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Wanchai
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Irena Wu
Work Department
Finance
Position
Irena is of counsel of Maples and Calder’s Finance team in the Maples Group’s Hong Kong office. She has been practising offshore law since 2007 and has extensive experience advising clients on both British Virgin Islands and Cayman Islands law principally assisting international financial institutions and public companies listed on various stock exchanges on corporate finance transactions. She advises on conventional bilateral and syndication lending, project finance, asset and property financing, capital markets and mergers and acquisitions.
Career
Irena first joined the Maples Group in 2007. She has worked for another international law firm and for Zul Rafique & partners in Malaysia prior to moving to Hong Kong. Irena is fluent in Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka and Malay.
Languages
Cantonese, English, Hakka, Malay and Mandarin.
Memberships
2001 – Called to the Bar of England and Wales (not practising)
2003 – Admitted as an advocate and solicitor of the High Court of Malaya (Malaysia) (not practising)
2003 – Admitted as an advocate and solicitor of the High Court of Sabah and Sarawak (Malaysia) (not practising)
2011 – Admitted as a Barrister of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (British Virgin Islands)
2011 – Admitted as a solicitor of the High Court of Hong Kong (not practising)
Education
University of Cardiff, UK, Diploma in Bar Vocational Studies, 2001
University of Sheffield, UK, Bachelor of Laws, 2000