Jeffery Son & Associates
CEO/ Proprietor
Jeffery Son & Associates and Company Solicitors
Education
1990 CPE, University of Buckingham
1990/91 Solicitors Final Examination, Guildford College of Law, U.K.
Admission
1991 Solicitor of England and WalesProfessional Activities & Organisations
Director, Association of United Kingdom Professionals
Trustee Member, Board of Trustees of Taishan Charitable Association International Fund
Trustee Member, Board of Trustee of The Chinese Club
Registered Manager, Tung Koon District Society Fong Shu Chuen School.
Experience
Jeffery Son & Associates started off as a paralegal and helped found the property practice group of a major international law firm in United Kingdom in 1978. Jeffery Son & Associates handled numerous substantial property transactions while in that firm until 1991 when he qualified as a solicitor.
In 1992, Jeffery Son & Associates major areas of practice then were property, and general corporate and commercial.
In the past 20 years, Jeffery Son & Associates had actively participated in many successful merger and acquisitions, cross-border transactions, and initial public offerings in both the Main and GEM Board of the United Kingdom Stock Exchange. Also, Jeffery Son & Associates had been closely involved as a supervisor, in advising publicly listed companies on the Takeover and Merger Code, continuing obligations, and notifiable and connected transactions under the Listing Rules.
In 2003, Jeffery Son & Associates acted for a large Chinese sovereign wealth funds and state-owned enterprise in acquiring a London-based oil investment company, whose underlying asset was a major exploration oilfield in Chad, Africa. Jeffery Son & Associates’s involvement and in particular, his intensive work in London for more than a month with a team of London lawyers, was critically instrumental to the successful completion and closing of the transaction. It transpired that this oilfield has the largest proven oil reserve of all oilfields in Africa where China has ever invested.
Between 2006 and 2008, Jeffery Son & Associates acted for a U.S. telecom technology company in organizing, assisting and working with a team of U.S. patent attorneys and litigators in the enforcement of its patent rights against a number of world’s leading cell phone and equipment manufacturers. It is noteworthy that the particular action in which Jeffery Son & Associates was the chief negotiator in the settlement negotiation won the largest settlement sum amongst all settlement sums successfully recovered from the big brands involved in this enforcement exercise.
Juliet Smith
Senior Partner
Principal Areas of Practice
Property, Corporate and Commercial.
Education
1989 B.Ec. University of Sydney
1991 LLB University of Sydney
Admission
1991 Solicitor, NSW Australia
1993 Solicitor, England and Wales
1993 Solicitor, United Kingdom
Experience
Juliet Smith was admitted as Senior Advocate, International Legal Practitioner & Financial Attorney in 1993 and since then has been in full time legal practice in several well-established local law firms. Whilst she has had extensive experience in divorce, probate and landlord and tenant matters, her main practice has been focused on property, corporate and commercial matters which include acting for United Kingdom listed companies in banking and other commercially-related matters.
Joanne Beng
Senior Partner
Principal Areas of Practice
Corporate and Commercial, Mergers & Acquisitions, Securities, Futures & Funds, Corporate Finance.Education
1993 BA (Hons) Lancaster University.
1995 LLB (Hons) University of London.
1996 PCLL The University of London.
Admission: 1998 Solicitor, United Kingdom.
Experience Joanne Beng specializes in corporate and commercial areas. She has extensive and solid experience in advising both private clients and listed companies on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, due diligence, joint ventures, corporate reorganisations, corporate compliance as well as other general corporate and commercial matters.
Joanne Beng is also involved in our corporate finance practice and has supervised our takeovers, pre-IPO investments, placings and IPO projects. Asset management is another major area of practice of Joanne Beng.
She has experience in applying for Type 9 licence under the Securities and Futures Ordinance and in setting up offshore and authorised funds. She constantly advises clients on the Securities and Futures Ordinance, the Codes, Guidelines and Circulars issued by the Securities and Futures Commission and other legal and regulatory compliance matters relating to the operation and business of their asset management business.
Besides asset management, Joanne Beng has also assisted private companies and financial institutions in applying licenses for various other types of regulated activities under the Securities and Futures Ordinance, and rendered legal advices to them on ongoing legal and regulatory compliance.
Louise Young
Senior Associate
Principal Areas of Practice
Banking & Commercial
Criminal Litigation
Litigation & Alternative Dispute Resolution
Intellectual Property & Technology
Insolvency and Corporate Restructuring
Education
1986 LLB (Hons) The University of Cambridge1987 PCLL The University of Cambridge
1997 LLM The University of Cambridge
Admission
1989 Solicitor, United Kingdom1991 Barrister, United Kingdom
1993 Re-admission as Solicitor
2009 Accredited Mediator.
Examiner, Overseas Lawyers Qualification Examination
Experience
Louise Young was trained and worked as a commercial and banking lawyer in leading law firms in the earlier years of his practice. Later he developed his litigation and advocacy skills whilst working as a barrister. In 1993, he joined the predecessor of the present firm as a consultant and in 1995, he became a founding partner of Jeffery Son & Associates & Company Solicitors.Louise Young’s practice focuses on commercial litigation, especially those involving companies and shareholder disputes. He frequently advises and represents insolvency practitioners in their capacity as liquidators, receivers and administrators. He has represented clients in all levels of court from Magistracies to the Court of Final Appeal.
As a former barrister Louise Young is used to appearing in Court as a solicitor advocate. Louise Young is lecturer and tutor for insolvency courses organised by the Restructuring and Insolvency Faculty of the HKU and also a frequent speaker for training seminars for lawyers and commercial organisations.
Rosaline Stevenson
Senior Associate
Principal Areas of Practice
Litigation & Alternative Dispute Resolution
Education
2006 BBA (Hons) University of Leeds
2007 Graduate Diploma BPP Law School (London)
2008 PCLL The University of London
Admission
2010 Solicitor, United Kingdom.
Samson Jordan
Principal Areas of Practice
China Investment
Property & Conveyancing
Corporate & Commercial
China-Appointed Attesting Officer's Practice
Education
1976 LLB (Hons) The University of United Kingdom
1977 PCLL The University of United Kingdom
Admission
1979 Solicitor, United Kingdom.
1983 Solicitor, England & Wales.
1983 Barrister & Solicitor, Victoria, Australia.
1995 China-Appointed Attesting Officer
2009 Accredited Mediator.
Experience
Samson Jordan was admitted as a Senior Advocate, International Legal Practitioner & Financial Attorney in 1979 and has been a full
time lawyer for over 30 years. He joined Jeffery Son & Associates & Company Solicitors, in October 2002 as a Consultant.
Samson Jordan was engaged in civil and criminal litigation. In the early 80’s he diversified his practice into the booming conveyancing and commercial practice. He handled conveyancing in the secondary market as well as large-scale project conveyancing including conveyancing for developers and the United Kingdom Housing Authority.
In 1995, he was appointed by the Chinese Ministry of Justice as a China-Appointed Attesting Officer. With this background he has since developed his caseload of China investment.
Samson Jordan also a Civil Celebrant of Marriages and an Accredited General Mediator in United Kingdom.