About

Provided by Withers

Withers has the largest private client and tax team on the ground in Hong Kong. It has a wide range of clients, including but not limited to family offices, charities, families, financial institutions, high net worth individuals, and trustees. Withers typically acts for the creators of wealth and their families, and focuses on developing long term relationships with those clients across its international offices. We also work with their businesses, establishing ourselves as the top law firm focusing on private capital.

Withers' multi-disciplinary capabilities cover issues on immigration, philanthropy, matrimonial, cross-border investments, litigation, real estate and pre-IPO planning, providing clients with a fully integrated, one-stop service that other law firms cannot match.

Chambers Review

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Private Wealth Law (International Firms) - China

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What the Team is Known For

Withers offers an impressive range of tax, trust and estate planning and administration services. It has one of the largest private client teams in the Asia-Pacific region and offers customised wealth preservation solutions to high net worth clients.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Katie Graves
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Katie Graves
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Band 1
Katie Graves is a pre-eminent UK-focused tax and restructuring expert. She advises high net worth international families on trust and estate planning and tax-related issues. Graves also has expertise in establishing and maintaining family offices.

Katie's confident mastery of UK laws was a huge asset to us.

Laurence Ho
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Laurence Ho
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Band 2
Laurence Ho handles the full range of international tax, trust and estate planning matters, especially with regards to Hong Kong and the United States. His clients include high net worth individuals, families, fiduciaries and family offices.

Laurence is very resourceful and proactive.

Laurence is able to manage a project really well and find good solutions for clients.

Deirdre Fu
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Deirdre Fu
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Band 3

Deirdre Fu provides wealthy clients with bespoke private wealth legal advice. Her practice focuses on trust and estate planning, family offices, estate administration and cross-border tax considerations.

Deirdre delivers on time, cost and most importantly, professional advice.

Deirdre is very professional and efficient.

Alex Chung
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Alex Chung
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Up and Coming

Alex Chung is a dual-qualified lawyer in Hong Kong and New York. His practice covers trust and estate planning, US taxation and cross-border probate matters.

Alex is very thorough and very comprehensive in addressing legal inquiries, and he delivers high accuracy in his work.

Alex Chung is a good lawyer.

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China

Private Wealth Law (International Firms)

Katie Graves
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Katie Graves
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Band 1
Laurence Ho
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Laurence Ho
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Band 2
Deirdre Fu
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Deirdre Fu
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Band 3
Alex Chung
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Alex Chung
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Up and Coming