Guantao HK enters into association with Gallant in Hong Kong
We are pleased to announce that Guantao Hong Kong and Gallant will enter into association in Hong Kong from 1 April 2024. At the same time, we sincerely welcome the managing partner of Gallant, Mr. Philip Wong, to join Guantao Hong Kong as consultant. Guantao Hong Kong's managing partner, Ms. Grace Pengpeng Yan, will also be joining Gallant as consultant. Following the signing of the Alliance Agreement between Guantao and Gallant earlier, the strategic cooperation between Guantao and Gallant has begun a new phase.
The managing partner of Gallant, Mr. Philip Wong, commented that, the association between Gallant and Guantao Hong Kong has a strategic significance at this moment. With the global economy entering into a new era, clients nowadays have better legal knowledge and higher expectations, together with intense market competition, rising number of lawyers and abundant online information, all of which have a significant impact on the work of lawyers. Only law firms which can provide comprehensive and competent legal services may stand out in this new environment. To excel, a law firm must have a certain scale together with a solid legal foundation. Guantao Hong Kong is the Hong Kong office of Guantao Law Firm, whose head office is located in Beijing. We believe that the association will have a positive effect on the legal markets of both Mainland China and Hong Kong, and that through Guantao's Mainland network, the talent, knowledge, information and markets of both sides will be more effectively integrated, thus greatly enhancing our joint momentum, range and return rate of providing legal services in both Mainland China and Hong Kong.
Grace Pengpeng Yan, managing partner of Guantao Hong Kong, commented that Gallant is a well-established and notable Hong Kong law firm which has been providing cross-border legal services between China and Hong Kong since 1979. The association will enhance our capability of providing cross-border one-stop legal services effectively and efficiently. With the support of Guantao network of 30 domestic and overseas offices including one joint operation office with international law firm Ashurst in Shanghai free trade zone and equipped with our capability of providing Chinese and Hong Kong law advice, we are confident that through our association with Gallant we will better serve our clients’ needs in their increasing cross-border businesses especially in the Greater Bay Area.
Guantao Hong Kong was established in 2008. After three years’ association with Peter C. Wong, Chow & Chow, Guantao HK was localized as a Hong Kong solicitor’s firm in February 2016 with the capacity to provide both Hong Kong SAR and mainland China law advice. Our practice covers corporate & financing, capital markets, mergers & acquisitions, restructuring, dispute resolution, real estate, intellectual property, company formation, company secretary service, China-appointed attesting officer and notary public with special focus on cross-border transactions. Our partners and consultants are admitted to practise in Hong Kong, mainland China, Greater Bay Area, England and Wales, New York State of US, Australia and Singapore. Guantao HK has been ranked and awarded by a wide variety of international legal publications and highly recognized by our clients.
Gallant was founded in 1977, headquartered in central Hong Kong and is one of the largest and well-established and notable full service independent firm in Hong Kong with about 130 solicitors and employees. Gallant was one of the first 12 foreign law firms in the world to be approved by the PRC Ministry of Justice to set up a representative office in Chinese mainland in 1992. Gallant offer comprehensive legal services to a large number of local, mainland Chinese and multinational corporations, banks, listed companies and statutory bodies across different industries, covering various aspects of legal services in corporate, commercial and property related activities (contentious and non-contentious), including capital markets work, corporate and commercial, M&A, banking and finance, China practice, trust and private clients, intellectual property, project developments and commercial real estate, conveyancing and tenancy, wills and probate, insurance, insolvency, mediation, arbitration and litigation.
