News and Deals

We are pleased to announce that Partner and Head of our Transactional team, Lishi Fong, has been appointed Managing Partner in Singapore. Additionally, Nicola Roberts, Partner in the Litigation, Insolvency and Restructuring team and Head of the Trusts and Private Client Advisory Group in Asia, and Jayesh Chatlani, Counsel in the Litigation, Insolvency and Restructuring team, have relocated to the Singapore office from Hong Kong. Furthermore, we are pleased to announce that Paula Kay has been named Head of Litigation Asia.

Harneys Hong Kong has today completed the global share offering of Wise Ally International Holdings Limited on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. The company is an established electronics manufacturing services provider offering full turnkey solutions with a particular focus in consumer electronic products. It raised approximately HK$80 million from the IPO.

Harneys named two new partners in our BVI office, a new head of Litigation Asia and promoted 14 counsel and senior associate positions across our BVI, Cayman Islands, Cyprus, Hong Kong and London locations.

For the second consecutive year, Harneys has been ranked in Latinvex’s Top Law Firms 2020, with specific recognition and ranking in the categories of Capital Markets, Banking & Finance and Arbitration.

Harneys are proud to announce that we have been named Corporate Service Provider of the Year, Litigation Practice of the Year, and Tech Savvy Firm of the Year, at the BVI Financial Services Gala Awards Dinner held at Scrub Island Resort in the British Virgin Islands on 28 November 2019.

Harneys’ Asia Special Situations Unit brings together the strength of the firm’s Banking and Finance practice with its market-leading Restructuring and Insolvency practice to provide creative, solution driven legal advice on the most complex financing solutions at all levels of the capital structure and across the spectrum of special situations and restructuring scenarios.