It is comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground.
Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
We are experienced in the full range of property transactions, including project development, project financing, acquisitions, disposals, asset management, leasing, public and private funds, facilities management, tax and disputes. Our experience also covers commercial, residential, industrial, mixed use, infrastructure and other emerging assets. In terms of focused assets, we have expansive experience in hotel, resort, tourism and branded residence. Our services cover the establishment of private as well as public real estate funds.
Adding value in complex high value developments- both at the early stages in their continuing progress and management – we provide one-stop service to clients in Hong Kong, Macau, and PRC and beyond.
Our senior partner, Ms. Vivien Chan, is a China appointed attesting officer. We act for major developers in many mainland cities. We counsel foreign investors and MNC in acquisition of commercial and manufacturing land use rights for investments and / or long term use.
How we can help
Project Development
- Environmental issues in constructions projects, securing regulatory approvals
- Construction contracts, performance bonds, warranties, indemnities, guarantees, project insurance
- Construction, engineering and infrastructure projects, project management, appointment of consultants, utilities and equipment
Acquisitions, dispositions and exchanges
- Advising buyers and sellers of commercial property and land who benefit from our knowledge of local markets and advice beyond basic legal requirements
Real estate related mergers and acquisitions
- Advising developers and private equity investors in the formation of joint ventures for the development of real estate and for the acquisition of real estate
- Major developments – Advising investors on significant property developments, from inception to completion, including due diligence and advising on any issues relating to planning, environment and valuation issues
- Real estate financing – Advising lenders and barterers on various financing transactions, negotiating loan portfolio sales, workouts, and loan syndications and participations
- Mortgage-backed securities – Advising banks, rating agencies, sellers, issuers and underwriters on all aspects of commercial mortgage securitizations, including preparation of property-related security documents, such as debentures, mortgages, charges and rental assignments
- Public and private funds – Advising on the creation and operation of public and private funds investing in real estate worldwide
- Structuring, establishing and listing REITs and similar investment vehicles
- Tax – Advising on how to structure and plan transactions to minimize state, national and international tax exposure, profits tax appeal before the Board of Review and representation for Inland Revenue requisitions and audit in Hong Kong
- Litigation and dispute resolution – Advising on complex litigation, including dissolutions, insolvencies, workouts, environmental matters, and construction disputes, landlord-tenant disputes and other real estate management matters
- Landlord & Tenant – all aspects of landlord and tenant terms, leaseback financing
Real estate private equity
- Entity formation and organisation- e.g. limited partnerships, joint ventures and other co-investment vehicles and related governance and management
- Direct & indirect investment(single asset and portfolio)
- Real estate M&A
- Tax and regulatory requirements
- Real estate development and construction
- Real estate funds
- Sale and leaseback transactions
- Real estate investment trusts
- Planning and environment
- Litigation
- Leasing
- Debt finance including senior and junior financing, mezzanine financing; acquisition and construction finance - Securitization
- Principal/structured finance
- Public to privates and related workout and exit programmes
- Facilities management
- Outsourcing and corporate real estate
We advise on a full range of financing solutions for acquisition and refinancing of real estate and infrastructure assets. Our unparalleled acquisition finance practice allows us to evaluate impediments to bankability from both an asset and market practice perspective whether acting for the lenders or any bidder as borrower
Representative experience
Hong Kong- Sale and subsequent leaseback of industrial buildings for REIT portfolio
- Acquisition of prime office and commercial premises portfolio
- Acquisition of the holding corporate vehicle of prime commercial-space portfolio
- Acquisition of prime sites at the Peak and the subsequent strata title sales of deluxe individual residential houses
- Acted for numerous banks and barterers in preparation of property financing or refinancing documents
- Acted for developer in the strata sales of:-
- Jin Du Mansion (Beijing)
- Investment Plaza (Finance Street in Beijing)
- Beijing Jingshan Burlingame Commercial Centre (Wangfujing in Beijing)
- Eurovillage (Tian Zhu, Shunyi)
- Wu Hua Tian Bao Plaza (Changan Avenue in Beijing)
- Provided advice on tax and fiscal implications to developers
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“The Last Chronicle of Barset”
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