Nicholas Plowman 包乐文
Partner 合伙人 | Legal
Hong Kong
Nicholas Plowman 包乐文
Partner 合伙人
Hong Kong
Services
We have the expertise to handle the most demanding transactions. Our commercial understanding and experience of working with leading financial institutions, professional advisers and regulatory bodies means we add real value to clients’ businesses.
Sectors
Our sector approach relies on smart collaboration between teams who have a deep understanding of related businesses and industry dynamics. The specific combination of our highly informed experts helps our clients to see around corners.
We have the expertise to handle the most demanding transactions. Our commercial understanding and experience of working with leading financial institutions, professional advisers and regulatory bodies means we add real value to clients’ businesses.
Legal
Corporate and Fiduciary
Consulting
Practical, commercial advice on the unique combination of BVI, Cayman, Guernsey, Ireland, Jersey and Luxembourg laws.
Banking and Finance
Corporate
Dispute Resolution
Employment and Immigration
Intellectual Property
Investment Funds
Listing Services
Local Legal Services
Our sector approach relies on smart collaboration between teams who have a deep understanding of related businesses and industry dynamics. The specific combination of our highly informed experts helps our clients to see around corners.
Ogier provides practical advice on BVI, Cayman Islands, Guernsey, Irish, Jersey and Luxembourg law through our global network of offices across the Asian, Caribbean and European timezones. Ogier is the only firm to advise on this unique combination of laws.
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We get straight to the point, managing complexity to get to the essentials. Our global network of offices covers every time zone.
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Ogier's Hong Kong office provides British Virgin Islands (BVI), Cayman, Guernsey and Jersey legal services to clients in the Asian time zone, working together with our Beijing, Shanghai, Singapore and Tokyo client services offices.
For the Asia region, Ogier focuses on international finance and corporate law with a particular emphasis on investment funds, private equity, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and finance. We also have a private wealth practice, which advises high-net-worth individuals and families throughout Asia, as well as a dispute resolution practice and contentious and non-contentious restructuring and insolvency legal services.
We act for a number of leading global financial institutions, investment managers and corporate entities and are also instructed by many leading law firms and intermediaries.
Our corporate and fiduciary services division, Ogier Global, works closely with Ogier's partner-led legal teams in BVI, Cayman, Guernsey, Hong Kong, Jersey and Luxembourg to incorporate and administer a wide variety of vehicles.
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Our team speaks English, Cantonese, Mandarin and Japanese to better service our Asian clients in their native languages.
We regularly advise on the most significant and high-value cases and deals involving our jurisdictions' laws, including a lot of firsts. Some of our recent or high-profile work includes:
our Technology and Web3 specialists in Hong Kong advising stablecoin-based payments firm RedotPay on its US$47 million strategic investment round, which elevated the company to fintech unicorn status
our Corporate team in Hong Kong acting as Cayman Islands counsel to Singapore-based Platinum Analytics Cayman Limited in its successful initial public offering on Nasdaq Capital Market
our Funds team in Hong Kong acting as Cayman Islands counsel to Esperanza Securities in connection with the launch of the first SFC-permitted tokenised investment product for the live entertainment sector in Asia Pacific
our Corporate team in Hong Kong acting as British Virgin Islands counsel to China-based CMOC Capital Limited on its successful issuance of US$1.2 billion guaranteed convertible bonds on the Vienna Stock Exchange – supporting the company's overseas mining expansion
Hong Kong's low-tax status, free-market economy, infrastructure and proximity to China and Southeast Asia have ensured that it has maintained its primacy in the competitive financial services world.
Ogier established a presence in Hong Kong at the start of 2006, recognising the use of Hong Kong companies in global and Asian business and its importance to global as well as Asian clients.
Working at Ogier in Hong Kong
Hong Kong Monetary Authority – Hong Kong’s financial services regulator.
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Hong Kong
News
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China's new offshore trust tax rules: what families should consider now
Grace Gao 高诗悦
Team: Matt Guthrie, Josephine Howe, Anthony Partridge
Hong Kong, Global
Insight
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Asian Legal Business names two Ogier partners as Top Offshore Litigators 2026
Oliver Payne 彭奥礼
Team: Zhao Rong Ooi 黄昭荣
Hong Kong
News
3 August 2026 | 8 min read
Cayman Islands unit trusts and their use as an investment fund vehicle
Kate Hodson 凯特·赫臣
Team: Richard Bennett
Hong Kong, Cayman Islands
Insight
30 July 2026 | 6 min read
UK Supreme Court overturns Drelle: what are the implications in the BVI and Cayman Islands?
Romauld Johnson
Team: Nour Khaleq, Gemma Bellfield (nee Lardner), Nicholas Brookes, Oliver Payne 彭奥礼, Johime Lee
Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands, Hong Kong
Insight
25 June 2026 | 2 min read
Women, wealth and leadership
Catherine Moore
Team: Diana Rodriguez
British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Guernsey, Hong Kong, Jersey
Insight
25 June 2026 | 1 min read
Ogier wins Best Offshore Law Firm at HFM
Nicholas Plowman 包乐文
Team: Kate Hodson 凯特·赫臣, Alan Wong 黄伟麟, Dennis Li 李景顺, David Lin 林亦轩, Matthew Howlett
Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore, Tokyo
News
1 June 2026 | 11 min read
Segregated portfolio companies in the Cayman Islands
James Bergstrom
Team: Angus Davison, Kate Hodson 凯特·赫臣, Joanne Huckle, Nicholas Plowman 包乐文, Justin Savage, Giorgio Subiotto, and 2 more
Cayman Islands, Hong Kong
Insight
1 June 2026 | 14 min read
Cayman Islands Exempted Limited Partnerships
Joanne Huckle
Team: James Bergstrom, Angus Davison, Justin Savage, Bradley Kruger, Giorgio Subiotto, Alastair Lagrange, and 7 more
Cayman Islands, Hong Kong
Insight
Ogier in Hong Kong is highly integrated and collaborative.
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Ogier has a well-rounded offering (litigation, finance and corporate) in Hong Kong.
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