Dentons Rattagan Arocena — Hong Kong

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The firm: Dentons provides consistent and uncompromising quality and value to our clients in new and innovative ways. With over 12,000 lawyers and professionals in more than 170 locations spanning 85-plus countries, we bring together top tier talent found at the intersection of geography, industry knowledge and substantive legal expertise. The Hong Kong office provides legal advice and representation to governments and state owned entities, financial institutions, multinational corporations, professional services firms and high net worth individuals in relation to their business needs in Hong Kong, across the Asia Pacific region and globally. Our Hong Kong team comprises experienced lawyers and leading professionals qualified in six jurisdictions – Hong Kong, England and Wales, the United States (New York, District of Columbia), Singapore, Australia and New Zealand. Our core areas of services include: - Arbitration - Banking and Finance - Blockchain, Digital Assets & Cryptocurrency - Capital Markets - Construction - Employment and Labour - Family Office and High Net Worth - Intellectual Property and Technology - Investment Funds and Income Trusts - Litigation and Dispute Resolution - Mergers and Acquisitions - Privacy and Cybersecurity - Real Estate - Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy - White-collar and government investigations ### Areas of practice Arbitration: Dentons’ world renounced international arbitration team works seamlessly across offices and regions to assist clients from the onset of a dispute, through to enforcement of an arbitral award. We are familiar with the major institutional and procedural rules and we know the arbitrators who decide cases. As a global law firm with a significant presence in mainland China, we find ourselves a go-to firm for both mainland Chinese parties to Hong Kong arbitration (including state owned enterprises) and international clients (typically from the US and Europe). We have extensive experience in handling jurisdictional challenges against arbitration proceedings, applying for interim relief (such as asset preservation orders in China) in aid of arbitral proceedings, and representing claimants in enforcing Hong Kong and foreign arbitral awards. Banking and finance: Dentons’ Hong Kong banking and finance team assists a wide range of commercial banks, investment banks, accounting firms, insurance companies, asset management companies, trust companies, financial companies, funds and other financial institutions, as well as government agencies, with transactions of every size and scope. Our structured finance and securitisation lawyers represent virtually every banking and financial institution that is active in the financing, purchase and securitisation of financial assets. Blockchain, Digital Assets & Cryptocurrency: The Dentons Blockchain, Digital Assets & Cryptocurrency team has deep and broad experience at the intersection of law, technology and finance. Our expertise in emerging technologies is continually reinforced by our active participation in global tech, finance, legal, and regulatory communities. As a result, we stand at the forefront, shaping the next wave of innovation and navigating these business considerations with our clients. From startups to established public and private enterprises, we help companies confidently navigate legal, regulatory and compliance matters in the digital assets space. Capital markets: Dentons Hong Kong is one of the few firms in Hong Kong that has on-the-ground capability to advise on both Hong Kong and US securities laws in IPO and other capital markets transactions. The Hong Kong equity capital markets team has represented issuers and underwriters in over 60 Hong Kong IPOs, including Main Board and GEM, red chip and H-share projects. The firm’s debt capital markets team has advised clients on the full spectrum of international and domestic debt offerings. Construction: Dentons has decades of experience advising a vast range of construction industry clients, including owners, developers, lenders, general contractors and equipment suppliers. Clients can benefit from our comprehensive understanding of the entire process and extensive knowledge of the potential pitfalls in small to large-scale building and construction projects. In Mainland China and Hong Kong, our construction team has a special focus on contentious and non-contentious construction matters, providing commercial legal advice to government departments, statutory bodies, employers, engineers, architects, contractors and subcontractors, institutional investors, developers, and energy and utility companies in relation to complex, high-valued infrastructure and building construction projects in Hong Kong, China and in other jurisdictions across Asia, as well as representing clients in construction-related criminal investigations and prosecutions. Employment and Labour: Dentons’ Employment and Labour team advises local and foreign clients on a range of employment and HR related matters, including employment contracts and policies, employees' protection and compensation, restrictive covenants, transfer and secondment of staff, visas and work permits arrangement, redundancy issues, data privacy, discrimination issues and occupational safety and health issues. We support our clients in every stage of an employment relationship and our employment litigation specialists handle labour disputes brought at the Equal Opportunities Commission, the Labour Tribunal, the District Court and the High Court as well as handling large-scale internal investigations, regulatory reporting and acrimonious terminations. Family Office and High Net Worth: Dentons’ representation of family office and high-net-worth individuals spans six continents. Our global, full-service capability allows us to help our clients navigate matters in multiple jurisdictions (as demanded in today’s international marketplace) while actively engaging with them in their local community. Depending on the client’s situation, we create a “team of teams” that includes lawyers from among our many practice areas and/or locations to provide the needed expertise and geographic presence. We bring to each situation a value-oriented philosophy and an innovative approach that is always viewed from the unique perspective of each client’s personal and business objectives. Intellectual Property and Technology: Dentons’ Intellectual Property and Technology practice is a recognised leader in delivering