IWIRC eNewsletter March 2016 | Page 18

On 15 October 2015, the Hong Kong Network hosted the first IWIRC Charity Quiz at Bungalow on Wyndham Street, Central sponsored by Linklaters and Maples and Calder. The event was a sell out and we raised a grand total of HK$25,800, which was donated to the winner's chosen charity, Treats, a Hong Kong charity giving children the chance to live and participate in an accepting and integrated society.

On 28 October 2015, KPMG kindly hosted the Honourable Justice Harris, the Hong Kong Companies Court Judge, who presented a lunchtime technical seminar to 112 attendees and provided an update on cross-border insolvency law, including the aims of such regimes, along with his views on the tools available in Hong Kong to assist in cross-border matters. It was a great insight and rare opportunity to hear the approach and methodology of the Hong Kong Companies Court in the recent cases of China Medical Technologies, Joint Official Liquidators of A Co v B and Joint Administrators of African Minerals Ltd v Madison Pacific Trust Ltd.

We look forward to another successful year for our network and wish you all Kung Hei Fat Choy (Happy New Year) from Hong Kong!

Edward Middleton from KPMG, Catherine Read (Co-Chair 2015), Mr Justice Harris and Yvonne Chong (Co-Chair 2016) in the photo above