Experience 

• Extensive experience in foreign direct investment in China, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, general corporate and commercial matters
• Extensive experience in advising merger control issues in PRC and making successful merger control filings with PRC authorities
• Assisting a multi-national corporation in rolling out its compliance programme for anti-trust and anti-corruption in PRC
• China Appointed Attesting Officer (appointed by the Ministry of Justice of PRC)
• Notary Public in Hong Kong

Notable Engagements 

• Advised Hong Kong Aviation Engineering Co, Ltd. (HAECO) on its acquisition and the related merger control issues of an aircraft engine maintenance, repair, overhaul and testing facility in Xiamen, PRC from leading aircraft engine manufacturer, GE. The transaction involves the acquisition by HAECO and its affiliates of a PRC subsidiary of GE and a "branded service arrangement" between GE and the required facility. The total transaction value amounts to over US$100 million.
• Advised Modern Terminals Limited to form a joint venture with China Merchants Holdings (International) Company Limited for the purposes of rationalizing and consolidating their respective interests in 3 container terminal companies in Shekou, Shenzhen, China. Total value of the transaction is approximately US$1.7 billion.
• Advised Agilysys, Inc., a NASDAQ-listed company in its acquisition of a Shanghai company, and the assets and business of a Hong Kong company, which are both engaged in providing computer hardware and software- related technology and solutions. Handled the acquisition in Hong Kong and the PRC, and also negotiated and arranged the signing of novation contracts with suppliers and customers.
• Advised various private equity funds in U.S. on pre-merger control filings in China in respect of their respective acquisitions in various industry sectors.
• Advise a leading marketer of apparel and consumer soft goods, a NYSE listed company to conduct a corporate restructuring of its subsidiaries in Hong Kong and a few Asian countries before selling those subsidiaries to a listed group in China.
• Acted for HSBC in establishing HSBC ZhongHua Insurance Brokers Co., Ltd. in China.
• Advised HSBC on its sale of a 27 percent stake in Ping An Bank Limited to Shenzhen Commercial Bank Company Limited (SZCB, a subsidiary of Ping An Group). The transaction was part of Ping An Group's consolidation of its banking businesses within SZCB.
• Advised Hang Seng Bank on its US$210 million acquisition of a 15.98% stake in Industrial Bank.
  
  

Education 

The University of Warwick, MBA • The University of Hong Kong, PCLL • The University of Hong Kong, LLB

Languages

• Read / Written: English, Chinese
• Spoken: English, Mandarin, Cantonese

Admitted

• USA (NY), 2003
• New Zealand, 1998
• Australia (Queensland), 1996
• Australia (NSW), 1996
• Australia (Victoria), 1996
• Australia (Tasmania), 1994
• England & Wales, 1992
• Hong Kong, 1992