Lawyers in Hong Kong

Owain Davies

Owain Davies advises on the development and financing of energy and infrastructure projects, and has represented project owners, sponsors, and lenders on many of the largest and most high-profile projects in the Asia-Pacific region. Owain has more than two decades’ experience advising project owners and sponsors on the key project contracts required for the development of major energy and infrastructure projects, and on related project financing arrangements. He regularly advises on complex first-of-their-kind projects, helping project developers navigate the unique challenges faced by these pioneering and market-defining projects. He also has extensive experience advising lenders and investors on debt and equity participation in energy and infrastructure projects, with a focus on the identification and analysis of potential risks and issues for lenders and investors, and the development of mitigation strategies. Owain has particular experience and expertise advising on: Liquefied natural gas (LNG) export and import projects, including onshore and floating liquefaction, regasification, and storage facilities Power projects, including renewables (geothermal, solar, wind, hydro, and biomass), nuclear and conventional thermal power projects, including LNG-to-power projects Oil refinery and petrochemicals projects, including numerous world-scale new-build and expansion projects Mining and natural resources projects, including iron ore and zinc mining projects, and coal gasification projects

Latham & Watkins LLP

Owen Chan

Regional Managing Partner - Asia-Pacific

Hogan Lovells

Owen Tse

Partner

Vivien Chan & Co

Pamela Mak

Partner, Head of Dispute Resolution

Tanner De Witt

Pamy Kuo

Partner

Oldham, Li & Nie

Patricia Liu

Partner

Haldanes

Patricia Yeung

Patricia is a partner and heads up Howse Williams' employment team. She regularly advises employers and senior executives on both contentious and non-contentious employment matters. Her practice covers a wide range of work, including drafting employment contracts, handbooks and policies, terminations and advising upon the enforcement of post-termination restrictions and confidentiality obligations. She and her team frequently advise on the employment aspects of M&A deals and business transfers. Many of her clients operate in the financial services sector, and she frequently negotiates exit packages in relation to high-level employees of banks, brokerages and insurance companies. Patricia also advises upon the employment issues arising from discrimination and harassment, personal data related matters and immigration issues (including prosecutions). She also has experience in assisting employers and employees during the conduct of internal investigations and discrimination/harassment complaints. Patricia has an in-depth knowledge of the Labour Tribunal, having assisted parties involved in Labour Tribunal proceedings for several years. She has also represented both plaintiffs and defendants in both District and High Court actions involving substantial claims for unpaid bonuses, enforcement of restrictive covenants and claims for injunctive relief in Hong Kong, including applications for injunctive relief. She also advises clients on licencing issues and regulatory investigations involving the SFC and the HKMA.

Howse Williams

Patrick Cui

Partner

Zhong Lun Law Firm

Patrick Rattigan

Partner

Haldanes

Patsy Lau

Partner

Deacons

Pattie Walsh

Partner

Bird & Bird

Paul Aherne

Paul has extensive experience of debt financing transactions in Asia acting for financial institutions, private equity sponsors, investors and corporates. He specialises in advising in relation to the Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands law aspects of fund finance, leveraged and acquisition finance, real estate finance, structured equity finance (including margin loans and equity derivatives), private credit, special situations and general secured and unsecured lending.

Walkers

Paul Christopher

Paul is the regional Managing Partner of Mourant Asia and the Managing Partner of the Mourant Hong Kong office. He is also the Practice Leader of the firm's Corporate and Investment Funds team in Asia. Paul regularly advises on corporate matters including mergers and acquisitions (public and private), investment funds, joint ventures and the restructuring of companies and structures. These will often be complex and/or private equity-related transactions. Paul has been ranked as a leading individual by Chambers and Partners since 2008 (initially in the United Kingdom and then Asia) and the Legal 500 since 2015. Since 2020 he has been listed in the A-List Offshore Lawyers category in the Asia Business Law Journal and in the A-List China's Elite Foreign Lawyers category in the China Business Law Journal.

Mourant

Paul Firmin

Partner

Oldham, Li & Nie

Paul Greenwell

Paul Greenwell specialises in asset and structured finance, in particular, in relation to the PRC and Japanese markets, and has extensive experience acting for financiers (debt and equity) and lessors in all aspects of aircraft finance and leasing including limited recourse and structured financing, commercial debt financing (including syndicated lending), securitisation of receivables, export credit financing, portfolio transactions (including multi-aircraft purchases and lease novations), corporate acquisitions and disposals, sale and leasebacks, tax leases, finance leases, operating leases, leasing joint ventures and airline defaults, insolvencies and restructurings and aircraft repossession.

Clifford Chance

Paul Guan

Partner

Kirkland & Ellis

Paul Ho

Partner

Stephenson Harwood

Paul Kwan

Partner

Deacons

Paul Lee

DLA Piper

Paul Li

Paul is an Of Counsel with Simmons & Simmons. Prior to that role Paul was a partner of Simmons & Simmons from 1998 to 2019, having joined the firm in London as a trainee in 1989. During that period he has held several senior management positions, including Head of Asia from 2011 onwards. In that role Paul was responsible for the firm’s business in Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Singapore and Tokyo. In addition to his management responsibilities Paul also maintained a fee earning role. His area of specialty is financial markets regulation where he was active in relation to transactional work, advising on regulatory enforcement issues and defending FIs in connection with mis-selling disputes. Most recently his focus has been to advise clients on the migration of their bricks and mortar businesses on to digital platforms. His work has given Paul the practical experience of managing teams across practice disciplines and jurisdictions. He first became interested in financial markets regulation, when he started as a trainee solicitor just five months after the Financial Services Act came into force in the UK. At the time it was regarded as a new area of law. Realising, at an early stage, the importance of regulation as a specialism, he played an key role in establishing Simmons’ specialist contentious regulatory team in London in 1995 (after a period on secondment to the predecessor of the FCA) and their HK funds and regulatory practice when he transferred to Hong Kong in 2000 He has been involved in a led teams in connection with a number of notable transactions / investigations. Examples of which, involving interaction with the SFC, include the authorisation of the first private sector ETF, the authorisation first synthetic ETF and the Market Misconduct Tribunal in connection with CITIC Pacific.

Simmons & Simmons

Paul Lui

Partner

Haldanes

Paul Moloney

Partner

CMS

Paul Pak-Yin Liu

Partner.

Wilkinson & Grist

Paul Quinn

Partner

Kirkland & Ellis