innovative, commercially focused solutions. With more than 600 lawyers and professionals across 170+ offices in 85+ countries, we provide clients with a fully integrated global platform to handle complex, cross-border IP and technology matters with consistency, efficiency, and scale. Our Hong Kong team, strategically positioned at the gateway between Mainland China and international markets, combines deep local expertise with seamless access to Dentons’ global network. We support clients across Asia-Pacific and beyond on multi-jurisdictional matters spanning diverse legal and regulatory environments. Investment funds: Dentons Hong Kong offers a full range of services to investors and investee companies, including, on the public fund side, helping local fund houses to establish public funds and international fund clients to obtain regulatory approval for offering fund products to the Hong Kong public, and, on the private fund side, setting up and structuring onshore and/or offshore investment funds. We pride ourselves in being a one-stop shop supporting the entire investment life cycle and investment managers’ value chain. Our team carries unique capabilities advising on regulatory matters in the management or offering of investment products, also in relation to different responsible investment strategies and related environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues for investors and investee companies. Litigation and dispute resolution: Dentons Hong Kong has a strong track record in advising on a broad range of high-value, complex and multi-jurisdictional disputes for clients regionally and globally. We assist our clients in pursuing, defending and mediating a wide variety of civil and commercial claims in all level of courts and across various jurisdictions and industry sectors. We also frequently handle applications for injunctive relief and asset freezing, and help our clients implement tracing and enforcement of judgments. From risk analysis to crisis management, we have a team of seasoned lawyers to provide you with clear advice and quality representations in writing and hearings. Mergers and acquisitions: Dentons' Hong Kong mergers and acquisitions team offers a full service to local and international clients, including entity formation, conversion, dissolution and liquidation as well as legal counseling covering all aspects of transactional and operational work in our clients’ businesses. The firm has represented public and private companies, buyers and sellers, boards of directors, shareholders, investors and owners, partnerships and private individuals, financial services institutions, underwriters, commercial and investment banks on a wide range of matters. The team also advises on commercial issues including regulatory and compliance and data protection. Privacy and Cybersecurity: Dentons has one of the most sophisticated and largest dedicated data privacy teams across the globe with 200+ data privacy and cybersecurity experts in 85+ jurisdictions worldwide. Our global privacy team members routinely work together on complex multijurisdictional projects and we have embedded a streamlined internal matter management approach to ensure efficiencies are achieved. We have a strong track record in relation to global data privacy and cybersecurity projects, proven methodologies and an innovative product suite that enables service delivery efficiencies. Real estate: Dentons’ Asia Pacific real estate group is a diverse team that provides advice with both a global and regional perspective, with experience and familiarity with complex cross-border transactions as well as deep local knowledge in the many jurisdictions in which we practice. The group assists investment banks, private equity funds, financial institutions and developers in acquisitions and dispositions, financings, joint venture and construction transactions. The group also routinely represents hospitality clients as well institutional landlords and tenants in commercial transactions. Our group focuses on an integrated approach, giving clients the comfort of an unmatched global and regional presence together with a deep understanding of local real estate markets befitting a firm with offices in most, if not all, of the locations where our clients do business. The group also routinely works with our other related practice groups to provide our clients with seamless access to our experience in project finance, project development and dispute resolution matters. Restructuring, insolvency and bankruptcy: Dentons’ restructuring, Insolvency bankruptcy team provides full-service to a wide range of clients, including companies facing financial distress, debtors and potential debtors, official and ad hoc committees, secured and unsecured creditors. Our lawyers’ experience covers every aspect of bankruptcy, reorganisation and creditors’ rights representation. Our practice is a leading player in the Hong Kong market, and is well known for both its contentious and non-contentious work. Over the years, we have been involved in many high profile insolvency matters, both in Hong Kong and internationally. We position ourselves at the top end of the market with a focus on challenging and complex work. White-collar and government investigations: Dentons Hong Kong advises and acts for clients in both contentious and non-contentious regulatory matters, ranging from acting for clients in Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) and Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) investigations to providing compliance advice in relation to requirements of the SFC. Our team also has considerable hands-on experience in the investigation of commercial fraud and white-collar crimes; supporting clients from urgent asset freezing injunction order applications, tracking and recovery of stolen or misappropriated assets, to providing interim relief in aid of overseas legal proceedings. The size and scale of our practice enables us to deploy large teams for major investigations and litigation, or to call on individual experts to advise on niche areas of law often required by clients within financial services e.g. sanctions, financial crime and national security matters. We are relatively unique in that we work both for and against regulators and our work for the SFC, Securities and Exchange Commission and the Hong Kong government gives us unparalleled insight which our private sector clients consider invaluable. ### Languages - Cantonese - English - Mandarin ### Staffing Figures - 0 Number of lawyers (globally) - 0 at this office

