CHINA PROFESSIONAL SERVICES BODY OF THE YEAR (ADR), HONG KONG MEDIATION AND ARBITRATION CENTRE
Alber t So Email: mediation@hkmaac.org Web Address: www.hkmaac.org evel 12, Infinitus Plaza, 199 Des Voeux Road Central, Hong Kong Tel: (852) 3796 3366
Hong Kong Mediation and Arbitration Centre (HKMAAC) is a professional association in Asia Pacific region established in the year of 2009 by a group of professionals after the civil justice reform in Hong Kong. All of its members come from different jurisdictions with various professional backgrounds: solicitors, barristers, former prosecutors, regulators, government officers, accountants, university lecturers, medical doctors, nurses, bankers, senior management executives, engineers, sur veyors, social workers, counselors, psychologists and teachers etc. Ever since its establishment, HKMAAC aims to promote mediation, arbitration and other alternative dispute resolution ser vices through both efficient and cost effective ways. It is now one of the leading and most reputable Alternative Dispute Resolution Centres in the Asia Pacific region which has been dedicated to ser ve the development needs of Asia Pacific as a mediation and arbitration centre. To enhance the public awareness on mediation and Alternative Disputes Resolution, HKMAAC has been providing Pro Bono mediation and legal consultation ser vices to different organizations, NGOs and the general public. To demonstrate its dedication and commitment in educating the young future leaders, it has established scholarships (Hong Kong Mediation and Arbitration Centre Scholarship) and (Hong Kong Mediation and Arbitration Centre Professional Award Scheme) with 9 universities. In year 2013, HKMAAC organized the first Joint University Mediation Competition and had provided full sponsorship for the champion to receive fur ther education at Har vard University. Mr. Alber t So is the Chairman of Hong Kong Mediation and Arbitration Centre and the practicing solicitor of the High Cour t of Hong Kong.
Mr. So has over 10 years of professional experience in both Hong Kong and England legal industries. Star ting from 2003, he held the in-house legal position as the Team Head of Legal and Compliance section at an international banking group, responsible for handling its various legal, compliance and litigation issues. Later on, Mr. So had also been working at London and China, where he was responsible for global legal and regulator y matters. Upon the global financial crisis and the collapse of Lehman Brothers, he had been one of the senior investigation team members of Hong Kong Monetar y Authority, responsible for conducting investigations on banks’ suspicious fund movements, Know-YourClient procedures, handling prosecutions and disciplinar y-related professional proceedings. Throughout his professional time at regulator y authority, he had personally handled over 1,000 financial disputes and the relevant litigations. Recently, Mr. So had also been working as a consultant for one of the largest global investment banks, in-charging of the global legal/compliance team and being responsible for different regulator y legal projects across 12 jurisdictions (including Australia, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Malaysia, Japan, PRC, Thailand, India, Indonesia, Philippines and Hong Kong) in the Asia Pacific region. Save for professional activities, Mr. So has also devoted his time on education. He has been the Programme Leader of City University of Hong Kong (SCOPE), par t-time lecturer of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology as well we the Open University of Hong Kong (LiPace), former lecturer of mediation at Hong Kong Polytechnic University (MBAAA), trainer of different governmental depar tments (including Hong Kong Police College, Hospital Authority, Correctional Ser vices Depar tment, Labour Depar tment, Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data etc.) and the Honorar y Advisor of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Outstanding Students' Union. To recognize his outstanding professional ser vices at the community, Mr. So has received Gold Awards from Social Welfare Depar tment in both 2014 and 2015.
AUSTRALIA IMMIGRATION ADVISORY FIRM OF THE YEAR, JR MARRIOTT MIGRATION CONSULTANCY LIMITED
JR Marriott Migration Consultancy Limited Address: Unit A, 29/F, CNT Tower, 338 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong Tel: (852) 2325 9909 Fax: (852) 2331 8248 Email: info@jrmigration.com Website: www.jrmigration.com
JR Marriott Migration Consultancy Limited (JR Marriott) offers one -stopped immigration legal advice and professional visa processing ser vices for our clients from Hong Kong, China and other countries covering a wide area categories including investor, entrepreneur, skilled and any temporar y visas to Australia, NZ, US, Canada, UK, Taiwan and Europe (e.g. Bulgaria).
Education As the improvement of economic status, more and more parents willing to send their children to foreign countr y for education. They tr y their level-best to provide better career prospects and lifestyle to their children which they themselves might not have acquired in their lives.
Our immigration attorneys and consultants in the above countries have a wide range of successful experience and exper tise to provide customized ser vices to our clients.
Political Reason People emigrate to keep a global presence amongst various countries. Fur thermore, some think that they are not decked with enough political freedom, so they migrate to other countries in search of the same. Some change their citizenship to gain a new identity, some to get political rights and others for a better living conditions.
Led by Joseph Yau as the Managing Director, JR Marriott has ser ved many clients with full satisfaction in processing their permanent residence visa or temporar y visas to various countries. Joseph is a member of The Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce and a member of Hong Kong Immigration Industrial And Commerce Joint Association Limited. He has many years of successful experience in business and global immigration consulting. Situated at the mouth of the Pearl River delta in southern China, Hong Kong had long been a city of migrants with massive outflow and inflow of people. There are numbers of reasons for a person to migrate from one countr y to another countr y. But most of them can be categorized into the three main reasons below. High standard of living it ’s easy for most people to feel the effects of cost-of-living increases in their daily, par ticularly the price of proper ty. With the same cost, people can enjoy more and get a better life in another countr y.
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