LC Lawyers 林朱律师事务所

Our Firm
LC Lawyers LLP is an independent Hong Kong law firm and member firm of EY Law. EY Law consist of 3,500+ professionals providing legal services across 80+ jurisdictions globally to offer clients cross-border and integrated legal services with a sector-focused multidisciplinary approach.

Our Practice Areas
Our lawyers provide comprehensive legal services for:

• Mergers and acquisitions, amalgamations, listed company takeovers, privatizations, reverse takeovers, disposals, joint ventures, partnerships, tender offers, auctions and spin-offs
• Corporate restructuring and taxation optimization
• Listings and public offerings (including IPOs, dual listing, secondary offerings), corporate finance (equity and debt), pre-IPO investments, pre-IPO strategic corporate reorganizations, post-listing compliance, corporate governance, post-IPO securities offerings and spin-off listing
• Debt offerings including Eurobonds, dim sum bonds, bonds of investment grades, high-yield bonds and green bonds
• Fund formation, private equity/venture capital investments
• Debt restructurings, insolvency, re-financing, angel investments
• Dispute resolution including litigation, arbitration, mediation
• Regulatory enforcement and investigations, pre-acquisition due diligence, post-acquisition risk assessment and integration, risk management, internal controls and governance
• Energy and infrastructure projects (including oil, gas, power stations, refineries, tunnels, bridges, highways) and project financing
• Commercial contracts
• Employee share-based incentive plans
• Family enterprises, wealth management, family trusts
• Public procurement
• Cybersecurity and data privacy

Our Experience
We represent multinational, PRC and Hong Kong corporations, financial institutions, listed issuers, private equity and venture capital funds, governmental authorities and official bodies, as well as private clients on mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance transactions.

We also advise a number of state-owned enterprises in development, acquisitions, government regulations, sales & purchases, finances and operations of infrastructure projects including liquefied natural gas, oil & gas, power stations, refinery, terminal and other public utilities.

We act for corporations and individuals in governance, regulatory and internal investigations, corporate compliance counselling, disputes relating to directors’ and officers’ liability, shareholders’ remedies, investments and joint ventures, insolvency, asset-tracing claims, recovery actions and insurance litigation.

Our Awards (2008-2020)

Firm

• Recommended Firm in Capital Markets by Asialaw Profiles, 2020
• Recognised Firm in Corporate and M&A by Asialaw Profiles, 2020
• Recognised Firm in M&A (Corporate and M&A) by IFLR1000, 2020
• Leading Firm in Construction (Hong Kong) by Legal 500 Asia Pacific, 2019-2020
• Gold Law Firm Award in Pro Bono Service by The Law Society of Hong Kong, 2019
• Individuals

Asialaw Profiles

• Recommended Lawyer in Capital Markets, Rossana Chu, 2020
• Notable Practitioner in Corporate and M&A, Rossana Chu, 2020

IFLR1000

• Notable Practitioner in Corporate (including M&A), Rossana Chu, 2020
• Highly Regarded Lawyer, Rossana Chu, 2018
• Notable Practitioner in Financial & Corporate Law, Bonnie Yung, 2018
• Leading Lawyer in Financial & Corporate Law, Rossana Chu, 2015-2017

Chambers and Partners

• Leading Lawyer in Dispute Resolution: Litigation (International Firms) – China, Asia-Pacific, Kareena Teh, 2020
• Leading Lawyer in Dispute Resolution (International Firms) – China, Asia-Pacific, Kareena Teh, 2017-2020
• Leading Lawyer in Dispute Resolution (International Firms) – China, Global, Kareena Teh, 2017-2020
• Recognised Practitioner in Energy & Natural Resources (International Firms) in China, Asia-Pacific, Lynia Lau, 2014-2018
• Recognised as “Up and Coming” in Private Equity: Buyouts (International Firms) in China, Asia-Pacific, Rossana Chu, 2008-2013

The Law Society Pro Bono and Community Work Recognition Programme

• Pro Bono Service, Individual Silver Award, Kareena Teh, 2019
• Pro Bono Service, Individual Gold Award, Kareena Teh, 2018

Legal 500 Asia Pacific

• Recommended Lawyer in Construction (Hong Kong), Lynia Lau, 2019-2020
• Recommended Lawyer in Regulatory, Anti-Corruption and Compliance (Hong Kong), Kareena Teh, 2017-2019
• Recommended Lawyer in Regulatory (Hong Kong), Kareena Teh, 2017-2019
• Recommended Lawyer in Dispute Resolution (Hong Kong), Kareena Teh, 2017-2018
• Recommended Lawyer in Project and Energy (Hong Kong), Lynia Lau, 2016-2018
• Recommended Lawyer in Corporate (Including M&A) (Hong Kong), Rossana Chu, 2016-2018
• Recommended Lawyer in Capital Markets (Equity) (Hong Kong), Rossana Chu, 2015-2018
• Recommended Lawyer in Corporate (Including M&A), Lynia Lau, 2016

Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific

• Dispute Resolution Star, Kareena Teh, 2018-2019

Financial Times “Asia-Pacific Innovative Lawyers”

• Highly Commended for Dispute Resolution, Kareena Teh, 2017

In-House Community

• Named as a Commended External Counsel of the Year, Rossana Chu, 2017

Lawyer Monthly

• Takeover Deal of the Year 2016 Award, Rossana Chu, 2016

Global Investigations Review

• 100 Top Women in investigations, Kareena Teh, 2015