AllBright Opens Hong Kong Office and Forms Local Firm Association
2013-11-2512766November 15, 2013. AllBright celebrated the opening of its Hong Kong office and its association with Stevenson, Wong & Co. at the Hong Kong Club. More than 350 people gathered for the event, including partners from both firms, guests from industry associations, and Hong Kong and mainland dignitaries, including Hong Kong Secretary for Justice Rimsky Yuen, director of the Legal Department Liaison Office, Yu Xuejie, president of the Law Society of Hong Kong Ambrose S.K. Lam, and president of the Shanghai Lawyers’ Association, Sheng Leiming.
Many members of the media were also on hand to commemorate the occasion, including the Hong Kong Commercial Daily, Sing Tao Daily, the Hong Kong Economic Times, and Hong Kong Wen Wei Po. AllBright and Stevenson, Wong & Co. plan to collaborate in serving AllBright clients on the Chinese mainland and to serve AllBright’s growing client base in Hong Kong and the Southeast Asia region.
AllBright, through its association, is accredited to provide legal services in Hong Kong. AllBright has thus established itself as a premiere legal services provider in all of China’s main financial centers. AllBright will leverage its Hong Kong office with its existing offices in Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Nanjing, Chengdu, Chongqing, and Taiyuan to provide comprehensive client legal services throughout China.
AllBright currently has more than 750 registered lawyers (including 220 partners and senior international consultants). Many of AllBright’s lawyers are admitted in international jurisdictions such as various states in the United States, in England and Wales, Australia, in France and in Japan. Aside from Chinese (Mandarin, Cantonese, and major dialects), AllBright’s lawyers are also fluent in English, Japanese, French, German, and Korean. AllBright has been consistently recognized both domestically and internationally for the quality of its legal services, including by the PRC Department of Justice, provincial bar associations, and top legal ratings agencies such as Chambers & Partners and Legal 500.
Stevenson, Wong & Co. is a Hong Kong-based law firm founded in 1978. It currently has 10 partners and 82 associates, counsels, and support staff. Stevenson is a founding member of the international legal referral network InterLaw.
The AllBright Hong Kong office is located in Central Tower on the fourth and fifth floors. The partners and associates resident in the office specialize in providing legal services such as corporate finance, securities, capital markets, banking, corporate and business services, commercial litigation and arbitration, real estate, marriage, inheritance and trusts, intellectual property, labor and employment, and immigration.
