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F.

ESTABLISHMENT OF HONG KONG LAW PRACTICES BY FOREIGN LAW

FIRMS

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2.

The Committee has come to the conclusion that, subject

to satisfying the Law Society that certain criteria

have been met, there is no objection in principle to a foreign law firm establishing a Hong Kong law practice using the name of the foreign law firm.

The criteria are as follows:-

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all the persons who are to practise Hong Kong law in Hong Kong in the Hong Kong law practice must be Hong Kong solicitors and the ratio of registered foreign lawyers to Hong Kong solicitors must be no

more than 1:1, a criterion that the Committee

proposes should be a continuing requirement;

the foreign law firm must be a registered foreign

law firm which, for at least the 3 years

immediately preceding its application for registration of its Hong Kong law practice, has

practised law in Hong Kong either in its own right

or as a member of a registered association;

at least one of the persons referred to in the first criterion must be a partner in the applicant

foreign law firm and must be eligible to be held

out as the sole proprietor of a local law firm;

and

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the

person So

eligible and each of the other

persons who are to practise Hong Kong law as partners in the applicant foreign law firm must

hold or be eligible to hold unconditional

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