Hong Kong SAR

Firm overview

RKS focuses and concentrates upon an area of law that needs singular attention – real life which affects you directly. Throughout the career of both Rita and Sharon, they have observed their clients going through different forms of family-related and personal challenges. They believe clients’ best interests and needs are best served only in a focused environment in which they and clients can together think about their lives holistically, so they can provide bespoke, pragmatic, and all-rounded solutions that work in synergy. Naturally, such a holistic ‘life solutions’ strategy can be best deployed via a specialist boutique law firm that can flex with clients’ changing needs, including time, risk appetite and fees.

So, to meet your needs as much as their own, RKS – a specialist life hub – with a team of experienced, talented, and passionate lawyers is set up. Together, they have the breadth of backgrounds and the depth of expertise to help you navigate through complex, exciting yet delicate life challenges.

At RKS, we maintain our global connections as members of the International Academy of Family Lawyers, STEP, and the International Bar Association. We have highly qualified experts in-house and we partner with specialist professionals as needed, internationally and domestically, to ensure you have the best options and representation for your personal and family matters.

RKS is committed to delivering outstanding service with a budget that is transparently discussed with you in advance, we want you to determine your level of financial commitment to what might be enfolding before you.

We promote alternative dispute resolution. RKS is the industry pioneer in exploring innovative ways to resolve disputes, such as leading and participating in the Private Financial Adjudication, Mediator Facilitated Financial Dispute Resolution Hearing, alongside traditional approaches.

We can represent you in court whenever that might be necessary. And we will do so fearlessly and intelligently, continuing to deliver law changing judgements in Hong Kong.

Our professionals come from different backgrounds and experiences, with a deep understanding of the importance in navigating family dynamics and financial dealings. We can deliver the most beneficial outcome and serve your personal and family needs.

Firm overview

Withers is one of the world’s first international law firms dedicated to the business, personal and philanthropic interests of successful people, their businesses, families and advisers. With over 200 partners and more than 1,200 employees in 18 offices across Europe, US, Asia Pacific and the Caribbean, Withers has unparalleled expertise in helping businesses and individuals across all major financial centres around the world.

In 2008, Withers established its Hong Kong office to offer on-the-ground support in Asia for the firm’s international client base. Today, its multinational team of lawyers and legal professionals offers one of the most comprehensive arrays of client services in relation to UK, US and Hong Kong law. Withers is also able to put together a cross-disciplinary team of advisers with the relevant experience and expertise for complex, cross-border transactions in the region. Its team understands both domestic and international issues and how different legal regimes interact and impact each other.

Firm overview

Dorsey & Whitney, a world-renowned leading international law firm, was formed in 1912 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, at the request of a client that is still a valued client today. At present, Dorsey lawyers practice in 20 locations throughout the United States and in Canada, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region and serve clients all around the world.

Dorsey is committed to provide the top-tier and comprehensive legal services, and proud to field a team of eminent and multi-disciplinary talents. Our international dispute resolution practice combines the firm’s broad-based strengths and recognized authority in commercial litigation and arbitration, with decades of acclaimed international experience and sizable presence. Our group draws upon our transnational capabilities to help clients resolve cross-border business conflicts. We are adept at advancing our clients’ interests through negotiation, mediation, arbitration and litigation anywhere in the world.

In Asia, Dorsey is one of the very few international firms in Greater China exclusively focusing on cross-border dispute resolution with top-notch specialized experts. Excel in delivering pragmatic and novel solutions to the rising cross-border controversies facing Chinese clients, we’re at the forefront advising on, and often sought after for an extensive range of transboundary conflicts including significant cross-border commercial dispute proceedings and negotiation, a broad spectrum of U.S.-related civil, commercial, administrative and criminal proceedings, cross-border intellectual property litigation, U.S. securities litigation and SEC investigations, government investigations as well as regulatory and compliance. We also represent clients before ICC Arbitration, LCIA, ICDR,UNCITRAL and many other international organizations. Our representations span over a wide variety of industries, among others, banking, insurance, financial services, TMT and internet, smart manufacturing, pharmaceuticals and healthcare, food and agriculture, mining/metals and infrastructure.

Some of our representations are particularly high-profile, involving globally and nationally-renowned corporations and notable Forbes-ranked individuals with massive media focus. We are distinguished across the market as one of the go-to counsels for successfully settling China-related complex transnational disputes. 

Our Dispute Resolution group is well-recognized by Benchmark Litigation, The Legal 500, Chambers, China Business Law Journal and US News - Best Lawyers. 

Firm overview

Gregory Payne, founder and principal of the firm, has been practising law in Hong Kong since 1993, and has established himself as a market-leading, highly successful litigator who regularly represents clients in high-profile cases.

We have established ourselves as leading advocates for victims of large-scale frauds and successfully made recoveries for them. We also have considerable experience identifying, freezing and recovering monies that have been stolen through email fraud, internet fraud, sham investment schemes, ponzi schemes and fake stockbrokers, and employee fraud.

Our lawyers are equally experienced in acting for both major corporations and high-profile individuals in complex civil litigation and criminal defence in the District and High Courts and Court of Appeal. Our ever-growing success and profile in the Hong Kong litigation arena has been recognised by an expanding number of accolades and awards in the past few years. We are an experienced, creative and tenacious litigation force in Hong Kong.