Corporate & M&A

In addition to capital market-related services, our transactional practice includes mergers and acquisitions and matters related to private equity, venture capital, banking and finance. We represent investment banks, private equity funds, sovereign wealth funds, institutional investors, strategic investors, portfolio companies, management teams, start-up companies and state owned government organisations, advising on the full spectrum of international corporate transactions. Our team helps manage legal and regulatory concerns on all aspects of corporate activities from the preliminary structuring of a transaction right up to its successful closing. In particular, we have abundant experience in assisting clients manoeuvre through each stage of the acquisition of licensed corporations permitted to carry out regulated activities by the Securities and Futures Commission, including conducting due diligence, drafting share purchase agreements and other transaction documents, preparing substantial shareholder applications, answering the SFC’s post-transfer queries and attending to our clients’ corporate restructuring needs.