Mayer Brown is a large international law firm with offices in 27 cities across the Americas, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. It has been serving its clients in China since the 1990s with offices in Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong where it has over 200 lawyers.
The firm is best known in Hong Kong and China for its restructuring and insolvency, projects, banking and debt capital markets practice where it is ranked highest—its high-yield practice is active often representing trustees on bond issuances. It also has a strong regulatory practice.
Key clients of the firm include Mongolian Mortgage Corporation HFC, China Gas Capital Management, Jiu Zun Digital Interactive Entertainment Group Holdings, Leapfrog Investments, Maybank, and Asian Development Bank.
Research period review: 32nd edition (2022/2023)
Over the research period, the firm was active in banking, capital markets, investment funds, M&A, private equity, project development, project finance and
restructuring and
insolvency.
The firm’s
banking team worked on multiple confidential financings, mainly on the lender side.
The capital markets team worked on the debt and equity side, advising issuers, underwriters and guarantors in complex securitizations such as sovereign bond issuances and high-yield bond issuances. The firm also participated in cross-border IPOs and private offerings.
The
M&A team
worked on corporate acquisitions and investments, mainly
advising financial institutions
on strategic acquisitions and share or
bond purchases.
The
projects team was very active on the finance side, leveraging its expertise advising financial institutions. The firm advised lenders, investors and developers in diverse projects.
In restructuring and insolvency, the firm acted in restructurings and liquidation issues of entities, most notably
in the cruise and resort businesses. The firm advised debtors and creditors.
Between June and
July of 2021, the firm bolstered its strength by recruiting partners Joanne Du from Baker
Botts, partners
Guiping Lu and Philip Hyde from K&L Gates and partners Bonnie Yung and Jason Wang from EY Law Hong Kong, also
known as LC Lawyers.
These partners will
all be joining the corporate & securities practice.
In August of 2021, partner Tom Pugh departed from the firm’s restructuring practice to join Walkers.
Deal highlights: 32ndedition (2021/2022)
Alpargatas $475 million acquisition of
Rothy’s
Chubu Electric Power $200 million acquisition of
Bitexco
Genting Hong Kong Limited $3.5 billion restructuring
Mongolian Mortgage Corporation $250 million 8.85% bond issuance
Republic of Indonesia $3.05 billion 1.3% sovereign bond issuance
Sagaliam Acquisition Corporation Nasdaq IPO
Sinochem Offshore Capital Limited $305 million
2.25%, .75%, 1%, 2.375% and 3.12% bond issuance
Sun Hung Kai $90 million investment
Sygnum Bank
Client feedback: 32nd edition (2021/2022)
"Very knowledgeable about the China market, up to date with latest regulatory changes and the impact on offshore financing."
