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This article contains a list of 58 largest domestic and international law firms which own at least one office situated in Hong Kong. [3] There are approximately 2875 qualified lawyers, comprising 766 partners and 1848 associates, working across these top 30 domestic and international law firms in Hong Kong. [3]
Pages in category "Foreign law firms with offices in Hong Kong" The following 64 pages are in this category, out of 64 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Hong Kong: 1983: Real estate: Accounting fraud. An auditor was murdered, an adviser committed suicide. The largest collapse in Hong Kong history. Texaco: United States: 13 April 1987: Oil: After a legal battle with Pennzoil, whereby it was found to owe a debt of $10.5 bn, Texaco went into bankruptcy. It was later resurrected and taken over by ...
Edward Fennell, a legal columnist for The Times, has expressed dim views of law firms designating themselves as part of an offshore magic circle. [12] However, the concept of an offshore magic circle is actively promoted by legal recruitment consultants who hope to persuade London lawyers to spend a few years working in an offshore jurisdiction.
Note: A few UK based law firms have merged with another entity which may be located outside of the UK for example London's Allen & Overy merged with New York's Shearman in May of 2024, the result of this is the removal of the US revenue and number of lawyers from the list to just account for its UK operations.
In late November, Patrick Yip, the vic-chair of Deloitte China, told The Asian Lawyer that the auditor's Hong Kong law firm will have 25 lawyers, including six partners, all hired from local firms ...
In 2015 its partners earned the highest profit per equity partner (PEP) of any UK law firm. [13] [14]In 2015, the firm represented 33 clients on the FTSE 100 and 44 clients on the FTSE 250, more than any other firm at the time, [14] including governments, entrepreneurs, funds to leading banks, retailers, entertainment companies, industrial conglomerates and professional sports clubs.
The last example, trust and confidence, is commonly known as "gross misconduct", but employment law only distinguishes between misconduct that justifies dismissal and misconduct that does not. Conduct entitling the employer to terminate the contract is conduct indicating the employee no longer considers himself bound by it and so is technically ...