ONC Newsletter May 2022

ONC Lawyers
Hong Kong

LEGAL UPDATE
Regulatory & Compliance
•	Disciplinary action by SFC for AML breaches
Corporate Finance
•	Rule amendments on bookbuilding and placing activities in equity capital market transactions and sponsor coupling
Capital Markets
•	Streamlined requirements for eligible ETFs adopting a master-feeder structure
Construction
•	One of the burning questions in construction project – Are you entitled to reduction of liquidated damages upon sectional completion?
Emerging Technologies & Cyber Law
•	Lessons learned from the PCPD privacy investigation report on an email system hack incident
Intellectual Property
•	Intellectual property issues in Metaverse and non-fungible token (NFT)
Commercial Crime
•	Jailed for helping out a friend in money transactions – appeal dismissed
Shipping & Logistics
•	Would a “reservation of right” prevent you from affirming the contract?
Family & Matrimonial
•	The Hong Kong Court’s jurisdiction over families with homes or businesses both in Hong Kong and the Mainland
Insolvency & Restructuring
•	When will a beneficiary’s claim for an account be time-barred?
Employment, Privacy and Discrimination
•	Can a benefits policy to pay employees ex gratia or voluntary payments acquire contractual status by custom and practice?
•	The Equal Opportunities Commission made recommendations on workplace sexual harassment
FIRM NEWS
•	ONC Lawyers received the “China Business Law Awards 2022” by the China Business Law Journal in the Fintech & Blockchain category
•	ONC Lawyers held a free webinar on China’s Personal Information Protection Law and its impact on Hong Kong
•	Mr Dominic Wai gave a webinar for WTIA on decentralised finances
•	Mr Dominic Wai gave an RME course for the Academy of Law on managing data breach
•	Dr Lawrence Yeung attended the World Tech Legal member meeting on recent trends of law in Hong Kong
•	Dr Lawrence Yeung and Ms Vivien Lee contributed to the Atkin’s Court Form - Hong Kong on trade marks and trade names

法律新知
資本市場
•	有關採用聯接基金結構的合資格交易所買賣基金的簡化規定
建築
•	建築工程的棘手問題之一：分段竣工後承建商是否有權減少應付的算定損害賠償？
新興科技及網絡法
•	個人資料私隱專員調查報告：從電郵系統入侵事故汲取的教訓
商業罪行
•	因協助朋友處理金錢交易而入獄——上訴被駁回
航運及物流
•	「保留權利」能否防止確認合約？
家事及婚姻
•	香港法院對於在中港兩地均有居所或業務的家庭的司法管轄權
僱傭、私隱及歧視
•	向僱員支付特惠金或自願付款的福利政策，是否可藉習慣和慣例而獲得合約地位？
•	平等機會委員會針對職場性騷擾提出建議
本所動態
•	柯伍陳律師事務所榮獲《商法》月刊頒授「2022 年度商法卓越律所大獎」的「金融科技及區塊鏈」獎項
•	柯伍陳律師事務所舉辦免費網上講座講解中國《個人信息保護法》及其對香港的影響
•	衞紹宗律師為香港無線科技商會的網上講座講解去中心化金融
•	衞紹宗律師為香港法律專業學會的風險管理課程講解資料洩漏事故的管理
•	楊先恒博士參加 World Tech Legal 成員聚會談論香港近期法律趨勢
•	楊先恒博士及李妍慧律師撰寫《Atkin’s Court Form - Hong Kong》的商標及商用名稱章節