Richard Tanner
Partner, Head of Corporate & Commercial
Experience
Richard specialises in Corporate and Commercial law, acting for local and overseas clients.
He advises on the establishment and running of companies in Hong Kong and China; shareholders’ agreements; contractual needs; mergers and acquisitions; distribution arrangements, agency contracts and franchising, particularly assisting manufacturing clients to establish sources of production and safeguard their interests.
Richard’s work also includes providing advice on banking arrangements, joint venture funding and structuring loan arrangements; establishment of trusts and overseas companies; providing trustees, protectors and other offices within trust arrangements; immigration matters; the protection and registration of trademarks; employment law advice in relation to hire, retention, resignations and removals; consultancy and secondment arrangements; employer protection of assets; company secretarial services.
Prior to the establishment of TDW, Richard had been a partner in a City of London international law firm, a partner in a local law firm and an in-house lawyer for Europe’s largest venture capital organisation.
