Simmons & Simmons

Eva Chan

Eva specialises in authorised/registered investment funds (listed and unlisted) including exchange traded funds (ETFs), futures and options funds, UCITS funds, hedge funds and structured funds. In particular, Eva has advised on or been involved with more than half of the ETFs listed on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (SEHK).Eva has also advised on fund restructurings, deauthorisation and on-going compliance issues in relation to authorised investment funds.

Fiona Loughrey

Fiona advises on all aspects of the employment relationship, including hiring strategies; negotiation of employment terms and contract drafting; protection of confidential information, and enforcement of, and issues relating to, business protection restrictions; dispute resolution and litigation, including applying for and defending applications for injunctions; privacy and data protection; the employment aspects of mergers and acquisitions and restructurings, share option/stock purchase schemes; and audits of human resources procedures. Fiona also has particular experience in dealing with the defence of equal opportunities and discrimination claims.

Gaven Cheong

Gaven is a partner in our financial markets team in Hong Kong. He has extensive experience in work relating to the establishment and structuring of a diverse range of collective investment schemes including hedge funds, real estate funds, private equity arrangements, hybrid funds and other structured products. He also advises on contentious and non-contentious regulatory matters in relation to investment management activity. Having formerly worked as a litigator with two other international practices, Gaven is also able to advise investment managers and fund clients across a variety of contentious issues that arise in relation to fund operation, restructuring, and investment.

Ian Wood

Ian is a partner in the corporate & commercial group in Hong Kong. He specialises in public and private mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, equity investments and fund raisings. He has a particular focus in the financial institutions and asset management sectors and advises funds on transactions, governance and regulatory matters.

Jay Lee

Jay is experienced in advising banks and corporations on a wide variety of debt capital markets transactions (RMB bonds, G-3 bonds, equity-linked products, high yield bonds, asset backed securities and structured finances, MTNs, local currency bonds, and loan syndications). Jay also advises on structured debt products and derivatives transactions as well as mergers and acquisitions, asset management and other general corporate and finance matters.

Jingyuan Shi

Jingyuan is a partner in the firm’s corporate and commercial department and focuses her practice on private equity and venture capital transactions in the TMT sector. She works primarily for international and Chinese TMT companies, and strategic and financial investors in the TMT sector. Her work encompasses matters in a broad range of cross-border investments, startups’ financing, regulatory compliance (data protection and competition), as well as intellectual property.

John Slater

John has over 20 years’ experience practising intellectual property law in Hong Kong and China. His expertise lies in intellectual property litigation, particularly in respect of trademarks and copyright; implementation of enforcement and anti-piracy programmes; trade mark prosecution and brand strategy and management; IP transactional work including licensing of all types of IP rights, collaboration agreements, R&D agreements and due diligence; and acquisition of IP rights.

Jolyon Ellwood-Russell

Jolyon is a banking and finance lawyer with extensive experience in Asia and Europe. Jolyon specialises in debt finance (including banking, acquisition finance and project finance) with a particular focus and reputation in structured trade and commodity finance. He also has experience in financing infrastructure and renewable energy projects. Jolyon has focused his practice on Asian trade and commodity finance and advises both international financial institutions and traders and commodity banks on all aspects of the trade cycle from financing structures and documentation to regulatory requirements.

Paul Li

Paul is a specialist in the field of financial markets regulation. He advises clients on both contentious and non-contentious aspects of their financial services businesses and specialises in related claims and regulatory and criminal investigations.

Richard McKeown

Richard's experience covers most areas of banking and finance law, including domestic and cross-border financing, trade and export finance, capital market issues, secured and tax-structured financing and asset acquisition and general corporate financing. He is particularly experienced in the financing and commercial aspects of projects in Asia, having represented borrowers, sponsors and lenders in infrastructure, transport, energy, telecommunications and petrochemical projects, many of which required multi-source financing from domestic and international banks as well as from export credit and multilateral agencies. Richard has advised on the Hong Kong aspects of many bank mergers and reorganisations, including The Royal Bank of Scotland plc, Korea Exchange Bank, Hana Bank, Kookmin Bank and Bank Bumiputra Malaysia Berhad.

Rolfe Hayden

Rolfe is the national practice group head of financial markets in Hong Kong. He has extensive experience in all types of collective investment schemes, including ETFs, hedge funds, private equity funds, guaranteed funds and listed investment companies. He has advised on offshore closed and open ended corporates, units trusts and limited partnerships as well as licensing, regulatory and securities issues connected with asset management generally in Hong Kong and Asia. Rolfe also has experience in bank regulation under the Banking Ordinance, mergers by way of private ordinance, SFC licensing issues as well as disclosure of interests under the Securities and Futures Ordinance.

Sarah Berkeley

Sarah has extensive experience of advising financial institutions, asset managers and major corporations on employment law issues. She advises on all aspects of the employment relationship, including drafting employment contracts and staff handbooks, bonus and incentive arrangements, negotiated terminations, strategic issues associated with reorganisations and restructuring, discrimination and harassment, employment disputes, restrictive covenants and the employment aspects of data privacy.

Tom Fyfe

Tom is a partner in the dispute resolution group. He has 20 years of experience of commercial litigation, contentious regulatory and arbitration in China, England & Wales and Australia, during which time he has advised clients in numerous high value and business-critical disputes. Tom has particular experience in disputes relating to mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures, financial products and services, fraud and breach of trust, and accountants’ liability. He has worked across various client industry sectors including finance, professional services, telecommunications, television, IT, energy and sport.

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