YIP TSE & TANG, SOLICITORS & NOTARIES

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Our Partners, Lawyers and Notaries Public

Our Hong Kong Notaries Public Services

BOTH Thomas Tse and Charles Tse are Hong Kong notaries public. They are partners of Yip, Tse & Tang, a Hong Kong solicitors firm. Both are appointed by the Chief Judge of the High Court as Notary Public, being qualified to notarize international documents used in foreign countries. Examples of notarial works:

 
• Attesting execution of documents
• Providing certificates certifying the originality of copy documents,
• Authenticationg signatures and execution of documents
• Taking declarations, Affidavits, Oaths and Acknowledgments
• Preparing Powers of Attorney
• Witnessing / attesting events and transactions

Websites:
internationalnotarypublic.com (English)
HongKongNotaryPublic.com (Chinese) 

Legal Service on Wills Making and Succession Planning

Yip, Tse & Tang has launched www.fp.hk on providing legal information relating to the establishment of trusts and wealth planning.

The service aims at serving the high net worth customers requiring professional and experienced advice on financial planning, estate planning and wealth management. Since its launch, the firm has received a large number of enquiries from its customers. Many of them are businessmen from Mainland China who have benefited from the economical growth in the past decades. The firm has therefore provided some useful content on the web-site in native Putonghua, hoping to assist them to be familiar with the contents.

Making a will is the cheapest and simplest way of estate planning. The firm charges $1000 to $3000 on preparing wills. Charges differ on complexity of the will's content.

Yip, Tse & Tang becomes a leading law firm on bankruptcy legal service.

Since its inception in August 2001, Yip, Tse & Tang has represented over 9,000 debtors in bankruptcy petitions. Bankruptcy applications will be heard in 3 to 4 months time. "Our lawyers are knowledgeable about the effects of bankruptcy order on bankrupts. A special web-site Broke.com.hk has been set up dedicated purely to bankruptcy subjects," said Thomas Tse, the creator of theBroke.com and partner of Yip, Tse & Tang heading the personal insolvency practice of the firm. TheBroke.com has been featured by over 10 local and international newspapers or magazines, including Reuters, BBC and Le Monde. Solicitors of the bankruptcy team were interviewed by TVB, ATV, Cable TV, RTHK, Commercial Radio and MetroRadio Broadcast on debt or bankruptcy subjects on many occasions.

The financial storm in 1997 has resulted in the decline of the Hong Kong economy. Many people have become the victims of that. The HKSAR Government has failed to offer any help to them. Many are indebted to lenders millions of dollars. In view of the bad employment situation and the deteriorating economy, self-bankruptcy is perhaps the only viable option for them. Yip, Tse & Tang charges $4500 as their professional charges. Visit Broke.com.hk to know more details.

Broke.com.hk and Solicitor.com.hk (both owned by Yip, Tse & Tang) have 20% of the total visiting traffic of Hong Kong legal web sites.

According to a recent 'Hitwise Rankings' Report (Hitwise.com ), theBroke.com (10.5%) and Solicitor.com.hk (9.5%) have altogether taken up 20% of the visiting traffic of Hong Kong legal web sites. theBroke.com is ranked 3rd and Solicitor.com.hk is ranked 5th in the ranking. The ranking is based on user visits, time spent on site (site 'stickiness'), category share of traffic and pages. Justice.gov.hk , a web site where the complete set of Laws of Hong Kong is hosted, has 47.5% of the total traffic (ranked no.1) and hklawsoc.org.hk , the official site of the Law Society has 10.5% of the total traffic (ranked no.2). According to East Magazine, Yip, Tse & Tang is heading other law firms in term of number of bankruptcy applications in the first 3.5 months in 2002. Every day, the firm has colleague filing bankruptcy applications with the Court and serving of the same on the Official Receiver's Office.

InternetSolicitor.com and Corporate Social Responsibility

InternetSolicitor.com was set up by Yip, Tse & Tang, Solicitors and launched in 1999. It is constituted by partners and solicitors of Yip, Tse & Tang, Solicitors. Its objective is to serve the public and its clients through the Internet as an open and freely accessible international infrastructure. Yip, Tse & Tang was selected by the ITS Department, HKSAR Government as a Reference Case on use of e-commerce on professional services.

Yip, Tse & Tang was awarded the Caring Company Logo for 5 consecutive years since 2003 by the Hong Kong Council of Social Service in recognition of their effort in demonstrating good corporate citizenship and contributing to a caring community. In addition, the law firm was award by the Council with the Outstanding Partnership Award. The Award was granted to the firm in recognition of its joint effort with The Family Crisis Service Centre - Caritas Hong Kong. This debt counselling programme has been a pioneer on giving debt counselling advice to the general public for free.

Other Legal Services: Medical Negligence, Personal Injuries, Civil Celebrant of Marriages, Conveyancing

Yip, Tse & Tang also specialises on the following areas of legal practices:

• Civil celebrant of Marriages: wedding solemnization at offices or hotel ballroom. Visit website www.hkm.mobi on law office simple wedding service ($1900 all inclusive)
• Real estate transactions or conveyancing. Call our Mr. Choi at 95099999 for a no commitment enquiry.
• Matrimonial proceedings: divorce, custody, maintenance and property adjustment
• Computer crimes and Internet crimes
• Medical negligence
• Personal injuries claims: employees' compensation and traffic accident claims
• Criminal defence: Magistrates' Court to Court of Final Appeal