Mayer Brown is among the largest and longest-standing law practices in the market. The firm is frequently sought out for its work in general commercial, construction, insolvency and financial services regulatory disputes. The team is also developing a niche in emerging technology matters including electronic transactions and data privacy.
Nicholas Hunsworth and John Hickin are key names in commercial and transactional litigation. Alan Linning is singled out for contentious regulatory work, while Gabriela Kennedy and Menachem Hasofer are recommended for IP and construction work respectively.
The firm has been representing two members of leading private property developer Eton Properties Group in defending a claim brought by Xiamen Xinjingdi Group in purported enforcement of an arbitral award made by CIETAC in Beijing.
The firm continues to represent various leading real estate developers in Hong Kong in compulsory sale application, one of which includes representing a leading Hong Kong real estate developer in its successful compulsory sale application with respect to the State Theatre Building located in North Point, Hong Kong’s largest compulsory sale application in term of redevelopment value at over HK$4.7 billion.
At the time of publication, partner Thomas So had left the firm.
Key clients include Gaw Capital, Huiyuan Juice, Malayan Banking, Swire Properties and The Hong Kong Jockey Club.
“Restructuring and Insolvency team is well established and known in the region.” – Insolvency
“Mayer Brown is incredibly proactive and a very trustworthy and responsible firm who can easily handle any aspect of intellectual property application, registration, protection and defence. The firm is also extremely experienced with arbitration and litigation cases in Hong Kong.” – Intellectual property
“Haylock is extremely experienced, acutely intelligent and an exceptionally lovely personality. She works extremely hard and efficiently. To date, she has won every case that the foundation has entrusted to her.”
“Marsden has bundles of experience and regional know how which is vital in this type of work.”
“Tenacious and adept at looking through complex matters to identify the core issues.”