* Compliance and Company Secretarial Practice in Hong Kong Listed Companies 2nd ed

NOT YET PUBLISHED

Compliance and Company Secretarial Practice of Hong Kong Listed Companies, Second Edition is fully updated with the latest rules, codes, ordinances and regulations and is an invaluable reference material for the company secretarial practitioners and corporate governance professionals.  By setting a fictitious listed company in a range of real-life scenarios, this publication demonstrates how company secretarial practitioners perform all compliance functions for a Hong Kong listed company by applying the respective laws, rules and regulations. It ensures the seamless day-to-day operations of all Hong Kong listed companies. 

Subsequent to the first edition, the authors confidently introduce various updates on amendments and new rules on the HKEx’s Listing Rules (LR), SFC’s Takeover Codes, Securities and Futures Ordinance and Hong Kong Companies Ordinance. These include, but are not limited to: 

• the reforms on the delisting process
• amendments on backdoor listing and continuing listing criteria
• changes relating to disciplinary powers and sanctions, enhancements and streamlining of dual-primary listings and secondary listings for overseas issuers with weighted voting rights (WVR) structures and without WVR.
• the new structure (LR Chapters 19 and 19C), the implementation of a listing regime for Biotech Companies (LR Chapter 18A), Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) (LR Chapter 18B) and Specialist Technology Companies (LR Chapter 18C)
• the latest listing reforms and new requirements on share schemes, a paperless listing regime, treasury shares
• climate-related disclosures under the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Framework and the reform of Corporate Governance Code are also introduced and discussed.