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Lawyers in this office

Alfred Wu

Alfred is a partner in Dentons' Litigation & Dispute Resolution Group based in Hong Kong. With over 25 years of experience, Alfred is a highly regarded lawyer in the areas of general commercial litigation, arbitration and construction. He advises clients on a broad range of commercial disputes primarily in arbitration. His arbitration experience include both local and international arbitrations. Clients he has represented include banks, Hong Kong listed issuers, multinational corporations, funds, accountants/ liquidators and high-net-worth individuals. Alfred also has a special focus on contentious and non-contentious construction and engineering matters representing international, China and Hong Kong based clients which variously include government departments, statutory bodies, employers, engineers, architects, contractors and subcontractors. Alfred also represents clients in construction-related criminal investigations and prosecutions. On the contentious side, Alfred has represented clients in various disputes, in litigation and arbitration, arising from infrastructure and building construction projects in Hong Kong, Macau, Mainland China and the region. Projects involved include various large scale road/highway development projects, water supply and sewer main development projects, railway projects, housing projects, land reclamation, hospital projects, the Hong Kong International Airport, Environmental Protection Department projects, casinos in Macau, LPG facilities in China, etc. The issues in dispute include variations, delays, loss and expense, measurement of quantities, defective works, suspension/termination of works, negligence (including collapse of works under construction and demolition), and other payment issues (including interim payments, final accounts and retention money). In addition, there were tender related issues, employment issues, sub-contractor nomination issues, insolvency issues, environmental issues, regulatory violations, bribery on construction sites, fraud, etc. On the non-contentious side, Alfred has advised on all Hong Kong Government standard forms of contract, FIDIC, NEC, JCT and ICE forms of contract, as well as bespoke and other private forms of contract. He also regularly advises on tendering processes, consultancy agreements, formation of joint ventures (both incorporated and unincorporated), post-contract risk issues as well as construction bonds, guarantees and other construction related instruments. Alfred also regularly takes on appointments as arbitrator for construction related and other commercial arbitrations. He is an HKIAC Accredited Mediator and a panel arbitrator of the HKIAC, SIAC, AIAC, APIAC, SHIAC and KCAB. He sits regularly in ad hoc arbitrations and arbitrations administered by the HKIAC, SIAC and SHIAC. Alfred has been ranked as a leading construction practitioner in Chambers & Partners from 2016 to 2025. In the latest edition of Chambers Greater China guide, an impressed client said, “I really like Alfred; he is very hard-working and very responsive. He is very attentive to detail and his legal drafting is accurate.” Another client added, “Alfred Wu has an engineering background, so he understands a lot of the technical issues which arise in these cases. His ability to understand and explain them in simpler terms is a real asset.” In the testimonial for his leading individual ranking for construction in Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2023-2025, Alfred has been recognised for his “deep litigation expertise in the sector both on regular fee-earning matters as well as in his role as an arbitrator”. A client commented, “Alfred Wu provided a first-class service in delivering focussed and responsive advice. He also ensured that the barrister team had what they needed to properly fight the case, much to the client’s benefit. He was a stand out lawyer on this matter.” Alfred was ranked as a Litigation Star in Construction and Commercial & Transactions by Benchmark Litigation Asia Pacific 2025. He was also recognised in International Arbitration as a well-known practitioner by the Legal 500 Arbitration Powerlist 2023, and one client commented, “Alfred Wu is the principal partner. He is very experienced and conscientious, gains the confidence of clients and leads his team very capably on behalf of his clients." Lexology Index also ranked Alfred as a recommended lawyer for Arbitration and Construction in its Mainland China, Hong Kong SAR and Macao SAR 2024 report. · Construction

