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Capital Markets: Equity - Asia-Pacific Region
What the Team is Known For
Cleary Gottlieb has a respected capital markets practice, primarily active in the markets of South Korea and Hong Kong. The firm is highly respected for its cross-border ECM practice, advising on sizeable IPOs and secondary offerings. It maintains a focus on acting for issuers, and is especially well known for advising businesses in the hi-tech and life sciences sectors.
Work Highlights
The firm advised SK Hynix on its Rule 144A/Regulation S dual-tranche note offering.
Cleary Gottlieb represented Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, Jefferies, Morgan Stanley, BofA Securities, Guggenheim Securities and William Blair as underwriters for SharkNinja’s all-secondary SEC-registered follow-on offering of ordinary shares.
Notable practitioners
Key contacts include Freeman Chan and Shuang Zhao in China, while Jinduk Han and Jay Hoon Choi are key contacts for the South Korea practice.