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Developing innovative pricing structures and alternative fee agreement models that deliver additional value for our clients.
Advancing professional knowledge and offering credits for attorneys, staff and other professionals.
Helping clients respond correctly when a crisis occurs.
Providing our clients with legal, strategic, and practical advice to make transformational changes in their organizations.
Leveraging law and technology to deliver sound solutions.
Delivering seamless service through partnerships across the globe.
Leveraging leading-edge technology to guide change and create seamless, collaborative experiences for clients and attorneys.
Industry-leading conferences focused on affordable housing, tax credits, and more.
Providing actionable information to support strategic decision-making.
Teaming with clients to advance sustainable projects, mitigate the effects of climate change, and protect our planet.
Offering a range of investment management and fiduciary services.
Bringing together companies and investors for tomorrow’s new deals.
Offering fresh insights on cases that are delayed, over budget, or off-target from the desired resolution.
Courtroom-ready lawyers who can resolve disputes early on clients’ terms or prevail at trial before a judge or jury.
Creating positive impact in our communities through increasing equity, access, and opportunity.
Partner
James Griffiths is a partner of Nixon Peabody CWL with 30 years’ experience of serving clients in Hong Kong. Qualified to practice Hong Kong and English law, he assists clients in corporate and financial transactions in Hong Kong and throughout the Asian region.
My focus is on corporate in investment transactions, covering cross-border mergers and acquisitions, direct investments, capital raisings and joint ventures. I also deal with restructurings and shareholder disputes. I have worked with private equity and venture capital funds, MNCs, strategic investors, listed and private companies, wealth management groups, family offices, founders and entrepreneurs. While based in Hong Kong, I have advised on transactions involving most countries in Asia.
I help mid-market private fund groups on the establishment of private equity and private open-ended funds managed or advised out of Hong Kong.
Related to my investment fund practice, I help international private fund groups and private wealth managers with their licensing and regulatory issues in Hong Kong, both for their initial set up and ongoing compliance.
I work with European banks on banking, finance and security transactions involving Hong Kong.
I also advise on a wide variety of commercial matters, including corporate compliance, franchising, licensing and distribution, employment, immigration and virtually any form of commercial contract.
Macro-economic factors continue to shape business sentiment in China and Hong Kong in 2023. Fundraising for many Asian managed investment funds and early stage companies will continue to be challenging. Despite these dynamics, we foresee prospects for activity in the mid-market as valuations become more realistic and buyers and investors begin to see upside potential for selected investments, possibly supported by restructurings by multinational groups. Succession planning may also give an impetus to sales of family owned Asian businesses.
High Court of Hong Kong
Solicitor of the High Court of Hong Kong
Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales (non-practising)
Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria, Australia (non-practising)
Inns of Court School of Law
University College, Cardiff, LLB
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