White & Case is an international law firm based in New York City with 46 offices in 31 countries worldwide. The firm established its first office in Hong Kong in 1978 and has been practicing in China for more than 40 years. The Firm has a strong track record advising multinational, regional and Hong Kong businesses on their inbound and outbound legal needs, and particularly adept at assisting with accessing Hong Kong's financial markets.

Highlights

The firm's top practices include banking, leveraged finance, project finance, capital markets, private equity, and funds. The firm provides legal advice to financial institutions, alternative capital providers, and corporate borrowers on a variety of financing transactions, as well as advises on cross-border mergers and acquisitions involving both public and private companies in Hong Kong.

The firm has expanded its Global Capital Markets Practice with the addition of Ryan Tou as corporate finance partner in Hong Kong in 2024.

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Established in 1992, Sullivan & Cromwell’s Hong Kong office serves as a strategic point for significant transactions that involve Greater China and Asia Pacific companies or assets. The Firm also advises clients on significant cross-border transactions in the rest of Asia and elsewhere in the world. Headquartered in New York, the firm has more than 875 lawyers who serve clients around the world through a network of 13 offices, located in leading financial centers in Asia, Australia, Europe and the United States.

Highlights

Equipped with a dedicated, highly skilled team of lawyers in Sullivan & Cromwell’s Hong Kong and Beijing offices, the firm regularly provide U.S., Hong Kong and English law advice to clients in Greater China, the Asia-Pacific region and around the world. Recent deal highlights include advises Underwriters in Fangzhou Inc.’s Hong Kong IPO and Global Offering with a market capitalization of $1.4 billion.

Key Clients

Clients of the Firm are nearly evenly divided between U.S. and non-U.S. entities. They include industrial and commercial companies; financial institutions; private funds; governments; educational, charitable and cultural institutions; and individuals, estates and trusts. S&C’s client base is exceptionally diverse, a result of the Firm’s extraordinary capacity to tailor work to specific client needs.