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Domestic & International
Commercial Arbitration |
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Corporate and Business Law |
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Trade Mark, Patent and
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Commercial Law |
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Energy
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- Real Estate
Development, Wills and Succession Law
We assist developers and investors in real
estate development transactions.
We also assist individuals and families in the
area of wills, inheritance and
probate law. See further ‘Notarial Services’.
- Mergers and Acquisitions
Transactions on which we regularly advise range
from privately negotiated transfers of shares or
assets to International Business Companies or
trust mergers and acquisitions completed by way
of take-over bids, amalgamations and plans of
arrangements. We advise clients on structuring
considerations, related party rules, special
committee obligations, take-over defenses, and
contested shareholder meetings.
Our expertise in securities regulatory matters,
tax structuring and addressing benefits,
litigation, real estate, environmental,
intellectual property and information technology
issues, together with industry knowledge gained
in serving a diverse client base, ensures that
we are able to provide highly effective and
specialized advice to clients.
- Corporate Financing
We provide services to clients and their
customers in the financial services industry. We
frequently structure, negotiate, document and
render legal opinions and close complex and
routine financial transactions, including loans,
leasing, and real estate deals. We also provide
advice and guidance regarding compliance with
complicated local laws that govern the delivery
of financial services and products. We serve the
following industries: Banks, Credit Union,
Insurance Companies, Financial and Securities
Industry, Service Providers, Offshore Service
Providers, and commercial consumers of Financial
Services.
- International Tax Planning
We can handle all aspects of International Tax,
from individuals with multiple residences and
countries of origins to complex corporate
structures through the use of the many Double
Taxation Treaties Hong Kong has with various
jurisdictions.
Our international tax planners can develop
international business strategies that will
minimize the amount of tax paid, and generally
position the company or individual in a
favorable cash position within the limits of the
law.
- Non Litigation Proceedings
We assist and advise clients in properly
observing relevant laws and regulations and
provide legal opinions for major business
decisions. We participate in major economic
activities involving corporate rights and
interests, asset transfer, joint venture
operations or corporate restructuring and engage
in non-litigation legal matters.
- Cross Border Transactions
Our firm represent a variety of domestic and
international enterprises in connection with
organizational structures and capital formation
commercial contract transactions, tax planning,
securities regulations and other matters.
- Domestic & International Commercial
Arbitration
Our consultants are well versed in all aspects
of arbitration and mediation law as well as the
Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of
Foreign Arbitral Awards and can therefore
represent your interest.
- Corporate and Business Law Practice
As outside counsel to numerous companies the
firm provides day-to-day advice on all aspects
of corporate operations. In the formation of new
business, we evaluate and document the choice of
entity from corporate form to partnership, joint
ventures and limited liability companies. At the
operational level for our private clients, we
assist with a number of their corporate
reporting and record keeping requirements
including corporate governance issues,
regulatory compliance issues, board of
directors’ fiduciary and legal responsibilities,
and an array of other corporate management
issues.
In addition our consultants provide extensive
contract drafting and negotiation assistance on
a wide range of general contract matters,
purchase and sale agreements and complicated
restructuring of foreign investments.
We have experience representing entrepreneurial
businesses through all stages of their
development, from the start-up phase through
operation from registration of local business to
obtaining government permits and qualifying for
government incentives and International Trade
Zone accreditation. We prepare business plans,
assist in raising capital. We also act as agents
for foreign companies for the service of process
and as correspondents to many international
firms that need a trusted Law firm to safeguard
their clients’ interest in Hong Kong.
- Trade Mark, Patent and Copyright
MacMillan’s Intellectual Property Attorneys Ltd
is our Intellectual Property firm
licensed to provide high value intellectual
property legal services to large
institutional clients and high-technology
start-up companies and select
individuals.
We offer IP protection services such as prior
searches, patentability analysis, trademarks patent and copyright registration in
Hong Kong and in other jurisdictions.
We also provide IP enforcement, IP licensing,
patent and trademark term
extensions and regulatory exclusivity, due
diligence reviews and opinions with
regards to validity and infringement.
- Commercial Law
MacMillan’s International Law Group Ltd our
commercial arm have expertise in representing
mortgage companies and business both
international and domestic in the following
areas; enforcement of foreign judgments,
commercial real estate transactions; lender
representation and the collection of defaulted
loans, through such means as foreclosing,
sequestration, commercial litigations, recovery
of vehicles, boats, debt collection services. We
handle commercial as well as consumer cases.
- ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
We practice energy and environmental law
spanning the full range of regulatory compliance
and transactional services entailed in these
fields.
We are competent, in conjunction with our
outside consultants and technical experts to
provide the full spectrum of legal services for
major integrated oil and gas companies, in
dependent oil and gas producers, developers and
investors in oil and gas reserves and
infrastructure and lenders and other financial
sources for the oil and gas industry or other
mineral interests. We can represent clients in
joint bidding arrangements, negotiations,
participation arrangements, the negotiation of
drafting of oil and gas lease contracts and the
energy law contracts, processing and marketing
arrangements, service agreements, strategic
alliance agreements, and agreements relating to
the ownership and operation of drilling rigs,
tankers and other offshore infrastructure and
disputes regarding letters of intent, operating
agreements and other contractual arrangements.
From drafting basic agreements to serving as
project counsel and everything in between, we
help energy companies navigate the legal
challenges that define the industry.
In the field of environmental law our practice
area covers the full range of core environmental
programs regulating air, water, solid waste,
natural environment and we assist commercial and
industrial clients in addressing regulatory
compliance, environmental and energy auditing,
permitting and enforcement. Because
environmental and energy laws are quite
technical, good legal advice is based on sound
science. For that reason we have established
working relationships with outside technical
experts to assist clients in retaining qualified
environmental consultants and experts defining
their scope of services, and obtaining
cost-effective and timely results through
quality management. Our counsels work closely
with outside consultants and technical experts
to provide clients with an independent
perspective on relevant legal issues and the
merits and strategy of litigating or negotiating
towards a successful resolution of environmental
and energy cases.
- Notarial Services
We provide notarial deeds and instruments in the
areas of conveyancing of immovables, wills and
successions, family, commercial law, civil law
and a number of non-litigious matters. We have
recently developed expertise in various new
legal sectors such as international private law,
international adoption, maritime mortgage,
telecommunications law, family and commercial
mediation and arbitration etc.
For a full range of our notarial services see
the section of this website on “SERVICES”.
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