About
HKICS publishes practical guidance on running a Hong Kong company, and a directory of the people you can pay to do it for you.
What this site is not
HKICS is not a professional body. It does not offer membership, qualifications, examinations or a designation, and nothing here confers any status on anyone.
It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to The Hong Kong Chartered Governance Institute, which was formerly known as The Hong Kong Institute of Chartered Secretaries. If you are looking for that body - for membership, the CGQP, or its guidance notes - it is at hkcgi.org.hk and this site cannot help you.
How the guidance is written
Drafts are generated with a language model against a fixed reference of verified facts, then edited, then measured. That is worth stating plainly rather than leaving you to infer it.
What matters is what happens afterwards. Every page passes a deterministic audit before it can be published: length against a floor set by page type, the target term appearing in the title and opening, headings that carry the subject, and a check for the tells of machine writing. Pages that fail are held back rather than published thin.
Fees, deadlines and statutory references are drawn from a maintained reference file rather than from a model's memory, because those change and a remembered figure is wrong quietly. Where a figure is set annually and we cannot verify the current one, the page says so and links to the source instead of guessing. The calculators state the rate they used and where it comes from.
What it still cannot do
This is general information, not legal, tax or accounting advice. It does not know your circumstances. Statutory fees and dates change, sometimes mid-year. Before you act on anything here, check it against the cited source or ask someone licensed to advise you - which is what the directory is for.
The directory
Listings are built from public registers - the Companies Registry's TCSP licensee list, the HKICPA register of practising certificates, and the Law Society's roll - and each credential shown is recorded against the register that issued it. A firm with no verifiable credential is listed without one rather than given the benefit of the doubt.
Verification means a licence number matched a public register on a stated date. It is not a recommendation, and it says nothing about whether a firm is any good.
How this is paid for
When you ask for quotes, the enquiry is offered to firms in the relevant category, and a firm pays to receive your details. Firms also pay for enhanced listings. That is the whole model, and it has two consequences worth knowing: a firm's position in the directory is not something we sell, and solicitors are listed but never charged for an introduction, because Rule 4 of the Solicitors' Practice Rules forbids sharing costs with non-solicitors.