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Jeff Layman is a senior associate in the Hong Kong office of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy. Jeff's practice focuses on international transactions. He concentrates his practice in the areas of China-related acquisitions, reorganizations and disposals, direct investments, project finance, private equity, intellectual property and emerging technology ventures.
Jeff completed a two-year secondment to the International Finance Corporation ("IFC") in Washington, D.C., where he focused on investments in China and also advised on investments in India, Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines, Finland and Montenegro. He advised on a range of IFC private sector debt, quasi-equity and equity investments in financial services, manufacturing, environmental finance and agribusiness sectors.
Prior to being seconded, he worked for over five years with the China business group of a major international law firm in their Beijing and Hong Kong offices.
He has recently advised on a variety of China projects ranging from automotive and agribusiness to financial institutions and manufacturing. His representations include:
Advising the IFC on a wide variety of PRC investments and financings, including desalination and coal gasification projects;
Advising Chinese petroleum company on acquisition of majority control and refinancing of its oil interests in Peru.
Advising group of international and local banks regarding the restructuring of loans exceeding US$50 million to a manufacturer in the Philippines.
Representing a Chinese-Canadian partnership in connection with an oil sands investment in Alberta.
Representing US multinational on developments relating to China's proposed anti-monopoly legislation.
Jeff is fluent in written and spoken Mandarin and proficient in Japanese.
He was admitted to practice law in California in 1997 and is a member of the: California Bar Association, American Bar Association - International Law Section and China Law Committee, International Bar Association and the Inter-Pacific Bar Association.
Jeff received his J.D. from the University Of California, Hastings College of Law, and his B.A. in History and Philosophy, cum laude, from Claremont McKenna College. | 