Lewis Silkin’s Hong Kong team win Immigration Firm of the Year award for the second year running

Now in its 18th year, the ALB awards notes the outstanding performance of both private practitioners and in-house teams in Hong Kong. ALB is rated as one of the leading providers of legal news and information in Asia Pacific and is part of Thomson Reuters. In addition to winning Immigration Law Firm of the Year, Lewis Silkin was also nominated in the Employment Law Firm of the Year and Rising Law Firm of the Year categories. Head of the Hong Kong office, partner Kathryn Weaver, was also shortlisted for Woman Lawyer of the Year.

Lewis Silkin’s Hong Kong office offers high quality and cost-effective employment and immigration law support to businesses and individuals based in Hong Kong. The firm provides a full range of employment and immigration services including: employment litigation and dispute resolution, restructuring and employment tax advice, strategic immigration advice and visa application assistance, discrimination claims and workplace investigations, as well as data protection and other complex employment law and mobility services.

In addition to its Hong Kong law practice, the firm supports multinationals with their employment and immigration law needs across the Asia Pacific region as the Hong Kong member of the Ius Laboris alliance – the world’s leading alliance of specialist employment law firms.

Kathryn Weaver, partner and Head of the Hong Kong office commented:

"We are very pleased to once again win this award which recognises the work of our Hong Kong team and immigration practice. Hong Kong is a key area of growth for our firm, as evidenced by our conversion into a local firm earlier this year. We are delighted to have such a stamp of approval of our work."