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The Hong Kong Court of First Instance has recently handed down a decision on a transaction at an undervalue, involving the replacement of a valuable claim with a paper claim of the same face value, allegedly for the...

subject matter of the decision in Cobbe concerned the negotiations to enter into an agreement, in which the negotiating parties were not subject to a duty to negotiate in good faith.

Economic View, June 26 (by Wei Wei, Zhou Yihang) – "Enterprise deployment of AI has entered a new stage. The rise of open-source models such as DeepSeek has shifted AI from ‘innovation for innovation's...

The impetus for the Ordinance can be traced back to the unprecedented challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020, Court closures and public health restrictions led to significant delays...

In the recent decision in Re Shinsun Holdings (Group) Co., Ltd. FSD 192 of 2022 (DDJ) (21 April 2023) (unreported), the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands ruled, for the first time...

We previously wrote about the Court's attitude to liquidators' applications for directions on matters arising in a compulsory winding up (i.e., by the court) under section 200 of the Companies...

In Hong Kong, it is very common for retailers to rent a space for businesses. It is of paramount importance that these retailers have sufficient contractual protection

An arbitration provision contained conditions precedent to the commencement of arbitration. These conditions were not met and arbitration was commenced in any event.

In a recent judgment (Construction Company v Guarantor [2021] HKCFI 2558, judgment date: 17 August 2021), a Hong Kong court upheld a U.S. arbitral award made pursuant to a split dispute resolution clause.

In the recent case of Re China Evergrande Group (in liquidation) [2025] HKCFI 1638, the Court of First Instance addresses the issue of whether a person holding merely an economic interest (as opposed to a legal right) in a note or bond ...

A recent judgment in Hong Kong regarding a law firm may be of interest to employers managing senior employees with wide operational discretion. Although the case arose in a law firm setting, the court’s reasoning...

Is it possible for a debtor company to issue debt (such as bonds) and contractually agree for that debt to rank lower in priority than debts owed by a company to other unsecured creditors?

If passed, the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Bill will have a wide impact on the Hong Kong insurance industry.

A construction contract may not need to be in writing but there still needs to be a contract.

The significant year-on-year GDP growth of 8% and 7.6% in the first two quarters of 2021 respectively has put an end to the negative GDP growth recorded in 2019 and 2020.

Hong Kong has launched a two-month consultation period on introducing a statutory cooling-off period for and imposing a contract duration limitation on pre-paid consumer contracts in the beauty and fitness industries. This initiative targets longstanding issues of unfair trade practices (“UTP”) to protect the rights and interests of consumers by amending the Trade Descriptions Ordinance (“TDO”), the primary consumer protection legislation in Hong Kong.

In Decision Inc Holdings Proprietary Ltd v Garbett [2023] EWCA Civ 1284, the Court of Appeal considered whether the High Court erred in finding that the sellers of a company had breached a warranty...