Press Releases

We are delighted to announce that Deacons has won the China Business Law Journal ‘Deal of the Year 2019’ award for the ‘People's Bank of China’s renminbi bill issuances in Hong Kong’ in the ‘Overseas Deals: Capital Markets’ category. The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) issued a total of RMB160 billion of bills in Hong Kong commencing from November 2018 through the Central Moneymarkets Unit of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) ...

Deacons' Intellectual Property department is off to a strong start in 2020, winning two prestigious accolades in the 2020 edition of the World Trademark Review 1000 (WTR1000). Deacons has been ranked as a Gold Tier law firm for both ‘enforcement and litigation’, and ‘prosecution and strategy’. Six partners also achieved stellar individual rankings, claiming the highest number of ranked individuals from any law firm in the Hong Kong chapter ...

We are delighted to announce Deacons has been named Patent Firm of the Year and Trademark Firm of the Year in Hong Kong by the Global IP Awards 2020. This is the second year Deacons has received this award. This accolade adds to the continued success of Deacons’ Intellectual Property practice and further demonstrates its excellence in the field of trademark and patent work ...

We are delighted to announce Deacons has been awarded multiple accolades in the 2019 Asian-mena Counsel In-House Community Firm of the Year awards. Each year, the In-House Community canvasses it’s 20,000+ in-house counsel members to ask, “Which law firms do you prefer to use?”, and more importantly “Why?”.  This is largest and most definitive poll of buyers of legal services, and a record breaking number of in-house lawyers participated in the survey this year ...

65% of employees cited long hours as their primary concern, with Generation Z singling out a lack of workplace diversity (65%) 81% of employees said strong corporate culture is one of the most important factors when deciding whether to join or stay at a company, with Generation Z viewing it as equally important as salary Introducing equal gender pay is seen as the top priority for companies in the next 12-24 months A survey of more than 1,000 working professionals and 100 senior in-house

The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2020 rankings were recently released and once again Deacons has achieved a strong set of results across the board. Overall we are ranked in 18 practice areas in the Hong Kong and China chapters. We are delighted to be recognised for the first time in ‘Labour and Employment: Foreign Firms’ and ‘Corporate and M&A: Foreign Firms ‘in the China chapter, alongside our Intellectual Property practice which continues to receive recognition ...

Deacons, Hong Kong’s longest established and largest law firm, has strengthened the firm with three new partner appointments, effective from 1 January, 2020. All three partners were previously senior associates who have been promoted to the partnership. They include Canny Lau from the corporate finance practice, Ming Chiu Li and Pinky Siu from the investment funds practice ...

Deacons advises the sole sponsor Fortune Financial Capital Limited and underwriters in relation to the Main Board IPO of Wenye Group Holdings Limited, seeking to raise up to approximately HK$203 million (subject to the exercise of over-allotment option). This company is an established building decoration services provider based in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province ...

Deacons advises Q P Group Holdings Limited on its Main Board IPO, seeking to raise up to approximately HK$193 million (subject to the exercise of over-allotment option). The company is an established paper product manufacturing and printing services provider headquartered in Hong Kong ...

Deacons advises the sole sponsor WAC Worldsec Corporate Finance Limited and underwriters in relation to the Main Board IPO of Wise Ally International Holdings Limited. The company is an electronics manufacturing service (EMS) provider offering full turnkey solutions with particular focus in consumer electronic products ...

Deacons advises the sole sponsor SPDB International Capital Limited and underwriters in relation to the Main Board IPO of Kwan Yong Holdings Limited. The company is a main contractor in the provision of building construction works in Singapore. It ranked fourth among contractors in the institutional sector in Singapore in terms of the average institution CONQUAS (Construction Quality Assessment System) score in 2018, according to a market research report commissioned by the company ...

We are delighted to announce Deacons has won the "Hong Kong Independent Firm of the Year" award at the Euromoney Asia Women in Business Law Awards 2019. This is the 6th consecutive year Deacons has been awarded this highly regarded accolade. Charmaine Koo, co-head of our Intellectual Property department was recognised for her work in dispute resolution and litigation, and received the individual award for “Best in IP dispute resolution” ...

The Chambers Asia Pacific 2020 guide has recently been released and we are pleased to announce we have received an excellent set of rankings. The guide is the culmination of thousands of in-depth interviews with law firms and clients by the largest research team of its kind to rank the region’s best lawyers and firms. We have maintained our top tier rankings, alongside securing practice group and individual recognition in this year’s round of research ...

We advise the sole sponsor Haitong International Capital Limited and underwriters in relation to the spin-off of Times Neighborhood Holdings Limited from Times China Holdings Limited (stock code: 1233) for separate listing on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange by way of distribution in specie and global offering, seeking to raise up to approximately HK$939 million. Times Neighborhood Holdings is one of the leading and fast-growing comprehensive property management service providers in China ...

Deacons advised Renrui Human Resources Technology Holdings Limited in relation to its Main Board IPO, seeking to raise up to HK$1,098.2 million (subject to the exercise of over-allotment option). The company is a fast-growing pioneer in human resources solutions in China with a self-developed online-to-offline (O2O) recruitment platform ...

We advise the sole sponsor Fortune Financial Capital Limited and underwriters in relation to the Main Board IPO of Maike Tube Industry Holdings Limited, seeking to raise up to approximately HK$236 million. The company is principally engaged in the manufacturing and selling of standard prefabricated pipe nipple products and steel pipe products ...

We advise the sole sponsor DBS Asia Capital Limited and underwriters in relation to the Main Board IPO of JY Grandmark Holdings Limited, seeking to raise up to HK$1,452 million (subject to the exercise of over-allotment option). The company is a property developer, operator and property management service provider based in the PRC, and offers residential properties in Guangdong, Hainan, Yunnan and Hunan provinces. The company published its IPO prospectus on 25 November 2019 ...

We are delighted to announce that our Intellectual Property Department has won "Hong Kong Patents Firm of the Year" at the 10th Annual Asia IP Awards ceremony for seven consecutive years. Congratulations! The announcement was made at the awards dinner held at the at the Shangri-La’s Far Eastern Plaza Hotel in Taipei on 8 November. Dan Holt represented Deacons in accepting this prestigious award ...

Deacons advises the sole sponsor Altus Capital Limited and underwriters in relation to the Main Board IPO of Lever Style Corporation. This company provides supply chain solutions in multiple apparel product categories for notable brands across the United States, Europe and the Asia Pacific region ...

Deacons’ partner, Chuah Su Cheen, senior associate Pinky Siu and associate Winnie Cheung recently attended the listing ceremony, with the Manager, Mirae Asset, to celebrate the successful listing of two new ETFs. The two new ETFs: Mirae Asset Horizons China Biotech ETF and Mirae Asset Horizons China Cloud Computing ETF allow investors to gain exposure to China’s biotech and cloud computing sectors and are the first ETFs in Hong Kong which track these sectors ...

Deacons advised the sole sponsor Cinda International Capital Limited and underwriters in relation to the GEM IPO of Kinetix Systems Holdings Limited. Kinetix Systems is a well-established IT services provider with business portfolio including the provision of IT infrastructure solutions services, IT development solutions services, and IT maintenance and support services in Hong Kong ...

Deacons has advised Asia Grocery Distribution Limited in relation to its listing on the Growth Enterprise Market (GEM) on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange by way of share offer, seeking to raise up to HK$81.2 million (subject to the offer size adjustment option). Asia Grocery Distribution is an established food and beverage grocery distributor in Hong Kong with over 40 years of experience since its original “Hung Fat Ho” grocery store was established in the 1970s ...