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 

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

 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).