Recently, the Law Society of Hong Kong approved the official joint venture of Tahota (Hong Kong) Law Firm, a limited liability partnership (hereinafter referred to as "Tahota (Hong Kong)"), and HO FRANKI & ASSOCIATES. The two firms will integrate their strengths in various business sectors, and further optimize their legal service networks and resources.

HO FRANKI & ASSOCIATES is a transactional boutique law firm dedicated to providing professional legal services for individuals and enterprise clients in Hong Kong and mainland areas of China and foreign countries. The firm has a lawyer team with rich experience in providing legal services for foreign and local enterprises in such sectors as cross-border M&A, enterprise financing, intellectual property, company legal affairs, dispute resolution and litigation, listing compliance and supervision, bond capital market and digital economy.

Tahota (Hong Kong) is an off-site law firm registered by Tahota in Hong Kong. Founded in 2000, Tahota has now developed into a large comprehensive law firm covering China and connecting the world. We have established branches in more than 20 major cities in China including Beijing, Chengdu, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, as well as other foreign cities. Tahota now has over 2300 practicing lawyers, ranking the top in Chinese law industry in terms of talent force.

So far, Tahota has provided quality and efficient professional services for some ten thousand of clients in and out of China in dozens of industry sectors such as finance, real estate, aviation, high-end manufacture, environment, energy, medical care and tourism culture, and tens of professional sectors including real estate, capital market, investment and financing, MA and restructuring, and government legal consulting. We have also been developing the Internet, artificial intelligence, blockchain, medical healthcare and other emerging fields. Tahota has received extensive concerns and recognition from international agencies and media such as Chambers, ALB and The Legal 500, and successively ranked multiple authoritative and professional lists.

Tahota (Hong Kong) and HO FRANKI & ASSOCIATES will, by leveraging the joint venture, focus on new legal business following the development of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and "One Belt and One Road", expand and innovate service sectors, and jointly build a professional mechanism for exchange and mutual learning in legal services. All this is for the purpose of improving the capability of handling cross-border, cross-industry and cross-legal field affairs and international legal affairs, building an integrated professional platform for cross-border legal services and providing more comprehensive and high-quality legal services for clients in Hong Kong and other areas of China and foreign countries relying on practical and efficient service capability.

Address of JV office: 1303-04, 13/F, West Tower, Shun Tak Centre, 168-200 Connaught Road Central, Hong Kong.

Tel: 2157-0566

Fax: 2157-0753