Corporate Information

Corporate Information

Sunwah Kingsway is one of the most respected names in Asia financial services, standing for excellence, integrity and innovation on behalf of clients.

General Information

  • Chairman: Jonathan Koon Shum Choi
  • Executive Director: Michael Koon Ming Choi (Chief Executive Officer)
  • Non-Executive Director: Janice Wing Kum Kwan
  • Independent Non-Executive Directors: Robert Tsai To Sze, Elizabeth Law, Huanfei Guan, Julianne Pearl Doe
  • Legal Advisors to the Company:
    • As to Hong Kong Law: MinterEllison LLP, 43/F, Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen’s Road East, Hong Kong
    • As to Bermuda Law: Conyers Dill & Pearman, 2901 One Exchange Square, 8 Connaught Place, Central, Hong Kong
  • Auditor: Ernst & Young, 27th Floor, One Taikoo Place, 979 King’s Road, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong
  • Company Secretary: Vincent Wai Shun Lai
  • Authorised Representatives: Michael Koon Ming Choi, Vincent Wai Shun Lai
  • Location:
    • Registered Office: Clarendon House, 2 Church Street, Hamilton HM 11, Bermuda
    • Head Office and Principal Place of Business: 7th Floor, Tower One, Lippo Centre, 89 Queensway, Hong Kong
  • Bermuda Principal Share Registrar and Transfer Office: Appleby Global Corporate Services (Bermuda) Limited, Canon’s Court, 22 Victoria Street, PO Box HM 1179, Hamilton HM EX Bermuda
  • Hong Kong Branch Share Registrar and Transfer Office: Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited, Room 1712-1716, 17th Floor, Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen’s Road East, Hong Kong
  • Principal Bankers:
    • The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited
    • Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited
    • China Construction Bank (Asia) Corporation Limited


Leadership

Leadership

A key strength of Sunwah Kingsway is the calibre of our leadership and the global business network, particularly in Hong Kong, China and South-East Asia, afforded to us by our Board of Directors. In addition to offering solid track records and substantial expertise in their respective areas, all members of our Board of Directors and Executive Management teams are committed to excellence in corporate governance, which means ensuring business practices and behaviours that are beyond ethical reproach. At Sunwah Kingsway our leadership is staunchly dedicated to generating long-term shareholder value and to fulfilling our responsibilities to Sunwah Kingsway stakeholders.

Executive Team

  • Mr. Michael Koon Ming Choi: Chief Executive Officer and an Executive Director of the Company. Mr. Choi also is director of several subsidiaries of the Group. Mr. Choi holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of British Columbia. He joined the Group in 1995. Mr. Choi has been licensed with Securities and Futures Commission in various capacities since 1998.
  • Mr. Eric Kwok Keung Chan: Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”) of the Company. He is responsible for overseeing the Group’s financial operations. Prior to joining the Group, Mr. Chan was CFO and Company Secretary of a Hong Kong listed company with operations in nine countries. Mr. Chan had worked in the Hong Kong and Boston offices of PricewaterhouseCoopers for 14 years and has assurance and business advisory experience. Mr. Chan is a fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (UK) and a member of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Mr. Chan is also a fellow member of the Hong Kong Securities and Investment Institute and a Certified International Investment Analyst.
  • Mr. Vincent Wai Shun Lai: Chief Administrative Officer and Company Secretary of the Company. Mr. Lai is a qualified Solicitor in Hong Kong SAR and Attorney at Law in the State of New York, USA. Immediately prior to joining the Group, Mr. Lai worked in an international law firm. He has experience in listing and compliance matters involving various stock exchanges and regulators. Mr. Lai holds a Juris Doctor degree from Union University-Albany Law School and a Bachelor of Science degree from the State University of New York at Albany. Mr. Lai began his legal career as an Assistant District Attorney in the New York County District Attorney’s office.

Board of Directors

Chairman

  • Dr. Jonathan Koon Shum Choi: Chairman of the Group. Dr. Choi is also the Chairman of the Sunwah Group. Dr. Choi is a Standing Committee Member of the National Committee of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (“CPPCC”), PRC. He was awarded the Grand Bauhinia Medal, the highest honor in the Hong Kong SAR Award and Recognition System. In addition to being a Standing Committee Member of the National Committee of the CPPCC, PRC, Dr. Choi also holds a number of public positions, which include the Chairman of the Hong Kong Chinese General Chamber of Commerce, Member of the Chief Executive’s Council of Advisors of HKSAR Government, Chairman of the Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce (Qianhai), Economic Advisor to the President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Founding Patron and Senior Advisor to the President of the Hong Kong Academy of Sciences, Vice President of the China Overseas Friendship Association, HK, Council Member of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council, Chairman of Guangdong-HK-Macao Bay Area Entrepreneurs Alliance, Founding Chairman of the Hong Kong-Vietnam Chamber of Commerce, Founding Chairman of the Hong Kong-Korea Business Council, Chairman of the China Hong Kong Israel Technology Cooperation and Promotion Center and Chairman of the US-China Center for Research on Educational Excellence of the Michigan State University. Dr. Choi is a Council Member of Fudan University and a Court Member of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Dr. Choi has over 40 years of experience in the food industry, real estate development and international trade, and over 30 years of experience in the technology and finance related business.

