David Lamb

Practice Areas

David is a Consultant in the Hong Kong office. His practice includes all aspects of corporate law with particular experience in mergers & acquisitions (including amalgamations/mergers, schemes of arrangement, tender offers, squeeze-outs, anti-takeover measures such as shareholder rights plans). He has been involved in a number of significant M&A transactions involving Bermuda, British Virgin Islands and Cayman Islands companies listed on many of the world’s major stock exchanges, some of which have been hostile.

Recently, he has completed some of the most significant and innovative privatisations in the market including Changyou.com Limited’s US$579 million privatisation by Sohu.com by short-form merger, Li & Fung Limited’s HK$7.2 billion privatisation by scheme of arrangement, and Jumei International Holding Limited’s US$1 billion privatization by first ever two step merger.

David is recognised as “The A-List Top 50 Offshore Lawyers 2022” by Asia Business Law Journal. He is also named Global Leader in the 2022 edition of Who’s Who Legal (M&A) and leading individual in the 2022 edition of Legal 500 Asia-Pacific.

Publications

David has been a speaker at several M&A conferences and is the author of numerous articles on corporate law which have been published in such journals as The Company Lawyer, Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law, Accountancy, The Law Society’s Gazette and The Hong Kong Lawyer. He is a contributing editor to Negotiating and Structuring Acquisitions in China (Aspatore Books, a division of Thomson Reuters); Professional Conduct and Risk Management in Hong Kong (Sweet & Maxwell); Cayman Islands Company and Commercial Law 2nd Ed 2019 (Sweet & Maxwell) and IBA Takeover Guide 2022.