Denise Jong, Greater China Region

Ranked in 2 Practice Areas

Band 3

Corporate/M&A: Hong Kong-based (International Firms)

China

13 Years Ranked

Band 5

Capital Markets: Equity (International Firms)

China

5 Years Ranked

Ranked in Guides

Global 2025

About

Provided by Denise Jong

Greater China Region

Practice Areas

Denise co-chairs Reed Smith’s Global Corporate Group. Based in Hong Kong, she has, throughout her career, focused on transactions mainly in Greater China and South-east Asia.

The diversity of her practice has seen her support start-ups, be in the thick of private equity investments, negotiate and execute both public company takeovers and private company M&As, and lead more than 50 successful IPOs on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. After an IPO, she continues to advise her clients on secondary debt and equity issues, spin-offs, corporate governance and compliance, and regulatory investigations. Throughout her career, she has also advised on a number of high profile IPOs, corporate restructurings and privatisations of listed companies in Hong Kong.

Denise is a popular choice among Mainland Chinese, Hong Kong and multinational companies for her three decades of experience in Asia. She continues to be widely recognised and ranked by legal directories.

Denise was a member of the firm’s Executive Committee between 2008 and 2015, and served as the firm’s Asia Pacific Managing Partner from 2018 to 2020.

Chambers Review

Provided by Chambers

Chambers Greater China Region

Corporate/M&A: Hong Kong-based (International Firms) - China

Band 3

Individual Editorial

Denise Jong is a popular choice among PRC, Hong Kong and US-based corporates for her two decades of experience handling all manner of public and private M&A and private equity transactions. She also offers additional advice on restructuring, insolvency, capital markets and regulatory compliance.

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Capital Markets: Equity (International Firms) - China

Band 5

Individual Editorial

Denise Jong of Reed Smith is a longstanding capital markets practitioner who wins recognition for handling IPOs and top-up placements. She acts for both issuers and sponsors.

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Strengths

Provided by Chambers

She is very professional, has rich experience in mergers and acquisitions, has extremely rich network resources, gives accurate and fast opinions and is a very kind and selfless lawyer.

Corporate/M&A: Hong Kong-based (International Firms) respondent
Chambers Greater China Region

We like Denise very much; her support is indispensable for our success.

Corporate/M&A: Hong Kong-based (International Firms) respondent
Chambers Greater China Region

Denise is always available and accommodating.

Capital Markets: Equity (International Firms) respondent
Chambers Greater China Region

She is very professional, has rich experience in mergers and acquisitions, has extremely rich network resources, gives accurate and fast opinions and is a very kind and selfless lawyer.

Corporate/M&A: Hong Kong-based (International Firms) respondent
Chambers Greater China Region

We like Denise very much; her support is indispensable for our success.

Corporate/M&A: Hong Kong-based (International Firms) respondent
Chambers Greater China Region

Denise is always available and accommodating.

Capital Markets: Equity (International Firms) respondent
Chambers Greater China Region

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