Deacons

With core regulatory expertise and leveraging knowledge across the firm’s banking, corporate, litigation and asset management functions, Deacons’ multi-disciplinary team is well-positioned to advise a wide array of financial services entities on both non-contentious and contentious matters. Practice head Jeremy Lam is across a good deal of the advisory work handled by the team, including in the context of licensing and regulatory compliance for asset management entities, while his role on the board of the Financial Services Development Council (FSDC) ensures he is abreast of regulatory developments impacting the entire financial services ecosystem. As part of her wide-ranging offering which has a core focus on the new economies tech sector, Machiuanna Chu is the principal contact for transactional and investment-related fintech work. On these often transformational projects, Chu regularly works alongside Isabella Wong, who provides the necessary regulatory input and is gaining a strong reputation in the market, including as it relates to virtual assets matters. Other recommended practitioners include seasoned litigator Joseph Kwan, whose broad contentious expertise includes a considerable amount of commercial litigation and regulatory enforcement/investigation matters impacting financial services clients; Taylor Hui, who assists China-based fund managers on the relevant licensing and ongoing regulatory issues associated with establishing in Hong Kong; and private funds expert Fiona Fong.