HWANG LEE & ASSOCIATES.

We can assist with Bankruptcy Orders, as well as documentation and application for discharge.

The focus of our Banking & Finance practice is on simple yet unique and effective solutions to the intricate legal issues that confront our clients.

The team’s transactional and regulatory lawyers have led the market with complex transaction types and financial instruments that are now being used in Hong Kong, by facilitating ground-breaking transactions in both primary and secondary markets.

With our solution-driven focus, the lawyers in our Banking & Finance Practice have consistently been ranked as leaders in their respective fields, not only by our clients but also by their local and international peers.

We advise all the major financial institutions and banks in Hong Kong, including their investment banking divisions, as well as international banks and law firms relating to off-shore finance transactions.

We specialize and have extensive experience in syndicated and bilateral finance, project and limited recourse finance, leveraged and acquisition finance, structured finance, commodity and trade finance, debt capital markets transactions and securitizations.

In the leveraged and acquisition finance field, our experienced transactional lawyers have advised on a vast number of private equity transactions and other public-to-private transactions within and outside Hong Kong over the last few years, including in the consumer products, retail and financial services sectors.

In the project finance, infrastructure and public-private-partnership fields, our lawyers have represented lenders and borrowers in some of the largest transactions of this type in Hong Kong and other part of the world. The team has a thorough knowledge of the regulatory framework applicable to such projects and has been closely involved with other departments within the firm in advising on various aspects of such projects, including advising on the applicable environmental and energy legislation. The industry sectors involved include mining and exploration, roads, prisons, hospitals, water, accommodation and renewable energy.

The same can be said of our syndicated and bilateral financing work, where we have advised lenders and borrowers across various industry sectors including consumer products, retailing, mining and exploration, financial services and telecommunications. We have a special focus on medium and large local and international transactions.

The team has extensive experience in the debt capital markets field and regularly advises arrangers, dealers, corporate issuers, parastatals and rating agencies on bond issues, domestic medium term note programmes and high yield bonds, and advises local banks in respect of their European note programmes.

The team advised on the first issue by a Hong Kong insurer of callable bonds that qualified as regulatory capital for the issuer.

In the securitization field, the team’s expertise remains unique. To date, only a small number of synthetic securitizations have been undertaken in Hong Kong and our Banking & Finance lawyers were actively involved in almost all of them. We have advised arrangers, issuers and rating agencies in respect of the securitization of scorecard receivables, auto loans, mortgaged-backed residential property loans and pension-backed home loans.

Lawyers in our Banking & Finance practice are constantly recognized as leaders in their respective fields in international law firm publications such as Chambers Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business.