International Lawyers Network (JD Supra Hong Kong)

KEY FACTS OF REAL ESTATE ACQUISITIONS UNDER HONG KONG LAW - Introduction - Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated cities over the world. With very little available land, real estate developers tend to build multi-storey buildings ranging from 30-to-70-storey high. Due to historical reasons, almost all lands in Hong Kong are leasehold tenures. Over the centuries, the Government...

To ensure that Hong Kong’s system continues to meet present-day circumstances and be in alignment with Government’s vision of developing Hong Kong into a regional innovation and technology hub, Hong Kong Government appointed an Advisory Committee on Review of the Patent System in Hong Kong in 2011(the “Advisory Committee”) to review and advise it on (a) how the Administration should position Hong

According to the 2018 Global Competitiveness Report released by the World Economic Forum, Hong Kong was ranked 9th out of 140 economies in terms of IP protection.  In accordance with the recommendations made by the Working Group on IP Trading in 2015 (of which the writer is a member), a wide range of measures were introduced to enhance Hong Kong’s role as an IP trading hub to serve overseas IP...

KEY FACTS OF REAL ESTATE ACQUISITIONS UNDER HONG KONG LAW - Introduction - According to the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China (“Hong Kong”), all realties in Hong Kong are held under the People’s Republic of China and are managed, used or developed by the Government of Hong Kong (the “Government”). There are constitutional provisions...