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Representative matters

What the work looks like — without the names.

Confidentiality is part of the service, so matters are described without identifying parties or amounts. Each one is real in structure: the situation, the brief, our role and the outcome.

Disputes & Arbitration

Enforcing a CIS arbitral award in Hong Kong

An industrial exporter held a CIS-seated arbitral award against a Hong Kong-incorporated counterparty that had stopped responding to correspondence.

Situation · brief · our role · outcome
Disputes & Arbitration

Mainland judgment recognised for a holding structure

A BVI–Hong Kong holding group held a Mainland money judgment against a defaulting counterparty with assets in Hong Kong.

Situation · brief · our role · outcome
Holding Structures

Trading group consolidated under a BVI–Hong Kong holding

A multi-country trading group had grown into a tangle of entities that its banks increasingly declined to read.

Situation · brief · our role · outcome
M&A & Transactions

Acquisition of a regional distribution business

A buyer had agreed headline terms for an Asian distribution company but had no transaction structure and a seller in a hurry.

Situation · brief · our role · outcome
Private Wealth

Single family office established in Hong Kong

A family with operating businesses in three countries wanted a single point of management for its investment assets — and privacy while building it.

Situation · brief · our role · outcome
Capital Relocation

Source-of-funds dossier for bank onboarding

A first-generation business owner from the CIS faced a stalled onboarding at a Hong Kong bank: three rounds of questions, no decision.

Situation · brief · our role · outcome
Sanctions & AML

Sanctions exposure audit for a commodities group

A commodities trading group operating between Asia and the CIS could not say with confidence which sanctions regimes attached to which legs of its business.

Situation · brief · our role · outcome
Tech & Web3

Post-round IP and token restructuring

A developer studio closed a funding round and discovered its IP sat in the wrong entity — and its token allocations contradicted its cap-table.

Situation · brief · our role · outcome

Past outcomes do not predict the result of any future matter.

Clear & candid We advise on international and foreign law. On matters of Hong Kong law, we work alongside locally licensed firms.
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