Jeff Chen

Jeff Chen heads the structured finance practice at Dentons Hong Kong LLP with pan-Asia coverage on cross-border transactions. Jeff has over 20 years' experience in Asia as a legal practitioner in all areas of fixed income, including securitization, structured notes, derivatives, private structured debt, distressed debt, and project finance. Jeff has enjoyed prominent league table rankings throughout his career: Leading lawyer (Band 3) in Capital Markets: Securitisation in the 2024 Chambers & Partners Greater China Guide Leading Individual in Structured Finance and Securitisation in the 2025 Legal 500 Asia Pacific Guide Highly regarded lawyer in Capital markets : Structured finance and securitization in the 2024 IFLR1000 Asia Pacific Guide Winner for Fixed Income Lawyer of the Year in China chosen by Leaders in Law – 2023 Global Awards Acritas Star – independently rated lawyer in Thomson Reuters2021 survey of global senior in-house counsels Lead lawyer on IFLR 2020 Structured Finance and Securitisation Deal of the Year (with the same nomination on another deal in 2021) Leading lawyer in the 2008 IFLR Global Guide to the World's Leading Structured Finance and Securitization Lawyers · Structured Finance

Keith Brandt

Keith is Managing Partner of Dentons Hong Kong. He is also Global Vice Chair and a member of the Dentons Global Board and serving on a number of the Global Boards’ subcommittees. He has more than 40 years’ experience in heavyweight dispute resolution, including high court/commercial court litigation, domestic and international arbitration, expert determinations, alternative dispute resolution, and mediations with particular focus on the energy, construction and financial services sectors. Keith has been widely recognised by various legal publications. He was named “Managing Partner of the Year” at the Asian Legal Business Hong Kong Law Awards 2024 and was selected as one of the Top 15 Litigators in Asia by Asian Legal Business in 2021. Chambers Greater China 2025 ranked Keith as a leading lawyer in Dispute Resolution: Litigation for China. A client commented that “I find Keith to be a most astute and commercial-minded lawyer. He is extremely insightful.” Another client described Keith as “an outstanding lawyer, organiser and person to have on your side. He's great when it comes to client care." Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2025 ranked Keith as a leading partner in Dispute Resolution: Litigation for Hong Kong. He is praised by a client as a lawyer who is “top quality legal brain, highly organised, proactive and very well-liked by clients.” Keith was named a “Litigation Star” by Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific 2025 and was also ranked as a recommended lawyer for Arbitration and Asset Recovery in Lexology Index: Mainland China, Hong Kong SAR and Macao SAR 2024 report. He was recognised as a highly regarded lawyer for Restructuring and insolvency in Hong Kong by IFLR1000 2025 and an elite practitioner in The Legal 500 Arbitration Powerlist: Hong Kong 2023. The firm which Keith managed was named as “Civil Litigation Law Firm of the Year” by Asian Legal Business Hong Kong Law Awards 2019. Global Law Experts 2020 awarded Keith, and the team he led, as “Financial Services Sector Disputes Law Firm of the Year” in Hong Kong. Keith was also named to the Asian Legal Business' lawyers "Hot 100" list which recognised Asia's leaders, movers & shakers. Keith has a varied client base with an international background operating in a diversified number of jurisdictions, with particular experience in Asia Pacific including Hong Kong, mainland China, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and the Middle East, including the Indian sub-continent. · Litigation

Loke-Khoon Tan

Loke-Khoon Tan is a partner and Head of IP & Technology Practice of Dentons Hong Kong. Widely recognised in the region and globally for his extensive experience in Intellectual Property (IP) law, particularly in Hong Kong and Mainland China, Loke-Khoon focuses on the structuring and enforcement of intellectual property rights and comprehensive anti counterfeiting strategies. His practice covers trademarks, designs, copyright, trade names, computer software, passing off and unfair competition, as well as labelling laws, food, drug and health regulations, and consumer, media and advertising laws. With the growth of the new economy, Loke-Khoon also advises on Internet and social media matters, media and entertainment, artificial intelligence, and technology related legal issues. Loke-Khoon has substantial experience representing major brands and multinational corporations across a wide range of industries, including luxury and fashion, retail, consumer goods, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, media and entertainment, alcohol and spirits, and food and beverage. Loke-Khoon is an award-winning IP lawyer and led the regional IP & Technology practice and Consumer Goods & Retail Industry practice of his prior firm for two decades. He is recognised as an Eminent Practitioner for Intellectual Property in China/Hong Kong by Chambers Greater China 2026 and is inducted into the Hall of Fame for Intellectual Property in Hong Kong by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2026. He is also consistently ranked as a leading lawyer by Chambers Global, World Intellectual Property Review, Asia IP Experts, Benchmark Litigation Asia Pacific, World Trademark Review 1000, and Managing Intellectual Property. · Intellectual Property