Edward Lau, Wong & Lou, Solicitors

Our client-focused, responsive and no-nonsense approach combined with our lawyers’ first-rate legal skills enable us to provide effective solutions on the timeliest manner. In ELW, we provide advisory services for clients (sponsors, underwriters, investors, venture capital funds, enterprises, etc.) about fund raising and other operations in the capital market.

We have extensive experiences in handling local, cross-border and PRC-related commercial transactions and corporate matters, especially in advising companies on their initial public offerings and listings on the main board and GEM of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Our experts in corporate financing, insolvency and debt restructuring involved in numerous corporate and project financing, and debt restructuring projects in Hong Kong.

Our lawyers are experienced in advising on:

Facility or Loan Agreements
Syndication Loan Transactions
Debenture, Mortgages, Charges and other documents for taking Security
Corporate Restructuring
Pre-IPO financing exercises;
Listing of securities on the Main Board and the Growth Enterprise Market (“GEM”) of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
Placing of Shares, Open Offer, General Offer and Rights issue
Issuing of Debt Securities, including Convertible Bonds and Notes
Disclosable Transactions and other Transactions
Compliance of Listing Rules and the Regulatory Framework in Hong Kong

Our experience:

Representing banks, financial institutions, borrowers and bond issuers on general corporate lending, bond issuance and related security taking
Advising clients on their initial public offerings and listings on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
Advising clients on their transfer of listing from GEM to Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
Acting as legal advisers to clients including listed companies
Advising a client on an unconditional mandatory cash offer and open offer
Advising a client on its pre-IPO direct investment programme
Advising banks on facilities
Advising a listed company on several syndicated loans
Advising a listed company on its issuance of convertible bonds to institutional investors
Advising a bank in respect of general banking matters

CORPORATE FINANCE