CORPORATE AND COMMERCIAL
The Corporate and Commercial Department serves individual and corporate clients from the date when they embark on a business venture. Services provided include advising and preparing documentation for :

	initial public offerings (including "B" share and "H" share issues Main Board and GEM Board listings) and securities offerings;
	various forms of corporate fund raising exercises including rights issues, placing, "top-ups" and issues of convertible securities;
	various forms of derivative instruments;
	takeovers of public companies;
	stock lending and borrowing;
	incorporation of Hong Kong or off-shore corporations; shareholders' agreements and general corporate secretarial work;
	formation of partnerships and partnership agreements;
	director's share option schemes, restrictive covenants and general employment contracts;
	corporate re-structuring and redomiciliation;
	joint ventures; non-competition and buy back arrangements;
	mergers & acquisitions.
	manufacturing agreements, distributorship agreements, franchising agreements, licensing agreements and other commercial and trading arrangements;
	tax related matters;

A team of lawyers from our Corporate and Commercial Department and Real Estate Department joined forces with Messrs. Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in advising the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government in its successful negotiation with the Disney Group for the construction of a Theme Park in Lantau Island which was opened in September 2005.

With more than 25 years experience in cross-border transactions between Hong Kong and Mainland China, the firm has acted for a significant number of local and international clients in their joint ventures, merger and acquisition activities in Mainland China, for example in 2004, our firm acted for a listed corporation in acquiring a nation-wide network of over 200 watch distribution outlets in Mainland China.

CORPORATE FINANCE
Corporate finance work represents a significant portion of work of our Corporate and Commercial Department. Work covers various forms of corporate fund raising and initial public offerings which include "B" share and "H" share issues, Main Board and GEM Board listings on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

With the firm's strong roots in cross-border legal work between Hong Kong and China, we are an ideal candidate to represent China state enterprises and Hong Kong corporations which have operations in China seeking listings in Hong Kong.

In the past years we have handled a significant number of listings in Hong Kong which include the listing of the following "H" shares and "Red Chips" :

CIG-WH International (Holdings) Limited	("Red Chip")
Founder (Hong Kong) Limited	("Red Chip")
Jingwei Textile Machinery Company Limited	("H" Share)
Anhui Expressway Company Limited	("H" Share)
Anhui Conch Cement Company Limited	("H" Share)
Sinopec Kantons Holdings Ltd.	("Red Chip")

The recent I.P.O. works include:

Hembly International Holdings Limited	("Red Chip")
Jutal Offshore Oil Services Limited	("Red Chip")
Wuyi International Pharmaceutical Company Limited	("Red Chip")
Tianneng Power International Limited	(“Red Chip”)

The corporations we represented in their listing cover a wide range of business activities - from cement production to toy, watch, garment and electronic goods manufacturing; from expressway to software programming; from construction to oil trading and distribution and from transportation to pharmaceutical production and distribution.

With China's accession to the WTO, more private and state enterprises in China will look eagerly to Hong Kong as a financial centre to raise funds to fuel their expansion activities, and our corporate finance lawyers will have a more significant role to play in this new era.

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