SFKS offers CAAO lawyers and notarial services for both companies and individuals looking to notarise documents for use outside Hong Kong (other than in Chinese Mainland). These include:

• Preparing notarial certificates and handling notarisation of documents
• Arranging for apostille and legalisation of documents
• Witnessing signatures of powers of attorney and overseas property agreements
• Finance or commercial transactions, authenticating personal and corporate documents
• Certifying true copies of documents and administering oaths

The Ministry of Justice of the PRC appointed experienced Hong Kong lawyers as China-Appointed Attesting Officers (CAAOs) to handle the attestation for documents required for use in Chinese Mainland. SFKS’ CAAOs provide attestation for various types of documents. These include:

• Certificates of company information
• Certificates of directors’/shareholders’ resolutions of the company
• Documents in relation to Chinese Mainland and Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (CEPA)
• Power of attorney
• Declarations in relation to kinship and will status or disclaimer of inheritance
• Declarations in relation to applications for marriage and marriage status
• Declarations in relation to applications from relatives or spouses for residence in Hong Kong
• Declarations in relation to applications for adoptions
• Deeds or instruments of gift  
• Certificates of capacity, academic qualifications, birth, death, and degree of relationship