Corporate
Company and Commercial
We offer advice on all aspects of company and
commercial law. Our clients range from on-shore and off-shore investment
companies and import and export firms to hoteliers, securities companies,
computer service and "hi-tech" companies, trading companies
and manufacturers as well as shipowners and banks. With local, regional
and international experience, we offer clients a wealth of experience.
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Corporate Finance
We are one of a small number of leading firms
with extensive knowledge and experience in international and regional
securities work. Our Corporate Finance group advises on equity and
debt fund raising; public company mergers, acquisitions and takeovers;
corporate reorganisations; corporate re-domicile schemes; capital
restructuring; asset and business acquisitions and disposals and
compliance. We were awarded the "best corporate finance and
listing law firm" award at the Asian Law Awards 2000. We have
also acted in a number of listings on overseas stock exchanges in
London, Singapore, New York, the Philippines, Oslo and Luxembourg.
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Direct Investment and Joint Ventures
With a significant part of our client base represented
by public companies, we have extensive experience in negotiating,
structuring, documenting and conducting due diligence in share sales
and acquisitions in both public and private companies throughout
the Asia-Pacific region. We advise institutional investors, investment
funds, vulture funds, angel investors and multinational corporations
on management buy-outs and buy-ins, leveraged buy-outs, shareholder
rights and exit strategies.
We have advised on many high profile joint ventures
including mergers of existing companies and new ventures. Using
our international contacts we provide a full service on cross border
and multi-jurisdictional joint ventures including advice on structuring,
regulatory, tax, employment and intellectual property issues.
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Growth Enterprise Market (GEM)
The Asia Pacific Legal 500 has described Richards
Butler as having "a remarkable showing on GEM listings having
advised on more than one third of all listings so far". Richards
Butler was commissioned by The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited
to draft the rules governing the listing of securities on the Growth
Enterprise Market and therefore has a detailed and unique understanding
of the background to the rules and the Stock Exchange's views on
the likely interpretation of the concepts that are new to GEM (as
distinct from the Main Board). The operation of the Growth Enterprise
Market commenced in the last quarter of 1999.
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Hong Kong Stock Exchange (Main Board)
A very significant portion of our corporate
practice work involves advising on transactions entered into in
compliance with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange Rules and securities
laws, which we have played a key role in developing. To date our
corporate finance group has acted in numerous Hong Kong listings
including H-share listings, introductions, Hong Kong rights issues
and open offers, warrant issues and placings, equity-linked transactions
and ADR programmes and the full range of options and derivative
products. We have also acted in transactions involving initial or
secondary offerings of B-shares.
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Hospitality and Leisure Industry
We are well established in the hotel, hospitality
and leisure industry and act for owners, developers, operators and
financiers. Advice is regularly given on matters such as hotel and
club management and franchising, technical services and related
agreements; establishment of business consortia and joint ventures;
receiverships and liquidations; service agreements and employment
law; insolvency and restructuring of hotel groups.
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Insolvency and Restructuring
The scope of our unrivalled mergers and acquisitions
practice extends to corporate restructuring. The firm has acted
in a number of transactions involving the reorganisation of corporate
groups and regularly advises clients who wish to streamline operations
by way of spin-offs, divestitures or privatisation as well as clients
who wish to acquire or dispose of assets of troubled companies.
Our selection as counsel in many of the award-winning deal of the
year transactions is indicative of our outstanding insolvency and
corporate restructuring practice.
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Our mergers and acquisitions practice has an
exceptional reputation. The Asia Pacific Legal 500 has credited
us with being "probably the lead M&A practice in Hong Kong"
and "one of the most successful corporate and capital markets
practices". The firm has provided innovative structuring and
legal advice in a number of transactions involving the acquisition
and disposal of private and public companies and of their undertakings,
for local and international clients which include companies and
merchant and investment banks. We have extensive expertise on contested
mergers and acquisitions, on negotiated transactions such as the
sale and purchase of securities and assets and on corporate restructuring.
We also advise directors of major public companies in the Asia Pacific
region on contests in corporate control and on corporate governance.
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PRC
We have considerable experience in the formation
of Foreign Investment Enterprises in the PRC and understand the
legal, regulatory and taxation issues as well as the business environment
of the PRC. Such Foreign Investment Enterprises include a number
of equity joint ventures, co-operative joint ventures and wholly-owned
foreign enterprises. Working closely with our Beijing office we
have also advised clients on numerous H share and B share issues,
acquisitions, trademark licensing and technology transactions and
financing and security transactions within the PRC. Our clients
include entities formed or incorporated in the PRC, Hong Kong, the
United States, the UK, Singapore and Malaysia.
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Telecommunications
Our broad experience in the telecoms sector
includes IPOs, ISPs and mergers and acquisitions of telecommunications
companies, including the takeover of Cable & Wireless HKT Limited
by Pacific Century Cyberworks Limited (Asia's biggest ever takeover
outside Japan). We advise private and public companies, venture
capital investors, telecommunications operators and developers in
the fixed, mobile and satellite and broadcasting services industry.
Our clients rely on our expertise spanning many different practice
areas, in particular M&A, joint ventures and financings.
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