Corporate& Commercial
Media and Entertainment

email: ohw@haldanes.com

 
Title
Partner, Commercial & Media and Entertainment Groups
Admitted to Haldanes’ Partnership:
2000
 
Jurisdictions:
Hong Kong (practising)
England & Wales, Cayman Islands (non-practising)
 
Principal Service Areas:
Mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures and shareholders agreements, funds and other investment and subscription arrangements, financing arrangements, media related work and commercial contracts of all types.
 
Experience:

Oliver has acted in commercial transactions in the United Kingdom, the Cayman Islands, Hong Kong and many other Asian jurisdictions, including; mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and shareholder agreements, investment and subscription arrangements and corporate transactions of all types. Oliver has acted in connection with the establishment of numerous investment funds, including open and closed ended corporate funds, unit trusts and limited partnerships. Oliver has acted for both underwriters and corporate issuers in connection with a number of initial public offerings, and for both borrowers and lenders in connection with various banking transactions, and related security arrangements. Oliver has acted in connection with distributorship and agency agreements, manufacturing agreements, licensing (including software licensing) and sponsorship agreements, consultancy and employment agreements, and commercial contracts of all types. Oliver has advised on regulatory issues under the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Ordinance and on various other regulatory issues in Hong Kong and other jurisdictions. Oliver has considerable experience of advising in connection with shareholder disputes and the pre-litigious stages of other corporate/commercial disputes.

Throughout his career, Oliver has represented a broad range of clients, including banks and other financial institutions, fund managers, major property developers and other listed companies in Hong Kong, major international television and record companies, manufacturers, retailers and numerous other privately held companies and entrepreneurs.

 
More about Oliver:
  • Oliver was educated at Oxford University, England
  • Oliver trained as a solicitor with Messrs. Norton Rose in the City of London. He was admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales in 1990.
  • Oliver was admitted as a solicitor in Hong Kong in 1992
  • Oliver practised Cayman Islands law between 1995 and 1999, and was admitted as an attorney-at-law in the Cayman Islands in 1995
 
Languages:
English
 

   
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