Our Willy Cheng and Lai Lam attended the Interlaw Annual Global Meeting held in Barcelona between 21-25 October 2015.

Close to 140 delegates which was a record number from almost every firm attended this annual event.

Both partners attended several Special Business Team Meetings which included Global IP/IT, Managing Partners, Next Generation and Women Lawyers of Interlaw.

Key speaker, Kevn Doolan, Managing Partner of Moller Professional Service Firms Group, University of Cambridge, and also a Harvard University Professor gave an informative talk on the pricing of legal fees and alternative fee structures. Other panel speakers included in-house counsel offering valuable insights into choice of law firms and using networks of independent law firms.

The diary for 2016 has already been planned for Regional conferences in Hanoi, Vietnam, Charlotte North Carolina, USA, Valletta, Malta and ending in with the AGM in Tokyo, Japan.

Michael Siebold, Chairman of Interlaw addressing delegates

Delegates at the Asia Pacific Regional Meeting

Women Lawyers of Interlaw

Please contact our Willy Cheng or Lai Lam for any enquiries or further information about this event.

On 17 October 2015，SW Head of Business Development (China) Ms. Connie Yeung was invited to speak at a client event at the head office of FWD Life Insurance Company (Bermuda) Limited (“FWD”) and delivered a presentation on “How to Protect Assets Through the Establishment of Family Trust and its Benefits. Approximately 60 financial planners and clients attended. The number of participants was double that of the same event held 2 months ago. Real cases were shared and participants all found the sharing both interesting and practical.

On 14 October 2015, SW Head of Business Development（China）Ms. Connie Yeung spoke at a forum organized by Pingan Private banking in Quanzhou. Zhongrong International Trust Co., a top 3 PRC trustee and active in family trust business was also present at the event. The focus was on how to use PRC and offshore family trust together to ring fence different types of assets.Approximately 20 HNWIs invited by Pingan private bank attended and all found the sharing not only inspiring but also useful.

On 8 October 2015, our legal executives in our Banking Department, Mr. Man Wong and Ms. Connie Wu attended a ceremony celebrating the expansion of the Bank of Communications Wanchai Branch (the “BoComm Wanchai Branch”). Ms. Nancy Chan, Deputy Chief Executive of the Bank of Communications, also joined the event. The BoComm Wanchai branch has been established for more than 50 years and the expansion enables the bank to provide brand new banking services and experiences to customers.

Stevenson, Wong & Co. has a long term relationship and co-operation with the Bank of Communication.

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

On 22 September 2015, our partner Mr. Eric Lui attended a connection seminar for financial, insurance and legal services in Suzhou, Jiangsu which was jointly organized by Jiangsu Development and Reform Commission, Jiangsu Overseas Development Association and Jiang Tai International Associates.

In the seminar, attendees discussed how to assist enterprises in Jiangsu to “go-out”, to participate in “One Belt One Road” and to solve problems and difficulties that enterprises will face when conducting overseas investment, such as bank financing for overseas projects, disputes arising from cross-border operations and risk management etc.

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

On 22 September 2015, our partner Ms. Heidi Chui, a founding committee member of the Young Partners’ Roundtable of the Law Society of Hong Kong, led a guided visit to LinkedIn Hong Kong Office. LinkedIn, headquartered in Silicon Valley, is one of the world’s largest professional networks with 380 million members in over 200 countries and territories around the globe. In 2012, it established an office in Hong Kong to develop Asia business.

During the guided tour, participants received an introduction to the corporate and business culture of LinkedIn, and discussed topics including how law firms can benefit by having its profile published at LinkedIn.

Photograph of Ms. Heidi Chui (on the right) and Mr. Nate Taylor (middle), regional sales leader, Hong Kong & Taiwan at LinkedIn

Contact person: Ms. Heidi Chui