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Horizons (Shanghai) Corporate Advisory Company

Horizons (Shanghai) Corporate Advisory Company

Shanghai · China · Established 1983

Overview

About the firm

Horizons is a Corporate Advisory with a highly specialized focus on transnational corporate transactions and their related aspects. Our expertise helps guide businesses in navigating the complex landscape of rules, regulations and cross-cultural nuances related to the modern corporate lifecycle. The professional practices we provide are devoted to assisting domestic and multinational companies and investors with all legal requirements, transactions to close. Our client base is largely made up of enterprises and individuals primarily from the Far East, Middle East, Europe, Russia and Belarus — geographical areas of which we have a high level of expertise. Horizons serves clients with a ‘one team, one focal point, one purpose’ approach whose strength lies in the sensitivity we bring in creating solutions that serve multiple cross-border stakeholders. To achieve this, we give particular focus to the varying regional, sociocultural, political and religious differences that may be directly or indirectly at play in country-by-country legal systems and their unique processes. With expert focus, Horizons’ professionals provide forward-thinking, real-world corporate solutions you can count on.

At a glance

Home market
China · Shanghai
WONE Global positions
Legal & Contracting, Transactions & Deals, Risk, Compliance & Financial Integrity
Named professionals
1
Established
1983
Office
2F Surson Commercial Building, 140-142 Austin Road Tsim Sha Tsui (Kowloon), Hong Kong SAR
Clients
Entrepreneurs & Investors, Private Individuals & Family Businesses

Who does what. WONE Global finds and coordinates; Horizons (Shanghai) Corporate Advisory Company gives the advice under its own licence and invoices you directly. How responsibility works

Services and markets

What the firm is admitted for

These are the firm's exclusive WONE Global positions: one service, one market, each with a named lead.

Legal & Contracting

Partner

Led by Roberto Gilardino, Regional Partner North Asia & additional countries

Contracts and legal structures that work under the law of each country you do business in.

Typical work

  • Review the transaction or operating model
  • Prepare or adapt commercial contracts
  • Identify jurisdiction-specific legal requirements

Transactions & Deals

Partner

Led by Roberto Gilardino, Regional Partner North Asia & additional countries

Buying, selling and investing across borders, from the first structure to closing and after.

Typical work

  • Define the transaction structure
  • Coordinate legal, tax, financial and commercial diligence
  • Manage signing and closing work

Risk, Compliance & Financial Integrity

Partner

Led by Roberto Gilardino, Regional Partner North Asia & additional countries

Sanctions, anti-bribery, anti-money-laundering and checks on the companies you deal with.

Typical work

  • Identify the relevant compliance exposures
  • Review counterparties and third-party risks
  • Design proportionate policies and controls

Areas of practice

  • Corporate Governance
  • Corporate & Commercial
  • LAW
  • Commercial Contracts
  • Litigation (Civil, Commercial, Criminal)
  • Dispute Resolution
  • Employment Law Advisory
  • Employment & Labour
  • Employment Disputes & Tribunals
  • Corporate Governance Advisory
  • Risk, Governance & Compliance
  • BUSINESS ADVISORY

Industries

Home market

Shanghai · Wednesday 4 November

03:43

Local time

Business corridors from China

People

Professionals at the firm

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Portrait of Roberto Gilardino

Roberto Gilardino

Regional Partner North Asia & additional countries · Horizons (Shanghai) Corporate Advisory Company

Shanghai · China

Leads: Legal & Contracting · Transactions & Deals · Risk, Compliance & Financial Integrity

Thought leadership

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Credentials

Regulation and standing

Established
  • 1983
Languages spoken by its professionals
  • Italian
  • English
  • Mandarin Chinese & Japanese

Credentials are confirmed by WONE Global at admission; details will appear here when the firm publishes them.

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Contact

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  1. Within 1 working dayWONE Global acknowledges your requirement and confirms what is involved.
  2. Within 3 working daysHorizons (Shanghai) Corporate Advisory Company runs its conflict check and WONE Global confirms your named lead.
  3. Within 5 working daysYou receive a scope and fee estimate and agree it directly with Horizons (Shanghai) Corporate Advisory Company before any work begins.

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Roberto GilardinoShanghai · China

WONE Global Partner · China

Roberto Gilardino

Regional Partner North Asia & additional countries · Horizons (Shanghai) Corporate Advisory Company · Shanghai

Roberto Gilardino is Regional Partner at Horizons, supervising the advisory’s activities in North Asia as well as additional countries (including Mongolia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan, UAE, Cyprus and Malta).