Latham & Watkins LLP‘s finance team has experience of complex acquisition financing transactions, syndicated loans, and leveraged lending. Andrew Bishop heads the team from Hong Kong and Singapore, advising private equity funds, venture funds, credit funds and strategic investors. Howard Lam, in Hong Kong, leads leveraged financing transactions, while Ruonan Duan primarily represents private equity sponsors and corporates.

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Key clients

  • Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP)
  • IKS Health
  • CVC
  • I Squared Capital
  • Goldman Sachs Asset Management
  • KKR

Work highlights

  • Advised Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) on a term loan facility in connection with GIP’s acquisition of Tower Vision India Private Limited. This was GIP’s first debt financing in Asia outside India.
  • Advised IKS Health, a premier global healthcare solution provider, on a financing for the acquisition of AQuity Holdings, a leading tech-enabled provider of medical transcription, coding and scribing services in the healthcare sector.
  • Advised CVC Asia Pacific on the acquisition of a majority stake in Professional Services, Inc., a Philippines-based network of private hospitals and clinics.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Andrew Bishop

Other key lawyers

Howard Lam, Lynsey Edgar, Ruonan Duan