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20Oct2016

Tanner De Witt Partners Mark Side and Robin Darton meet international rugby coach Ben Ryan

Litigation and Dispute Resolution Partner Mark Side and Insolvency and Restructuring Partner Robin Darton met Fiji Rugby Sevens head coach on Sunday 16 October at the Sandy Bay Mini Rugby training session. Former coach of the England Rugby Sevens team, Ben Ryan was in Hong…Read More

18Oct2016

Guilty plea discounts in sentencing guidelines for Hong Kong

In the appeal case of HKSAR v Ngo Van Nam CACC 418/2014, the Court of Appeal set down new guidelines for determining the amount of discount in sentence to be given to a defendant for a guilty plea.  Prior to this decision a defendant received…Read More

12Oct2016

Rachel Hui selected to represent The Law Society of Hong Kong at the International Bar Association Annual Conference in Washington D.C.

Tanner De Witt Restructuring and Insolvency Associate Rachel Hui was selected as one of three young delegates sponsored to represent The Law Society of Hong Kong (the “Law Society”) at the International Bar Association (“IBA”) Annual Conference in Washington D.C. from 18 to 23 September…Read More

11Oct2016

Jeff Lane gives talk on Internet Fraud to Zhong Lun Law Firm in Hong Kong

Tanner De Witt Partner Jeff Lane gave a presentation to the Hong Kong office of Zhong Lun Law Firm on Wednesday 5 October 2016. The talk was arranged with Dorothy Siron who heads up Zhong Lun’s Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice and the topic was…Read More

29Sep2016

Partner in the press: Kim Boreham helps promote women’s rugby in Hong Kong

Tanner De Witt Partner Kim Boreham helps to promote women’s rugby in Hong Kong in her position as Hong Kong Rugby Union (HKRU) director of women’s rugby as published in the South China Morning Post. Excerpt from SCMP article: The Hong Kong Women’s Premiership is…Read More

28Sep2016

Jeff Lane wins Matter of the Year at the asialaw Dispute Resolution Awards 2016

Tanner De Witt is delighted to announce that Partner Jeff Lane won Matter of the Year Accent Delight International Ltd v Bouvier, Yves Charles Edgar at the asialaw Dispute Resolution Awards 2016 held last night at the Island Shangri La in Hong Kong. Litigators and…Read More

26Sep2016

More than US$110,000 raised for charity at the 13th Fatboy 10s Rugby Tournament 2016

Tanner De Witt was extremely proud to sponsor and participate in the 13th Fatboy 10s Rugby Tournament held in the Philippines in September this year. The goal of this tournament is to raise awareness of the sport of rugby in the Philippines and also to…Read More

26Sep2016

Tanner De Witt welcomes 2016 intake of trainees across core practice areas

This September we welcome three new lawyers to join our 2016 trainee programme. Tara Chan, Kevin Siu and Hayley Hui were selected from a strong pool of candidates to complete their two year training programme under the guidance of the Tanner De Witt team in…Read More

21Sep2016

Tanner De Witt supports 2016/17 season of Mini Rugby in Hong Kong

As long-term supporters of the sport of rugby in Hong Kong, we are very pleased to extend our support this year to the mini rugby players. Each new player of the 21 mini rugby clubs in Hong Kong will this year be offered a specially…Read More

19Sep2016

Ian De Witt sits on panel at 3rd Regional Insolvency Conference in Singapore

Tanner De Witt Restructuring and Insolvency Partner Ian De Witt sat on the second plenary session panel “Common Law Perspectives of Cross-Border Insolvency” on the second day of the 3rd Regional Insolvency Conference held at The Fullerton Hotel in Singapore on Friday 16 September 2016…Read More

13Sep2016

Tanner De Witt recognised by ALB for its M&A work in Hong Kong

Tanner De Witt is pleased to be included in Asian Legal Business’ M&A rankings for Hong Kong in its September 2016 issue. Tanner De Witt’s Corporate and Commercial practice has grown in recent years to a team of over 10 lawyers. Led by partners Eddie…Read More

12Sep2016

Tanner De Witt against JLA Asia in touch rugby friendly

On 31 August 2016 a select team of Tanner De Witt staff (Derek Cheuk, Troy Greig, Sunny Hathiramani, Natalie Lam and Anthony Marrin) played in a friendly touch rugby night hosted by JLA Asia in So Kon Po Recreation Ground in Causeway Bay. Three games (10-minute…Read More