith香港办公室的法律专家因在众多实践中提供以客户为中心、以成功为导向的服务而备受赞誉。

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实践领域

  • 我们香港办公室提供实用、直观且针对每位客户量身定制的法律建议。我们的律师竭诚为客户提供定制化的法律建议,涵盖担保登记、担保文件执行、母公司及姊妹公司担保、首见即付担保、见索即付担保、资产抵押融资和应收账款融资等。

    银行与金融法律服务涵盖以下领域:

      • 复杂的集团融资
      • 企业债务再融资
      • 包括银团贷款协议
      • 私募和债权人间协议
      • 次级债务问题
  • 我们的律师在区块链技术、金融科技和加密货币交易领域经验丰富,深谙这一快速发展的行业,并随时准备提供以下方面的协助:

      • 为客户提供在开曼群岛进行首次代币发行 (ICO)、代币发行 (ITO) 或证券型代币发行 (STO) 的咨询服务,包括架构设计、SAFT/SAFTE 协议、审查区块链平台的白皮书和条款和条件,以及起草代币销售文件。
      • 为客户提供与投资数字资产的离岸投资基金相关的咨询服务,并处理具体风险因素。
      • 为投资于风险资本或房地产的代币化基金提供咨询服务
      • 为投资区块链公司和合资项目的公司、融资和知识产权问题提供咨询服务
      • 为代币发行者和加密货币基金提供开曼群岛反洗钱 (AML) 法规合规方面的咨询服务。
  • 我们香港办公室拥有经验丰富的律师团队,能够制定创新的解决方案,满足客户在资本市场的目标。除了一对一的客户咨询服务外,我们香港团队还积极参与指导发行人、主承销商和投资经理、承销商、安排人、受托人等机构开展广泛的国际债务发行业务。

      • 中期票据计划
      • 高收益债券
      • 可转换债券和可交换债券
      • 要约收购
      • 主权债务发行
      • 贷款参与票据
      • 可变融资票据
      • 以及更多
  • 我们为香港客户提供股东纠纷、诚信问题、出具法律意见、法律尽职调查报告等服务。我们致力于确保客户获得富有洞察力且切实可行的建议,以解决他们的主要顾虑。这些服务包括:

      • 法律尽职调查报告
      • 出具法律意见
      • 跨境合资交易
      • 通过安排计划进行有偿付能力的集团重组
      • 股份及商业资产的收购和处置
      • 将公司实体从香港迁移至其他司法管辖区
      • 股东争议,包括衍生诉讼及集体诉讼
      • 股东纠纷,包括衍生诉讼和集体诉讼
      • 以及更多
  • 执行担保、资产追踪、债务安排计划及其他法院主导的重组以及自愿清算。我们的团队在以下领域拥有丰富的经验:

      • 债务及股权重组及再融资
      • 不良资产、资产投资、并购、基金及私募股权
      • 基金重组
      • 清盘程序
      • 清算
      • 以及更多……
  • 我们的投资基金团队在开曼群岛设立、构建和推出各类投资基金方面拥有丰富的经验,涵盖以下资产类别:

      • 对冲基金
      • 私募股权基金
      • 风险投资基金
      • 基础设施项目基金
      • 加密货币基金
      • 开放式基金
          • 注册型基金
          • 行政管理型基金
          • 有限投资者基金
          • 上市基金
      • 以及更多……
  • 过去几年,香港、新加坡和亚太地区的高净值 (HNW) 家族的投资方式发生了巨大变化。开曼群岛提供各种高净值家族认为具有吸引力的继任规划方案,包括:

      • IPO 规划
      • 架构设计
      • 家族办公室设立及治理
      • 信托咨询及设立
      • 制定政策、程序及最佳实践
      • 知识产权登记
      • 企业继任规划
      • 遗产传承
      • 以及更多……
  • 我们拥有一支实体管理服务团队,协助初创企业、国际企业、金融机构和私人财富客户设立和维护公司,其专业知识包括:

      • 开曼群岛AML/CFT培训
      • 私人财富及家族办公室服务
          • 信托和基金会咨询
          • 家族办公室
          • 公司和家族有限合伙企业
          • 员工激励和养老金
      • 环境、社会和治理 (ESG)
      • 投资者服务
          • 注册服务
          • FATCA 和 CRS 合规
          • 反洗钱服务
      • 公司行政管理
      • 注册办事处/注册代理人及注册地服务
      • 更多……
  • 我们的工作包括发起可持续投资 (SI) 和影响力基金,就绿色、社会和可持续债券/贷款以及其他与可持续性相关的融资及相关结构提供咨询服务。我们可以就如何将 ESG 和/或影响力目标纳入私人财富及其他结构提供咨询服务,并帮助客户根据英属维尔京群岛和开曼群岛法律,在 ESG 和可持续性背景下降低风险。

    我们的专业领域包括:

      • 可持续投资咨询
      • 监管咨询