Lewis Silkin

Joint managing partners: Jo Farmer, Richard Miskella

Joint Heads of Hong Kong: Catherine Leung, Jezamine Fewins

International offices: Dublin, Hong Kong

The firm: At Lewis Silkin, we do things differently.

We’re an international law firm with a focus on what matters most to your business - your ideas and people. We help turn ideas into reality, supporting creativity, innovation, transformation and growth. And with the UK’s largest and best regarded employment law team, we help you realise the potential in your people.

With more than 750 people working across nine offices, plus strategic partnerships around the world, we take pride in our difference.

Lewis Silkin’s Hong Kong offices focuses on employment, intellectual property, litigation, data privacy, immigration and reward advice. The firm advises both businesses headquartered in, and those with operations in, Hong Kong on the full range of people and brand protection matters including:

Employment and immigration law

• day-to-day HR support
• employment documentation
• separation agreements
• employment disputes in the Labour Tribunal
• restrictive covenants and team moves
• whistleblowing and discrimination claims
• transfer of business undertakings
• restructuring
• immigration applications
• employee benefits sand incentives
• worker status (including worker status claims)
• advising senior executives

Intellectual property

• complex licensing
• issuing and defending proceedings relating to IP infringement
• assignment and manufacturing
• lodging opposition, cancellation, rectification and invalidation proceedings
• service and distribution agreements
• IP aspects of corporate transactions (including IP due diligence and stock exchange listings)

Data privacy

• compliance with the Hong Kong Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (PDPO)
• privacy policy documents
• workplace data privacy issues
• terms of business
• performing audits
• handling data breaches
• subject access requests

Commercial litigation

• disputes relating to commercial contracts
• director and shareholder disputes
• disputes relating to fraud
• interim relief
• arbitration
• mediation

The Hong Kong office supports various multinationals on international projects across the Asia Pacific region as well as global project. The office also advises Asia Pacific-based companies on the setting up of operations in the UK, in particular working closely alongside the firm’s London-based Chinese, Japanese and Korean desks.