Hampton, Winter and Glynn

Hampton, Winter and Glynn’s Commercial Department provides advice on the full spectrum of commercial matters to clients ranging from individuals, through SMEs, to multi-national corporations.

The firm’s commercial lawyers are highly experienced and many are admitted in multiple jurisdictions.  The team is structured to provide simple and efficient access and a senior point of direct contact for every client.

Our membership of ALFA International give us the expertise and reach to support international transactions and investment in jurisdictions worldwide – we are, for example, closely involved in facilitating business between France and China/Hong Kong.

HWG is one of the first legal firms in Hong Kong to incorporate companies using Chinese documents, in recognition of the growing importance of the language for commerce and law.  We routinely provide both counsel and documentation in Chinese.

Through our company secretarial department, we provide a full range of services, including the incorporation of companies, registration of foreign corporations in Hong Kong, provision of company secretary, registered office, and the maintenance of statutory books and records.

Practice areas:

• Establishment of companies limited by shares and by guarantee
• Partnerships and limited partnerships
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Transfer of business and assets
• Shareholders agreements and joint ventures
• Reorganisation and restructuring
• Standard trading terms and conditions
• Distributions agreements, franchise agreements and licensing agreements
• Rights and duties of shareholders and directors
• Loan agreements and securities
• Personal data privacy

Hampton, Winter and Glynn’s employment practice covers the full range of employment issues in Hong Kong, including drafting of employment contracts, deeds of restrictive covenant and other employment related agreements. The firm advises clients on rights, obligations and other issues on the part of employers or employees, under the Employment Ordinance, Employees Compensation Ordinance, Minimum Wage Ordinance and the laws on discrimination.

Practice areas:

• Drafting and advising on employment contracts
• Termination of employment
• Rights and obligations of employers and employees
• Compliance with employment legislation
• Advice on restrictive covenants
• Preparation of hearings at Labour Tribunals
• Application for employment visas

Our employment team also assists clients with issues relating to personal data and privacy issues in employment and the workplace. 

Practice areas:

• Disputes on jurisdiction
• Divorce and judicial separation
• Separation agreements
• Financial settlements
• Child related issues

Hampton, Winter and Glynn practises in the registration of various intellectual property rights as well as the assignment, renewal and licensing of those rights in Hong Kong.  The firm also assists clients who are publishers and software developers in the publishing and exploitation of their work.

Through our membership of ALFA International and relationships with trademark agents worldwide, we also co-ordinate the international registration of trademarks and registered designs.

Practice areas:

• Registration of trademarks in Hong Kong
• Registration of registered designs in Hong Kong
• Coordinating the registration of intellectual property rights worldwide
• Licensing and assignment of copyright and other intellectual property rights
• Software licensing agreement
• Software development agreement
• Publishing agreement

We also handle disputes relating to trademarks and copyright infringements, actions for passing off and for infringement of registered designs.

Hampton, Winter and Glynn’s Litigation and Dispute Resolution Department is rooted in the following principles:

• Strategic insight – a flexible approach, working with our clients to achieve their objectives
• Independence – the autonomy of a leading independent firm, combined with the power of an unrivalled international network
• Accessibility – direct access to the partner handling your case and total transparency of charges and billing

Civil Litigation

Hampton, Winter and Glynn handles a very wide range of disputes and potential disputes arising out of corporate and commercial transactions involving banking, finance, and international trade, shareholder and partnership disputes, construction claims, contractual and negligence claims, employment disputes, commercial fraud investigations, insolvency, personal injury and fatal accidents.

The firm advises on and co-ordinates multi-jurisdictional litigation to ensure that the conduct of the Hong Kong proceedings will best support and complement the global strategy devised.

Practice areas:

• Banking, finance and investment disputes
• Commercial fraud Investigations
• Conflict of laws
• Construction disputes
• Contracts disputes
• Court of Protection applications for the appointment of committees under the Mental Health Ordinance – and support to those committees
• Debt recovery
• Defamation
• Insolvency and bankruptcy
• Insurance claims
• International trade and sales of goods disputes
• Joint Venture disputes
• Partnership and shareholders disputes
• Personal injury and fatal accidents
• Probate and Administrative Proceedings
• Professional negligence
• Securities disputes

Dispute Resolution

Hampton, Winter and Glynn recognises the importance of containing our clients’ costs, in terms of both time and money. Wherever appropriate, the firm will advise on alternative methods of dispute resolution such as mediation or adjudication to facilitate speedy and cost effective resolution and to maximise privacy.  When no such alternative approach is viable, we advise clients on pre-emptive steps to safeguard their interests, or to secure an advantage from which negotiations can be conducted.

Criminal Litigation

Hampton, Winter and Glynn acts for a wide range of corporate and individual clients and handles all aspects of criminal proceedings.

Practice areas:

• Commercial fraud, blackmail, CCB investigations
• Offences under the Securities and Futures Ordinance
• ICAC investigations
• Intellectual property rights offences
• Traffic offences
• Murder and manslaughter
• Offences against the person
• Theft, robbery, burglary and handling stolen goods
• Sexual offences
• Drug related offences

Criminal Litigation

Hampton, Winter and Glynn acts for a wide range of corporate and individual clients and handles all aspects of criminal proceedings.

Practice areas:

• Commercial fraud, blackmail, CCB investigations
• Offences under the Securities and Futures Ordinance
• ICAC investigations
• Intellectual property rights offences
• Traffic offences
• Murder and manslaughter
• Offences against the person
• Theft, robbery, burglary and handling stolen goods
• Sexual offences
• Drug related offences

Hampton, Winter and Glynn’s Property Department has a deep knowledge of Hong Kong’s property market, regulations and business culture.  This insight and experience serves a wide range of clients, including individuals, SMEs and local and overseas property investors and developers from Hong Kong, China and beyond.

HWG advises clients on property sales, acquisitions and leases. The firm works closely with many licensed banks in Hong Kong on mortgages of properties and can offer assistance in referring purchasers and houseowners to licensed banks for financing.

We have extensive experience in dealing with large developments involving the sales of multiple units in a residential, commercial or industrial complex. We work with property developers throughout the entire development process, from the early stage of land acquisition to the ultimate disposition of the development.

Practice areas:

• Residential, commercial and industrial property sales and purchases
• Mortgages and refinancing
• Property development
• Transfer of properties (voluntary winding up, pursuant to court order, trusts)
• Property title investigation and reports
• Leasing and tenancy matters

Hampton, Winter and Glynn advises on, and prepares, wills in accordance with clients’ wishes and instructions. Through the firm’s connections with tax advisors worldwide, we are also able to assist clients with multi jurisdictions succession planning.

We regularly represent clients in applications for the grant of probate, letters of administration and the resealing of grants.

Practice areas:

• Preparation of wills
• Application for grant of probate and letters and representations
• Resealing of foreign grants
• Administration of estate
• Intestacy
• Deed of family arrangement
• Contentious probate

Our team also handles disputes relating to inheritance, contested probate and trusts.