To be deployed in the Civil Division of the Department of Justice to assist in a small team advising on a wide range of company and corporate insolvency law issues arising in the course of implementation of the new Companies Ordinance (Cap 622) and in the exercise on the Improvement of Corporate Insolvency Law Legislative Proposals. The successful candidate is expected to have knowledge and experience as well as research initiative and skills regarding Hong Kong and relevant overseas company and corporate insolvency law, and general corporate intelligence regarding Hong Kong and relevant overseas corporate affairs. The new Companies Ordinance (Cap 622) was enacted pursuant to the Companies Ordinance Rewrite which started in mid-2006. The new Ordinance is expected to come into operation in the first quarter of 2014. The Improvement of Corporate Insolvency Law Legislative Proposals exercise implements what was to be Phase 2 of the Rewrite, but the exercise will now involve amendments to the existing Companies Ordinance (Cap 32) (to be retitled the Companies (Winding Up and Miscellaneous Provisions) Ordinance). The team is currently assisting in the preparation of the draft amendment Bill. (See the Consultation Paper for the Improvement of Corporate Insolvency Law Legislative Proposals available at http://www.fstb.gov.hk/fsb/ppr/consult/impcill.htm )

Candidates must be –

• (i)solicitors with at least 6 years’ professional experience since admission in a recognised jurisdiction* as stipulated under Section 2A and Schedule 2 of the Legal Officers Ordinance and with at least 4 years’ relevant experience in company law practice and/or company law advisory work and/or corporate insolvency law practice and/or corporate insolvency law advisory work in Hong Kong or any one of the above-mentioned jurisdiction since admission; or
• (ii)barristers with at least 7 years’ professional and/or relevant academic experience in law after attaining full right to practice in a recognised jurisdiction* as stipulated under Section 2A and Schedule 2 of the Legal Officers Ordinance and with at least 4 years’ relevant experience in company law practice and/or company law advisory work and/or corporate insolvency law practice and/or corporate insolvency advisory work in Hong Kong or any one of the above-mentioned jurisdiction since call to the Bar.

* The recognised jurisdictions are Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, the States and Territories of the Commonwealth of Australia, the Territories and Provinces of Canada (except Quebec), New Zealand, the Republic of Ireland, Zimbabwe and Singapore.