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  • The Legal 500 2023 rankings are announced for Asia-Pacific

    Tanner De Witt is proud to again be recommended in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific Guide 2023 for employment, restructuring and insolvency, dispute resolution, technology, media, telecommunications (TMT), commercial, corporate and M&A, private client and family. Legal 500’s Hall of Fame includes Partners Ian De Witt and Robin Darton, while Pamela Mak and Russell Bennett are…Read More

  • Press release: Tanner De Witt celebrates 100% trainee retention rate and welcomed 2022 intake

    Hong Kong law firm Tanner De Witt is delighted to announce 100% successful retention of its trainees who qualified in 2022 and are now admitted as solicitors with the firm. The trainees joining Tanner De Witt as solicitors are: Austin graduated from the Hong Kong…Read More

  • Tanner De Witt promotes two solicitors to Partner – Veronica Chan and Tim Au

    Tanner De Witt is delighted to announce the promotion of Veronica Chan and Tim Au to the position of Partner with the firm, with effect from Sunday 1 January 2023. The promotion of Veronica and Tim brings the firm’s number of partners to 16 and…Read More

  • The Alternative to Class Action Litigation in Hong Kong

    Class actions are not recognised by Hong Kong Courts, so, an individual’s right of action may not be as effective as it might otherwise be. It is for this reason that jurisdictions which do not recognise class actions often have a counterbalance in strong regulation…Read More

  • Supporting Rugby in Laos

    Congratulations to the Lao Rugby Federation for successfully hosting a Rugby Sevens Exhibition during the 11th Lao National Games. We are proud to help support their inclusion and the growth of youth rugby throughout Asia. “The Lao Rugby Federation is proud to welcome Tanner De…Read More

  • Service by NFT – Court serves defendants by ‘airdrop’ into digital wallet

    BACKGROUND In D’Aloia v (1) Persons Unknown and (2) Binance Holdings Limited and others, the High Court of England and Wales granted the claimant permission to serve court proceedings on ‘persons unknown’ over blockchain, by way of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). NFTs NFTs are a relatively…Read More

  • Data Transfers: Hong Kong personal data importers and transfer impact assessments

    When a Hong Kong personal data importer receives personal data from a data exporter in another location, it is becoming increasingly common for the data exporter to carry out an assessment of the levels of protection in Hong Kong available for the personal data and…Read More

  • Leading Firm – Asset Recovery – Asia Pacific

    Tanner De Witt is the only leading Hong Kong law firm listed by Who’s Who Legal (WWL) Asia Pacific – GIR – Asset Recovery 2022! Jeff Lane, Ian De Witt, Robin Darton and Pamela Mak have once again been listed for the 2022 edition with Jeff Lane being the only onshore lawyer listed…Read More

  • Data Transfers: The curious case of cross-border data transfers in Hong Kong

    The Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (the “PDPO”) was passed in 1995 and took effect from December 1996. One of its key provisions was a restriction on cross-border data transfers in section 33. More than 25 years later, section 33 is still not yet in operation….Read More

  • Tanner De Witt host Richard Turere, Inventor of Lion Lights

    On Thursday evening, 17 November, we had the pleasure of hosting the Royal Geographical Society‘s presentation by Colin Dawson of The Elephant Foundation and Richard Turere, Maasai warrior and inventor of Lion Lights.  All before the age of 23, Richard built an impressively accomplished CV. …Read More

  • Client Choice Award 2022 winner – Robin Darton

    We are pleased to announce that Partner Robin Darton is the exclusive winner of the Lexology Client Choice Award 2022 for Restructuring & Insolvency, Hong Kong. The Client Choice Award is given in consideration of exceptional client recommendations, a track record of adding value to…Read More

  • Legal Update: Developments in virtual asset regulation in Hong Kong

    In this snapshot legal update, we report on various announcements and policy updates announced during Hong Kong FintechWeek in respect of virtual assets (“VA”). On 31 October 2022, the Securities and Futures Commission (“SFC”) issued a circular on virtual asset futures exchange-traded funds (“VA Futures…Read More