Partner: Corporate & Commercial Department and Banking Department Professional qualifications :
Solicitor of Hong Kong, 1994
Solicitor of England and Wales, 1995
Education :
University of Hong Kong, LL.B. (Hons.)
University of Hong Kong, LL.M.
Open University of Hong Kong, M.B.A.
Professional experience : - Advising on secured and unsecured lending in Hong Kong and cross-border loans including project financing, real estate financing and syndicated loans
- Acting for foreign lenders as their Hong Kong legal counsel on foreign loans involving Hong Kong security
- Acting for banks and financiers on standstill arrangements and debt restructuring
- Advising banks on legal and quasi-legal regulations on compliance, money lending, security, money laundering and connected transactions involving listed borrowers
- Setting and reviewing forms and standard documents for banks and money lenders for use in Hong Kong and/or China
- Charge of securities
- Shareholders and joint venture agreements
- Corporate co-operative agreements
- Manufacturing agreements, distributorship agreements, franchising agreements, licensing agreements and other commercial and trading arrangements
- Advising .com companies on legal agreements involving web-site design, development and maintenance, contents agreements, outsourcing agreements and agreement for sale of portals
- Advising IT-related companies on private placement to venture capitalists, on acquisitions and on licensing in respect of intellectual properties
- Advising on startup incubation joint ventures, shareholding structures and financing strategies involving listed companies and universities and tertiary institutions in Hong Kong
- Team leader of a special team formed to advise an international bank in its joint venture with a nation-wide bank established in Tianjin and review existing banking law in the PRC which may affect its practice in China and to advise other banks in relation to their cross-border businesses
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