On the afternoon of April 7, 2026, Beijing BZW Law Firm hosted the Sharing Session on Building a New Bridge for Cross-Border Legal Strategies and Exchanging with Cross-Border Legal Strategic Partners. The firm’s participating partners held in-depth business exchanges with Ms. Crystal Wong, a senior practicing lawyer in Hong Kong.
The meeting was chaired by Attorney Tang Xianglun, a partner of BZW Law Firm, and Attorney Cai Yun, a partner and Secretary-General of the National Professional Committee for the Belt and Road Initiative at BZW Law Firm, served as the discussant.
Specialist from the International Development Department introduced the construction and development of BZW Global to the attendees via its official website. BZW Global has established an online cloud office network connecting 95 law firms and institutions across 49 countries. With the core positioning of linking global law firms and lawyers, it builds a professional platform for practical exchanges and resource interoperability among legal practitioners, providing solid support for follow-up cross-border business cooperation.
Empowerment Through Professional Sharing: Clarifying Practical Highlights of Hong Kong Commercial Law
Ms. Crystal Wong is a Hong Kong-qualified lawyer holding an LLM from the University of Cambridge, UK, with 20 years of in-depth experience in Hong Kong legal practice. She is also one of the first batch of practicing lawyers in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, a Chinese Appointed Attesting Officer, and a Civil Celebrant of Marriages.
At the meeting, drawing on her two decades of practical experience, Ms. Wong focused on sharing legal services practice in Hong Kong’s commercial and capital sectors, covering core areas such as mergers and acquisitions (M&A), financing and lending, commercial contracts, intellectual property rights protection, and trust authorization. She elaborated on the institutional characteristics and practical paths of key commercial businesses including cross-border litigation and arbitration, enforcement of mainland judgments in Hong Kong, and international notarization. She also briefly outlined key points of legal practice relating to private wealth succession, offering professional and practical references for BZW’s partners in handling Hong Kong-related and Greater Bay Area cross-border commercial legal affairs.
Statement on Strategic Layout: Strengthening Business Support for Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area
During the exchange, the participating partners of BZW Law Firm fully demonstrated the firm’s strategic orientation of deeply engaging in Hong Kong-related business and deepening legal service cooperation in the Greater Bay Area. As a national comprehensive law firm, BZW has always prioritized Hong Kong and Greater Bay Area businesses in its development. Relying on its national branch network, the firm has set up cross-border legal service fulcrums covering the Greater Bay Area, providing professional team allocation and full-process resource support for Hong Kong-related businesses.
In-Depth Discussion and Exchange: Forging Consensus on Cross-Border Cooperation
BZW’s participating partners and Ms. Crystal Wong held multiple rounds of interactive discussions on core issues such as differences in commercial legal practices between the mainland and Hong Kong, pain points in cross-border business cooperation, and ideas for the implementation of service collaboration. The two sides fully exchanged views on the difficulties in judicial connection for cross-border rights protection, paths for compliance services of Hong Kong-related commercial businesses, and legal needs of enterprises in cross-border development. They also conducted in-depth discussions on the feasibility and key development directions of mainland + Hong Kong legal service coordination, and reached preliminary consensus on follow-up professional exchanges, case sharing, and joint capacity building, laying a foundation for further deepening business cooperation and exploring new models of cross-border legal services.
Setting Direction for Joint Innovation: Exploring New Fields of Cross-Border Services in the Greater Bay Area
Based on the outcomes of this exchange, BZW Law Firm will take this meeting as an opportunity to leverage its advantages in mainland legal practice and national network resources, combined with Hong Kong lawyers’ local practicing qualifications and professional expertise in common law. Focusing on the core development needs of the Greater Bay Area, the firm will explore joint cross-border legal services in four major areas:
- Coordination of cross-border commercial litigation and enforcement: Remove bottlenecks in judicial connection between the mainland and Hong Kong to improve the efficiency of cross-border commercial rights protection.
- Cross-border commercial and capital legal services: Provide integrated legal support for mainland enterprises developing in Hong Kong and Hong Kong enterprises expanding into the mainland market.
- Cross-border private wealth succession services: Meet the needs of high-net-worth individuals for cross-border trust planning, estate administration and other related services.
- Greater Bay Area compliance and risk prevention & control services: Interpret legal differences between the two regions for Greater Bay Area enterprises, and provide cross-border business risk assessment and compliance solutions.
Conclusion
This business exchange meeting is an important measure for BZW Law Firm to deepen its layout of cross-border legal services and promote business cooperation in the Greater Bay Area. Going forward, BZW Law Firm will continue to strengthen business exchanges and resource interoperability with Hong Kong legal counterparts, explore normalized cooperation paths in a professional and pragmatic manner, translate the consensus from this exchange into concrete follow-up actions, and jointly develop more targeted cross-border legal service solutions. The firm will empower enterprises and clients in the Greater Bay Area to meet their cross-border development needs and facilitate the coordinated development of the legal service industries in the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong.
