Mainland China & Hong Kong

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A coordinated and multidisciplinary approach to your cross-border issues across mainland China and Hong Kong.

Mainland China and Hong Kong continue to provide opportunity as well as risks for multinational clients. Seyfarth's employment law and commercial legal teams with experience in more than 170 countries offer a coordinated, multidisciplinary approach that keeps clients’ business objectives on the radar at all times.

HOW WE HELP

Our experience in mainland China and Hong Kong has seen Seyfarth become a trusted advisor to some of the world’s leading organizations.

EMPLOYMENT

Our employment lawyers are well versed in the wide range of legal issues unique to companies employing personnel in mainland China and Hong Kong, as well as on a cross-border basis across the region. We provide assistance on issues ranging from day-to-day matters to large and complex multi-jurisdictional employment law projects, employment compliance, investigations, and employment litigation.

CORPORATE AND COMMERCIAL

Our corporate and commercial practice focuses on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, general corporate and commercial, and corporate strategies. Our on-the-ground presence in mainland China and Hong Kong helps our international clients explore and realize their legal and commercial business opportunities in the Greater China Region.

CAPITAL MARKETS

Our capital markets practice thrives off the strong relationships we have established with issuers and sponsors. We cover a wide range of corporate finance activities, such as initial public offerings (IPOs), public takeovers, privatization, follow-on fundraising, and spin-offs. Major international corporations worldwide, including some headquartered in North America, the Asia Pacific, and the Greater China region, look to us for assistance with domestic and international capital markets transactions. Our team of capital markets lawyers are equipped to guide our international clients through the legal hurdles of international and domestic IPOs.

REGULATORY COMPLIANCE

We assist companies to successfully and proactively navigate through an increasing maze of conveyancing, health and safety, corporate governance, privacy and security, and other real estate related laws and regulation.

REAL ESTATE

Our team has substantial experience in acting for multi-national companies and their overseas subsidiaries, in particular, state-owned companies, listed or non-listed, in various outbound and inbound transactions involving real estate assets in the PRC, UK, US, Southeast Asia, Japan, Russia, and Africa. We help clients to complete many transactions successfully, including greenfield investment, brownfield investment, restructuring, joint venture, financing, asset securitization, leasing, property management, acquisition, disposal, and public take-overs.

TAX PLANNING

Tax planning is important for structuring any real estate or merger and acquisition transaction. This is particularly so for our clients with significant real estate and company portfolios in multiple jurisdictions. Our cross-office tax team can provide multi-jurisdictional tax planning services for clients’ cross-border transactions.

FAMILY OFFICE, TRUST AND ESTATE PLANNING

Wealthy families and their advisers require sophisticated legal services across multiple disciplines. Working with our other offices abroad, our experience encompasses the full range of issues, including tax planning and controversies, setting up and administering family offices, estate planning, trusts and estates administration, business succession planning, charitable giving, and fiduciary litigation.

DISPUTE RESOLUTION

Our legal advice spans all forms of dispute resolution. Our professional team of lawyers help our clients solve cross-border and domestic disputes effectively. Through our offices in mainland China and Hong Kong, we draw on our close working relationships with highly regarded domestic and overseas law firms to represent our clients in Asia and beyond. Whether our clients are involved in commercial disputes, complex labor employment proceedings, or regulatory investigations, we are committed to help them overcome the legal hurdles.

THE SEYFARTH EXPERIENCE

Our experience in employment and commercial law is strengthened by Seyfarth’s international service model, which puts in place an experienced central point of contact for all international matters. For matters outside the region, our service model brings in only those lawyers with a true international expertise, and we have a series of long-standing and very well-tested and reliable relationships with top local counsel across the region, and the globe.