Firm overview

Charltons has a track record of over 20 years representing major multinational clients on complex cross border and domestic transactions. The firm is experienced in advising local and international companies, controlling shareholders, sponsors and underwriters on IPOs on both the Main Board of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited and the GEM market. Charltons is well recognised for its work advising companies on the legal requirements and implications of their capital raising on listing and we provide ongoing advice to listed companies regarding their compliance with continuing obligations under the Hong Kong Listing Rules.

Charltons advises on securities law, funds law and cryptocurrency. The firm advises on Hong Kong M&A law and cross-border M&A transactions. Charltons has considerable experience advising on the formation and management of offshore, Hong Kong and China investment funds.

Charltons has a substantial pro bono practice establishing and advising Hong Kong based charities and foundations.

Firm overview

Skadden is a leading firm in the US for debt capital markets, M&A, structured finance, restructuring and insolvency, financial services regulatory, and also maintains excellent banking, equity capital markets, project finance, project development, hedge funds and private equity practices.  A powerhouse corporate firm, anything related to acquisitions is squarely in the firm’s wheelhouse. 

Firm overview

Hauzen LLP is a Hong Kong solicitor’s firm registered as a limited liability partnership under the Legal Practitioners’ Ordinance. The firm was formed in late 2017 to meet the legal needs of financial markets participants across all practice areas. We are a financial industry-focused firm, bridging the gap between commercial lawyers who advise on regulations and transactions, and dispute resolution lawyers who are often generalist by nature, offering advice across the spectrum of legal needs in the financial markets.

The firm operates in association with Anjie Law Firm, a leading Mainland Chinese law firm consistently ranked by Chambers Global in the top bands for insurance law, competition law, intellectual property, litigation, and corporate law.

We focus on clients in the Hong Kong financial markets, with a particular emphasis on the three categories of participants that make up the vast majority of the Hong Kong financial ecosystem:

• Intermediaries
• Publicly-listed companies, and
• Investors

Our partners and senior lawyers are renown financial markets legal experts who have in some cases spent parts of their careers operating and running licensed entities or publicly-listed companies and have first-hand knowledge of the legal and business issues that market participants face.

Firm overview

Allen & Overy is a financial and corporate powerhouse that has strong rankings across almost all our practice areas. Traditionally lender focused, A&O remains a go-to firm for banks in all manner of transactions. A member of the UK ‘magic circle’ the firm has 44 offices in 31 countries.