Following its launch, the Appleby Group will be the only integrated offshore law firm and fiduciary business in Mainland China and so offer a unique service to its clients.
David Bulley, Director of AGS Hong Kong and Managing Partner of Appleby’s Hong Kong and Shanghai law firm offices, commented: “It’s testament to the hard work and success of our Asia offices that our global management have approved further investment in Mainland China. Whilst most offshore firms in the region are shrinking in light of the market, Appleby continues to grow and see increasing numbers of clients moving their work to us because of the strength of our offering and the high quality and responsive legal advice provided by our Hong Kong and Shanghai teams on large and complex mandates.
“The ability to offer a combined offshore legal and fiduciary service from lawyers and staff based in Mainland China will be unique to Appleby and we expect a large number of clients to take advantage of this offering as they look at their cost structures and want to rationalise their service providers and use a firm which can provide a cost-efficient, high quality and responsive one stop service which reduces internal client time spent managing multiple providers.
“The fact that we are continuing to invest in Mainland China and hire local legal and administrative talent is also a differentiator of Appleby from other offshore firms and this continued investment into Mainland China, which will continue in the coming months, has not gone unnoticed by clients and referral firms.
“We look forward to continuing to assist our clients and new clients and referrers with their offshore work and to provide a market leading legal and fiduciary service that makes us the go-to offshore firm in Asia.”
