Compliance and Company Secretarial Practice of Hong Kong Listed Companies provides a neat and concise guide to all compliance and company secretarial practices that every Hong Kong listed company must abide by. Viewed through a real world scenario setting of a fictitious company, this publication offers both a concise and comprehensive analysis of these explicit guidelines which will help facilitate a wider understanding of corporate secretarial practice. Several aspects and stages of development of a listed company are examined: • Fundamental concepts of restructuring a private limited company into a wholly-owned subsidiary of a Cayman Islands company listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange • Account of the extensive continuing obligations imposed on a listed company and its officers • Reviews and explains the compliance and secretarial practices • Examines how a restructuring exercise can help to revive an ailing listed company Most up-to-date statutory and non-statutory compliances include: • The New Companies Ordinance (Cap. 622) • The Securities and Futures Ordinance (Cap. 571) • The Cayman Companies Law • The Rules Governing the Listing of securities on the Stock Exchange and the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on the GEM of the Stock Exchange • The Hong Kong Code on Takeovers and Mergers and Share Buy-backs • Ongoing or ad hoc compliance and company secretarial practice as required by the Hong Kong Companies Registry

Heavy emphasis on local cases, allowing business and legal professionals to understand difficult legal rules and principles through local examples

Easy to navigate and user-friendly layout of the general principles; thoughtful use of case extracts and case scenarios

Expanded chapter on ADR — an increasingly popular method of resolving disputes in Hong Kong 

 A user-friendly and concise reference guide for all company secretaries, practitioners and business professionals to the changes to principle laws and rules dictated by the new Companies Ordinance (Cap.622).