Our Hong Kong office provides the solid foundation for our firm's leading Asia practice. We help global banks, investment banks, private equity funds, and other institutional investors and multinational companies navigate new paths to growth in the region's complex legal and business environments.

A LEADING ASIA PRACTICE

Paul Hastings was one of the first major international law firms to establish an Asia practice, and today we continue to be a leader in the region. Our lawyers provide strategic advice to leading Asian and multinational companies, financial institutions, governments, and other institutional investors, with a focus on both inbound and outbound investments.

CLIENT SUCCESSES

• Represented COSCO SHIPPING Holdings in its US$6.3B acquisition of Orient Overseas.

• Represented Ascent Real Estate Investors and SDP Investment in the formation of an institutional investor consortium and the consortium’s US$1.34B acquisition of Dinghao Electronics Plaza located in Zhongguancun, Beijing.

• Represented the joint sponsors in the global offering and IPO of Ascletis Pharma, the first biotechnology company listing in Hong Kong under the new Chapter 18A of the Listing Rules.
  

GUIDING DEAL MAKERS AND FOSTERING GROWTH

• Our

  Capital Markets
  practice represents private and public corporations, investors, and investment banks in a variety of acquisition, venture finance and joint venture, derivative, and restructuring transactions.

• The lawyers in our

  Mergers and Acquisitions
  and
  Private Equity
  practices structure complex cross-border transactions and investments, and have been recognized in the Asian Legal Business M&A Rankings.

• Our Anti-Corruption and FCPA team includes former government officials and prosecutors that advise clients on complex investigations and handled some of the largest FCPA matters ever resolved.

• The firm’s Investigation and White Collar Defense team handles high-stakes government investigations, litigation, and corporate compliance, including anti-trust and competition, global trade controls, privacy and data security, securities enforcement, and white collar matters.

• One of the world’s largest

  Real Estate
  practices, our team has developed sophisticated structures and innovative solutions for some of the most complex multijurisdictional real estate deals around the globe.

• Our

  Private Investment Funds
  practice serves fund sponsors, institutional investors, lenders, placement agents, and investment advisers, among others, in all aspects of structuring and documenting new private investment funds.

RECRUITING INTERNSHIPS AND TRAINEESHIPS

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