• Setting up Trust
• Charitable Trust
• Revocation of Trust
• Will, Probate and Administration of Estate
• Others

Setting up Trust

• We assist clients to set up various types of trusts, including family trust ... [Read More]

  We assist clients to set up various types of trusts, including family trusts and foundations. We have assisted a client in establishing a trust settlement whose trust assets comprised of listed companies' shares. Another client wanted an early termination of the trust by way of revocation. The revocation involved the dissolution of trustee companies, retirement of individual trustees, assignment of debts and revesting the listed companies' shares.

Charitable Trust

• We have advised clients in the revocation of trusts. The trusts were in a t ... [Read More]

  We have advised clients in the revocation of trusts. The trusts were in a two-level trust structure, which involved a discretionary trust and a unit trust both governed by foreign laws. We have provided detailed and comprehensive advice to our client on the revocation of the discretionary trusts. Moreover, we have drafted documentation for the revocation of the unit trust and the returning of the trust assets back to the settlor.

Revocation of Trust

• We have advised professional trustee and administrators in the administrati ... [Read More]

  We have advised professional trustee and administrators in the administration of estate. These include locating estate assets in different jurisdictions, engaging foreign lawyers in claiming back landed properties resumed by other jurisdictions, and application to court for direction on the distribution.

Will, Probate and Administration of Estate

• Our probate and trust team has very broad experience on all sorts of will a ... [Read More]

  Our probate and trust team has very broad experience on all sorts of will and probate related services ranging from drafting will (including advising client on succession planning and establishing simple will trust), application for Letters of Administration and probate for local and overseas clients, application for re-sealing of foreign grant in the Hong Kong court, administration and realization of the estate, drafting Deed of Family Arrangement and distribution of the estate among beneficiaries for the administrator/executor. We have handled sizeable estate with value more than HK$200 million.

• Advising professional trustee/administrators in the administration of estat ... [Read More]

  Advising professional trustee/administrators in the administration of estate, including locating estate assets in different jurisdictions, engaging foreign lawyers in claiming back landed properties resumed by other jurisdictions and application to court for direction on the distribution.

Others

• We have assisted competing beneficiaries to resolve their disagreements by ... [Read More]

  We have assisted competing beneficiaries to resolve their disagreements by variation of the trust deeds and distribution of trust assets.

• We have acted for a company in the acquisition of assets in a contested dis ... [Read More]

  We have acted for a company in the acquisition of assets in a contested dissolution of a family trust, where some of the beneficiaries accused the trustees of misconduct.

• We have also drafted pre-nuptial agreement for our client catered for subst ... [Read More]

  We have also drafted pre-nuptial agreement for our client catered for substantial pre-martial financial arrangements. The agreement is to protect one party who may bear the child of the parties during their cohabitation before marriage, trust for the child, provisions on termination, and sections effective upon marriage.

• We have drafted letters of wishes specifying visitation rights and who is e ... [Read More]

  We have drafted letters of wishes specifying visitation rights and who is entitled to give medical instructions upon the granting party going into mental incapacity.