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  • Federico Donnet serves as ambassador to Italy on Bellissima Italia 2016 committee

    Tanner De Witt Senior Associate and Italian native Federico Donnet is serving on the formal committee to Bellissima Italia  – a festival of Italian culture and lifestyle – alongside other notable Hong Kong figures including Miss Sabrina Ho, Miss Charmaine Ho and Miss Queenie Rosita…Read More

  • Tanner De Witt litigator Anthony Marrin to represent Hong Kong in East Asia Cup

    Tanner De Witt’s Anthony Marrin has been selected for the CHK Sportsroad Dragons team to represent Hong Kong in the upcoming cricket East Asia Cup from 2 – 7 November 2016 in Sano, Japan. The East Asia Cup is a T20 tournament and will also…Read More

  • Tanner De Witt Partners Mark Side and Robin Darton meet international rugby coach Ben Ryan

    Litigation and Dispute Resolution Partner Mark Side and Insolvency and Restructuring Partner Robin Darton met Fiji Rugby Sevens head coach on Sunday 16 October at the Sandy Bay Mini Rugby training session. Former coach of the England Rugby Sevens team, Ben Ryan was in Hong…Read More

  • Guilty plea discounts in sentencing guidelines for Hong Kong

    In the appeal case of HKSAR v Ngo Van Nam CACC 418/2014, the Court of Appeal set down new guidelines for determining the amount of discount in sentence to be given to a defendant for a guilty plea.  Prior to this decision a defendant received…Read More

  • Rachel Hui selected to represent The Law Society of Hong Kong at the International Bar Association Annual Conference in Washington D.C.

    Tanner De Witt Restructuring and Insolvency Associate Rachel Hui was selected as one of three young delegates sponsored to represent The Law Society of Hong Kong (the “Law Society”) at the International Bar Association (“IBA”) Annual Conference in Washington D.C. from 18 to 23 September…Read More

  • Jeff Lane gives talk on Internet Fraud to Zhong Lun Law Firm in Hong Kong

    Tanner De Witt Partner Jeff Lane gave a presentation to the Hong Kong office of Zhong Lun Law Firm on Wednesday 5 October 2016. The talk was arranged with Dorothy Siron who heads up Zhong Lun’s Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice and the topic was…Read More

  • Partner in the press: Kim Boreham helps promote women’s rugby in Hong Kong

    Tanner De Witt Partner Kim Boreham helps to promote women’s rugby in Hong Kong in her position as Hong Kong Rugby Union (HKRU) director of women’s rugby as published in the South China Morning Post. Excerpt from SCMP article: The Hong Kong Women’s Premiership is…Read More

  • Jeff Lane wins Matter of the Year at the asialaw Dispute Resolution Awards 2016

    Tanner De Witt is delighted to announce that Partner Jeff Lane won Matter of the Year Accent Delight International Ltd v Bouvier, Yves Charles Edgar at the asialaw Dispute Resolution Awards 2016 held last night at the Island Shangri La in Hong Kong. Litigators and…Read More

  • More than US$110,000 raised for charity at the 13th Fatboy 10s Rugby Tournament 2016

    Tanner De Witt was extremely proud to sponsor and participate in the 13th Fatboy 10s Rugby Tournament held in the Philippines in September this year. The goal of this tournament is to raise awareness of the sport of rugby in the Philippines and also to…Read More

  • Tanner De Witt welcomes 2016 intake of trainees across core practice areas

    This September we welcome three new lawyers to join our 2016 trainee programme. Tara Chan, Kevin Siu and Hayley Hui were selected from a strong pool of candidates to complete their two year training programme under the guidance of the Tanner De Witt team in…Read More

  • Tanner De Witt supports 2016/17 season of Mini Rugby in Hong Kong

    As long-term supporters of the sport of rugby in Hong Kong, we are very pleased to extend our support this year to the mini rugby players. Each new player of the 21 mini rugby clubs in Hong Kong will this year be offered a specially…Read More

  • Ian De Witt sits on panel at 3rd Regional Insolvency Conference in Singapore

    Tanner De Witt Restructuring and Insolvency Partner Ian De Witt sat on the second plenary session panel “Common Law Perspectives of Cross-Border Insolvency” on the second day of the 3rd Regional Insolvency Conference held at The Fullerton Hotel in Singapore on Friday 16 September 2016…Read More