Simon Deane

Personal

• Recognised as Expert in the area of Banking, Capital Markets: Structured finance and securitisation by the IFLR1000 (2021 – 2022)
• Recognised as a leading individual in Banking & Finance by Legal 500 Asia Pacific (2019 – 2022, 2009 – 2011)
• Recognised as an elite practitioner in Banking and Finance in the asialaw Profiles (2019 – 2022)
• Recognised as a leading lawyer Banking & Finance by Chambers Asia Pacific (2015)
• Recognised as a highly-regarded lawyer in Banking & Finance and Capital Markets: Structured Finance and Securitisation by the IFLR1000 for consecutive years to 2022
• Recognised as an “In-House Community Commended External Counsel of the Year, 2019” by the Asian-mena Counsel
• Selected as one of Corporate INTL Magazine’s “50 Best Lawyers in Hong Kong” (2011)
• Recognised as a Legal Influencer – Q3 2022 by Lexology

Firm

• Recognised as an outstanding firm in Banking and Finance by asialaw Profiles (2020 – 2021)
• Awarded Banking and Finance Firms of the Year in Hong Kong by the Asian MENA Counsel In-House Community (2016 – 2018)
• Recognised as a leading law firm in Banking and Finance by Chambers Asia Pacific (since 2008)
• Recognised as a leading law firm in Banking and Finance by Legal 500 Asia Pacific (since 2008)

• Member, Documentation Committee of Asia Pacific Loan Market Association (APLMA)
• Member, Anti-Money Laundering Committee, Hong Kong Law Society

• LLB (Hons), Exeter University, England

• Hong Kong chapter of “Global Financial Collateral: A Guide to Security Interests in Securities, Securities Accounts, and Deposit Accounts in International Transactions”. Published by the American Bar Association, 2021
• “The freezing of customer bank account for money laundering reasons”, Deacons, 2020
• “Hong Kong — Cross Border Banking and Finance Guide”. Published by LexisNexis in LexisPSL, 2015 – 2019
• “Clearing and Settlement Systems (Amendment) Bill 2015: Changes and Implications”, Deacons, 2015
• “Code of Banking Practice Update”, Deacons, 2015
• “Response to Privacy Commissioner in relation to Personal Data in the Public Domain”, Letter to Hong Kong Lawyer. Published in Hong Kong Lawyer, December 2013
• “A Guide to the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance”, Deacons, 2013
• “Using Personal Data for Direct Marketing”. Published in Banking Today, January-February 2013 edition
• “The Hong Kong Approach to Basel II” published in the Euromoney Syndicated Lending Handbook 2005
• “Setting up Banks and Other Authorized Institutions in Hong Kong”, Deacons 2001
• Contributor of Hong Kong chapter of “International Privacy, Publicity and Personality Laws” (published by Butterworths Tolley in 2001)
• “The Euro: Implications for Hong Kong”. Published by Journal of International Banking Law, Volume 13, Issue 12, 1998 and other publications
• “Ultra Vires in Hong Kong after the Companies (Amendment) Ordinance 1997”. Published by International Company and Commercial Law Review, Vol. 8, Issue 7, 1997 and other publications
• “Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance”. Published by the Accounting Post, 30 November 1996
• “Security in Hong Kong”. Published by Journal of International Banking Law, Volume 9, Issues 1 and 2, 1994
• “Letters of Comfort”.  Published by Asia Pacific Law Review (Longman’s), Spring 1992 Volume 1, No. 1
• “Re Charge Card Services Ltd. and Hong Kong’s New Section 15A Law Amendment and Reform (Consolidation) Ordinance”. Published by Journal of International Banking Law, Volume 6, Issue 8, 1991