概览
Ester Chow advises both lenders and borrowers across the full spectrum of banking and finance matters, including:
- Complex cross-border and multijurisdictional financing
- Senior secured private structured lending with bespoken financing
- Fund finance, including capital call facilities to PE funds and SMA funds, GP lines, NAV financing
- General corporate and investment grade lending and refinancing to private structured lending
- Acquisition and leveraged financing
- Pre-IPO financing
- Margin financing
- Other event-driven financing transactions, whether secured or unsecured, syndicated, or bilateral
执业经验
Advised:
- UBO, SMBC, MUFG., OCBC and CITIC Bank, as mandated lead arrangers on the structuring and provision of the term loan facilities to fund the winning bid by ESR for the acquisition of a logistics site in Kwai Chung.
- The arranger on the structuring and provision of EUR62 million offshore facilities to refinance existing onshore/offshore facilities with respect to a real property in Ho Chi Minh City.
- A Mauritius-based private credit fund on a bridge facility to fund the acquisition of coal barges in Indonesia.
- An Asia-based private credit fund on dual facilities: an acquisition facility and a pre-IPO term facility (under an onshore-offshore credit structure) to a Chinese cinema investment group in a VIE structure, with equity options, first and second lien security sharing and intercreditor arrangements, onshore security and VIE holders’ undertakings; also advised on subsequent series of amendments in light of the group pre-IPO restructurings.
表彰
- Rising Star - Banking, Hong Kong – IFLR1000
- Recommended - Banking and Finance, Hong Kong – The Legal 500 Asia Pacific
教育背景
- 香港大学, 法学专业证书
- 香港大学, 法学学士
- 香港大学, 社会科学学士, Government & Laws
执业资格
- 纽约州
- 香港
语言
- 英语
- 广东话
- 普通话
专业及社区参与
- Member, The Hong Kong Law Society
- Member, New York Bar Association