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Butterworths Hong Kong Company Law (Winding-Up and Miscellaneous Provisions) Handbook, 6th Edition

Edited by ELG Tyler · Stefan HC Lo
LexisNexis Hong Kong July 2024

Specifications

ISBN-13
9789888863631
Publisher
LexisNexis Hong Kong
Publication
July 2024
Format
Paperback , 1068 pages
Jurisdiction
Hong Kong ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

The Butterworths Hong Kong Company Law (Winding Up and MiscellaneousProvisions) Handbook details provisions relating to prospectus, companies winding-up rules, insolvency of companies, disqualification of directors, receivership, restrictions on sale of shares and provisions relating to the Societies Ordinance are still in force under the now retitled Companies (Winding Up and Miscellaneous Provisions) Ordinance (Cap 32).

What’s new in this title:

  • Court of Final Appeal decisions on the effect of exclusive jurisdiction clauses on winding up petitions (Re Lam Kwok Hung Guy, ex p Tor Asia Credit Master Fund LP (2023) 26 HKCFAR 119, [2023] 4 HKC 93, [2023] HKCFA 9) and on the threshold requirements for winding up a foreign company in Hong Kong (Shandong Chenming Paper Holdings Ltd v Arjowiggins HKK 2 Ltd [2022] 5 HKC 318, (2022) 25 HKCFAR 98, [2022] HKCFA 11).
  • New cases on cross-border insolvency, such as Re Global Brands Group Holding Ltd (in liq) [2022] 3 HKLRD 3, [2022] HKCU 2967, [2022] HKCFI 1789; Re Up Energy Development Group Ltd [2022] 2 HKLRD 993, [2022] HKCFI 1329; Re Guoan International Ltd [2023] HKCU 939, [2023] HKCFI 666 Re China Properties Group Ltd (In Liq) [2023] 4 HKLRD 811, [2023] HKCFI 2346); and new cases dealing with the Cooperation Mechanism between the High Court of Hong Kong and designated Intermediate People's Courts in Mainland China: Re Trinity International Brands Ltd [2023] HKCFI 1581; Re Husk’s Green Technology Holding Co Ltd [2023] HKCFI 3054.
  • Amendments made by the Bankruptcy and Companies Legislation (Miscellaneous Amendments) Ordinance (22 of 2023), including amendments to enable the sending of documents electronically to the Official Receiver’s Office, and removing certain requirements for newspaper advertisement of notices in company liquidations, while maintaining existing requirements for gazettal of notices.
  • Revised Practice Direction 3.1 (Bankruptcy and Winding-Up Proceedings) dated 30 June 2023, replacing the previous version dated 24 January 2017. 

About the Author

ELG Tyler

Former Professor of Law at The University of Hong Kong and The City University of Hong Kong, District Judge Hong Kong, Senior Assistant Law Officer, Commercial III (Companies Ordinance Rewrite team), Department of Justice HKSARG ELG Tyler
Professor Tyler came to Hong Kong in 1985 from Australia. He was a professor at The University of Hong Kong from 1985 to 1991, when he became a District Court Judge. He returned to academia in 1994 at The City University of Hong Kong, where he worked until his retirement in 2005 and returned to Australia. He has lectured and written on the Hong Kong Company Law for the past 26 years. In 2007, Professor Tyler returned to Hong Kong to a temporary position in the Commercial Unit, Civil Division, Department of Justice, where he worked on the Companies Ordinance Rewrite (The new Companies Ordinance was passed in July 2012).

 

Stefan HC Lo
BA, LLB (Syd), LLM (Syd)
Department of Justice HKSARG
Stefan was appointed to the Civil Division of the Department of Justice in 2009 to advise on the Companies Ordinance Rewrite. He was previously Assistant Professor at the School of Law, City University of Hong Kong, where he taught company and commercial law. Stefan has researched and published widely in corporate and securities law in textbooks, treatises, and local and international journals. He is a Research Affiliate of the Sydney Law School's Ross Parsons Centre of Commercial, Corporate and Taxation Law.

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