The predecessor of the TMT practice group was Information Technology Department, formed in our firm in 1998 to deal with the various legal issues arising from e-commerce and other information technology services and products. Nowadays, no part of the economy evolves faster than the TMT sector, which will among others become our firm’s focus in the forthcoming years.

Lawyers with various experience in contentious and non-contentious practices have been advising clients on cybersecurity and data protection, e-commerce, defamation in cyberspace, cybersquatting, cybercrimes and recovery of misappropriated funds, intellectual property rights protection in the TMT sector, celebrity and performer management agency matters, outsourcing agreements, technology sourcing, knowledge transfer, competition in the TMT sector and other related matters. We also advise universities and tertiary institutions in Hong Kong on startups, knowledge transfer, shareholding structure and financing strategies.

The practice group also serve our firm internally. In the past decade, we made significant achievements in modernizing our internal workflow. We apply information technology to improve our service delivery, upgrade the value of our customer services and enhance efficiency and productivity in all our services. The practice group will continue to promote green office management and carbon reduction within our office.