Seyfarth Shaw was founded in Chicago and has established offices in Shanghai and Hong Kong. The firm provides multi-jurisdictional and cross-border legal advice on employment law, corporate and commercial, transactions and projects to clients including large corporations, investment banks, investment advisers, broker-dealers, private equity funds and institutional investors.
Seyfarth’s Hong Kong office is a local law firm registered with The Law Society of Hong Kong, with lawyers licensed to practice in multiple jurisdictions including Hong Kong, mainland China, Australia, Scotland, Ireland, and England & Wales.
Focusses / specialisms
The firm has a focus on the capital market and corporate M&A practice.
The firm’s corporate and commercial practice focuses on a wide range of practice such as cross-border mergers and acquisitions, general corporate and commercial, corporate strategies, IPOs, regulatory compliance, tax and public takeovers in Hong Kong, China, southeast Asia, the US and Europe.
Key clients
Key clients of the firm include
China Golden Classic Holdings, EPI (Holdings), Asia Piling Co, JX Energy, C&D Newin Paper & Pulp Corporation, Beng Soon Machinery Services and China Kingstone Mining Holdings.
Research period review:
33rd edition (2022/2023)
During the research period, the firm kept busy advising on equity capital markets and corporate M&A transactions.
In the equity capital markets, the firm provided legal advice to companies based in Canada, China, Malaysia and Singapore with domestic and international capital markets transactions on both the Main Board and Growth Enterprise Market of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Deal types including IPOs and secondary share offerings.
In the M&A space, the firm kept busy advising on public and private acquisitions, asset acquisition, financial investment, joint venture, divestment and restructuring.
The firm’s equity capital markets team promoted
Sherman Chan to partner in January 2022.
Deal highlights: 33rd edition (2022/2023)
C&D Paper’s $385 million insolvency and restructuring.
AP&P Holdings’ HKEX IPO.
Persta Resources' HK$25.3 million worth of warrants.
EPI Holdings’ insolvency.
