Jia Yuan Law Offices opens in Hong Kong

Ying and Tao will divide their time between Beijing - where the 20-partner boutique firm is headquartered - and Hong Kong.

Jia Yuan specializes in advising on corporate finance and capital markets transactions, and has worked on several Hong Kong IPOs, representing large Chinese state-owned companies.

"The main focus of the Hong Kong office is not on Hong Kong listings but on providing follow-up services to our clients that have already been listed there or have plans to invest overseas," Yan Yu, managing partner at Jia Yuan, told The Lawyer. "A growing number of Chinese companies are looking to invest overseas using Hong Kong as a spring board. We are hoping to be more involved in Chinese outbound transactions with our presence in Hong Kong."

Deals on which Jia Yuan has advised of late include CITIC Securities' $1.7 billion IPO in Hong Kong, the $2.7 billion Shanghai IPO of Shaanxi Coal, and the $861 million Hong Kong IPO of Yitai Coal.

There are 16 Chinese firms with offices in Hong Kong. Another of these is Fangda, which announced its launch in the city back in April, as well as the appointment of litigation partner Peter Yuen from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. Over the past few months, it has bulked up its Hong Kong team by hiring private equity and M&A counsel Peng Haifeng from Debevoise & Plimpton, as well as litigation associates Rachael Shek and Doris Yeung, from Clifford Chance and Deacons, respectively.

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