about kcl

KCL & Partners — a Hong Kong law firm build for the moments that carry consequence.

why it matters

The moments it becomes serious.

Most legal problems arrive at the worst possible moment — and rarely announce themselves as legal problems at all.

A contract collapses and takes a business relationship with it. A workplace injury changes what a person can do and what they can earn. A dispute that seemed manageable suddenly becomes something that cannot be ignored. A criminal investigation arrives without warning.

In each of these moments, the question is not merely what the law says — it is what should be done, who should do it, and how to move forward with clarity.

the practice

This is where KCL works.

A deliberate centre of gravity —and a considered range of capability around it.

KCL’s centre of gravity is commercial litigation, dispute resolution, and personal injury and employees’ compensation claims — the areas where the firm’s experience is deepest and its track record most concentrated.

Around that core, KCL brings a considered range of further capabilities: corporate and commercial advisory, criminal defence, the enforcement of Mainland civil and commercial judgments in Hong Kong, and the personal legal matters — family, probate, and building disputes — that carry the greatest weight in people’s lives.

In recent years, the cross-border enforcement of Mainland civil and commercial judgments in Hong Kong has become one of KCL’s most significant areas of growth.

the firm

Led by partners. Carried by a firm.

No serious matter rests on one person alone.

KCL & Partners (廖廣志律師事務所) is a Hong Kong law firm founded in 2017 by Nelson K. C. Liu. Behind the partner who leads your file stands the firm: partners, senior consultants, consultants, and registered foreign lawyers, working as one team across Hong Kong and the Mainland.

Together they bring experience across the Hong Kong courts, qualifications in Hong Kong, and a practice conducted in English, Cantonese, and Putonghua. When a partner takes your matter, you engage the experience of the whole firm.

how kcl works

Every client, held to one standard of care.

From the first conversation to resolution.

Every matter at KCL has a partner responsible for it. It begins with that partner, who takes the first conversation and decides how the matter should proceed. It is carried within KCL by the lawyer best suited to the work, who handles it day to day. And it stays under the partner who took it, who supervises it and remains accountable for where it ends.

What does not change, whatever the matter, is that standard of attention: the care brought to the first conversation is the care that sees the matter through.

cross-border cooperation

KCL maintains working relationships with law firms in the Mainland, enabling coordinated handling of cross-border matters for clients on both sides of the boundary.

speak with kcl

A conversation, in confidence.

When a matter carries real consequence, the first step is a considered conversation. KCL is ready to have it.