The Companies Registry today announced that 84,293 local companies were newly registered during the first half of 2025, bringing the total number of registered local companies to an all-time high figure of 1,494,806.

Meanwhile, 761 non-Hong Kong companies have newly established a place of business in the city and were registered under the Companies Ordinance. The total number of registered non-Hong Kong companies reached 15,509 as at the end of June, which is also a record high.

In line with the Government's policies on facilitating business as well as attracting enterprises and investments, two improvement measures for the Companies Ordinance came into operation during the first half of 2025.

The first measure enabled listed companies incorporated in Hong Kong to hold shares bought back in the treasury and dispose of them. The second one introduced a company re-domiciliation regime in Hong Kong, offering non-Hong Kong corporations a simple and cost-effective route to re-domicile to the city while preserving their legal identity and operational continuity.

From January to June, the number of charges on properties of companies received for registration was 5,970, while the number of notifications of payments and releases was 9,915. There were also 1,678,809 documents delivered to the registry for registration.

For electronic search services, 2,615,652 searches of document image records were carried out.

As for the licensing of trust or company service providers, 350 licences were granted, resulting in 6,971 licensees up to mid-2025.