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Angela Chan has almost two decades of experience advising on a broad range of debt capital markets transactions, including international bond offerings, medium term note programmes, regulatory capital, hybrid securities and equity-linked products such as convertible bonds and exchangeable bonds. In recent years, Angela is particularly active in advising Chinese clients on their offshore bond issuances, including Chinese state-owned and privately owned enterprises, as well as prominent state-owned banks and other financial institutions.

Anita Lam practises across all areas of employment law, with a particular focus on contentious employment, discrimination and data privacy disputes. As a seasoned litigator, Anita is one of the very few solicitors in Hong Kong who has Higher Rights of Audience granted by the Higher Rights Assessment Board. Anita's clients include banks, listed companies, airlines, tertiary institutions, hospitals, theme parks, stock brokers, foreign law firms, railway corporations, tunnel operators, publishers, pharmaceutical companies and fashion retailers. Anita is a member of our global People Risk team.

Anthony Wang specialises in syndicated and acquisition financing, project financing and commercial projects work. Anthony has extensive experience in advising arrangers and lenders in relation to acquisition financing and syndicated loans in Asia.

Cameron Hassall

Cameron specialises in corporate M&A, private equity, aviation, energy and infrastructure (including energy transition), technology and banking disputes. Cameron has more than 20 years of experience of both litigation and arbitration across APAC. He is a partner of and maintains active practices in both our Hong Kong and Australian offices. Cameron has been granted full rights of audience as a solicitor advocate in Hong Kong and is a senior and globally recognised arbitration practitioner. Cameron has achieved recognition in the Legal 500 and/or Chambers & Partners Global, Hong Kong and Australian guides, including the Legal 500 Private Practice Powerlist for Australasia and Hong Kong Hall of Fame. Cameron's arbitration experience as counsel and / or arbitrator includes arbitrations under the AAA, CIETAC, HKIAC, ICC, LCIA, SCC, SIAC and UNCITRAL Rules.

Connie Heng is Clifford Chance's Regional Managing Partner in Asia Pacific and partner of the Greater China Capital Markets team. During her 20-plus year career, she has assisted many Hong Kong and Chinese issuers with their securities offerings in the international debt capital markets and has advised on numerous landmark transactions.

Dauwood Malik has extensive experience in debt finance, including corporate credit, infrastructure financing, real estate development and investment financing.

Dayu Man specialises in antitrust and competition law. Dayu has advised multinational and domestic corporations, investment banks and private equity firms on antitrust matters in relation to global merger control filings, FDI filings as well as antitrust conduct rules across a range of sectors.

Edith Leung is experienced in leveraged & acquisition finance (both sponsor and lender sides), general banking, and restructuring transactions.

Emma Davies heads Clifford Chance's Asia Pacific Healthcare & Life Sciences Sector Group. She has 25 years of experience advising clients on M&A, private equity and corporate restructuring matters. In addition, she led the China Corporate/M&A group in Shanghai from 2002–2012 and founded the firm’s China antitrust practice. Emma is fluent in Mandarin Chinese.

Liu Fang focuses on both securities offerings and mergers and acquisitions. He represents issuers and global investment banks in Hong Kong IPOs, SEC-registered offerings, share placements as well as Rule 144A and Reg. S bond offerings. He also advises PRC state-owned and private companies, multinationals and private equity firms on China inbound and outbound acquisitions, investments, dispositions and related financings. His deal experience extends across a wide variety of industry sectors, including financial services, healthcare/consumer goods, TMT and energy/natural resources.

Francis Edwards

Francis Edwards is the head of our Derivatives and Structured Finance Practice in Greater China and a market leading derivatives and structured finance specialist. Francis specialises in all forms of derivatives, financial market products and structured finance, including repackagings, credit derivatives, equity derivatives and other OTC derivatives, structured products, securities lending and repos, as well as netting, collateral, clearing, custody and credit risk management issues. His focus is on complex transactional matters and innovative market developments in Asia Pacific. Francis also regularly advises on Hong Kong regulatory matters and on issues arising from the global OTC derivatives regulatory reforms. Francis is a regular speaker on derivatives and regulatory matters, including for ISDA and other trade associations.

Julie Fu specialises in PE investments and M&A. She regularly advises private equity funds, multinational corporates and financial institutions on cross-border buyouts, minority investments, secondary investments, PIPE, disposals and joint ventures. Her industry experience includes consumer goods and retail, technology, real estate, healthcare, manufacturing and financial institutions.

Lei Shi is the Managing Partner of Clifford Chance's Mainland China offices and specialises in China-related dispute resolution matters, including international arbitration, regulatory compliance and investigation, and commercial litigation. Lei also co-leads the firm's Greater China international arbitration practice. Lei joined Clifford Chance in 2010 and became a partner since 2019. Lei is admitted in Hong Kong and New York and also holds a PRC legal professional qualification certificate (not holding current practicing certificate). Lei is a native Mandarin speaker and fluent in English.

