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William Chua joined Sullivan & Cromwell in New York in January 1995 and has been a partner of the Firm since January 2003. Mr. Chua is recognized globally as a leading lawyer in corporate finance, private equity and mergers & acquisitions by the following publications: Chambers Global/Chambers Asia - Leaders in Their Field Euromoney/IFLR World s Legal Capital Markets Lawyers Legal Media Group s Expert Guide to the World s Leading Lawyers Asia Law & Practice s Asialaw Leading Lawyers IFLR 1000 Global Leading Lawyers Mr. Chua speaks Cantonese and Mandarin Chinese, and is currently based in the Hong Kong office. Mr. Chua has a wide-ranging corporate practice covering securities offerings and listings, tender and exchange offers, privatizations, high-yield debt and leveraged financing, and debt restructuring and workouts. He also has broad experience in private equity and M&A transactions, having advised acquirors, targets, special committees of boards of directors, financial sponsors, hedge funds and investment banking firms in takeovers, auctions, leveraged buyouts, "going private" transactions, divestitures, joint ventures and strategic investments. Mr. Chua has also been involved in a number of high-profile project and structured finance assignments. In addition to his transactional practice, Mr. Chua regularly provides advice on corporate governance and regulatory matters, including issues arising under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the FCPA. In recent years, his practice has focused on securities offerings, private equity, M&A and other transactions involving banks, insurance companies and other financial institutions in Asia. Highlights of Mr. Chua's practice include: ASE Test's "going private" scheme of arrangement with ASE Inc., and Temasek s "going private" tender offer for STATS ChipPAC Bank of China's strategic equity sales to The Royal Bank of Scotland investor group, Temasek, UBS and Asian Development Bank Merger of MTR Corporation and Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation, and of Southern Bank Berhad and Bumiputra Commerce Holding Berhad, and Goldman Sachs proprietary investment in China Water and Drink and various real estate and distressed assets acquisitions by the principal investment groups of Goldman Sachs and UBS Hutchison Telecommunications International's sale of a controlling equity interest in Hutchison Essar to Vodafone, and China Mobile's strategic equity sale to Vodafone Proposed leveraged buyout and related leveraged acquisition financing in the Taiwan cable television and semiconductor industries of China Network Systems and Advanced Semiconductor Engineering in Taiwan, and proposed acquisition of Enric Energy Equipment Holdings in Hong Kong Formation of NBA China, L.P. and placement of participating preferred units Sohu.com's takeover of Chinaren, Shanda Interactive Entertainment's acquisition of a 19.5% stake in Sina Corp. and Carlyle Group's investments in Credit Orienwise and Shanghai Anxin Flooring SEC-registered offerings and NYSE listings by Hutchison Telecommunications International, Mindray Medical, China Nepstar, Chunghwa Telecom, Repsol, Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, China Mobile, TSMC, Argentaria (now BBVA) and Unibanco SEC-registered offerings and NASDAQ listings by Solarfun Power, Shanda Interactive Entertainment, Focus Media, Sohu.com, GigaMedia, ASE Test and Amscan SOFTBANK's acquisitions of COMDEX and Ziff-Davis Publishing as well as numerous private equity investments High-yield debt financings by TLC Beatrice and the Repap Group SEC-registered exchange offers by ASE Group and debt tender offers by Tenaga Nasional Berhad Privatizations/initial public offerings of Alibaba.com, Bank of China, Ping An Insurance, Bank of China (Hong Kong), Bank of Communications and MTRC Global offerings by Cathay Financial Holding, CNOOC, Gruma S.A. de C.V., Merck & Co., Ministry of Finance of the People's Republic of China, Neptune Orient Lines, PetroChina, Standard Chartered Bank and Thai Farmers Bank (now Kasikornbank) Project financing and subsequent ECA refinancing and debt restructuring of the Batu-Hijau copper-gold mine in Indonesia. |
