Linklaters
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Linklaters‘ Hong Kong-based insurance practice is able to leverage the firm’s enviable corporate law, finance and regulatory credentials, and the team is particularly active in multi-jurisdictional bancassurance transactions. It also fields experts in the distribution of insurance products. Clients further benefit from the firm’s ability to fuse international and PRC legal advice, as a result of its joint operation with domestic law firm Zhao Sheng Law Firm. The group is led by senior international M&A partner Matthew Middleditch, who specialises in the financial institutions sector. Middleditch is supported by cross-border public and private M&A expert Christopher Yip, whose practice also includes the insurance sector, and Tiffany Yan, a corporate counsel whose experience includes advising FWD Group on its proposed global offering and listing on the main board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
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Key clients
- The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation
- The Bank of East Asia
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Work highlights
- Advised HSBC on its negotiation of a 15-year term bancassurance partnership with Allianz SE, covering China, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Sri Lanka.
- Advised the Bank of East Asia on the sale of its general insurance unit, Blue Cross (Asia-Pacific) Insurance, and its interest in a joint venture to AIA, as well as the formation of a 15-year exclusive bancassurance partnership with Blue Cross for Hong Kong.
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