Linklaters has been in Hong Kong for over 30 years. As part of our Greater China offering, this office (alongside Beijing and Shanghai) is recognised as by far the strongest international offering in the market by all benchmarking standards.
Across jurisdictions and practice areas, Linklaters’ lawyers in Hong Kong advise on the most innovative, complex and award-winning deals in the region.
Our reputation is based on an inherent ability to innovatively structure transactions in order to build a complete solution for clients. Our position in the market is summarised by FinanceAsia in its recent editorial describing Linklaters as the ‘Best Financial Law Firm’ for the fourth consecutive year:
“The difficult conditions of the past year actually meant that the field of contenders for our law firm award was broader than usual as the slim pickings left less room for the bigger firms to gain their usual advantage. Nevertheless, Linklaters once again impressed with the scope and quality of its deals ... Linklaters currently tops the Asia M&A league tables thanks to its advice on the year’s stand-out deals … Ominously for its competitors, Linklaters’ mandate on the Lehman liquidation suggests that the firm is well-placed to capitalise on the shift from a bull market to the distressed environment that is likely to dominate in 2009.”
FinanceAsia, 11 December 2008
Linklaters’ clients in Hong Kong rely on the firm’s expertise in areas ranging from corporate/M&A, private equity, banking, projects, capital markets and anti-trust/competition law to litigation & arbitration, financial markets regulation, investment funds management, employment and real estate.
Recent significant transactions include advising
- Lehman Brothers on the US$225 million sale of Lehman Brothers' Asian business to Nomura, including the sale of Lehman's back-office operations in India to Nomura. In addition to advising on the sale, Linklaters also advised KPMG as the provisional liquidators of various companies within Lehman Brothers Asia – Restructuring of the Year, IFLR Asia Awards, 2009
- China Netcom on its US$23.8 billion merger with China Unicom; and China Telecom on its US$15.8 billion acquisition of China Unicom’s CDMA business – M&A Deal of the Year, Financial Times-Mergermarket M&A Awards Asia 2008
- Morgan Stanley and HSBC on the issue of US$1 billion 6.25% Guaranteed Notes due 2018 by HKCG (Finance) Limited - Best investment Grade Bond, FinanceAsia Awards 2008, Best bond/Best investment grade bond/Best new bond/Best corporate bond, The Asset Awards, 2008
- Merrill Lynch on the HK$49.5 billion merger of MTRC Railway and KCRC Railway - M&A Deal of the Year, Asian Legal Business HK Law Awards, 2008
Linklaters operates in Hong Kong through the Hong Kong branch of an English law partnership under the name of Linklaters.
