Mayer Brown
Mayer Brown handles a steady flow of work for issuers and underwriters on mid-sized listings and global offerings on the HKSE, as well as on follow-on offerings and convertible bond offerings. Chinese speaking team head Billy Au has strong traction among Chinese state-owned and privately-owned enterprises (including within regulated sectors), which regularly instruct him on their ECM work and broader corporate finance mandates.
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Key clients
- China Overseas Land & Investment Ltd.
- BOCI Asia Limited
- AK Medical Holdings Limited
- Jiayuan International Group Limited
- BNP Paribas
- CCB International Capital Limited
- Credit Suisse
- Guotai Junan Capital Limited
- Haitong International Securities Company Limited
- UBS Securities Hong Kong Limited
- CLSA Capital Markets Limited
- Huabao International Holdings Limited
- Sagaliam Acquisition Corp.
- Sunfire Acquisition Corp Limited
- Jiayuan International Group Limited
- Citigroup Global Markets Asia Limited
- Sky Light Holdings Limited
- SF REIT Asset Management Limited
- Sunfire Acquisition Corp Limited
- EF Hutton, division of Benchmark Investments, LLC
- Brookline Capital Markets, a division of Arcadia Securities, LLC
- Sagaliam Acquisition Corp.
Work highlights
- Assisted Jiayuan International Group Limited on the preparation of all transaction documents and attending the closing of the transaction in relation to its fundraise through the issue of convertible bonds to repay the principal and/or interest of certain of its existing liabilities and to improve its liquidity in light of the liquidity crisis of the real estate sector in the PRC.
- Advising two global financial services companies on the liquidity arrangements of the designated dealers in relation to an application for dual primary listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange by way of introduction.
- Advised Citigroup Global Markets Asia Limited on the preparation of the transaction documents, namely the placing and subscription agreement, and also on the Listing Rules implications of such a deal.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Billy Au