On 24 February 2017, our firm held its Spring Dinnerat The World Trade Centre Club. This year’s theme was “Back to School”, with the view to encouraging our colleagues to keep learning from each other in the Year of the Rooster.

“Cheers!”

It was our pleasure to have Mr. Yu Xuejie, Head of the Legal Department of the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, honourable guests Mr. Du Chun and Mr. Ares Lee, the General Manager and Research Analyst of China Legal Service (Hong Kong) Limited and AllBright Law Offices, including Mr. Wu Mingde, respectively, and Ms. Yvonne Cheung, the Account Manager of Asian Legal Business, to celebrate the start of the Year of Rooster with our colleagues from Hong Kong and Guangzhou.

Senior Partner, Mr. Willy Cheng, delivering his speech.

Our Partners, Mr. Willy Cheng, Mr. Hank Lo, Ms. Catherine Por and Mr. Eric Lui together with Mr. Wu Mingde also took the opportunity to express their gratitude to all staff for their hard work and contribution throughout the year and maintain delivering quality legal services to our clients. It was a memorable night packed with delicious Chinese cuisine, singing and dancing performances, interactive games and exciting lucky draws.

Our Partner, Mr. Hank Lo drawing prizes for the lucky draw

Somecolleagues well-dressed for the Dinner!

On 23 February, 2017, Ms. Connie Yeung, head of business development (China) and Ms. Zita Huang business development manager(China), were invited to give a lecture on CRS content and coping strategies at a seminar on CRS (common reporting standards). About 40 senior financial advisors attended the event.

Issues discussed included the status quo of CRS (common reporting standard) at home and abroad, as well as the future global tax information networking measures and China’s implementation of new policies.

If you have any enquiries about this event or would like to know more details, please contact Ms. Connie Yeung

On 15 February 2017, our legal executive from our Banking Department, Mr. Man Wong, together with our Ms. Kate Ching, China Appointed Attesting Officer Assistant were invited to give a presentation on China notarization matters and the new stamp duty measures in a seminar held at the Prince Edward Branch, Bank of China (Hong Kong) (“the Bank”). The seminar was attended by more than 30 investors.

The seminar covered the computation of stamp duty under the new measures together with the possible exemptions and exceptions.

Please contact our Mr. Eric Lui or Mr. Wong for any enquiries or further information about this event.

On 10 February 2017, our partner Ms. Heidi Chui, our legal executive Mr. Man Wong, together with our staff Ms. Hebe Au and Ms. Eugene Kwok, attended Chinese New Year drinks hosted by China Construction Bank (Asia) (“CCBA”).

We were delighted to be invited to this social event hosted by CCBA and we look forward to maintaining our long-standing business relationship with them.

Please contact our Ms Heidi Chui or Mr. Man Wong for any enquiries or further information about this event.

SW has advised the sponsor and underwriters of Royal Deluxe Holdings Limited (Stock Code: 3789) (“Royal Deluxe”) in its successful listing of shares on the Main Board of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the “Stock Exchange”).

Photo of Mr. Joseph Wang, chairman and CEO of Royal Deluxe Holdings Limited (on the right) and our Rodney Teoh (on the left)

The shares were listed on the Stock Exchange on 8 February 2017. 300 million shares were offered. The final offer price was HK$0.56 per offer share and the net proceeds amounted to approximately HK$99.6 million.

Royal Deluxe and its subsidiaries (the “Group”) are a major subcontractor specialising in providing formwork erection and related ancillary services in Hong Kong. The Group has participated in a number of large-scale construction projects. Its direct customers are main contractors of building construction and civil engineering projects while its ultimate customers are owners of such projects, including the Hong Kong government, a public transport operator, a theme park and resort operator and property developers.

Photo of Mr. David Lo, Associate Director of Frontpage Capital Limited (on the right) and our Rodney Teoh (on the left)

We acted for Frontpage Capital Limited as the sponsor and joint lead manager, Huajin Securities (International) Limited and Pacific Foundation Securities Limited as joint lead managers, as well as other underwriters.

Our team was led by our partners Eric Lui and Rodney Teoh, supported by Phiona So (associate), Veronica Cheung (associate), Jensen Chang (trainee solicitor), Connie Wu (legal executive) and Jane Yip (paralegal).

Please contact our Eric Lui or Rodney Teoh for any enquiries or further information about this transaction.

On 8 February 2017, our legal executive from our Banking Department, Mr. Man Wong, together with our Ms. Hebe Au, were invited to give a presentation on the new stamp duty measures in a seminar held at the Prince Edward Branch, Bank of China (Hong Kong) (“the Bank”). The seminar was well attended by about 50 banking practitioners, including branch supervisors and frontline managers from five branches of the Bank in Kowloon.

The seminar covered the computation of stamp duty under the new measures and the possible exemptions and exceptions.

Please contact our Mr. Eric Lui or Mr. Wong for any enquiries or further information about this event.