Executive Director

  • Mr. Michael Koon Ming Choi: Chief Executive Officer and an Executive Director of the Company. Mr. Choi also is director of several subsidiaries of the Group. Mr. Choi holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of British Columbia. He joined the Group in 1995. Mr. Choi has been licensed with Securities and Futures Commission in various capacities since 1998.

Non-Executive Director

  • Ms. Janice Wing Kum Kwan: Non-Executive Director of the Company. Ms. Kwan holds a bachelor degree of Law and Postgraduate Certificate in Laws awarded by the University of Hong Kong. She was admitted as a solicitor in Hong Kong in 1982 and has been in private practice since then. She also worked as an in-house lawyer heading the legal department of an international bank and a listed company respectively during the period from 1986 to 1990. Currently she is a consultant to Angela Ho & Associate. Ms. Kwan was also qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales, as an advocate in Singapore and as a barrister & solicitor in Victoria, Australia. She has been a China Attesting Officer appointed by the PRC government since 1993. She was the President of the Hong Kong Federation of Women Lawyers and is a Council member of the Federation till now.

Independent Non-Executive Directors

  • Mr. Robert Tsai To Sze: Independent Non-Executive Director of the Company. Mr. Sze had worked in Price Waterhouse (now known as PricewaterhouseCoopers) Hong Kong for 25 years where he had been a partner for over 22 years. Mr. Sze is a fellow member of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
  • Ms. Elizabeth Law: Independent Non-Executive Director of the Company. Ms. Law is the Managing Director of Law & Partners CPA Limited and Proprietor of Stephen Law & Company. She is a Chartered Professional Accountant of Canada, a fellow practising member of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants, a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, and a fellow member of CPA Australia.
  • Dr. Huanfei Guan: Independent Non-Executive Director of the Company. He obtained a doctor’s degree in Economics in 2000 from Wuhan University and was a post-doctoral researcher in Theoretical Economics with Fudan University from 2000 to 2002. Dr. Guan has experience in the finance and insurance industry in Hong Kong and the People’s Republic of China. He served various senior managerial positions in the People’s Insurance Company of China (Jilin Branch), the business department of Hong Kong and Macao Regional Office of China Insurance Group, Ming An Insurance Company (Hong Kong) Limited, China Pacific Insurance Co., (HK) Ltd., Bank of Communications, China BOCOM Insurance Co., Ltd. and BoCommLife Insurance Company Limited.
  • Ms. Julianne Pearl Doe: Independent Non-Executive Director of the Company. Ms. Doe obtained her bachelor’s degree in laws and postgraduate certificate in laws from the University of Hong Kong and obtained the master’s degree in laws from the University of Cambridge, U.K. Ms. Doe has been a solicitor of the High Court of Hong Kong since September 1988 and she was also qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales, and a barrister and solicitor in the Australian Capital Territory. Ms. Doe is currently a partner of Hui Doe & Sum Law Firm LLP and is engaged in the corporate and commercial legal practice.


Social Responsibility

Social Responsibility

While acknowledging our responsibility to our stakeholders, we encourage our staff to recognise those responsibilities and behave in a responsible manner toward the society in which we function.


Mission & Values

Mission & Values

Sunwah Kingsway is dedicated to excellence. We continuously strive to be Hong Kong’s preferred mid-market financial solutions provider with international reach and a clear client focus while adhering to the highest standards of business conduct.

Mission

We are guided by a unique combination of foresight, innovation, and core values, helping us to maintain strong positioning in our current markets while navigating new opportunities and changing economic conditions with increased agility.

Stakeholders

  • Shareholders: We are dedicated to enhancing the long-term value of the investment entrusted to us by our shareholders. By running the business responsibly, we hope to deliver superior returns for our shareholders. This commitment is a driving force behind everything we do.
  • Clients: Sunwah Kingsway’s success depends on our ability to consistently satisfy ever-changing client needs. We pledge to be innovative and responsive, while offering premium products and services.
  • Employees: Sunwah Kingsway believes in the power of teamwork. We feel that building and maintaining an atmosphere of respect and trust among all levels of personnel is critical to our employees’ success as well as to our own profitability and growth.
  • Communities: Sunwah Kingsway pledges to uphold the tenets of responsible corporate citizenship in the communities in which we do business. Through donation and other charitable endeavours, we are dedicated to assisting those in need.

