Hong Kong: Compliance

香港商标法允许缺乏显著性的标志通过提交使用证据证明其已获得显著特征从而获准注册。本文详细解析了如何准备和提交满足香港商标注册处要

Hong Kong proposes statutory cooling-off periods and contract duration caps for beauty and fitness services to combat unfair trade practices. The consultation seeks to amend the Trade Descriptions Ordinance following widespread complaints about aggressive sales tactics and wrongful payment acceptance. Will these measures reshape consumer protection and business models in high-risk service sectors?

Hong Kong is introducing sweeping reforms to its unsecured lending market, targeting predatory practices that have long exposed vulnerable borrowers and innocent third parties to aggressive debt collection. The new measures, set to roll out in two phases starting August 2026, will impose debt servicing ratio caps on low-income earners, ban the use of loan referees, and mandate credit reporting through a centralised platform.

The Hong Kong Inland Revenue Department (IRD) has begun contacting companies potentially affected by the Global Anti-Base Erosion (GloBE) Rules and the newly enacted Hong Kong Minimum Top-Up Tax (HKMTT).

Following the enactment of the Inland Revenue (Amendment) (Minimum Tax for Multinational Enterprise Groups) Ordinance 2025 (the Ordinance)1 in June 2025, the Income Inclusion Rule (IIR) under BEPS Pillar Two and Hong Kong Minimum Top-up Tax (HKMTT) take effect retrospectively in the Hong Kong SAR (Hong Kong) for fiscal years beginning on or after 1 January 2025

Yes. Under the Companies Ordinance (Cap. 622), every Hong Kong company – whether private or public – is required to appoint a company secretary.

On 24 April 2024, Doyle J handed down judgment in In the matter of New Frontier Health Corporation (Cause No. FSD 72 of 2022 and FSD 74 of 2022).

On 14 March 2024, China's National Development and Reform and Commission (NDRC) issued a consultation paper soliciting public comments on its proposed rules providing support for the incurrence of the medium...

On 11 September 2023, the State Administration for Market Regulation of China (SAMR) issued the Antimonopoly Compliance Guidelines for Concentrations of Undertakings (the Guidelines).