Shearman & Sterling has added another partner to its Hong Kong office, its third partner this year – further bolstering the firm's capabilities in Greater China.
Shuang Zhao, a New York-qualified specialist on securities offering and M&A transactions, is a lateral hire from the Hong Kong office of Simpson & Thacher. Zhao's experience include representing Chinese issuers and ivestment banks in NYSE and NASDAQ IPOs, Hong Kong IPOS, and Rule 144A and Regulation S offerings of equity, debt and convertible securities. She has also advised clients in the renewable energy, educatio, retail and healthcare sectors.
Zhao will join the Shearman and Sterling Greater China corporate team led by Asia managing partner Matthew Bersani, head of China practice Lee Edwards and head of Hong Kong practice colin Law. She wil be working with capital markets partners Kyungwon Lee and Alan Seem as well as M&A practitioners Greg Puff, Huang Ling, Paul Strecker and Peter Chen, who joined the partnership earlier this year. Colin Law will spearhead the firm's Hong Kong practice.
The firm's practice include cross-border joint ventures, foreign direct investments and outbound investments in US and European corporations. Most recently, the firm represented Qatar Holding in its US$2.8bn cornerstone investment in Agricultural Bank of China, a component of what was the world's largest-ever IPO. The firm also advised on Vincom's bond offering – Vietnam's first overseas sale of convertible bonds and the first international capital raising from any Vietnamese issuer since 2005.ALB
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