Day: February 26, 2018

香港公司备存重要控制人登记册

《2018 年公司（修订）条例》（以下称《修订条例》） 将于 2018 年 3 月 1 日起生效。在新规定下所有香港公司须以中文或英文备存重要控制人登记册，以供执法人员在提出要求后查阅。公司注册处为此发出《公司备存重要控制人登记册指引》（以下称《指引》），就重要控制人登记册新规定(以下称《新规定》) 提供其运作的详细指引。 所有在香港成立及注册之公司(除在香港交易所上市的公司外) 均须备存重要控制人登记册, 而该登记册须包含以下资料：(i) 公司重要控制人的所需详情，及(ii)公司指定代表的名字及联系方式。并非在香港成立的公司（包括根据香港法例第622章 《公司条例》在香港注册的非香港公司）无需备存重要控制人登记册。 本最新法律资料旨在介绍一些关键新规定及列出香港公司需采取的一些关键行动(指引刊载了更详尽的运作细节)：

Significant Controllers Register

The Companies (Amendments) Ordinance 2018 will enter into force as of 1 March 2018, under which companies in Hong Kong are required to keep and maintain a significant controllers register (“SCR”), either in English or Chinese, for inspection by competent authorities upon demand. The Companies Registry has published a “Guideline on the Keeping of Significant […]

Vivien Teu is Founder & Principal of Vivien Teu Law Practice / VTLP Impact.  With more than 25 years in-depth experiences in capital markets, financial institutions and asset management industry, financial services, financial and securities regulatory matters, funds formation, investment and finance transactions, Vivien is market leading in her focus on ESG legal and regulatory issues, increasingly integrated into her advisory and transactional practice. She has been active in impact ecosystem building, contributing to standard setting and industry engagements on sustainability, ESG and impact issues and sustainable finance, specifically in the investment and capital markets, holistically covering regulatory, legal and policy perspectives, and advises across the spectrum of capital, ESG issues and asset classes, public and private markets, for-profit, non-profit organisations or hybrid structures, and range of fund structures and financing instruments.

Prior to establishing Vivien Teu Law Practice / VTLP Impact, Vivien has solid industry experience from strategic roles throughout her career, including senior in-house legal experience with global asset management firm, Invesco, and practised with leading international funds and regulatory practice including magic circle law firm Clifford Chance, and most recently with global law firm Dentons, where Vivien assumed key roles as sustainable finance lead on the Global ESG Steering Committee, Global Funds Leaders Group and Global Financial Institutions Practice Group, driving impact focus within mainstream finance and capital markets.  Vivien’s leadership in sustainable finance, global funds and industry engagement is matched with her commitment to community and ecosystem building. 

With the vision of the role of law in purposeful partnerships and projects, to align capital with sustainability and increasing focus on measurable positive environmental and social outcomes, Vivien’s experiences include advising asset owners, asset managers and also charitable foundations in establishing purpose-led initiatives, related stewardship and governance considerations and structure design, B Lab’s legal requirements and certification standards for B Corps, green and sustainable finance frameworks and instruments, legal issues of carbon markets and climate transition, climate mitigation and adaptation strategies and funds, nature-based solutions and finance, impact term-sheets and other innovative finance instruments for impact, advocacy efforts as well as engaging in market proposals for policy, legal and regulatory levers for advancing sustainability and impact.   

 

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