A Guide on Directors’ Duties
Companies Registry
Companies Registry guidance explaining core directors’ duties, including good faith, proper purpose, conflicts, care, skill, diligence, and disclosure.
DirectorsListed Companies
Practitioner analysis
Practice Notes
Official guidance, professional notes, and lawyer commentary that connect statutory doctrine to transactional and litigation practice.
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New Companies Ordinance: Highlights
Companies Registry
Official explanatory overview of the Cap. 622 rewrite, including modernization of company law, no-par regime, governance changes, and compliance simplification.
IncorporationCapitalDirectorsShareholders
Piercing the Corporate Veil after Prest v Petrodel
Department of Justice, Civil Division Update, Winter 2013
Government legal update explaining the UK Supreme Court approach in Prest and its relevance for Hong Kong lawyers analysing concealment, evasion, and property-control arguments.
PersonalityDirectors
A Look at CWG v MH in the Context of Prest v Petrodel
Hong Kong Lawyer
Practitioner analysis of Hong Kong Court of Appeal treatment of veil-piercing in a post-Prest setting, useful for understanding how corporate-control arguments travel beyond ordinary commercial claims.
PersonalityShareholders
Piercing the Corporate Veil in Hong Kong
Legalmondo
Current practice note on when Hong Kong courts may disregard separate personality, with practical emphasis on evasion, sham structures, and creditor-risk scenarios.
PersonalityWinding Up
Company Law Guidance Note
Hong Kong Chartered Governance Institute
Governance-profession guidance on practical implementation of Companies Ordinance provisions and company secretarial issues.
ShareholdersConstitutionDirectors
Hong Kong Companies Ordinance Briefing Notes
KPMG
Practitioner briefing series on Companies Ordinance accounting, reporting, and compliance issues with worked examples.
CapitalIncorporationDirectors
Key Changes under the Companies Ordinance (Cap. 622)
Charltons
Law firm overview of major Cap. 622 reforms, including corporate administration, capital, directors, meetings, and shareholder protections.
IncorporationCapitalDirectorsShareholders
Leave to Bring Unfair Prejudice Proceedings by Way of Derivative Action
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer
Practical note on the early post-Cap. 622 interaction between statutory derivative actions and unfair prejudice proceedings.
Derivative ActionsMinority Remedies
When Can Shareholders Seek Relief in Favour of the Company?
Stephenson Harwood
Practitioner analysis of unfair prejudice petitions seeking company-level relief and the continued significance of Chime-style issues.
Minority RemediesDerivative Actions
Key Highlights of Company Litigation Developments in Hong Kong in 2023
Mayer Brown
Annual litigation review covering unfair prejudice, valuation, company participation in shareholder disputes, and other company-law developments.
Minority RemediesShareholdersDerivative Actions
Directors’ Duties in Insolvency: Hong Kong Court Warns of Personal Liability
Hogan Lovells
Current practitioner analysis of personal-liability risk where directors cause an insolvent company to pursue hopeless proceedings.
DirectorsWinding Up
Simple Guide on Compulsory Winding-up of Companies
Official Receiver’s Office
Official public guide to compulsory winding-up procedure, petitions, orders, liquidators, creditor participation, and practical effects of liquidation.
Winding UpMinority Remedies
Corporate Governance Guide for Boards and Directors
HKEX, April 2026
Current HKEX guide for listed-company boards on governance structure, board effectiveness, risk oversight, controls, and corporate governance reporting.
Listed CompaniesDirectors
The New Companies Ordinance
Community Legal Information Centre
Plain-language overview of Cap. 622 for non-specialist readers, useful as a public-facing bridge into incorporation and company administration topics.
IncorporationConstitutionShareholders
Court Holds Oppression and Loss-of-Confidence Claims to Be Arbitrable
Deacons
Practitioner note on PI 1 and PI 2 v MR and the interaction between arbitration clauses, shareholder oppression disputes, and winding-up relief.
Minority RemediesShareholdersWinding Up
Board Fight: Court Intervened to Protect Shareholders’ Rights
Baker McKenzie
Practice note on listed-company board disputes, requisitioned meetings, shareholder voting rights, and judicial control of directors’ defensive tactics.
ShareholdersDirectorsListed Companies
Court of Appeal Shuts Down Derivative Action in Insolvency Context
Dentons
Current note on derivative action strategy where the company is in insolvency-related proceedings and control over corporate claims is contested.
Derivative ActionsWinding UpMinority Remedies
Hong Kong Court Resists Strike-out of Buy-out Order in Unfair Prejudice Petition
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer
Current practitioner analysis of unfair prejudice pleadings, buy-out relief, and the threshold for striking out shareholder-remedy claims.
Minority RemediesShareholders
Sino-Ocean’s Contentious Rescue Plan: Court Sides with Survival
Freshfields
Practitioner update on the Hong Kong sanction of Sino-Ocean’s scheme and the cross-border coordination of a Hong Kong scheme with an English restructuring plan.
Winding UpTakeoversListed Companies