Hong Kong.China's Tian Yuan Hires Capital Markets Trio in Hong Kong From Global Firms
Hong Kong IPO lawyers Jean Yu, Lindsay Gao and Charles Wang join from Clifford Chance, Sidley Austin and Herbert Smith Freehills, respectively.
September 11, 2019 at 05:13 PM
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Chinese firm Tian Yuan Law Firm has hired three senior capital markets lawyers in Hong Kong from international firms.
Former Clifford Chance partner Jean Yu, former Sidley Austin senior associate Lindsay Gao and former Herbert Smith Freehills counsel Charles Wang join as partners. All three specialise in Hong Kong initial public offerings.
Yu joins after eight years at Clifford Chance, most recently as a professional support lawyer based in Shanghai. She made partner in Beijing at the Magic Circle firm in 2012 and left the partnership in 2018. In 2017, she advised Morgan Stanley as the sole sponsor of a $170 million Hong Kong listing by Chinese wastewater treatment facility Kunming Dianchi Water Treatment Co. Ltd. In 2014, she advised Chinese carmaker BAIC Motor Corp. Ltd. on a $1.42 billion IPO in Hong Kong.
Jean Yu
U.S.-qualified Gao spent almost four years at Sidley. Before that, she was an associate at Clifford Chance from 2011 to 2015. In July this year, she was part of the team that advised China Construction Bank as the sole sponsor of a $376 million Hong Kong listing by Chinese property developer Zhongliang Holdings Group Co. Ltd.
Wang, who was promoted to counsel at Herbert Smith Freehills in May, advised China Merchants Bank and HSBC as joint sponsors of an $85 million Hong Kong listing by Chinese software provider Duiba Group Ltd. earlier this year.
The hires follow that of Nan Li, a former Paul Hastings partner in Beijing, who joined Tian Yuan's Hong Kong office in April. The Chinese firm operates in Hong Kong via an association with local firm William Ji & Co.
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