The 2015 Spring Dinner took place at Excelsior Hotel in Causeway Bay on 13 March 2015. The theme of this year’s Spring Dinner was “Shining Bright”.

It was our great pleasure to have the honourable guests from AllBright Law Offices, including a number of senior partners who were led by Mr. Wu Mingde, to join us for the fabulous evening.

Partners, Mr. Willy Cheng, Mr. Hank Lo, Ms. Catherine Por and Mr. Eric Lui together with Mr. Wu Mingde took the opportunity to thank all staff for their endeavor and hard work throughout the year. It was a wonderful evening filled with delicious Chinese cuisine, lucky draws, fun games and performances.

Flood of rich Chinese settle in UK

The number of Chinese citizens who obtained investor visas to the UK doubled last year as more rich people emigrate. A total of 357 British “Tier 1” investor visas were issued to Chinese nationals during the 12 months up to September 2014, thus becoming the biggest group of “Tier 1” investor visa by far. Only 178 Chinese investors obtained such visas over the same period a year ago.

To obtain a “Tier 1” investor visa, applicants must invest more than £ 2 million in the debt or equity of active UK-registered companies or UK government bonds only.

Rich Chinese also have chosen countries such as the US, Australia and Portugal as their favourite destination countries. According to the statistics of such countries, there has been a huge increase in the number of applicants attempting to acquire residency abroad in the past few years.

Many rich Chinese are motivated to emigrate due to worsening pollution, food safety, inadequate health and education systems and also fear of political repression.

(Source: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/986bd08a-9b10-11e4-882d-00144feabdc0.html)

Upon invitation, SW partners Mr. Willy Cheng, Mr. Eric Lui, Ms. Heidi Chui and legal executives Mr. Stanley Hung and Mr. Man Wong attended the cocktail reception organised by China Construction Bank (Asia) (“CCBA”) held at CCB Tower, Central on 6 March 2015. At the cocktail, SW partners had exchange of ideas with senior management from various departments of CCBA including commercial banking and SME banking.

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

Stevenson, Wong & Co. attended Law Society Spring Reception

On 2 March 2015, SW partners Mr. Eric Lui and Ms. Heidi Chui attended the annual Spring Reception hosted by the Law Society of Hong Kong (the “Law Society”) held at Peking Garden Restaurant, Alexandra House, Central. Members of the Law Society attended this event to celebrate the Year of the Goat and to network with fellow members.

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