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Key contacts
Managing Partner: Basil Hwang
Partner: Nigel Binnersley
Partner: Nickolas Sam
Quick facts
Number of lawyers

16

Number of partners

5

Network memberships

INSOL, Hong Kong Venture Capital and Private Equity Association, Singapore Chambers of Commerce, Hong Kong Web3 Association

Languages

English, Chinese (Cantonese/Mandarin), German, French

Key practice areas
Financial and corporate
Financial services regulatory
Financial services regulatory : Contentious
Financial services regulatory : Non-contentious
Restructuring and insolvency
Firm overview

Hauzen LLP is an award-winning Hong Kong law firm specializing in financial services regulation, FinTech, Blockchain, Tokenization & Web3 (BT3), digital asset compliance, commercial disputes, trade and transportation laws, and restructuring and insolvencies. It is a full-service law firm that delivers strategic counsel across the entire lifecycle of a venture or enterprise.

Operating in association with Anjie Broad Law Firm, a leading mainland China practice, and as an affiliate of DWF Law, a leading UK-headquartered global law firm, Hauzen LLP delivers seamless cross-border solutions.
With a team of lawyers qualified across key global jurisdictions, Hauzen LLP provides international counsel, positioning the firm as the trusted advisor for enterprises and ventures operating worldwide. The firm’s lawyers are licensed to practice in the following jurisdictions:
 

  • Hong Kong SAR
  • Singapore
  • England and Wales
  • New Zealand
  • British Virgin Islands
  • Marshall Islands
  • New South Wales
  • Mainland China
  • California
  • New York
  • New Jersey

Hauzen LLP’s partners and senior lawyers are renowned financial markets legal experts, with deep industry experience that includes operating licensed entities, leading publicly listed companies, and man-aging blockchain enterprises. This first-hand operational knowledge gives Hauzen LLP unique insight into both the legal and business challenges market participants face.

Key practice areas
  • Financial restructuring
  • Financial services regulatory
  • Investment funds
  • Restructuring and insolvency
  • Hedge funds
  • Asset finance
  • Capital markets: Debt
  • Capital markets: Derivatives
  • Capital markets: Equity
  • Capital markets: High yield
  • M&A
  • Private equity
  • Private equity funds
  • Project finance
  • Securitisation
Address:
Suite 4102, Tower One Lippo Centre,
89 Queensway
China
Tel:+85221502900 Email:Contact Us Web Address:http://hauzen.hk
Rankings published in 2026
Financial services regulatory
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Tier 1

Clifford Chance
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Davis Polk & Wardwell
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Tier 2

A&O Shearman
18 practice areas
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Deacons
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Freshfields
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Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
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King & Wood
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Linklaters
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Tier 3

Ashurst Perkins Coie
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Baker McKenzie
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Charltons
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DLA Piper
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Debevoise & Plimpton
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Fangda Partners
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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer
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Hogan Lovells Cadwalader
16 practice areas
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Howse Williams
7 practice areas
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Johnson Stokes & Master
36 practice areas
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Kirkland & Ellis
16 practice areas
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Latham & Watkins
15 practice areas
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Mayer Brown
19 practice areas
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Slaughter and May
13 practice areas
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Stephenson Harwood
9 practice areas
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Timothy Loh
10 practice areas
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Tier 4

CMS
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Hauzen
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JunHe
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Proskauer Rose
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Sidley Austin
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Stevenson Wong & Co
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Restructuring and insolvency
Tier 3
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Tier 1

Clifford Chance
20 practice areas
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Kirkland & Ellis
16 practice areas
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Linklaters
16 practice areas
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Tanner De Witt
7 practice areas
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Tier 2

A&O Shearman
18 practice areas
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Baker McKenzie
16 practice areas
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DLA Piper
18 practice areas
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Hogan Lovells Cadwalader
16 practice areas
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Johnson Stokes & Master
36 practice areas
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Latham & Watkins
15 practice areas
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Mayer Brown
19 practice areas
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Tier 3

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
4 practice areas
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Ashurst Perkins Coie
17 practice areas
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CMS
11 practice areas
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Deacons
16 practice areas
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Dentons
11 practice areas
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Freshfields
13 practice areas
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Hauzen
5 practice areas
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King & Wood
19 practice areas
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Norton Rose Fulbright
12 practice areas
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O'Melveny & Myers
12 practice areas
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Reed Smith Richards Butler
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Stephenson Harwood
9 practice areas
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Weil Gotshal & Manges
14 practice areas
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Charltons
8 practice areas
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Jingtian & Gongcheng
6 practice areas
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Kwok Yih & Chan
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LPA Law
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Oldham Li & Nie
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Watson Farley & Williams
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YYC Legal
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Linked Reviews
Financial and corporate

Hauzen is an independent Hong Kong firm established in 2017 with a focus on financial services regulations. It has an association with the Chinese AnJie Law Firm, which specialises in insurance law, competition law, intellectual property, litigation and corporate law. The association is giving the firm reach to mainland China including Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen. The firm also operates in affiliation with DWF, a global provider of integrated legal and business services with approximately 4,000 people and offices and associations located across the globe.

 

Highlights

The firm specializes in financial regulatory services, corporate mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, and insolvency. It handles both contentious and non-contentious aspects of financial services regulation and restructuring. 

In the corporate space, the firm represented clients with all aspects of corporate secretarial services in Hong Kong, BVI and Cayman Islands, from company formation to annual maintenance filings, to coordination with the Companies Registry, and deregistration and winding up.

Over the past year, the firm has been proactive in offering regulatory guidance concerning fintech and cryptocurrency, as well as restructuring and insolvency area, encompassing the licensing and regulation of Virtual Assets Trading Platforms, the establishment of cryptocurrency investment funds, and cross-border liquidations.

 

Key Clients

Key clients of the firm include financial institutions and clients in the Hong Kong financial markets such as JX Luxventure.

Hauzen is an independent Hong Kong firm established in 2017 with a focus on financial services regulations. It has an association with the Chinese AnJie Law Firm, which specialises in insurance law, competition law, intellectual property, litigation and corporate law. The association is giving the firm reach to mainland China including Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen. The firm also operates in affiliation with DWF, a global provider of integrated legal and business services with approximately 4,000 people and offices and associations located across the globe.

 

Highlights

The firm specializes in financial regulatory services, corporate mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, and insolvency. It handles both contentious and non-contentious aspects of financial services regulation and restructuring. 

In the corporate space, the firm represented clients with all aspects of corporate secretarial services in Hong Kong, BVI and Cayman Islands, from company formation to annual maintenance filings, to coordination with the Companies Registry, and deregistration and winding up.

Over the past year, the firm has been proactive in offering regulatory guidance concerning fintech and cryptocurrency, as well as restructuring and insolvency area, encompassing the licensing and regulation of Virtual Assets Trading Platforms, the establishment of cryptocurrency investment funds, and cross-border liquidations.

 

Key Clients

Key clients of the firm include financial institutions and clients in the Hong Kong financial markets such as JX Luxventure.

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