On 16 August 2024, The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the "Exchange") released a consultation paper to seek market feedback on proposals that would further expand the paperless listing regime.

On 24 January 2025, The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the "Exchange") released consultation conclusions on its further proposals to expand the paperless listing regime and other rule amendments.

A new report, commissioned by the Gender Studies Programme of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) has identified various ways in which Hong Kong legislation...

2025年1月24日，香港联合交易所有限公司刊发有关进一步无纸化上市改革的谘询总结。

After six months of consultations with interested organisations/individuals and deliberations by the Bills Committee of the Legislative Council, the Stamp Duty (Amendment) Ordinance 2011 ("Amendment Ordinance") was finally passed by the Legislative Council and gazetted on 30 June 2011. Apart from the obvious implications, the legislation creates unforeseen consequences which developers, banks, vendors and purchasers of residential properties must note.

The Situation: On July 14, 2020, President Trump signed into law the Hong Kong Autonomy Act (the "HKAA"), the U.S. government's response to China's new National Security Law for Hong Kong.

In Tam Sze Leung & Ors v Commissioner of Police [2021] HKCFI 3118, the Court of First Instance held that the Hong Kong Police's practice of issuing "Letters of No Consent" ("LNCs") to banks and financial institutions...

The world's imagination has been caught up in the Hong Kong protests this week, but how has the unrest impacted Asia's First City of Finance?

Pride Month aims to raise awareness around equality and celebrating our LGBTQIA+ people and communities and to raise awareness of issues that affect them and steer conversation and action towards positive change.

The Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal ruled on 10 April that the issue of ‘Letters of No Consent' by the Commissioner of Police, which prevent the release of suspicious funds to bank customers...

MoFo pro bono lawyers pour their hearts and souls — and hours — into a variety of worthy projects. And, no matter the result, our attorneys always leave behind a mark on the clients

In a recent decision handed down on 6 January 2021Wong Wing Wah v. Collector of Stamp Duty [2021] HKCFI 11, [2021] HKEC 14, Hong Kong's Court of First Instance ruled that the Government's...

As explained in our previous Legal Update "New Companies Ordinance Expected to Take Effect in 2014", the new Companies Ordinance (CO) was gazetted on 10 August 2012 and is expected to take effect in 2014.

Following the decision taken by China's National People's Congress to adopt a new national security law (the "Security Law") for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region ("Hong Kong") on May 28...

Following the cases of QT v Director of Immigration (2018) 21 HKCFAR 324 (see our Quarterly Review here) and Leung Chun Kwong v Secretary for the Civil Service (2019)...

Mayer Brown represented applicants in obtaining orders for the compulsory sale of (1) the State Theatre Building in Orient Sea Investments Ltd & Others v Cheung Wing Ching & Others (LDCS 27000/2018...

A major legal impediment to Chinese private equity investments appears to have been repealed, although it is not yet clear whether the new regulatory regime will in fact make it easier to actually implement such investments.

On October 14, 2020, the US State Department released its report required under Section 5(a) of the Hong Kong Autonomy Act ("HKAA"). As detailed in our prior Legal Update,...

I just learned that Alvin Y.H. Cheung has died, at the far too young age of 38. Who was Alvin Cheung, and why, after nearly 20 years of this blog, is he the first person to receive a memorial here?

In the recent case of Tam Sze Leung & Ors v. Commissioner of Police [2021] HKCFI 3118, the Court of First Instance held that (1) the Commissioner of the Police acted ultra vires...