Angus H. Forsyth

He has represented a wide range of private and corporate clients in all aspects of Commercial and Company, Mergers and Acquisitions, Regulatory Law of Insurance, Securities and Futures, Immigration, Intellectual Property and Information Technology, Advertising and Personal Data Privacy and Commercial and Residential Tenancies.

 Summary:

Commercial and Company, Mergers and Acquisitions, Intellectual Property, Information Technology, Advertising Law and Personal Data Privacy

Angus Forsyth was admitted as a solicitor in England in 1970 and in Hong Kong in 1971. He was one of the four original founders of the well-established local Hong Kong law firm of Stevenson, Wong & Co. in 1978 and from which he retired in 2017. 

Professional Qualifications:

 Solicitor of the High Court of England and Wales in 1970;

 Guildford Law College; Law Society; England (Part II Qualifying Examination, 1970)

 Solicitor of the High Court of Hong Kong in 1971; and as Notary Public of Hong Kong in 1978

Language:

• English

Community Involvement:

He is a Former Council Member and Vice President of the Hong Kong Society of Notaries and of the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal Panel. He is a member of the Competition Committee of the Law Society of Hong Kong and is a Legal Committee Member of The Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, Council Member of the Hong Kong Internet Professionals Association, Hong Kong & Mainland Software Industry Cooperation Association, Member of the Companies Registry and Hong Kong Government Advisory Group on the rewrite of Hong Kong Company Law.

• Former Council Member and Former Vice President of the Hong Kong Society of Notaries
• Former Member of Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal Panel (1992-1998)
• Former Member of Law Society of Hong Kong, Working Party on the Occupational Retirement Schemes Ordinance
• Member Legal Committee, The Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce
• Trustee and Chairman of the Hong Kong Arts Festival Trust
• Member and past President of The Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong
• Former Committee Member and former Vice Chairman, The Friends of the Hong Kong Museum of Art
• Member of Committee of Management of the University Museum and Art Gallery, University of Hong Kong
• Chairman, China Heritage Art Foundation Limited
• Member of the Board, Arts & Education Limited, (Charitable Grants in aid to East/West Hong Kong Arts causes) principally for the Travel Grants of the Fine Arts students at the University of Hong Kong
• Chairman and Member of the Board of Governors of Musica Viva Limited – Opera and Music Production
• Former Governor and legal adviser to eInclusion Foundation Limited – grants for computer use education to bridge the Digital Divide
• Director of Global Heritage Fund Asia Limited – Hong Kong, China and regional 
• Asian support for cultural heritage preservation projects
• Director of The Kew Asia Foundation Limited – Hong Kong centre for the focus of activities of Kew Foundation London UK

Honorary Legal Adviser:

• Honorary Legal Adviser to New Life Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association
• Honorary Legal Adviser to the Hong Kong Festival Fringe 
• Honorary Legal Adviser to the Friends of the Hong Kong Museum of Art
• Honorary Legal Adviser to the Friends of the Art Gallery, Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Former Committee member and former Honorary Legal Adviser, the Royal Overseas League, Hong Kong Branch
• Honorary Legal Adviser to the Friends of the University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong
• Honorary Legal Adviser to the Hong Kong International Film Festival Society Limited