Arbitration Services - Hong Kong-invested Enterprises to Choose Hong Kong as Arbitration Place
The measure “Hong Kong-invested enterprises to choose Hong Kong as arbitration place” is applicable in the nine Mainland cities of the GBA. 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 the nine Mainland cities of the GBA, they may by agreement choose the Hong Kong or the Macao as the arbitration place, in the absence of “Hong Kong or Macao-related elements”. “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.
