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  • Veronica Chan and her team raise close to $37,000 for Operation Santa Claus

    On Friday 1 December, Restructuring and Insolvency Solicitor Veronica Chan and her team, the IWIRC-ers, sprinted all over Hong Kong to solve GPS-triggered challenges in the name of SCMP’s Operation Santa Claus. The event was KPMG’s Run for a Claus, which raised nearly HK$500,000 for Operation…Read More

  • Q&A with Peter Tang – Corporate and Commercial Lawyer

    Originally from Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, Peter joined Tanner De Witt only one month ago after completing his traineeship at another Hong Kong law firm.  He obtained his Bachelor of Laws and Postgraduate Certificate in Laws from City University Hong Kong. Peter currently assists our Corporate…Read More

  • The Legal 500 2018 rankings are announced for Asia Pacific

    Tanner De Witt is very pleased to be recommended again this year in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific Guide 2018 for its four main practice areas; corporate and commercial, labour and employment, restructuring and insolvency and litigation and dispute resolution. We are very proud to…Read More

  • Veronica Chan Runs for a Claus

    This Friday 1 December, Restructuring & Insolvency Solicitor Veronica Chan will be donning a funny Christmas costume and sprinting all over Hong Kong, solving GPS-triggered challenges all in the name of charity. KPMG’s Run for a Claus is the game, and Veronica is one of…Read More

  • Joanne Brown and Elizabeth Seymour-Jones attend Pathfinders Charity Dinner

    On the evening of Saturday 18 November, Partner Joanne Brown and Paralegal Elizabeth Seymour-Jones donned mysterious masks to support migrant charity PathFinders at their Mardi Gras themed Anniversary Dinner. Held every year in November, this year’s dinner was an especially poignant one for the charity,…Read More

  • Tanner De Witt ball sponsor at this year’s Sandy Bay Mini Rugby Festival

    Mini rugby teams from all over Hong Kong will be competing in the HKU Sandy Bay RFC Mini Rugby Festival at Cyberport this Sunday 26 November. We’re very proud to announce that we are once again sponsoring the festival this year, this time as Ball Sponsor!…Read More

  • Tanner De Witt wins 2017 Pro Bono Law Firm Bronze Award

    We are pleased to announce that we have won a Bronze Award for our pro bono work in this year’s Law Society of Hong Kong Pro Bono and Community Work Recognition Programme. The award recognises a local or international law firm that has made an outstanding…Read More

  • Running for clean seas in the Discovery Bay 10k!

    Tanner De Witt had its biggest turnout ever for this November’s Discovery Bay 10k with 9 members of staff pushing themselves around the course. This year more than $140,000 was raised for charity with 414 runners in total. All proceeds will go to Plastic Free…Read More

  • Legal update: Court of Appeal upholds insider dealing and fraud decision in favour of SFC against two solicitors

    Case background On 9 November 2017, the Court of Appeal (“CA”) dismissed the appeal by a solicitor, Eric Lee, and Eric’s two sisters, Patsy Lee and Stella Lee, against the judgment by the Court of First Instance (“CFI”) finding them guilty of insider dealing and…Read More

  • Judicial Separation or Divorce? When to file for one or the other?

    What is Judicial Separation and why choose it?  A Judicial Separation application may be appropriate where parties wish to legally separate but for various reasons they do not wish to divorce.  Traditionally, this procedure was available to parties who did not see divorce as appropriate…Read More

  • Tanner De Witt Silver Sponsor at Turnaround Management Association’s Asia Pacific Conference

    Tanner De Witt is delighted to announce confirmation of its Silver Sponsorship at the upcoming 2017 TMA Asia Pacific Conference in Hong Kong. About the 2017 TMA Asia Pacific Conference Held on 15 to 17 November 2017 at the Renaissance Harbour View Hotel, the TMA…Read More

  • Tanner De Witt attends The Hong Kong Mental Health Conference 2017

    Partner Joanne Brown and Paralegal Elizabeth Seymour-Jones recently attended The Hong Kong Mental Health Conference 2017. Held on Friday 3 November to Sunday 5 November at the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine, the Conference hosted a variety of sessions, some of which are below: Mental Health…Read More