Leveraging a strong relationship with Hong Kong’s securities regulators, and able to apply best-market practice as a result of strong deal flow, Paul Hastings LLP provides ‘strategic and commercially focused’ advice to issuers and underwriters/sponsors on IPOs and global offerings, right issues and follow-on offerings. The ’motivated and experienced’ Peter Cheng is key to the firm’s success and as well as handling many IPOs on the main board of the HKEX (including in the TMT space), is also a ‘market expert when it comes to advisory matters regarding the HKEX’. New York-qualified partner Steven Hsu also regularly handles HKEX IPOs and associated US SEC registered offerings and is also a key member of the team that is co-headed by Chaobo Fan and Raymond Li.
Testimonials
Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.
- 'The team is very experienced in Hong Kong IPOs and is up to date with the latest best practice. Therefore, they can give us and our clients best advice to balance the requirements from the regulators and the commercial world.'
- 'The team is efficient, strategic and commercially focused.'
Key clients
- China International Capital Corporation Hong Kong Securities Limited
- China Securities (International) Corporate Finance Company Limited
Work highlights
- Advised Morgan Stanley Asia Limited and Huatai Securities (USA), Inc. as underwriters in connection with Super Hi International Holding Ltd.’s public offering of 2,692,700 American depositary shares and listing on the Nasdaq Global Market (Nasdaq: HDL).
- Advised CITIC Securities (Hong Kong) Limited and Haitong International Capital Limited as the joint sponsors, CLSA Limited and Haitong International Securities Company Limited as the overall coordinators, and other underwriters on the global offering and listing of Autostreets Development Limited on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.