Tana Chan > Deacons > Hong Kong, Hong Kong > Lawyer Profile
Deacons Offices
5TH FLOOR, ALEXANDRA HOUSE
18 CHATER ROAD, CENTRAL
HONG KONG
Hong Kong
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Tana Chan
Work Department
Private Clients & Property
Position
Partner
Career
Tana specialises in private clients practice including wealth, later-life and succession planning, wills, probate and estate administration. She has extensive experience in advising both private and corporate clients in a broad range of legal issues relating to wills, probate and inheritance of wealth, and providing comprehensive legal services to individuals to ensure smooth transfer of family wealth. Tana’s expertise lies in will preparation, handling local and foreign grant applications, administration and distribution of estates with multi-jurisdictional elements, and advising on enduring powers of attorney, advance directives, will trusts and succession matters in Hong Kong. Tana also speaks on succession-related topics in seminars for clients and wealth management industry.
Languages
English
Cantonese
Mandarin
Memberships
- Solicitor, Hong Kong, 2015
- Greater Bay Area Lawyer, 2023
Education
- LLB, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2012
- PCLL, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2013
- Passed Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Legal Qualification Examination, 2021
Lawyer Rankings
Hong Kong > Private Client and Family
Deacons‘ practice is praised by clients for being ‘uniquely placed in the market to handle complicated, big money family disputes involving mental capacity and vulnerable clients’, often assisting high-net-worth clients. This team is jointly led by Joseph Kwan
, Lilian Chiang, Sherlynn Chan, Taylor Hui. Cecilia Lau is instrumental in the team’s disputes work, often acting in multijurisdictional divorce disputes, while Chan and Hazel Wong are key contacts for vulnerable clients and cases involving mental capacity. Kwan is recommended for his experience in large-scale family disputes, and Tana Chan, whose advice is described as ‘pragmatic and commercial‘, is another key team member.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Commercial, corporate and M&A: Leading independent Hong Kong Law Firms
- Intellectual property
- Investment funds
- Labour and employment
- Real estate
Firm Rankings
- Construction
- Fintech and financial services regulatory
- Private Client and Family
- Antitrust and competition
- Capital markets (debt)
- Capital markets (equity)
- Corporate (including M&A)
- Data protection and cyber security
- Dispute resolution: litigation
- Insurance
- TMT
- Banking and finance
- Dispute resolution: international arbitration