Values

Sunwah Kingsway is committed to a value system that honours integrity, teamwork, respect, responsibility and the pursuit of excellence.  We believe that successful companies are built on these core values, which align and guide our thinking and actions in every area of our business.

Integrity

  • Integrity is our foremost value, serving as the basis for Sunwah Kingsway’s relationships with clients, investors and other stakeholders.

Teamwork

  • At Sunwah Kingsway, we work together as a team to create enhanced value for our clients and shareholders.

Respect

  • We treat all our stakeholders fairly and are proud to provide employees with a work environment where diversity is valued and understood.

Excellence

  • From the quality of the products and services we deliver to the manner in which we interact with stakeholders, Sunwah Kingsway strives for excellence in everything we do.

Responsibility

  • Sunwah Kingsway believes in being accountable to stakeholders for the effects of our actions both at the individual (employee) level and as a responsible corporate citizen.


History

History

Sunwah Kingsway was founded in Hong Kong in 1990 as a small, regionally focused business advisor. By 1995, the company had expanded its focus significantly to include stock brokering, corporate finance and asset management services alongside the registration of several major subsidiaries with the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong.

Throughout the latter half of this first decade, the Group established a reputation as a respected Hong Kong financial services provider while steadily piecing together the elements of a solid, long-term growth strategy with a unique international element. In addition to the listing of its parent company on Canada’s junior stock exchange (1996), Sunwah Kingsway began positioning the company to capitalize on China’s initial steps toward an open market economy, adopting a China strategy in the late 1990s before most companies could even conceive of such a shift.

In 2000, to further strengthen its foothold in Hong Kong and lay the groundwork for future growth, the Group listed on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong (stock code 188), marking a significant milestone in its development. Not long after, in 2001 Sunwah Kingsway added to its brokerage operation’s status as participants of the SEHK and Hong Kong Futures Exchange by becoming licensed to deal in China B-shares on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges, demonstrating the company’s commitment to foresight and innovation. Also in 2002, Sunwah International (Sunwah Kingsway’s parent company, at the time) migrated to the main board of the Toronto Stock Exchange, lending further support to our growth plans and highlighting our excellence in corporate governance. Sunwah International was privatized in 2021.

Throughout the first decade of the new millennium, the Group continued to grow steadily, gradually moving into new markets and expanding its clientele base to eventually cement its position as the preferred mid-market financial solutions provider in Greater China. Also during this time, Sunwah Kingsway steadily executed a carefully planned expansion strategy from our springboard in Hong Kong. In addition to strengthening our on-the-ground presence and firmly entrenching our footing in China, we launched operations in North America through Kingsway Canada to support our China focused, international growth and global investment interests, enabling us to carve out a niche as a middle tier investment channel linking East and West.

While Sunwah Kingsway’s business has changed over the last 25 years, some elements continue to stay the same, including our commitment to conducting business with integrity, dedication to innovation, excellence in corporate governance and commitment to community service.


Corporate Profile

Corporate Profile

Sunwah Kingsway Capital Holdings Limited is headquartered in Hong Kong with additional offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Toronto. Founded in 1990, the company has since experienced solid growth while cultivating a robust relationship base rooted in Asia that extends worldwide. The result is Sunwah Kingsway’s current footing as one of Hong Kong’s top domestic brokerage firms with a distribution network that is unparalleled by local peers, and our status as a respected middle market financial services provider with global reach and vision. Since 2000, the Company has been listed on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong under the stock code: 00188.

Through our SFC-licensed subsidiaries, Sunwah Kingsway delivers targeted financial solutions in line with the Group’s core competencies, providing clients with premium offerings in equity/derivatives brokering, equity capital markets fund raising, corporate finance, and asset management. Demonstrating our track record for capital markets excellence and for servicing clients with passion and integrity, the company is historically a routine contender for the “Best Local Brokerage in Hong Kong” designation as ranked by the Asiamoney Broker’s Poll; an honour in which we placed in the top three for five consecutive years.

Sunwah Kingsway is pleased to provide our full-service suite of offerings to a broad client base, including corporations, listed companies, fund managers and retail clients. In addition to our status as a participant of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong, the Company is licensed as a broker dealing in B-shares on the Shanghai Stock Exchange and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. Sunwah Kingsway is a proud affiliate of the Sunwah Group, a well-known Asian based, international conglomerate and the company’s major shareholder.


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