Amy L.L. Stone

Prior to joining the firm, Amy worked in the capital markets practice group of another international law firm based in Hong Kong and a leading Singapore law firm. Amy is an active member of the Hong Kong Federation of Women Lawyers and regularly supports its initiatives as well as social causes championed by Equal Justice Hong Kong. She regularly volunteers at Island Evangelical Community Church and is on the board of advisors of International Care Ministries, a non-profit organisation serving the ultra-poor primarily in the Philippines and Africa.

Amy is admitted to practice in England & Wales and Singapore.

• Advised a leading ports operator in the PRC and Hong Kong in its issuance of US$400 million subordinated guaranteed perpetual securities.
• Advised the largest privately-owned gas operators and clean energy distributors in the PRC in its Rule 144A/Reg S offering of US$750 million green senior notes.
• Advised an Indonesian state-owned bank in the update of its Euro Medium Term Note Programme to build in the Tier 2 regulatory capital provisions and the subsequent drawdown of Tier 2 Subordinated Notes.
• Advised a leading financial institution in Hong Kong in the benchmark transition for outstanding LIBOR-referencing floating rate notes.
• Advised a leading Chinese real estate developer on its exchange offer of USD-denominated notes for new notes and current new money issue.
• Advised a leading producer of ecological fertilisers and magnesium products in the PRC in its exchange offer and consent solicitation exercise. The exchange offer was amongst the Singapore dollar-denominated exchange offers listed on the Singapore stock exchange.
• Advised a Singapore shipping group in its intermediated exchange offer, the first such intermediated exchange offer in the Singapore bond market, bypassing clearing systems to significantly shorten the time to market and reduce the company’s exposure to market risk.
• Advised a logistics and freight forwarding service provider in its liability management exercise to exchange S$100 million subordinated perpetual securities with a like principal amount of newly issued Singapore dollar-denominated notes.
• Advised underwriters in the issue of US$300 million zero coupon convertible bonds by an A and H shares dual-listed pharmaceutical R&D company based in Shanghai.
• Advised an agro-industrial and food conglomerate headquartered in Thailand in its issue of US$275 million exchangeable bonds.
• Advised the sole lead manager on the issue of €230 million zero coupon convertible bonds by an infrastructure company in the PRC engaged in investing, developing and operating of high-grade roads.
• Advised underwriters on the issue of HK$3.9 billion secured guaranteed convertible bonds by a Chinese real estate company.
• Advised a Singapore-listed clean energy conglomerate on its private placement of US$70 million convertible bonds together with warrants exercisable with dual exercise prices to PRC-based private equity funds to raise capital for the expansion of its green investment portfolio. Many aspects of the transaction, including excess return sharing and excess performance adjustment sharing arrangements, are novel features in Singapore’s equity-linked debt market then. This transaction was nominated for IFLR Asia Awards debt and equity-linked deal of the year.