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Capital Markets: Securitisation (International Firms) - China
What the Team is Known For
King & Wood Mallesons offers a strong securitisation practice, frequently acting for major clients on novel and complicated cross-border issuances, including international securitisation of PRC assets. It is also known for its robust derivatives and structured products expertise, advising clients on regulatory and transactional matters, including OTC derivatives transactions for both buyers and sellers. The team is noted for a particularly deep well of expertise relating to warrants. Clients benefit from its very strong Mainland China network and its pool of Australian experience. The team is frequently engaged by regulatory bodies, as well as Hong Kong and PRC securities firms and fund houses.
Strengths
They understand their job and know exactly what to do to resolve complex problems. They can come up with practical and often also innovative solutions to every problem.
With a strong PRC team and experience in cross-border transactions, King & Wood Mallesons offers strong expertise in repackaging transactions and highly structured transactions.
They are very talented lawyers who are able to translate their advice for a lot of international dealers and brokers, which is really special.
Notable practitioners
Liew Chin-Chong is a key driver in King & Wood Mallesons' derivatives and structured products team in Hong Kong, offering market-leading expertise on all manner of derivatives and structured products-related work.
Chong is in a class of his own.
She's very pragmatic in her advice. She's always willing to be proactive and is very good at bringing in experts from different places.
Minny is a very hands-on senior partner. She is analytical, kind and one of the best lawyers in the industry.
Minny is a very good derivatives lawyer.
Angus is a very experienced lawyer in the field of structured finance transactions, with excellent commercial awareness and up-to-date knowledge of market structures.
He has a deep understanding of our product offerings and commercial challenges, and always goes the extra mile to deliver sound, pragmatic solutions.
He is a very hands-on partner with a deep knowledge base across a range of complex structured products and transactions, as well as recent market trends.
Richard is the excellent lead of the firm's practice. He has a very good understanding of our priorities.
Richard is very well experienced in the market and has been in the market a very long time.
Richard is very experienced in structured products.
Zhou Ying is experienced in advising clients on cross-jurisdictional structured finance and derivatives work. She has particular expertise in handling regulatory matters involving digital assets and asset tokenisation.
Ying was truly a gifted lawyer who every deal team would be lucky to have. She creatively helped us with structuring, was always responsive and able to answer our questions calmly and to the point.
Her expertise in navigating the complexities of documents and deep understanding of market standards and regulatory requirements were instrumental.