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Partner 合伙人 | Legal
Hong Kong

Nicholas Plowman 包乐文
Partner 合伙人
Hong Kong
Services
We have the expertise to handle the most demanding transactions. Our commercial understanding and experience of working with leading financial institutions, professional advisers and regulatory bodies means we add real value to clients’ businesses.
Sectors and specialist teams
Our sector approach relies on smart collaboration between teams who have a deep understanding of related businesses and industry dynamics. The specific combination of our highly informed experts helps our clients to see around corners.
We have the expertise to handle the most demanding transactions. Our commercial understanding and experience of working with leading financial institutions, professional advisers and regulatory bodies means we add real value to clients’ businesses.
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Ogier provides practical legal advice globally, across BVI, Cayman, Guernsey, Irish, Jersey and Luxembourg laws.
Banking and Finance
Corporate
Dispute Resolution
Employment and Immigration
Intellectual Property
Investment Funds
Listing Services
Local Legal Services
Delivering integrated legal, corporate and fiduciary services with a focus on governance and regulatory compliance.
Independent regulatory, compliance, AML, ESG and digital solutions for evolving financial and operational needs.
Our sector approach relies on smart collaboration between teams who have a deep understanding of related businesses and industry dynamics. The specific combination of our highly informed experts helps our clients to see around corners.
Ogier provides practical advice on BVI, Cayman Islands, Guernsey, Irish, Jersey and Luxembourg law through our global network of offices across the Asian, Caribbean and European timezones. Ogier is the only firm to advise on this unique combination of laws.
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Fresh thinking, sharper opinion.
We get straight to the point, managing complexity to get to the essentials. Our global network of offices covers every time zone.
About us
Corporate social responsibility (CSR)
Diversity, equity and inclusion
Information security
Innovation
Sustainability
11th Floor Central Tower, 28 Queen's Road Central, Central, Hong Kong
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Ogier's Hong Kong office provides British Virgin Islands (BVI), Cayman, Guernsey and Jersey legal services to clients in the Asian time zone, working together with our Beijing, Shanghai, Singapore and Tokyo client services offices.
For the Asia region, Ogier focuses on international finance and corporate law with a particular emphasis on investment funds, private equity, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and finance. We also have a private wealth practice, which advises high-net-worth individuals and families throughout Asia, as well as a dispute resolution practice and contentious and non-contentious restructuring and insolvency legal services.
We act for a number of leading global financial institutions, investment managers and corporate entities and are also instructed by many leading law firms and intermediaries.
Our corporate and fiduciary services division, Ogier Global, works closely with Ogier's partner-led legal teams in BVI, Cayman, Guernsey, Hong Kong, Jersey and Luxembourg to incorporate and administer a wide variety of vehicles.
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Our team speaks English, Cantonese, Mandarin and Japanese to better service our Asian clients in their native languages.
We regularly advise on the most significant and high-value cases and deals involving our jurisdictions' laws, including a lot of firsts. Some of our recent or high-profile work includes:
Our team in Hong Kong acting as Cayman counsel to China Shengmu Organic Milk Limited on the first successful issuance of social responsibility bonds as well as the first private enterprise "Panda Bonds" with credit risk mitigation warrant placement in China.
Our team in Hong Kong acting as Cayman Islands counsel to the International Finance Corporation (the IFC) on the launch of a US$100 million 10-year social bond - the Philippines' first ever social bond in the healthcare sector.
Advising Shuifa Group Co Ltd in its US$200 million green bond offering.
Advising on a merger bringing together China's two largest video game live-streaming platforms to create a single streaming platform with 300 million users and a dominant stake in the emerging esports market.
Hong Kong's low-tax status, free-market economy, infrastructure and proximity to China and Southeast Asia have ensured that it has maintained its primacy in the competitive financial services world.
Ogier established a presence in Hong Kong at the start of 2006, recognising the use of Hong Kong companies in global and Asian business and its importance to global as well as Asian clients.
Working at Ogier in Hong Kong
Hong Kong Monetary Authority – Hong Kong’s financial services regulator.
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"Among all the offshore firms, Ogier provides exceptional legal services and is always responsive. Ogier usually has bigger teams than other offshore firms and provided collaborated one-station services cross different departments."
Legal 500, 2023
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