Walkers

Walkers’ offices in Hong Kong and Singapore have specialist Finance, Investment Funds & Corporate, Insolvency, Dispute Resolution & Restructuring and Regulatory practice groups with dedicated professionals that have a broad range of experience gained from some of the world’s leading onshore law firms, financial institutions and regulators. The firm takes pride in their ability to develop creative and innovative legal solutions for clients within their commercial parameters.

Finance: Walkers Finance team offers a wealth of experience in capital markets, structured finance, asset finance, fund finance, and all aspects of general banking and finance. The team advise on debt and asset-backed securities, derivatives, structured products, and financing transactions involving high-value assets such as aircraft, ships, and rolling stock. Services also cover secured and unsecured financings, subordinated and syndicated lending, security issues, leveraged and acquisition finance, project finance, and cross-border real estate finance.

Investment Funds: The investment funds practice is one of the leading offshore fund practices covering hedge funds, private equity and venture capital funds. Walkers advise on all aspects of offshore investment funds including fund formation, structural issues, regulation, distressed funds, fund re-domiciliation, termination and ongoing general advice to investment funds and managers.

Corporate: The Walkers team advises corporates across all industries, financial institutions, and venture capital and private equity firms on all aspects of their corporate transactions, including public and private acquisitions and disposals, special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) and related transactions, take-privates, listings on major exchanges, corporate governance, reorganisations and restructuring.

Insolvency, Restructuring & Dispute Resolution: The team regularly advises existing stakeholders, international investment banks, creditors, debtors, private equity and hedge funds, financial institutions, companies, directors, law firms, insolvency practitioners, and other advisors on corporate and financial restructuring and insolvency matters. With expertise in complex, high-profile, cross-border restructurings and reorganisations, Walkers combine skills from the insolvency and the finance teams to manage both transactional and contentious restructurings. Regularly advising on the use of schemes of arrangement to effect the refinancing and/or reconstruction of a company’s affairs; on corporate, commercial, trusts and insolvency litigation and alternative dispute resolution issues. The focus areas include shareholder and boardroom disputes, urgent interim relief applications, and enforcement, including the appointment of liquidators and provisional liquidators. With extensive experience in the full spectrum of arbitration-related issues, from the drafting of legally binding and effective arbitration agreements to the recognition and enforcement of international arbitral awards.

Regulatory & Risk Advisory: Walkers has a dedicated regulatory team based on the ground in Asia. The team regularly advises regulated and non-regulated financial institutions including a wide range of businesses in the banking, insurance and reinsurance, investment fund, administrator, fiduciary and investment management, advice, broker-dealer and arranger sectors on all regulatory applications and notifications, regulatory implications of mergers, acquisitions and reorganisations, all required policies, procedures and compliance monitoring programmes, anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing, corporate governance and directors’ duties, fitness and propriety, regulatory aspects of transactional documentations and service provider agreements, and beneficial ownership and other issues.

Walkers Professional Services: Walkers Professional Services (WPS) is the leading provider of corporate, company secretarial, regulatory compliance and fiduciary services to corporate and institutional clients across global financial centres. WPS understand a clients' need for both market leading expertise and value for spend, and provide both. In an environment that is characterised by enhanced regulatory oversight and supervision of all types of alternative investment vehicles and structures, there is an overwhelming demand from clients for integrated legal, regulatory, compliance and corporate services. WPS help clients meet ever-changing legal and regulatory demands by developing bespoke solutions to reduce costs for outsourced corporate, compliance and fiduciary services and automated control functions consistently monitor client portfolios to ensure accuracy and integrity of entity data.

Hong Kong and Singapore

British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands and Bermuda