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Monthly Archives: May 2024
Press release: Tanner De Witt Announces Partner Jeff Lane’s Retirement from Partnership to a Consultant Role
Hong Kong, 31 May 2024 — Tanner De Witt, a leading Hong Kong law firm, announces the retirement of Partner Jeff Lane from the partnership as of 31 May 2024 but is also pleased to announce that Jeff Lane will continue with the firm in a…Read More
DAO and the Law: The Future
Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) are an emerging method for organising community based activities using blockchain technology. In the final article in this series exploring legal issues related to DAOs in Hong Kong, Pádraig Walsh from the Digital Services and Fintech practice of Tanner De Witt…Read More
Stop resisting! Solicitors must deliver up the client files of its former insolvent client to the liquidators.
In what can only be described as a regretful sequence of events, a firm of solicitors was ordered to pay indemnity costs for unreasonably refusing to deliver up its former client’s files to the liquidators where no lien was claimed. Legal practitioners should bear in…Read More
Tanner De Witt’s Family Practice ranked and Joanne Brown recognised as Leading Family and Divorce Lawyer in 2024 Doyle’s Guide Hong Kong.
Another great achievement for Joanne Brown and her Family practice, being recognised as a “Leading Family and Divorce Lawyer” and “Recommended Family and Divorce Law Firm” by the Doyle’s Guide Hong Kong 2024.
DAOs and the law: Enforcement
Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) are an emerging method for organising community based activities using blockchain technology. In the fourth of a series of articles exploring legal issues related to DAOs in Hong Kong, Pádraig Walsh and Shirley Kong from the Digital Services and Fintech practice…Read More
A “one stop” recognition order requiring non-responsive third parties to comply
Given Hong Kong’s status as an international financial hub and the fact that more than 75% of the companies listed on the main board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange are incorporated in either the Cayman Islands or in Bermuda (only around 11 percent are…Read More
