Peter Ch’ng

Peter Ch’ng is Partner in the Hong Kong office of Conyers. He joined Conyers in 2001 and was a Director in the Bermuda office prior to relocating to Conyers’ Hong Kong office in 2017. His corporate practice is wide ranging with special focus on insurance and reinsurance, private client and trust.

Peter is a multi-disciplinary lawyer with over 25 years of professional experience in general corporate and commercial matters across multiple jurisdictions.. His offshore law practice spans across private client & trust, mergers and acquisitions, insurance and reinsurance, licensing and formations launches including ILS structures, investment funds, segregated portfolios company (SPC) and segregated accounts company (SAC), private equity partnership formations, structured finance, special purpose vehicles and ownership-remote structures including charities, debt and equity offerings, IPOs and private placements, banking and financial services including financial derivatives, credit and security.

Peter also leads Conyers’ Private Client & Trust Asia practice from the Hong Kong office. In that role, he focuses on Greater China and Asia-based clientele and the establishment and administration of offshore family and commercial trusts, specializing in non-contentious advisory work for commercial and private wealth structuring purposes. He is experienced in advising high net-worth individuals, business owners, investors, corporates and charitable entities on trusts and estate planning work, including succession planning, family and pre-IPO planning, asset protection, family business succession and governance as well as setting up employee benefit trusts and other bankruptcy-remote structures.

Peter plays a leading role in the firm’s Financial Derivatives practice in Bermuda, the BVI and Cayman in providing netting and collateral enforceability opinions to leading banks and industry organizations such as International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA), International Capital Markets Association (ICMA), International Securities Lending Association (ISLA) and the Securities Industry Financial Markets Association (SIFMA). Peter counts many global banks and financial institutions, Canadian public pension funds and US-based global private equity fund managers amongst his long-standing clients.

Peter is uniquely positioned in Asia to serve insurance/ reinsurance market in Asia to provide offshore insurance/ re-insurance legal advice to Asia-based sponsors, including the licensing and formation of Bermuda, Cayman Islands and BVI insurance/ reinsurance companies. He acts as Bermuda and BVI legal counsel and provides legal and regulatory advice to the Bermuda and BVI licensed insurers operating in Greater China area.

He had also served as a director on the boards of software technology and consumer goods companies based in Bermuda.

Peter is consistently recognised by independent legal directories including Legal 500 for his work in corporate and commercial and insurance/reinsurance. Conyers insurance practice won the “Insurance & Reinsurance” China Business Law Awards by China Business Law Journal.

Peter is admitted to the Bar Associations and the Law Societies in BVI, Bermuda, United Kingdom, New York and Singapore.

Conyers’ Bermuda and Cayman Islands Private Client & Trust practices have been recognized in Chambers & Partners’ High Net Worth Guide 2019, with Band 1 and Band 2 rankings respectively.