Plain-English guides for founders, each checked against the legislation and the government's own pages. Written by LAULEGA LIMITED, a licensed trust or company service provider. For bookkeeping and tax, see Certanta's Hong Kong guides.
The address is the cheap part. What a Hong Kong virtual office price should include, the usual extras (scanning, forwarding, KYC, deposits, moving), and how to work out a full year's cost.
Read the guide →Search, classes, the HK$2,000 filing fee, examination, the 3-month opposition window, registration from the filing date and 10-year renewal, from the Trade Marks Ordinance and Rules.
Read the guide →Hong Kong has no digital nomad visa. What the government has said, what a visitor may and may not do, the routes for working there, and why a Hong Kong company still suits nomads living elsewhere.
Read the guide →A Registry letter left unanswered can end with the company struck off. The letters that reach a registered office, the deadlines inside them, and what good mail handling looks like.
Read the guide →Hong Kong law requires neither a company chop nor a common seal. What each one is, how a company signs documents without them under section 127, and when banks or partners may still ask for a stamp.
Read the guide →Where the certificate must be displayed, how renewal works when the notice doesn't arrive, the one-month deadlines for changes, branches and ceasing, and how one Registry filing updates your registration.
Read the guide →Registered office, business registration address, directors' correspondence address, contact address: what the law asks of each, and where a virtual office address does the job and where it doesn't.
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