The ‘responsive, experienced and helpful’ banking and finance team at Stephenson Harwood provides a comprehensive service covering acquisition finance, leveraged finance, real estate finance, bilateral and syndicated lending, and derivatives. Its asset finance expertise includes ship and aviation finance. Katherine Liu heads the practice group from Hong Kong, bringing experience of personal data laws and technology matters. Also in Hong Kong, Elton Chan ‘is a very experienced banking and finance lawyer’, acting for bot lenders and borrowers in corporate lending matters.
Testimonials
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‘Stephenson Harwood's banking and finance team is responsive, experienced and helpful.’
‘Mr. Elton Chan of Stephenson Harwood is a very experienced banking and finance lawyer. Mr. Chan and his team are always friendly and helpful. ’
‘The Stephenson Harwood team was happy to communicate with us about the legal documents that arose in the project. In addition to written responses, telephone answers were always very timely.'
‘Katherine Liu and Teresa Tsoi are very responsible and the feedback they give us always accurately meets our needs. Our cooperation is very smooth.'
‘Anna Kwong has deep knowledge in trade finance, providing outstanding legal and commercial advice in a practical manner.’
Key clients
- Airstar Bank Limited
- Airwallex (Hong Kong) Limited
- Ant Bank (Hong Kong) Limited
- Ant Group Co., Ltd.
- Bank of Communications Co., Ltd
- Bank SinoPac Co., Ltd.
- BNP Paribas
- China Construction Bank
- China Development Bank
- China Minsheng Bank
- CIB Leasing
- Cinda Leasing
- Credit Suisse
- CTBC Bank Co., Ltd.
- Futu Lending Limited
- Futu Securities International (Hong Kong) Limited
- Haitong Leasing
- HKT Flexi Limited
- HSBC
- ICBC Financial Leasing Co., Ltd.
- JPMorgan Chase
- Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation, Limited
- OCBC Bank (Hong Kong) Limited
- PrimeCredit Limited
- Raiffeisen Bank International
- Shanghai Pudong Development Bank
- Standard Chartered Bank
- Svenska Handelsbanken AB (publ)
- The Export-Import Bank of China
- United Overseas Bank Limited
- WeLend Limited
- Wells Fargo Bank
Work highlights
- Advised various PRC banks on PRC onshore and offshore loans backed by onshore guarantees, which are major products offered by many PRC banks in Hong Kong.
- Advised OCBC Bank (Hong Kong) Limited on its HK$211 million refinancing of Weave-Living – Mid-Levels.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Katherine Liu