Commercial Claims, Asset Preservation and Enforcement

Are you trying to recover an unpaid commercial debt?

Choose the Hong Kong-company or foreign-company guide by the claimant’s place of incorporation.

• A Hong Kong company recovering debt from a Mainland customer
• A foreign company recovering debt from a Chinese company

Is the next question filing against a Shenzhen company or preserving assets?

Use the Shenzhen litigation guide for the claim route and the preservation guide for the asset-focused workstream.

• A foreign company suing a Shenzhen company
• Pre-action asset preservation against a Shenzhen company

Do you already have a consumer problem or an overseas judgment?

Open the consumer-routing guide for a purchase dispute, or the judgment guide for recognition and enforcement questions.

• Hong Kong–Mainland consumer dispute routes
• Recognition and enforcement of a foreign judgment in Guangdong

All guides in this topic

A Hong Kong company recovering debt from a Mainland customer

Use this guide to map the debtor, evidence, forum, assets and enforcement workstreams.

A foreign company recovering debt from a Chinese company

Use this guide when the claimant is incorporated outside Hong Kong and Mainland China.

A foreign company suing a Shenzhen company

Use this guide to organise the contract, party, forum, filing-document and asset questions.

Pre-action asset preservation against a Shenzhen company

Use this guide when the reader’s main question is protecting identifiable assets before the main proceeding.

Recognition and enforcement of a foreign judgment in Guangdong

Use this guide when an overseas judgment already exists and the reader is looking at Guangdong assets.

Hong Kong–Mainland consumer dispute routes

Use this guide to compare the available complaint, referral, negotiation and formal-dispute reading paths.