Corporate Finance & Capital Markets

Why choose Deacons for corporate finance and capital markets legal advice?

Services offered include

Corporate Finance & Capital Markets

Deacons' Corporate Finance & Capital Markets Group is one of Hong Kong's leading corporate finance and capital markets practices.

We have a first-class team of experienced, practical and innovative legal professionals in Hong Kong, who act for financial institutions and companies in respect of a wide range of domestic and international matters such as primary and secondary issues of securities (including listings on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange), takeovers and other mergers and acquisitions, listed company regulation and other regulatory matters.

In addition, we have one of the most comprehensive networks of legal offices in Asia.  Each of our regional offices is staffed by a mixture of expatriate and local lawyers, providing a valuable combination of international experience and standards with on-the-ground knowledge of local legal and business systems.

Why choose Deacons for corporate finance and capital markets legal advice?

We have demonstrated a proven ability to handle major and complex transactions while working as part of a large project team, to anticipate problems and provide solutions, and to document transactions promptly and effectively.  The range and depth of our services clearly distinguishes us in the Hong Kong legal market.

Our prominence in corporate legal work is also widely recognised by independent surveys and research.  For example, we were ranked in the top tier for Corporate services in Hong Kong in the Asia Pacific Legal 500, an annual survey of legal players in the Asia Pacific Region.  The PLC Which Lawyer? also listed Deacons as one of the leading firms for Corporate and M&A services in Hong Kong.

Services offered include:

• Initial public offerings by corporates based in Hong Kong, PRC and other jurisdictions on stock exchanges in Hong Kong and elsewhere

• Secondary issues, including rights issues, open offers, placements and issues of warrants and convertibles by Hong Kong, PRC and other international companies

• Advice on various Hong Kong aspects of international offerings

• Share repurchases

• Privatisations

• Group reorganisations, changes of domicile, reductions of capital and members' and creditors' schemes of arrangement

• Listed company transactions and regulation, including securities law and corporate law compliance

• Securities compliance, regulation and investigations, including Securities and Futures Commission investigations and Stock Exchange and Futures Exchange membership

• Investment funds, including structuring, preparing, marketing and listing