Arbitration Services - Hong Kong Enterprises to Adopt Hong Kong Law
The measure of “Hong Kong-invested enterprises to choose to apply Hong Kong law in Contracts” is now applicable in Shenzhen and Zhuhai. According to the “Official Reply of the Supreme People’s Court on the Effect of Hong Kong or Macao-Invested Enterprises formed and registered and in the GBA (Mainland) in choosing Hong Kong or Macao Law as the Applicable Law to Contracts or Place of Arbitrations” Fa Shi (2025) No.3, where one or both parties to a contract is/are Hong Kong-invested enterprise(s) formed and registered in Shenzhen or Zhuhai, they may by agreement choose the law of the Hong Kong or the Macao as the law applicable to the contract. “Hong Kong-invested enterprises” means any enterprises wholly or partly invested by Hong Kong natural person(s), enterprise(s) or other organisation(s) and formed and registered in the Mainland according to the law.
