Setting Up a Company in Hong Kong

In Brief

• Hong Kong is keen to attract foreign investment to reinforce its status as an international financial center, and government policies generally favor foreign investment.
• Hong Kong is an important location for U.S. interests, given that there are 1,400 U.S. firms and over 60,000 American residents in Hong Kong, and that Hong Kong is its seventh largest trading partner.
• The major issues that U.S. investors should consider when setting up a company in Hong Kong include the types of permitted operations in Hong Kong and the requirements for a Hong Kong private company, among others.