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<p>We are pleased to announce that Deacons has once again achieved strong results in the 2022 rankings of International Financial Law Review 1000 (IFLR1000). Deacons has been recognised in the Hong Kong rankings for <strong>Banking, Capital Markets, M&A, Private Equity, Financial Services Regulatory, Hedge Funds, Retail Funds as well as Restructuring and Insolvency</strong>
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<p>We are delighted to announce that the 2021 edition of Euromoney’s Expert Guides has recognised four Deacons’ lawyers as Rising Stars:</p>
<p><a href="people/stefano-mariani.html">Stefano Mariani</a>, Tax Partner: Tax, Trusts and Estates</p>
<p><a href="people/loretta-lau.html">Loretta Lau</a>, Intellectual Property Counsel: Trademarks</p>
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<p>We are pleased to announce that our Intellectual Property department is ranked as a Top Tier firm in the “Patent Contentious”, “Patent Prosecution”, “Trade Mark Contentious” and “Trade Mark Prosecution” categories in Hong Kong by Managing Intellectual Property (MIP) IP STARS for the fifth consecutive year
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<p>Congratulations to Partners of Intellectual Property practice group Annie Tsoi, Charmaine Koo and Catherine Zheng – who have retained their positions in World Trademark Review (WTR)’s Global Leaders for Hong Kong (Private practice), and congratulations to Partner Patsy Lau who has been recognised for the first time in the ranking this year
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<p>To celebrate Deacons’ 170<sup>th</sup> anniversary, Intellectual Property Partners and Co-Heads Annie Tsoi and Charmaine Koo, and Partner Catherine Zheng are featured in the “Moving with the times” video. This is the first video in our 170<sup>th</sup> anniversary series where they reminisced about some of the most notable cases Deacons has handled
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<p>Deacons’ Partner and Co-head of Corporate Finance Group Ronny Chow has been appointed as a member of the Listing Review Committee of the Main Board and GEM of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited.</p>
<p>Ronny was nominated by the Listing Nominating Committee before the Board of the Exchange made the appointments (click <a href="https://www.hkex.com
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<p>Deacons advises the sole sponsor Haitong International Capital Limited and underwriters in relation to the Main Board IPO of Ronshine Service Holding Co., Ltd (Stock Code: 2207), seeking to raise up to approximately HK$704 million (subject to the exercise of over-allotment option). </p>
<p>Ronshine Service is a comprehensive property management services provider in China
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<p>Deacons advises the sole sponsor Essence Corporate Finance (Hong Kong) Limited and underwriters in relation to the Main Board IPO of Global New Material International Holdings Limited (Stock Code: 6616), seeking to raise up to approximately HK$1,227 million (subject to the exercise of over-allotment option). </p>
<p>Global New Material is a pearlescent pigment producer, being the largest in the PRC market as measured by revenue in 2020 with a market share of 11
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<p>We are delighted to announce that Deacons has once again been recognised by <em>China Business Law Journal </em>in the China Business Law Awards 2021 for the below categories:</p> <ul> <li>Best Overall Hong Kong Law Firms</li> <li>Asset Management</li> <li>Employment & Labour</li> <li>IP (Patent)</li> </ul> <p>Congratulations to all! This is the sixth consecutive year that we have won the fi
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<p>Hong Kong – 7 June 2021 – Deacons, Hong Kong’s own world-class law firm, has strengthened its corporate finance practice with the hire of Erica Wong, an experienced banking and finance lawyer, as Partner.</p>
<p>Erica joins Deacons from Ogier, where she focused her practice on complex cross-border banking and financing transactions
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Deacons advises the joint sponsors BOCOM International (Asia) Limited and LY Capital Limited and underwriters in relation to the Main Board H-share IPO of JiaXing Gas Group Co., Ltd., seeking to raise up to approximately HK$400 million (subject to the exercise of over-allotment option).
JiaXing Gas Group is the largest piped natural gas (PNG) operator in Jiaxing (??), a major prefecture-level city in Zhejiang Province, the PRC.
The company published its IPO prospectus on 30 June 2020
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Deacons’ Financial Services team advised BEA Union Investment (“BEA Union”) on the successful launch of the first public unlisted open-ended fund company (OFC) in Hong Kong. The fund launch follows the 2018 introduction of the OFC regime in Hong Kong, which provides an efficient platform for investment funds to be set up in company form. The fund is the BU Fund Series OFC, an umbrella OFC with one initial sub-fund offering multiple classes of shares
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We are pleased to announce that our Intellectual Property department has been ranked again as a Top Tier firm by Managing IP (MIP) Stars for 2020 in both Hong Kong and China.
In Hong Kong we are thrilled to be ranked as a Top Tier firm in the “Trade Mark Contentious” and “Trade Mark Prosecution” category. In China, our IP department is ranked as a Tier 2 firm for the “Trade Mark (Foreign Firms)” category
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We are delighted to announce that Deacons has been recognised by China Business Law Journal in the annual China Business Law Awards 2020 for the following seven categories:
Best Overall Law Firms (Hong Kong)
IP (Trademark)
IP (Patent)
IP (Copyright)
Asset management
Construction & Infrastructure
Media, Entertainment and Sport
This is the fifth time Deacons has won the Hong Kong firmwide award
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Asters successfully represented ASK Technology Limited, a leading Hong Kong manufacturer of multi-GPU systems for mining, rendering and AI, in a dispute with a Finnish company that was resolved in Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce. The dispute revolved around a contract for the supply of equipment for the mining of Ethereum, one of the fastest growing cryptocurrencies alongside with Bitcoin
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Deacons' Financial Services team has assisted Shanxi Securities International Asset Management Limited on the successful listing of its first exchange-traded fund (ETF). The ETF commenced trading on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on 27 March 2020 and is not only the manager’s first retail product in Hong Kong, but also the first ETF which invests in onshore iron ore futures via the Dalian Commodity Exchange’s futures product internationalisation scheme
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Deacons advises the sole sponsor South China Capital Limited and underwriters in relation to the Main Board IPO of MBV International Limited.
The company is principally engaged in sourcing, wholesaling, supplying and marketing imprintable apparel and gift products all across Malaysia and in Singapore. It was the largest imprintable apparel provider in Malaysia in terms of revenue in 2018, having a market share of approximately 25
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Deacons advises the sole sponsor Lego Corporate Finance Limited and underwriters in relation to the Main Board IPO of Jiu Zun Digital Interactive Entertainment Group Holdings Limited.
The company is a digital entertainment content provider in the PRC with a diversified content portfolio comprising (i) mobile games mainly played on android operating system, (ii) e-magazines, and (iii) other digital media content such as comics and music