About

Yuexiu Group was established in Hong Kong in 1985, and today specialises in real estate, transport, infrastructure and banking services while it also conducts a finance and securities business through Guangzhou Yuexiu Financial Holdings Group, an A-share-listed company. It has assets worth approximately RMB480bn, and most of its businesses are listed on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong. The legal team is responsible for overseeing all Hong Kong capital market transactions in relation to different listed companies and most of the major M&A transactions of the group, in addition to daily securities law compliance. Tat Fung Yu is the group general counsel based in Hong Kong and Edmund Chan is the head of legal. The team consists of six further qualified lawyers, three chartered company secretaries and four other members. The team is recognised for handling a number of landmark deals in Hong Kong in recent years. Yuexiu REIT was the first listed real estate investment trust only investing in PRC properties in the world, and the proposal to set up a real estate investment trust was initiated by Yu himself. The successful acquisition of Chong Hing Bank by Yuexiu Group in 2014 won the Group a number of significant industry awards as it was the first acquisition of a Hong Kong commercial bank by a non-bank financial institution for 27 years, and was the first deal to receive approval by regulators for a partial offer of 75% of the issued shares in a company listed on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited. On his leadership and the team dynamic, Yu says that, ‘as a team, we place emphasis on professionalism, specialisation and collaboration. “Professionalism” means we always maintain a strong team of qualified professionals and qualified-professionals-to-be; “specialisation” refers to our system of having individual lawyers each focusing on a specific listed company or industry, with a view to developing real expertise; “collaboration” refers to the ability for all members in our HK legal team to work together seamlessly to ensure that the business strategies of Yuexiu Group are executed across the board, [whilst] ensuring legal and regulatory compliance from the angle of each individual listed company or trust, and fair treatment of its shareholders and unit holders’.