Corporate Finance | Chiu & Partners

Our corporate finance team has attained remarkable market recognition. We acted in the listings of over 170 companies in Hong Kong, and consistently ranked among the top three legal firms in Hong Kong in terms of the number of IPO cases successfully listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. We acted for the issuer in the red chip listing of the first domestic enterprise in Hong Kong, and also pioneered in the listing of issuers engaged in various sectors that first came to the Hong Kong IPO market. We have advised on many complicated pre-listing restructuring exercises and the listing of a diversified range of companies engaging in sectors including manufacturing, retail, property development, financial services, logistics services, construction, electronics, computer and mobile software and hardware, service companies, natural resources and infrastructural projects.

Our corporate finance team is also actively involved in takeover and rescue bids which involve complicated restructuring including the first ever competing takeover bid by way of a scheme of arrangement in Hong Kong and England.

Our corporate finance team provides a wide range of services including:

new issues and securities offerings
takeovers of public companies
all forms of corporate fund raisings including rights issues, placing and issues of convertible securities
corporate restructuring, redomiciliation of companies and spin-off
acquisitions and mergers
all forms of debt financing and other sophisticated bank and project financing and equipment leasing
capital markets and derivative instruments
stock lending and borrowing
advice on regulatory and compliance requirements with respect to securities, banking, insurance and other financial services matters