Lawyers in Hong Kong

Ivan Smallwood

Ivan Smallwood regularly advises leading Japanese and multinational companies on high-stakes cross-border M&A transactions, particularly in the technology, medical, and industrial sectors. Mr. Smallwood draws on two decades’ experience driving many of Japan’s largest outbound transactions. He skillfully helps corporations and financial investors navigate inbound and outbound: Strategic mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures Joint ventures and strategic alliances Minority investments He understands clients’ commercial objectives and leverages comprehensive knowledge of Japanese and non-Japanese transaction regimes to achieve their goals. Mr. Smallwood maintains an active pro bono practice and works with Open Supply Hub, a nonprofit organization that strives to improve human rights and environmental conditions in and around factories and facilities by opening up supply chain data to the public. Before joining Latham, Mr. Smallwood worked at a leading international law firm in Tokyo. Mr. Smallwood is a registered foreign lawyer in Japan as a member of the Dai-Ni Tokyo Bar Association.

Latham & Watkins LLP

Ivy Yam

Ivy joined the firm in 2012 and is a funds lawyer focusing on the asset management and investment funds sector. She has extensive experience in a variety of products, from listed and unlisted retail funds to private funds. She also advises on regulatory issues of asset managers. Clients include international institutional managers and other Hong Kong-licensed asset managers, with a focus on managers with a mainland Chinese background.

Simmons & Simmons

JOE ZHOU

Registered Foreign Lawyer (New York, USA)

Fangda Partners

JP Buckley

I assist and direct clients in their complex, commodity and crisis data protection, AI and cyber work. I undertake a wide range of information law work including data protection, DSARs (data subject access requests) and other rights requests, cyber, AI, e-commerce, direct marketing and freedom of information - and has cross-sector experience in these areas. I also have extensive experience in IT outsourcing, overlapping with my data privacy practice. I deliver project, advisory and transactional work in these areas, with particular highlights being DPO services, data protection compliance reviews, process creation/consultancy and dealing with ICO investigations and data breach management and reporting. I particularly enjoy hosting and providing training sessions in data privacy, and I regularly provide clients, teams and the wider business community with tailored, relevant advice and practical guidance, bringing his topic area to life with practical, memorable examples. This means that the wider team is aware of data protection issues so that these can be proactively resolved before they become breaches.

Lewis Silkin

Jackson Chow

Jackson Chow is a Partner in the Assets & Structured Finance group, based in Hong Kong. Jackson specialises in structured and asset finance and leasing with a particular focus on aviation. He has advised on a vast range of cross border financing and leasing matters, including JOLCOs, French tax leases, Export Credit Agency supported financings, asset backed securitisations, syndicated portfolio loans, aircraft portfolio sales, PRC SPC structured financings, PDP financings, aircraft restructurings, sale and leasebacks and aircraft and engine operating / finance lease transactions, MRO agreements, simulator agreements, full and non-recourse financings. He has also advised major airlines on aircraft procurement contracts involving aircraft manufacturer’s and has been involved in numerous general (private jet) aviation financing and leasing transactions. His clients include a range of leading aircraft leasing companies, airlines, international financial institutions and high net worth individuals. Jackson regularly advises on award-winning transactions and is recognised as a leading lawyer for aviation finance by leading legal directories in Asia Pacific including Legal 500 and Chambers Asia Pacific.

Watson Farley & Williams

Jacqueline Poon

Associate

Tanner De Witt

Jacqueline Zheng

Partner

Kirkland & Ellis

Jade Tang

Partner

Hugill & Ip

James Broad

James is a Partner in the Mourant Hong Kong Corporate and Funds practice. He specialises in investment funds with a focus on private equity and hedge funds. He also has experience advising on private mergers and acquisitions. James's experience includes guiding clients through the initial set-up process, the launch of their fund, and then the ongoing operation and maintenance of their fund. He also advises on the establishment of joint venture structures, as well as the structuring and ongoing operation of partnerships and companies.

Mourant

James Comber

Partner

Ashurst

James Ford

Partner

Ashurst

James Gaden

James is a partner in our Investment Funds Group and Corporate team in Hong Kong. James has over 21 years' experience advising the investment funds industry. He specialises in advising private equity and hedge fund managers on a broad spectrum of legal issues including fund formation and structuring, acquisitions and disposals, fund restructuring and fund financing In addition, James has an active corporate practice which includes providing general corporate advice on corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures. He also advises companies, LLCs, partnerships and their investors in relation to a variety of different financing transactions. James advises clients from across the region including in Hong Kong, China, Japan, Korea, Singapore and Australia. James is a respected practitioner in the investment funds industry and is a regular speaker at industry events.

Walkers

James Gong

Partner

Bird & Bird

James Hsiao

Local Partner

White & Case

James Kwan

Partner

Hogan Lovells

James McKeon

Partner

Campbells

James Wong

DLA Piper

James Wood

Denis Chang’s Chambers

Jamie Choy

Associate

Tanner De Witt

Jamie Stranger

Partner

Stephenson Harwood

Jane Chan

Jane is a supervising associate in the Asia employment group. She is involved in both contentious and non-contentious employment matters in Hong Kong. Jane has experience on multiple areas of employment law, including drafting employment documentation such as employment contracts and handbooks, advising on internal investigations, advising on Labour Tribunal claims, as well as advising on bonus schemes, separation, discrimination, harassment, immigration and data privacy issues. Jane has also been involved in employment litigation matters and has worked on a number of multi-jurisdictional employment projects.

Simmons & Simmons

Jane Du

Associate

Tanner De Witt

Jane Ng

Partner

Stephenson Harwood

Jane Yao

Partner

Zhong Lun Law Firm