Lewis Silkin

Joint managing partners: Jo Farmer, Richard Miskella
International offices: Dublin, Hong Kong

The firm: We work with high performance businesses to protect and enhance their most important assets – their ideas and their people. We enable them to create endless possibilities for future success. We call this ‘Ideas. People. Possibilities.'

The firm has two things at its core: people, and a focus on creative, tech and innovation.

Lewis Silkin is passionate about people. Whether you are a fast growth start up or a large multinational business, the firm helps you realise the potential in your people and navigate your strategic HR and legal issues, both nationally and internationally. Lewis Silkin’s award-winning employment team is one of the largest in the UK, with dedicated specialists in all areas of employment law and a track record of leading precedent setting cases on issues of the day. The team’s breadth of expertise is unrivalled and includes HR consultants as well as experts across specialisms including employment, immigration, data, tax and reward, health and safety, reputation management, dispute resolution, corporate and workplace environment.

Creativity, technology and innovation are at the heart of everything the firm does. This is reflected in the way it works, as well as in the types of businesses it works with. Lewis Silkin helps bring your ideas to life by working alongside you as a trusted partner and bringing together leading commercial, corporate, data and privacy, dispute resolution, employment, immigration, intellectual property and real estate lawyers to help create, optimise, manage and protect your ideas and your business.

With offices across the UK, Ireland and Hong Kong, and with strategic alliances across the globe, the firm is recognised by clients and industry alike as being distinct for our unique culture and for providing solutions to complex, multi-jurisdictional business challenges with a pragmatic and human touch. So whether it is providing international employment law advice, managing a global IP portfolio or leading on a cross-border corporate transaction, Lewis Silkin can support you with the right people, in the right place, at the right time.

Lewis Silkin’s Hong Kong offices focuses on employment, intellectual property, litigation, data privacy, immigration and reward advice. The firm advises both businesses headquartered in, and those with operations in, Hong Kong on the full range of people and brand protection matters including:

Employment and immigration law

• day-to-day HR support
• employment documentation
• separation agreements
• employment disputes in the Labour Tribunal
• restrictive covenants and team moves
• whistleblowing and discrimination claims
• transfer of business undertakings
• restructuring
• immigration applications
• employee benefits sand incentives
• worker status (including worker status claims)
• advising senior executives

Intellectual property

• complex licensing
• issuing and defending proceedings relating to IP infringement
• assignment and manufacturing
• lodging opposition, cancellation, rectification and invalidation proceedings
• service and distribution agreements
• IP aspects of corporate transactions (including IP due diligence and stock exchange listings)

Data privacy

• compliance with the Hong Kong Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (PDPO)
• privacy policy documents
• workplace data privacy issues
• terms of business
• performing audits
• handling data breaches
• subject access requests

Commercial litigation

• disputes relating to commercial contracts
• director and shareholder disputes
• disputes relating to fraud
• interim relief
• arbitration
• mediation

The Hong Kong office supports various multinationals on international projects across the Asia Pacific region as well as global project. The office also advises Asia Pacific-based companies on the setting up of operations in the UK, in particular working closely alongside the firm’s London-based Chinese, Japanese and Korean desks.