Maggie Lo has over 20 years of experience and has a track record of advising both lender-side and borrower-side on cross-border financings, including project finance, acquisition finance, fund finance, receivables finance, pre-IPO finance, corporate loan transactions, non-performing loan transactions and restructuring mandates. Apart from advising international financial institutions on their transactions in Greater China, Maggie also focuses on advising Chinese financial institutions on significant outbound financings and investments, particularly in the real estate, manufacturing, energy and resources, infrastructure and industrials sectors.

Mark is admitted in New South Wales, Australia, England and Wales and Hong Kong. He specialises in a wide range of debt and equity-linked capital markets products. Mark advises both issuers and underwriters on standalone debt issuances, medium term note, certificate of deposits and commercial paper programmes, convertible and exchangeable bonds, corporate hybrid capital and regulatory (bank and insurance) capital products, ESG-related issuances, liability management exercises (including tender and exchange offers and consent solicitations and debt restructurings) as well as bespoke private capital markets financings.

Matthew Truman is Global Co-Head of Leveraged Finance. He has over two decades of experience advising on acquisition finance, syndicated lending and restructuring transactions. Matthew regularly advises private equity sponsors, private credit funds, corporates, financial institutions, and banks across a variety of sectors including real estate, healthcare and life sciences, technology, manufacturing, and consumer. Matthew has been based in Asia since 2005, and plays a pivotal role in complex, cross-border financings across the Asia Pacific region. Matthew has practiced in London, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Singapore.

Matthias Feldmann

Matt has extensive experience establishing private investment funds; advising on fund structuring and legal and regulatory aspects. Matt has worked on some of the largest fund launches in the region. He also acts for institutional investors on their investments in funds and separate accounts.

Michael Pallaras

Michael Pallaras specialises in acquisition finance, real estate finance and private credit transactions, covering the Asia Pacific region from Hong Kong. Michael has been based in our Hong Kong office for more than 10 years and regularly acts for sponsors, credit funds and financial institutions on transactions across the entire credit spectrum, from investment grade to distressed debt. He also has extensive experience in cross-border real estate and development financings, including hospitality, integrated resorts, data centres, logistics, commercial and retail assets.

Paul Greenwell specialises in asset and structured finance, in particular, in relation to the PRC and Japanese markets, and has extensive experience acting for financiers (debt and equity) and lessors in all aspects of aircraft finance and leasing including limited recourse and structured financing, commercial debt financing (including syndicated lending), securitisation of receivables, export credit financing, portfolio transactions (including multi-aircraft purchases and lease novations), corporate acquisitions and disposals, sale and leasebacks, tax leases, finance leases, operating leases, leasing joint ventures and airline defaults, insolvencies and restructurings and aircraft repossession.

Phoebe Lo specialises in non-contentious corporate insolvency and restructuring work. Phoebe has advised creditors, debtors and insolvency office holders in corporate restructuring and formal insolvency processes, including issues on enforcement of security, creditors' schemes of arrangement and loan and security assignments.

Rocky Mui focuses on transactional funds and regulatory advisory practice. He specialises in fund establishment, authorisation of funds, licensing and regulatory advice, PRC investment programs (QFI/Stock Connect/Bond Connect/CIBM Direct Access), cross-border mergers & acquisitions and general corporate related work. Rocky also focuses on Tech / Fintech and has developed expertise in cryptocurrency/blockchain related matters.

Scott Bache specialises in advising financial institutions, hedge funds, private equity funds, financial advisers and turnaround professionals on the full range of restructuring matters, including corporate restructuring, distressed mergers and acquisitions and special situations investing. He also advises clients on a broad range of insolvency issues, security enforcement and general banking litigation. He has over 20 years experience working in Greater China.

Terry Yang specialises in derivatives, structured products and financial regulatory matters. Terry has worked on a number of significant structured finance projects in Greater China, including China Connect, Bond Connect and the establishment of OTC Clear. He regularly advises both buy-side and sell-side clients on structured note investments, margin financing transactions and cross-border acquisitions involving OTC derivatives. Terry speaks regularly at industry conferences on financial regulatory developments affecting China and Hong Kong.

Thomas Walsh co-leads the firm's Greater China international arbitration practice and is the head of its Korean disputes practice. He has a particular focus and experience in post-M&A, private equity and tech related disputes. Thomas acts in arbitrations under all of the major arbitration rules such as HKIAC, SIAC, ICC, LCIA and UNCITRAL and has been based in Asia since 2010 so has a depth of experience in the region. He is recognised as one of the leaders in Asia in international arbitration. In accordance with this he has leadership roles with many of the leading global and regional arbitral institutions. This includes being appointed to the HKIAC's Council and Appointments Committee, being elected as the Chair of ICC HK's Nominations Committee and appointed to KCAB Next's Steering Committee.

Vicky Ma advises Chinese and international investors and financiers on a wide range of cross-border financing and commercial transactions, including acquisition finance, project finance, real estate finance, margin finance and general banking transactions.

Virginia Lee advises on various corporate matters in Hong Kong, including mergers and acquisitions (both private and public), takeovers, initial public offerings, pre-IPO investments, joint ventures and equity fundraisings. Virginia also advises on matters concerning compliance with the listing rules, the Securities and Futures Ordinance and the Code on Takeovers and investigations by regulatory bodies