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Our Hong Kong office* offers legal services and counsel to the United States, international and pan-Asian clients with interests in China and greater Asia. The Hong Kong office is also fully integrated into Akin Gump’s firmwide system of cross-border, cross-practice collaboration—a reflection and conduit of the knowledge, experience and values of the firm as a whole. Our lawyers in Hong Kong, who are qualified in five jurisdictions—Hong Kong, England and Wales, the United States, Australia and Ireland—have broad and deep experience counseling Asian and other international clients on private and public investments, capital markets, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), joint ventures, financial restructuring, funds formation and regulatory, and securities and financial institutions litigation. As a function of Akin Gump’s global collaborative system, our Hong Kong office is also a portal for Asian regional, U.S. and international clients into a legal services network that is available around the clock. Consequently, Akin Gump’s Hong Kong office also offers clients direct access to counsel in more than 85 practices linked across its offices worldwide.

Consistently recognized as a leader in the region, Baker McKenzie has been doing business in Hong Kong for more than 45 years. An integral part of the Firm’s renowned China practice, our team of more than 150 lawyers in Hong Kong has the deep local roots and integrated global reach to help clients solve complex legal problems across borders and practice areas seamlessly. A key strength of our Firm is our ahead of the curve knowledge of the changing local regulations and market dynamics. Established in 1974, our Hong Kong office has advised on market leading transactions in all key practice areas and industry sectors, coordinating significant cross-border assignments emanating from Hong Kong/China for market leading companies. This is particularly evident from our leading position in areas such as restructuring and insolvency, real estate, intellectual property and tax. Our client base includes many FT100 companies as well as leading local conglomerates, which we help overcome the challenges of competing in the global economy. Our ability to draw on our global network of lawyers across a wide range of practices enables us to bring the right team to every transaction.

Chow King & Associates has served international corporate and individual clients since 1988. Chow King & Associates covers all areas of international immigration, including business and investment immigration, citizenship matters, employment-based immigration and temporary work visas for managers / executives / professionals / skilled workers, as well as family-based immigration.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, with more than 1,600 lawyers in 20 offices in major cities throughout the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and South America, is committed to providing the highest quality legal services to its clients. In Europe, our established, internationally networked group of qualified U.S., English, French, Spanish and German lawyers have considerable experience in representing clients with international business interests that require a coordinated and seamless response within and across European national borders.

Since its establishment in 1992 LEHMAN, LEE & XU has provided an integrated professional service to clients doing business in North Asia and throughout the Asia Pacific region and internationally. Our Hong Kong office works closely with other LEHMAN, LEE & XU offices in key business centers of China including Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Tianjin, Guangzhou & Macau.

Ropes & Gray’s Hong Kong office features a team of globally ranked lawyers and practices working seamlessly to offer the highest-caliber legal advice to high-end global and regional private equity funds, hedge funds, sovereign wealth funds, U.S.- and Hong Kong-listed corporations, top-tier investment banks, and global life sciences companies. Qualified in U.S., Hong Kong and English law, our lawyers have extensive experience throughout the Asia-Pacific region and can advise on multijurisdictional, cross-border matters. Nearly all of our lawyers are bilingual, with 80 percent fluent in Mandarin. Backed by the global strength of Ropes & Gray’s 1,400-lawyer team, the firm’s Hong Kong office offers clients access to lawyers whose practices focus on areas that include private equity, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, acquisition and leveraged finance, distressed asset restructuring, special situations, real estate, investment funds, government enforcement and investigations, international arbitration, and business and securities litigation. The office features numerous highly ranked lawyers and practices regularly recognized both globally and locally. In 2017 alone, the office was ranked as a leader in private equity, corporate/M&A, banking and finance, intellectual property, restructuring, disputes/anti-corruption, capital markets, real estate, and investment funds by sources such as Chambers, The Legal 500, IFLR and The Asian Lawyer Awards.

To meet the growing business needs of our clients, Simpson Thacher has been active in Greater China, Korea and across Asia for nearly 30 years through our office in Hong Kong. The highly praised office offers one of the largest resident teams among U.S. law firms to leading Chinese and foreign companies. We advise on U.S., Hong Kong and English laws, and most of our Hong Kong lawyers are bilingual speakers of English and Mandarin Chinese, providing the necessary depth of local experience and appreciation of Chinese culture, customs and business practices.

With approximately 1,700 attorneys, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and its affiliates (collectively referred to as "Skadden, Arps" or the "firm") is one of the largest law firms in the world. We provide a broad range of legal services to the corporate, industrial and financial communities. We represent a broad spectrum of clients, from small high-technology start-up companies to nearly one half of the Fortune 250 industrial and service corporations, as well as many financial and governmental entities.

Sullivan & Cromwell LLP provides the highest quality legal advice and representation to clients around the world. The results the Firm achieves have set it apart for more than 140 years and have become a model for the modern practice of law. Today, S&C is a leader in each of its core practice areas and in each of its geographic markets.

White & Case opened its office in Hong Kong in 1978. Since then, the office has evolved into a full-service firm offering a broad spectrum of legal advice relating to international banking and finance, capital markets transactions, corporate reorganizations, acquisitions and disposals, international joint ventures, taxation, litigation and arbitration. Our substantial China, Philippine and Korea Practice Groups are headquartered in the Hong Kong office. Our lawyers in Hong Kong also advise on transactions elsewhere in Southeast Asia, including Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Taiwan.